Edna Mohamed

Rus­sia re­ports heavy fight­ing along front in south­ern Ukraine as an­a­lysts sug­gest Kyiv’s of­fen­sive is un­der way.

All the up­dates from June 8 as they hap­pened.

De­struc­tion of dam will have a cat­a­stroph­ic ef­fect on lo­cat­ing land­mines in the af­fect­ed re­gion, the Red Cross warns.

These were the up­dates on the Rus­sia-Ukraine war on Mon­day, June 5.

News from June 2: Bel­go­rod, lo­cat­ed close to Ukrain­ian bor­der, has come un­der in­ten­si­fied at­tacks in the past few weeks.

Ahead of an ex­pect­ed Ukrain­ian coun­terof­fen­sive, Rus­sia has come un­der re­peat­ed at­tack in re­cent days.

Rus­sia reels from rare at­tack it blames on Ukraine as of­fi­cials warn of the most ‘se­vere mea­sures’ in re­sponse.

The Brazil­ian pres­i­dent says he re­it­er­at­ed to Putin his will­ing­ness to talk to both sides, seek­ing peace.

May 25 news: Be­larus says re­lo­ca­tion of tac­ti­cal nu­clear weapons from Rus­sia has al­ready start­ed, news agency re­ports.