Shipments from Ukraine. Day 835.
National.
According to Ukraine’s Prosecutor General, Andrii Kostin, more than 2,000 Ukrainians have been subjected to torture and inhumane treatment in captivity in Russia. The torture, visible in videos circulating on the Internet, took place in a network of detention centers located in some fifteen regions of Russia.
In the latest exchange of prisoners of war between Russia and Ukraine on May 31, 75 Ukrainian prisoners, in addition to 4 civilians, returned home. After spending two years in a Russian prison, one civilian, Roman Horilyk, a senior controller of the Chernovial nuclear power plant, returned gray and malnourished; The ribs that cut through his skin looked like photographs of prisoners in Nazi concentration camps. According to “I Want to Live,” a volunteer center that coordinates calls on behalf of Russian fighters, Russia is trying to hide the mistreatment of prisoners of war by denying foreign observers, such as the International Committee of the Red Cross, access to those detention centers.
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development will allocate $325 million to the reconstruction of the infrastructure of Ukraine’s forces. Russia has recently stepped up its attacks on Ukraine’s critical force production facilities, adding the Trypillia thermal power plant. Ukraine’s state-owned forces companies, adding Ukrenergo, Ukrhidroenergo and Ukranafta will use the budget to repair generation capacity and infrastructure and build new decentralized generation facilities. At the same time, the United States announced a new aid package of $225 million to rebuild Ukraine’s network of forces and provide its army with weapons and ammunition.
After confirming that Ukraine has carried out four key reforms, the European Commission has announced that it supports the start of negotiations for Ukraine’s accession to the EU. Admission to the EU is a lengthy test in which the candidate country will have to demonstrate that its legislation and institutions meet democratic standards. Ukraine became a member of the EU shortly after Russia’s invasion in February 2022.
U. S. President Joe Biden met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for talks in Paris, a day after they attended the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy, France. Biden apologized to Zelensky for delays in military aid to Ukraine and pledged $225 million. in support.
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On June 4, a Russian missile strike on a residential area of the city of Dnipro injured six civilians and caused extensive damage to houses and buildings. “It’s just to live here,” said one of the victims.
Kherson region. On the same day, Russian shelling killed a user in the town of Veletenske and wounded in the village of Bilozirkan.
Ukrainian bank Monobank bought a new home for Lidia Stepanivna, a 98-year-old resident of the village of Ocheretyne who walked six miles into Ukrainian-controlled territory after her home in the Donetsk region was destroyed by Russian shelling. Her story on April 29 after the Ukrainian military discovered her and took her to a police station. “I lived through this war [World War II] and I live through this war. I have nothing left. But I went out alone with my Ukraine,” Stepanivna said. One of Monobank’s discoverers, Oleh Horokhovskyi, said his company would make sure Stepanivna had a new home. Photographs released on June 4 show her, dressed in a pink sweater, in front of a space covered in green leaves. .
By Daria Dzysiuk and Alan Sacks
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