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• The total combat losses of the enemy from 24.02.2022 to 11.06.2023 Ukraine MOD 11 Jun 2023
• Ukraine Says It Retook Two Villages As Counteroffensive Gathers Steam RFE/RL 11 Jun 2023 -- Ukrainian forces claim to have retaken two villages in the Donetsk region as a days-old counteroffensive to push Russian forces out of the country gathers steam.
• Latest in Ukraine: Russia Accused of Shelling Evacuees in Flooded Kherson VOA 11 Jun 2023 -- At least three people were killed and 23 injured when Russia shelled elderly residents as they were being evacuated in small boats from the flooded areas in Kherson, a regional Ukrainian official said Sunday.
• Latest in Ukraine: Zelenskyy Confirms Start of Counteroffensive VOA 11 Jun 2023 -- Heavy fighting is taking place in eastern Ukraine, around Bakhmut and Maryinka, where Ukrainian forces reportedly have repelled Russian advances, Ukraine's general staff said Saturday. Russian forces, it said, "continue to suffer heavy losses which they are trying to conceal."
• Russia Returns 94 Soldiers From Ukrainian Captivity - Defense Ministry Sputnik 11 Jun 2023 -- Russia has negotiated the release of 94 of its soldiers taken prisoner in Ukraine-controlled territories, who have already returned home, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Sunday.

Ukraine

• It is very important that representatives of international justice have seen with their own eyes the consequences of the Russian act of terrorism at the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant - address by the President of Ukraine President of Ukraine 11 Jun 2023
• Joint address by President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau to Canadian journalists at the Press Gallery Dinner in Ottawa President of Ukraine 11 Jun 2023
• Presidential Office hosts briefing for UAE delegation on security and humanitarian situation in Ukraine President of Ukraine 11 Jun 2023
• Andriy Yermak met with the delegation of the UAE headed by the Minister of Climate Change and Environment, Head of the Office of International Affairs under the President of the UAE President of Ukraine 11 Jun 2023
• President of Ukraine meets with Minister of Climate Change and Environment of the United Arab Emirates, Head of the Office of International Affairs under the President of the UAE President of Ukraine 11 Jun 2023

Russia

• Statement of Russian Defence Ministry Russia MoD 11 Jun 2023 -- Today, at around 1.30 a.m. Moscow time, the Armed Forces of Ukraine unsuccessfully attempted to attack the Black Sea Fleet's ship Priazovye, which is carrying out control and security tasks along the routes of the Turkish Stream and the Blue Stream gas pipelines in the southeastern part of the Black Sea, with six unmanned speedboats.
• Russia repels Ukrainian attack on its warship in Black Sea: Moscow Press TV 11 Jun 2023 -- Russia says it has repelled a mass attack by Ukrainian high-speed marine drones on its aircraft carrier that was guarding gas pipelines in the Black Sea.
• Russia Takes Measures to Maintain Stable Water Level in ZNPP's Cooling Pond Sputnik 11 Jun 2023 -- The Zaporozhye nuclear power plant (ZNPP) said on Sunday it expected no water loss from its cooling pond, as Russian rescue service workers have taken measures to prevent it.
• Russia Seeing No Foundation for Peace Talks With Ukraine Sputnik 11 Jun 2023 -- There are not conditions in place for Russia-Ukraine peace talks, with Moscow not seeing even "flimsy" grounds to build dialogue upon, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Sunday.
• Wagner Chief Refuses To Obey Decree In Latest Spat With Russian Defense Minister RFE/RL 11 Jun 2023 -- Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of the notorious Wagner mercenary group, said he will not obey a new Russian Defense Ministry decree obliging all volunteer formations to sign a contract directly with the ministry in his latest spat with the nation's military leadership.

United States

NATO

• Ukraine's Accession to NATO to be Decided After Conflict Ends - Italian Foreign Minister Sputnik 11 Jun 2023 -- The issue of Ukraine's accession to NATO will be decided after the armed conflict is over, Italian Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Antonio Tajani said on Sunday.

United Nations

• Update 165 - IAEA Director General Statement on Situation in Ukraine IAEA 11 Jun 2023 -- Experts of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) need access to a location near Ukraine's Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) to clarify the reason for a significant discrepancy between different measurements of the height of the reservoir that is supplying water to cool the facility's six reactors and spent fuel storage, Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said today.

Foreign Reactions

• Netherlands sends aid supplies to flooded region in Ukraine Netherlands - Ministry of Foreign Affairs 11 Jun 2023 -- The Netherlands is sending aid supplies and lifesaving equipment to the region of Ukraine affected by the destruction of the Kakhovka dam. For now, the equipment being sent consists of approximately 20 boats and at least 15 water pumps, 180 lifejackets and 50 wading suits made available by the Dutch water authorities and the Royal Netherlands Sea Rescue Institution (KNRM).
• Ukraine announces counteroffensive under US' pressure Global Times 11 Jun 2023 -- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday confirmed that Ukrainian counteroffensive had begun. The announcement, which comes as fatigue over the conflict begins to overwhelm all parties involved, is seen by Chinese experts partly as an answer to pressure from Western countries, which are counting on the counterattack to boost already failing domestic support.

News Reports

• Ukraine's Kherson Region Faces 'Ecological Catastrophe' Amid Ongoing Fighting RFE/RL 11 Jun 2023 -- The cemetery in this riverside steppe village got flooded within hours of the breach of the Nova Kakhovka dam, located five kilometers upstream on the Dnieper River. Three days later, when Mykhailo Boyarskiy, a farmer from the nearby Kozatske village who used to visit his family graves here, came to the cemetery, he saw wooden crosses and granite monuments covered with mud and rotting weed. An otter was swimming meters away, and the smell of dead fish was in the air.
• The Ukrainian Cities Obliterated In Russia's Self-Proclaimed 'Liberation' RFE/RL 11 Jun 2023 -- Russia has delivered multiple public justifications for the full-scale invasion of Ukraine that President Vladimir Putin launched in February 2022, among them what it has called the "liberation" of Ukraine's eastern Donbas region, which Moscow had seized partial control of in 2014.
• Russian Tourists Avoid Crimea Once Again As War Takes Toll On Local Economy RFE/RL 11 Jun 2023 -- Russian tourists are expected to skip Crimea for the second year in a row as Moscow's invasion of Ukraine takes its toll on the Black Sea peninsula's economy.
• Peace is not 'no war' and derisking has risks: Josep Borrell European External Action Service (EEAS) 11 Jun 2023 -- The Straits Times - During an interview with The Straits Times, the EU's foreign policy czar talks about the meaning of peace in Ukraine, the sanctions against Russia and the global trend towards de-risking. Here are excerpts from the interview.