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Russia-Ukraine war on June 2: 800 people stay in a chemical factory; most of the foreign mercenaries in Ukraine were killed

The railway infrastructure in Lviv was hit by a missile attack, severely damaged

The regional governor of Lviv district said the Russian cruise missile hit and “seriously damaged” railway infrastructure but did not hit a mountain railway tunnel as previously stated.

Governor Maksym Kozytskyi said on Telegram that the missile was launched from the Black Sea on June 1 and hit its target between 10:45 pm and 10:55 pm.

He added that five people were injured, four of them hospitalized.

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Russia controls most of Severodonetsk

The British Ministry of Defense said on June 2 that while Russia has taken control of most of the key city of Severodonetsk and continues to make steady gains, Russian forces have also suffered losses in the process and have had risk of losing momentum when shifting to focus on capturing the vicinity of Donetsk.

In its latest press conference, the British Ministry of Defense said that the section of the Siverskyy Donets river, locations including the area between Severodonetsk and Lysychansk and the town of Lyman remained under Ukrainian control.

Severodonetsk is one of the last remaining Ukrainian strongholds in the eastern Luhansk region.

The head of the Luhansk Military Administration, Serhiy Hayday, said that Russian forces had made no progress on the night of June 1 in an attempt to capture Severodonetsk, despite Russia’s claim that they had occupied Severodonetsk. be the whole city.

A day earlier, Mr. Hayday said that 10,000 Russian-controlled troops were fighting to capture the city. “They don’t control the whole city, fighting is going on and Ukrainian army counter-attacks have managed to push the Russians out of some streets, even arresting some Russian soldiers,” Hayday said. be a prisoner”.

On June 1, Mr. Hayday said that the Russians control 80% of the city.

Most of the foreign mercenaries in Ukraine were destroyed

Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov said on June 2, So far the total number of foreign mercenaries in Ukraine has nearly halved from 6.6 thousand to 3,500.

“Hundreds of foreign mercenaries in Ukraine were annihilated by Russian high-precision long-range weapons as soon as they arrived in places for additional training and coordination with tactical units. But most of the mercenaries. were destroyed in the war zone due to their low level of training and lack of real combat experience”, Major General Igor Konashenkov speak.

More than 1.6 million Ukrainians have come to Russia

More than 1.6 million people from Ukraine and the separatist republics in the Donbass region have traveled to Russia since the start of hostilities, Russian state news agency TASS reported on June 2.

As of the morning of June 1, more than 1.6 million people, including nearly 263,000 children, had crossed the border, the source said.

CNN cannot independently confirm the number of people crossing the border, but these numbers are similar to official Ukraine estimates.

Hundreds of people sheltered in chemical plants

About 800 people are hiding in several Soviet-era bomb shelters beneath the Azot chemical plant in Severodonetsk, which was hit by a Russian missile attack, Hayday told CNN on June 2.

“There were locals there who were asked to leave the city, but they refused. There were also children, but not many,” Mr. Hayday said.

Hayday says the plant is privately owned and the owners say only a small amount of the chemical remains at the plant.

Hayday added that, from a military point of view, the plant is of no significance, so “Azot is definitely not Azovstal” – a reference to the Mariupol steel mill that Russia took control of after a war. The siege lasted for weeks.

Russian attacks across Ukraine: At least seven people have been killed and 26 others injured in the past 24 hours, Ukrainian officials said on Monday. In addition to attacks in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of eastern Ukraine, Russian forces fired on targets in Mykolaiv to the south, Sumy to the northeast and Lviv to the west.

Russian forces on the morning of June 2 shelled the village of Mykolaivka, near the strategic city of Sloviansk in the eastern Donbass. Serhiy Leshchenko, an adviser and volunteer to the Ukrainian government, said the shells hit the settlement “24/7”. Leshchenko was then delivering food, coats and other supplies to those holding the northern Sloviansk line against the Russian advance.

The military governor of Donetsk, Pavlo Kyrylenko, said shelling took place today on “the entire line of communication” including in Sloviansk, Bakhmit and Avdiyivka, where 3,500 civilians remain.

President Zelensky said that Russia now occupies 20% of Ukraine’s territory

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Ukrainian President Zelensky.

President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Russian forces currently hold about 20% of Ukraine’s territory. He said this in a video speech to the Luxembourg parliament.

Zelensky said that the front line stretched for more than 1,000 km. “We have to defend ourselves against almost the entire Russian army. All of Russia’s combat-ready military formations are involved in this war,” he said.

Zelensky also said that every day 100 Ukrainians are dying in eastern Ukraine and 450-500 others are injured.

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