Russia-Ukraine war updates | Ukrainian drone boats attack Russian ship in Black Sea

In a statement, Russia's defence ministry said that six unmanned Ukrainian boats attacked Russian ship Priazovye in the Black Sea on Sunday. According to the ministry, the ship did not suffer damage, however, the drone boats were destroyed.

The ministry, in a statement, said Priazovye was "monitoring the situation and ensuring security on the routes of the Turkish Stream and Blue Stream gas pipeline" when it was attacked by "six uncrewed surface vessels".

"In the course of repulsing the attack, all the boats were destroyed by fire from the Russian ship's regular weapons 300 kilometers (about 186 miles) southeast of Sevastopol," the ministry added, further stating that there were no casualties. 

Three civilians were killed and 10 others were injured in the attack carried out by Russia on a boat carrying flood evacuees.

“Three civilians died, ten more were wounded, including two law enforcement officers,” said the governor of Kherson region, Oleksandr Prokudin.

In a statement, he stated that a 74-year-old man shielded a woman during firing because of which he was hit in the back and lost his life. 

"A 74-year-old man covered a woman with his own body when the enemy opened fire. The Russians shot him in the back. He died from his injuries; the doctors did not have enough time to help him," Prokudin wrote.

The people were evacuating the flooded area on the Dnipro River's east bank after the recent Nova Kakhovka dam collapse.

Russia released the Ukrainian prisoners which included members of the national guard and border guards, reproted Reuters.

Head of Ukraine’s presidential administration Andriy Yermak stated that people released had been in action in various places, which included near the city of Mariupol and the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.

For the third consecutive weekend, the Ukrainian government has released a well-produced video that subtly acknowledges, without directly mentioning, the military's summer counteroffensive against Russia's occupying forces.

The most recent video features Kyrylo Budanov, the head of military intelligence, sitting silently at his desk, gazing into the camera. After 20 seconds, the words "More to Come" appear, followed by the slogan "Plans Love Silence." This slogan has become a recurring theme in the government's communication efforts since a video with the same message emerged last weekend, depicting soldiers with their fingers pressed to their lips, symbolizing the importance of maintaining silence.
 

According to the chief of staff of President Volodymyr Zelenskiyy, six civilians were injured on Sunday during an incident where Russian forces targeted a boat that was being used for evacuating people from flooded areas in the occupied territory to the Ukrainian-controlled city of Kherson. The region has been severely affected by devastating floods following the destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam, which both Kyiv and Moscow have accused each other of deliberately causing.
 

Russian defense ministry on Sunday announced that its military had successfully taken down a Ukrainian Su-25 fighter jet in the Kherson region. This incident occurred amidst the backdrop of significant flooding resulting from the breach of the Kakhovka dam earlier in the week. Additionally, the Russian forces reportedly thwarted three Ukrainian assaults in the Zaporizhzhia region, as stated by the defense ministry.

In what might be first gains since Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky gave clearest indication yet that Ukraine’s long-awaited push back of Russian troops has begun, saying “relevant counteroffensive defensive actions are taking place in Ukraine," on Saturday. 

Ukrainian Land Forces said on Sunday (June 11) that soldiers of the 68th Separate Hunting Brigade had retaken the village of Blahodatne in the Donetsk region. In a statement, the ground forces said in a statement that soldiers of the 68th separate ranger brigade had "liberated the settlement of Blagodatne" in the region of Donetsk.

Yevgeny Prigozhin, chief of Russia's Wagner mercenary, on Sunday, said his fighters would not sign any contract with Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu.

This comes after Russian defence ministry on Saturday said Shoigu had ordered all "volunteer detachments" to sign contracts with his ministry by the end of the month, in a bid to increase the effectiveness of the Russian army.

However, Prigozhin, in a response to a request for comment on the matter said, "Wagner will not sign any contracts with Shoigu," adding that that the order did not apply to Wagner. 

The Russian defence ministry said on Sunday that it repelled a Ukrainian attack on a Russian warship which has been guarding gas pipelines in the Black Sea.

"Ukraine's armed forces made an unsuccessful attempt to attack the Black Sea Fleet's Priazovye ship," said Moscow, in a statement. 

The reported attack took place by Kyiv's six unmanned boats. "All the boats have been destroyed. There are no casualties," said the Russian defence ministry. 

According to Ukrainian officials, days after the Russian-controlled Kakhovka dam along the front line in the Kherson region was destroyed at least 35 people, including seven children have been reported missing in southern Ukraine. 

In what has been described as "worst environmental catastrophe since Chernobyl," Ukrainian interior minister Igor Klymenko said that 77 towns and villages had been flooded in the southern regions of Kherson and Mykolaiv. 

He added, 35 people including seven children are missing while five people died in Kherson and one person has died in the region of Mykolaiv. A total of 3,700 people have been evacuated from their homes in the two regions, said the minister, in a statement.