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• The total combat losses of the enemy from 24.02.2022 to 07.06.2023 Ukraine MOD 07 Jun 2023
• Ukraine Forced To Cope With Disastrous Flooding After Rupture Of Kakhovka Dam RFE/RL 07 Jun 2023 -- Thousands of people sought shelter after escaping rising flood water amid an unfolding humanitarian and ecological disaster caused by the rupture of a major dam on the Dnieper River in southern Ukraine.
• Evacuations underway in Ukraine after dam blast causes massive flooding Press TV 07 Jun 2023 -- Ukraine is continuing to evacuate thousands of people from the southern part of the country, following the destruction of a key dam in the Russian-controlled Kherson region, which has caused a massive flooding.
• Latest in Ukraine: Drinking Water Rushed to Those Stranded or Fleeing Flooding After Dam Rupture VOA 07 Jun 2023 -- Ukrainian authorities rushed drinking water to the southern part of the country on Wednesday to help thousands of people left stranded or fleeing the region a day after the rupture of the Kakhovka dam.

Ukraine

• International organizations, such as the ICRC, must immediately join the rescue of people in the occupied part of Kherson region - address by the President of Ukraine President of Ukraine 07 Jun 2023
• Volodymyr Zelenskyy had a phone call with Emmanuel Macron President of Ukraine 07 Jun 2023
• Ukraine says Russia destroyed Kakhovka dam, causing possible harm to nuclear plant People's Daily 07 Jun 2023 -- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Tuesday that Russian forces had destroyed the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant dam in southern Ukraine.
• An immediate and maximum global response to Russian terror is needed - address by Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the Russian ecocide caused by the blasting of the Kakhovka HPP President of Ukraine 07 Jun 2023

Russia

• Putin Tells Erdogan About Ukraine's Terrorist Attacks After Kakhovka Dam Strike Sputnik 07 Jun 2023 -- Russian President Vladimir Putin told Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a telephone conversation that Ukraine escalates the situation, using terrorist methods and organizing acts of sabotage in Russia, the Kremlin said on Wednesday.
• Russia's Putin slams attack on Kakhovka dam as 'barbaric act' Press TV 07 Jun 2023 -- Russian President Vladimir Putin has condemned an attack on the Nova Kakhovka dam in the Russian-controlled Kherson region as a ''barbaric act" by the Ukrainian side in his first reaction to the incident that prompted mass evacuations.
• Telephone conversation with President of Turkiye Recep Tayyip Erdogan President of Russia 07 Jun 2023 -- Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with President of the Republic of Turkiye Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

United States

NATO

United Nations

• Update 162 - IAEA Director General Statement on Situation in Ukraine IAEA 07 Jun 2023 -- Work is ongoing at Ukraine's Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) to ensure it has maximum amounts of cooling water in reserve, in case it can no longer access the nearby Kakhovka reservoir which is continuing to drop after its downstream dam was damaged earlier this week, Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said today.
• IAEA Chief: Situation at Kakhovka HPP Serious But 'No Reason' for Panic Sputnik 07 Jun 2023 -- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Grossi told Sputnik that the situation around the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant (HPP) is serious, but that there is "no reason" for panic following the partial destruction of the dam and subsequent flooding.
• Ukraine dam disaster: Lack of clean water, spread of disease, major risks UN News 07 Jun 2023 -- The magnitude of the humanitarian catastrophe following the destruction of the Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine, is becoming clearer as UN humanitarians redoubled efforts to reach affected civilians with aid on Wednesday.
• UN humanitarian chief warns of consequences of destruction of Ukrainian dam People's Daily 07 Jun 2023 -- UN Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths on Tuesday warned of the grave consequences of the destruction of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant dam in southern Ukraine.

Foreign Reactions

• IAEA Board of Governors' meeting, June 2023: UK statement on Ukraine UK FCDO 07 Jun 2023 -- The UK gave a statement on Ukraine at the International Atomic Energy Agency Board of Governors' meeting where the UK announced a funding uplift of £750,000.
• Ukraine: UK boosts funding to International Atomic Energy Agency UK FCDO 07 Jun 2023 -- The UK has announced additional funding of £750,000 to the IAEA to support its nuclear safety work in Ukraine.
• Russia's heinous and desperate actions demonstrate that it knows the invasion has failed: UK statement to the OSCE UK FCDO 07 Jun 2023 -- UK military advisor, Ian Stubbs, says the Kremlin's intellectually bankrupt recourse to attritional warfare shows its appalling willingness to sacrifice the Russian people.
• Bulgaria's New Defense Minister Announces Plan to Provide Military Assistance to Ukraine Sputnik 07 Jun 2023 -- On Tuesday, the Bulgarian parliament approved the new government led by physicist and chemist Nikolai Denkov. The post of the defense minister was taken by military expert Todor Tagarev, who had led the Defense MInistry in March-May 2013.
• Minister of Foreign Affairs: Latvia congratulates Ukraine on becoming a prospective OECD Member country Latvia MFA 07 Jun 2023 -- On 7 June 2023 in Paris, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Latvia, Edgars Rinkēvičs, attended the annual OECD Ministerial Council Meeting, during which the role of the OECD and the wider international community in supporting Ukraine's reform agenda, in particular the launch of the OECD Ukraine Country Programme, was discussed.
• Lithuania's Foreign Minister Landsbergis at the OECD Ministerial Council Meeting: "Ukraine suffers terror attacks, needs our help today" Lithuania MFA 07 Jun 2023 -- On 7-8 June, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Gabrielius Landsbergis attended the Meeting of the OECD Council at the ministerial level. Landsbergis called for helping Ukraine implement reforms and contributing to the country's reconstruction, thus opening the doors for Ukraine to join the European Union and the OECD as soon as possible.
• China expresses grave concern over destruction of Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant dam Global Times 07 Jun 2023 -- China is gravely concerned over the destruction in the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant dam and urges all parties to the conflict to abide by international humanitarian law and to do their utmost to protect civilians and civilian infrastructure, said Zhang Jun, China's permanent representative to the United Nations (UN) at the UN Security Council Emergency Meeting on Ukraine on Tuesday.
• Media Watch: China's mixed signals on Russo-Ukrainian war Radio Free Asia 07 Jun 2023 -- China's official narrative about the war in Ukraine has embraced three different themes over time that have sent conflicting signals, according to an analysis of state media reports and official foreign ministry declarations.

News Reports

• U.S. Ex-General Says Russia Benefits From Dam Blast, Putin 'Likely' To Use Nuclear Weapons Rather Than Lose In Ukraine RFE/RL 07 Jun 2023 -- Retired U.S. Brigadier General Kevin Ryan is a senior fellow at Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and a regular commentator on the war in Ukraine and other global events.
• CIA knew of Ukraine's plan to attack Nord Stream pipelines: Report Press TV 07 Jun 2023 -- A US media report has revealed that America's Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) knew about Ukraine's plan to attack the Nord Stream natural gas pipelines three months before it happened in September last year.