The number of flood victims is growing in the Kherson region, and the Russian and Ukrainian armies are engaged in fierce fighting in the Zaporozhye and Donetsk regions. Main news of the past weekend

Russian and Ukrainian armies are fighting fierce battles on several sectors of the front

This is reported by British intelligence, the Russian Ministry of Defense and the occupation authorities of the annexed Ukrainian regions.

According to the British Ministry of Defense, in recent days, the most fierce battles have been going on in the Zaporozhye region, in the west of the Donetsk region and around Bakhmut. There, the Armed Forces continue to advance. British intelligence said that the Ukrainian military had made little progress, and Russian troops were conducting "relatively effective defensive operations" in the south.

"Both sides are suffering heavy casualties, with Russian casualties likely the highest since the Battle of Bakhmut peaked in March," the UK Defense Ministry said in a statement.

Volodymyr Rogov, a representative of the occupation administration of the Zaporozhye region, also confirmed the advancement of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the region. He said that the Ukrainian army managed to take the village of Pyatikhatki in the south of the region under operational control.

“The “wave” offensives of the enemy, despite the colossal losses, gave their result. Now our artillery is working on the enemy, feverishly entrenched in Pyatikhatki, ” he wrote on his Telegram channel.

At the same time, the Russian Ministry of Defense, after Rogov’s message, released a summary stating that all Ukrainian attacks in the Zaporozhye direction were successfully repelled.

52 people became victims of flooding after the destruction of the dam of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station

Of these, 35 people died in the Russian-occupied part of the Kherson region. This was announced by the head of the occupation government of the region Andrey Alekseenko.

Approximately half as many - 17 people - died on the right bank of the Dnieper, which is controlled by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. According to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Igor Klymenko, 13 people drowned, and four more died when they came under fire during the evacuation. In addition, Klymenko said that 31 people were missing.

Last week, The New York Times published an investigation, the authors of which state that the dam of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station could have collapsed due to an explosion in the technical tunnel of the structure. The publication notes that only the Russian military had access there.

As one of the evidence, the publication cites data from seismic stations and satellites that recorded thermal emissions at the time of the destruction of the dam.

In addition, engineer Igor Strelets, who spent several months at the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station, told the NYT that the dam is designed to withstand almost any external impact. Therefore, he believes that it was undermined from the inside.

The mother of a conscript soldier was accused of "discrediting" the army for an interview about the death of her son

Alla Fatkhelislamova spoke in an interview with Novaya Gazeta Europe about the death of her son Afanasy Podaev. According to her, he did military service on the border of the Belgorod region and died there under fire at the end of 2022.

After the interview with Fatkhelislamova was published on the Youtube channel, the publications wrote a denunciation of her. “They arrived (from the police), showed on the phone that a denunciation had been received. Why did you give the interview? They didn't even know that my son was dead. A couple of days later they came to my work, brought a paper version of the application to read. “We ask you to severely punish Fathelislamova Alla for discrediting,” she said.

Later it turned out that a “professional scammer” Anna Korobkova wrote a statement to the police against Fatkhelislamova. Earlier, she admitted to reporters that in 2022 alone she wrote more than 750 denunciations.

Transgender people in Russia are trying to make the transition before it is completely banned in the country

This is written by the Kosa publication, which collected testimonies of transgender Russians about the situation in which they found themselves after the submission to the State Duma of a bill that actually completely prohibits transgender people in Russia.

According to transgender people, they are forced to change all their plans, borrow and seek help from strangers on social networks in order to have time to change documents and undergo the necessary medical procedures for the transition.

Some of them say they will continue the trans-transition even after it is banned, buying the drugs they need illegally. Others plan to leave the country in the event of a ban.

On June 14, the deputies adopted in the first reading a document banning “medical intervention” for trans-transition and changing the gender marker in documents.

32 thousand prisoners were released after fighting in Ukraine

The founder of PMC Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, claims that of all the prisoners who were released thanks to a contract with PMCs, only 83 committed new crimes.

“This is 80 times less than that of persons released from places of deprivation of liberty for the same period without concluding a contract with PMC Wagner,” says . his Telegram channel

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