One dead and more than twenty injured in Russian strikes
Russia targeted Ukraine with 265 drones overnight, 228 of which were intercepted, the Ukrainian Air Force said on Monday June 1. These Russian night strikes left at least one dead and 26 injured in Ukraine according to local authorities, in a context of intensification of long-range attacks and lack of progress in the negotiation process to end the conflict.
In the Kherson region, a 62-year-old man was killed in a Russian drone strike on a village and three people were injured in an artillery strike that hit an apartment building, according to local authorities. Eight people were injured, including three children, in the Cherniguiv region where 10,000 people were also left without electricity after a strike on energy infrastructure, according to rescue services and the regional electricity supplier.
Local authorities also reported seven injured in the port city of Odessa (south), four in the Dnipropetrovsk region (east), four in Kharkiv (northeast), and one in Zaporizhia (south).
An oil tanker coming from Russia boarded by France
The French navy boarded a new tanker from Russia on Sunday, during an operation carried out on the high seas in the Atlantic “with the support of several partners including the United Kingdom”, announced Emmanuel Macron.
The ship flew a false flag of Cameroon and was heading towards Limbe, a seaside town in the west of this African country, according to a spokesperson for the maritime prefecture. The ship, which has 23 crew members whose nationality has not been specified, is “currently escorted by means of the National Navy to an anchorage point for continued checks,” said the maritime prefecture.
Deadly strike in occupied Ukraine
A Ukrainian drone fell on Sunday on a residential building in an area of southern Ukraine occupied by Russian forces, causing the death of a child, local pro-Russian authorities said.
Pro-Russian authorities in the occupied southern region of Kherson said a boy born in 2020 died when a Ukrainian drone crashed into an apartment building in Genitchesk, a town on the Black Sea near Crimea annexed in 2014 by Moscow. Five people were also injured, said Vladimir Saldo, a pro-Russian official.
Genitchesk fell to Russian troops on February 24, 2022, the first day of their major offensive in Ukraine. After the recapture of the city of Kherson by the Ukrainian army following a counter-offensive in the fall of the same year, the Russian occupation authorities transferred their local administrative center to Genitchesk.
