UK intelligence: Ukraine has initiative in most directions

The operational picture of the war in Ukraine remains extremely complex. Heavy fighting continues along several sectors of the front.

In most areas, Ukraine holds the initiative, Caliber.Az reports citing the UK Defence Ministry's daily intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine.

Latest Defence Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine - 8 June 2023.

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According to the Defence Ministry, Russian forces are likely still being ordered to return to the offensive as soon as possible: Chechen units have led an unsuccessful attempt to take the town of Marivka, near Donetsk city, where the front line has changed little since 2015.

“Through 07 June 2023, flood levels continued to rise in the lower Dnipro, following the collapse of the Kakhovka Dam, but will likely start to recede during 08 June 2023. Shelling has complicated some attempts to evacuate displaced civilians from inundated areas,” the report added.

On the night of June 6, Ukraine reported that the Russian Federation blew up the dam of the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant (KHPP), located near the town of Nova Kakhovka in the temporarily Russia-controlled territory of the Kherson region.