CNN on June 14 quoted a report from the Ukrainian Air Force saying that Russia launched cruise missiles and drones at targets across Ukraine on the night of June 13.
Specifically, according to Ukraine, Russia launched 4 Kalibr cruise missiles from the Black Sea towards Odessa province, 3 of which were shot down. At least 3 people were killed and 13 others were injured after the attacks.
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Kyiv also accused Moscow of launching six more Kh-22 cruise missiles from Russian territory in Rostov Oblast into the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine. The Ukrainian Air Force said Russia also launched 10 more attack drones (UAVs) in southeastern Ukraine, nine of which were shot down.
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Meanwhile, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said that over the past three days, the country's defense forces advanced from 200 m to 1.4 km in the areas of conflict and captured an area of about 3 km2 , Ukrinform reported.
Russia has not commented on Ukraine’s claims. According to TASS news agency, Vadim Astafyev, spokesman for Russia’s southern battle group, said on June 14 that they had destroyed Ukrainian ammunition depots in Donetsk. He added that a Russian TOS-1A Solntsepyok heavy flamethrower system had hit a group of troops from the 110th separate mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian army.
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Vladimir Rogov, the Russian-appointed leader of Zaporizhzhia, said Ukrainian forces had stepped up electronic warfare in the region. He said Kyiv was trying to jam communications and seize control of Moscow’s drones.
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On June 14, Vyacheslav Gladkov, governor of Belgorod (Russia), said that Ukraine had fired about 70 rounds of various types of ammunition at towns and villages in the province the day before. There were no reports of damage or casualties after the attacks.
On the same day, Roman Starocvoit, governor of Kursk (Russia), announced that a Ukrainian shelling killed two civilians in a settlement in the province. Two people were injured by shrapnel and are receiving necessary treatment at the hospital.
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Ukraine has not commented or claimed responsibility for the attacks in the two provinces. Kyiv has previously denied involvement in similar attacks.
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on June 14 that his country had begun receiving tactical nuclear weapons from Russia, which he said were three times more powerful than the atomic bombs dropped by the US on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, Belta news agency reported.
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko attends a meeting of the Eurasian Economic Council in Moscow on May 25.
"We have missiles and bombs that we received from Russia. These bombs are three times more powerful than the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki," Mr Lukashenko said at an unspecified military storage facility in Belarus.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on June 9 that Moscow will retain control of tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus and will deploy them when Minsk is ready with a special storage facility ready.
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Ukraine and the West are still watching Russia and Belarus’s moves. The US criticized Mr Putin’s decision but said it had no intention of changing its stance on strategic nuclear weapons and had seen no signs that Russia was preparing to use nuclear weapons.
US pours more aid into Ukraine
The US Department of Defense announced on June 13 that it would send 15 more Bradley fighting vehicles to Ukraine, just days after reports that Kyiv had lost several armored vehicles in a Russian counterattack, according to CNN.
The Bradley Fighting Vehicle can carry about 10 soldiers. It is used to transport soldiers into the battlefield and provide fire support.
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IAEA chief postpones visit to Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant
TASS reported today (June 14) that Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi has postponed his visit to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (Zaporizhzhia province) to June 15. Previously, he was scheduled to inspect the plant on June 14.
After meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv on June 13, Mr. Grossi expressed concern about the possibility that the nuclear plant could be threatened during Ukraine's counterattack against Russia.
Inside a town the Ukrainian army has just recaptured
“We are expanding the team, so we are trying to make our process as clear and impactful as possible to avoid nuclear accidents,” Grossi told a news conference in Kyiv.
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