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Tenor Vladislav Gorai, a soloist with the Odesa National Opera, died on Sunday whereas engaged in a volunteer mission within the northern area of Sumy bordering Russia, opera officers stated.

Coleen Rooney has stated Unicef assist for Ukrainian households has been a “lifeline” that’s “changing lives”.

The media character lately travelled to Poland with Unicef to see how Soccer Aid donations have immediately supported Ukrainian households who have been compelled to flee their properties.

The 39-year-old stated she couldn’t “imagine” what Ukrainian refugee households should be going by means of, emphasising how vital it’s to face with them.

She stated: “I can relate to being a mum and the first thing (you would do) in that situation is to get out of danger, to make sure that the kids are OK and we can find somewhere.

“I could not think about what was going by means of their heads… the feelings.”

According to the Russian defence ministry, units of the 90th Tank Division of the Central Grouping of Russian forces have reached the western frontier of Ukraine’s Donetsk region and are attacking the adjacent Dnipropetrovsk region.

“The enemy doesn’t abandon its intentions to enter the Dnipropetrovsk area,” Ukraine’s Southern Defence Forces said on Telegram. “Our troopers are courageously and professionally holding their part of the entrance, disrupting the occupier’s plans. This work doesn’t cease for a minute.”

Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, said the Dnipropetrovsk offensive showed that if Ukraine did not want to accept the reality of Russia’s territorial gains in peace talks then Moscow’s forces would advance further.

The pro-Ukrainian Deep State map showed Russian forces very close to the Dnipropetrovsk region, which had a population of more than 3 million before the war, and advancing on the city of Kostyantynivka in the Donetsk region from several directions.

A Ukrainian military spokesman, Dmytro Zaporozhets, said that Russian forces were trying to “construct a bridgehead for an assault” on Kostyantynivka, an important logistical hub for the Ukrainian army.

Donald Trump has been shown to be wrong, wrong and wrong again about Vladimir Putin. He was wrong again when he was asked if Ukraine’s “Spiderweb” drone strikes against Russian bombers had changed his view of the cards the Ukrainians have: “They gave Putin a reason to go and bomb the hell out of them,” he said.

This is the same logic to which President Trump has cleaved from the start: that the Ukrainian people provoked the full-scale invasion of their country by wanting to be an independent nation facing to the west.

Production was temporarily suspended at an electronics company in Russia’s Volga river region of Chuvashia, some 1,300km from the border with Ukraine, after two drones fell on the plant’s territory, the head of the region said on Monday.

The strike – among the deepest into Russia by a Ukrainian drone in more than three years of the war – caused no casualties, Chuvashia governor Oleg Nikolayev said in a statement on the Telegram messaging app.

But “the accountable resolution was made to quickly droop manufacturing to make sure the security of workers” of the Vniir enterprise where the drones fell, Nikolayev said.

It was not immediately clear whether the drones caused any damage. Mr Nikolayev said that another drone fell onto some fields in the area of the capital of the region, Cheboksary.

Donald Trump’s administration has redirected at least 20,000 anti-drone missiles originally designated for Ukraine to American forces in the Middle East, Volodymyr Zelensky has said.

Ukraine was hoping to receive the missiles from the US to help counter relentless Russian drone attacks, which include swarms of Iranian-designed Shahed-type drones, Mr Zelensky said.

“We have large issues with Shaheds… we’ll discover all of the instruments to destroy them,” Mr Zelensky said. “We counted on this venture — 20,000 missiles. Anti-Shahed missiles. It was not costly, nevertheless it’s a particular expertise,” he advised ABC News.

The plan has been agreed upon with earlier president Joe Biden’s administration and its defence secretary Lloyd Austin.

At least 12 civilians have been killed and 65 injured by Russian assaults throughout Ukraine within the final 24 hours, in line with native reviews.

Russia launched practically 50 drones in a single day concentrating on civilians and infrastructure throughout Ukraine, in line with Ukraine’s air power.

Six civilians have been killed and 44 injured in Kharkiv Oblast alone, Ukraine’s nationwide police stated.

Russia has accused Ukraine of delaying the swap of prisoners of battle and return of the our bodies of 12,000 useless troopers, although Ukraine denied these claims.

Russia stated it was shifting our bodies in direction of the border and tv confirmed refrigerated vans containing the our bodies of Ukrainian troopers on the street within the Bryansk area.

Ukraine accused Russia of taking part in propaganda video games and stated that the change of prisoners of battle and the our bodies of fallen troopers was scheduled for subsequent week. Russia stated Ukraine was taking part in politics with the useless.

The Russian defence ministry has launched pictures of what it says are lorries carrying the refrigerated our bodies of Ukrainian troopers.

The lorries are at an ex-change space Novaya Guta, Belarus on the boarder of Ukraine.

However, it’s scheduled for subsequent week, Kyrylo Budanov, Ukraine’s army intelligence chief (HUR), stated.

“The start of repatriation measures following the negotiations in Istanbul is scheduled for next week, as authorised persons were informed on Tuesday (3 June),” Mr Budanov posted on Telegram.

Ukraine has rejected Russian claims to have entered the central-eastern area of Dnipropetrovsk for the primary time.

With Vladimir Putin intensifying his push to grab additional Ukrainian territory whereas paying lip service to peace talks brokered by the US, Russia’s defence ministry claimed yesterday that its forces had reached the western frontier of Ukraine’s Donetsk area and have been now attacking the adjoining Dnipropetrovsk area.

But Ukraine strongly refuted these claims, with the nation’s Southern Defence Forces saying: “The enemy has not abandoned its plans to enter Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. Our soldiers are bravely and professionally holding their section of the front, thwarting the occupier’s plans.”

This was echoed by Major Andrii Kovalev, a spokesperson for the final employees of Ukraine’s Armed Forces, who advised Ukrainska pravda: “The information is not true. Fighting is ongoing in Donetsk Oblast. The enemy did not enter Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.”

And a spokesperson for Ukraine’s Khortytsia group of forces advised CNN that “the Russians are constantly spreading false information that they have entered the Dnipropetrovsk region from the Pokrovsk and Novopavlivka directions, but [in neither place] is this information true”.