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Ukraine’s subject connected Tuesday said Russian forces blew up a large dam successful the Kherson portion of confederate Ukraine. Russia’s TASS authorities bureau said determination was nary “critical danger” yet to the Zaporizhzhia atomic works owed to the illness of the dam. Follow our unrecorded blog for the latest updates connected the warfare successful Ukraine. All times are Paris clip (GMT+2).

Issued on: 06/06/2023 - 06:46

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File photograph of Russian troops patroling an country astatine the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Station successful the Kherson portion taken connected May 20, 2022.

5:30am: Nova Kakhovka dam successful Kherson portion blown up by Russian forces

The Nova Kakhovka dam successful the Russian-controlled parts of Ukraine's Kherson portion was blown up by Russian forces, the South bid of Ukraine's Armed Forces said connected Tuesday.

"The standard of the destruction, the velocity and volumes of water, and the apt areas of inundation are being clarified," the bid said connected its Facebook page.

"The standard of the destruction, the velocity and volumes of water, and the apt areas of inundation are being clarified."

Earlier, Russian authorities quality bureau quoted the Moscow-installed politician of Nova Kakhovka arsenic denying the reports.

"Everything is quiescent and calm, determination is thing astatine all," Russia's TASS bureau cited the mayor, Vladimir Leontiev arsenic saying.

5:00am: Russia says US-built F-16s could 'accommodate' atomic weapons if sent to Ukraine

Russia's Foreign Minister SergeiLavrov said connected Monday that US-built F-16 combatant jets tin 'accommodate' atomic weapons and warned that supplying Kyiv with them volition escalate the struggle further.

"We indispensable support successful caput that 1 of the modifications of the F-16 tin 'accommodate' atomic weapons," Lavrov said successful a code astatine a subject basal successful Dushanbe successful Tajikistan, according to atranscript connected the ministry's website.

"If they bash not recognize this, past they are worthless arsenic subject strategists and planners."

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has agelong appealed for the F-16 jets, saying their quality with Ukrainian pilots would beryllium a definite awesome from the satellite that Russia's penetration would extremity successful defeat.

US President Joe Biden told G7 leaders past period that Washington supported associated allied grooming programmes for Ukrainian pilots connected F-16 fighters.

4:41am: Wagner brag slams Russian claims of force losses arsenic 'wild fantasies'

Russia's claims that its subject had inflicted monolithic casualties connected advancing Ukrainian troops are "wild fantasies", the brag of Russian mercenary radical Wagner said Tuesday.

Moscow's defence ministry said Monday it had thwarted a Ukrainian offensive, sidesplitting a full of "1,500 servicemen" and destroying much than 100 armoured vehicles.

"To destruct 1 and a fractional 1000 people, it indispensable beryllium specified a massacre, wrong 1 day, implicit 150 kilometres (90 miles), 1 hellhole of a massacre," Wagner main Yevgeny Prigozhin said connected Telegram successful effect to the claims.

"Therefore, I deliberation that these are conscionable immoderate chaotic fantasies."

Prigozhin besides said Monday that Kyiv's troops had made gains adjacent the eastbound Ukrainian metropolis of Bakhmut, which Russia claimed to person seized power of past month.

Russian troops, helium said, were "slowly" leaving the colony of Berkhivka adjacent Bakhmut, which helium said was a "disgrace".

Prigozhin has been embroiled successful a nationalist spat with Russia's regular service and has accused Moscow's subject enactment of not supplying capable ammunition, among different criticisms.

1:33am: Russia, Ukraine look disconnected astatine World Court implicit MH17 airliner downing

Ukraine and Russia look disconnected astatine the apical United Nations tribunal connected Tuesday implicit Moscow's alleged backing of pro-Russian separatists blamed for the shooting down of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 successful 2014.

Judges astatine the International Court of Justice volition perceive Ukraine's assertion that Moscow violated a UN anti-terrorism pact by equipping and backing pro-Russian forces who planetary investigators concluded changeable down the jetliner implicit eastbound Ukraine, sidesplitting each 298 passengers and crew.

Flight MH17 departed from Amsterdam and was bound for Kuala Lumpur erstwhile it was struck by a Russian-made rocket connected July 17, 2014 arsenic warring raged betwixt pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian authorities forces, the precursor of today's war

Read yesterday's unrecorded blog to spot however the day's events unfolded.