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Russian attacks continue across Ukraine, causing casualties and damage

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Posted Jun 8, 2026, 05:00 PM UTC · In the digest of 2026-06-08-1700
Russian attacks continue across Ukraine, causing casualties and damage

Russian forces continued drone and aerial bomb assaults across multiple Ukrainian regions on June 6 and 7, causing casualties, including a police technician, and damage to infrastructure like the Chornobyl storage facility.

Russian forces continued drone and aerial bomb assaults across multiple Ukrainian regions on June 6 and 7. On June 7, a Russian drone struck a police vehicle near Chystovodivka, Kharkiv region, killing an explosive ordnance disposal technician and injuring three other officers and one civilian who were responding to an unexploded drone. The same day, a drone partially damaged a container reception building at the Central Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage facility in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone; no spent fuel was present, and radiation levels remained normal. An FPV drone also hit a civilian car near Radkove, Kharkiv region, injuring a 49-year-old woman. Earlier, on June 6, two civilians died in Kramatorsk and Druzhkivka, Donetsk region, with six others injured, and an FPV drone struck a shuttle bus in Kushuhum, Zaporizhzhia region.

Sources: Суспільне Новини, Радіо Свобода, Українська правда

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