Ukraine-Russia war

 Ukraine-Russia war - most recent: Kyiv blames Putin for exploding second dam

Russian president Vladimir Putin marked Russia’s national day - held on 12 June - with an award-giving ceremony at the Kremlin

Ukraine has blamed Russia for exploding a dam on the Mokri Yaly stream to make it harder for Kyiv's powers to push farther south as a component of its continuous counteroffensive.

It comes under seven days after the enormous Kakhovka dam was obliterated on the a lot bigger Dnipro Waterway, in the Kherson locale, causing a compassionate fiasco.

In different turns of events, Kyiv said its soldiers had recovered a fourth town from Russian powers in a group of settlements in the southeast, a day subsequent to revealing the principal little gains of its for some time expected counteroffensive.

Ukraine's delegate guard serve Hanna Maliar posted a photograph showing troopers raising the Ukrainian banner at what she said was the town of Storozheve in Donetsk, and expressed gratitude toward the 35th Separate Detachment of Marines for freeing it. Reuters affirmed the area of the recording.

Kyiv additionally said on Sunday that its powers had freed three towns - Blahodatne, Neskuchne and Makarivka.

Russia's safeguard service said on Monday it had repulsed endeavored offensives by Ukrainian powers in the Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia districts and had hit focuses with ocean sent off high-accuracy rocket strikes.