Ukraine enters the 106th day of war with the city of Severodonetsk, in Donbass (eastern Ukraine) controlled “largely” by Moscow. This is where most of the direct battles between Russian and Ukrainian forces have been concentrated in recent days. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky himself admitted that the future of the region will be determined by the fate of Severodonetsk.

In Kharkiv, which in recent days appeared to have seen a Russian pullout, at least two people were killed and four wounded in the past 24 hours following fires sparked by air strikes in the Novobavarskyi region. Of the 27 fires registered until midnight on Thursday, 16 were directly caused by the new bombardments.

According to the War Institute, Russia is intensifying attacks in eastern and southern Ukraine. In addition to Donbass, Zaporyjia and Kherson are also the regions (oblasts) that have seen the most battles between Russians and Ukrainians in recent hours. Find out in more detail what happened during the last few hours in this article or on our liveblog, here.

What happened during the morning?

• The US ambassador to Ukraine, Bridget Brink, revealed that the Americans sent US$1 billion to the Ukrainians and that another US$7.5 billion “is on the way” in the form of subsidies. These are figures that fall within the 40,000 million dollars that Joe Biden promised to send to Ukraine to help the Ukrainian defense in the invasion of Russia.
• An airstrike in the Sumy oblast (region) destroyed a building of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine. One person was injured, according to information provided by Governor Dmytro Zhyvytsky.
• The United Kingdom will tighten restrictions on the application of sanctions, The Wall Street Journal reported. As of June 15, it will be enough for someone to break the economic sanctions imposed by the United Kingdom for the Department for the Implementation of Financial Sanctions to issue a sanction – authorities do not need to show that these people knew they were breaking the rules. .