Edna Mohamed

Rus­sia and Ukraine trade blame for an ex­plo­sion at the Nova Kakhov­ka dam that has caused wide­spread flood­ing.

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.

Moscow claims to have over­come an as­sault that start­ed on Mon­day, say­ing dozens of at­tack­ers have been killed.

All the up­dates from Greece’s gen­er­al elec­tion.

Pres­i­dent’s first vis­it to Saudia Ara­bia takes place dur­ing week in which he also vis­it­ed the UK, France and Ger­many.