Thursday

June 5, 2025

Armed conflicts and attacks

Russian invasion of Ukraine

Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine

An overnight Russian Shahed drone strike kills five people, including a child, and injures nine others in Pryluky, Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine. (AP)

A Russian drone strike injures nineteen people in Kharkiv, including children and a pregnant woman. (AP)

Kherson strikes

The Kherson Regional State Administration headquarters is destroyed in a Russian missile strike. (Ukrinform)

Gaza war

Gaza war hostage crisis

Israeli forces in Gaza recover the bodies of an American-Israeli couple abducted by militants during the October 7 attacks. (NBC News)

Rafah aid distribution killings

A CNN investigation points to the Israel Defense Forces opening fire on crowds of Palestinians as they tried to get humanitarian aid in Rafah, Gaza. (CNN)

Israel–Hezbollah conflict

Israeli Air Force jets launch airstrikes on southern Beirut, Lebanon, targeting alleged underground Hezbollah drone manufacturing facilities. (Türkiye Today) (Al-Monitor)

Disasters and accidents

Mediterranean Sea migrant smuggling, Sudanese refugee crisis

The Freedom Flotilla, a flotilla carrying humanitarian aid en route to Gaza with Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, Irish actor Liam Cunningham, and French European Parliament member Rima Hassan, rescue four Sudanese civil war refugees from a dinghy near Libya. (The Times of Israel) (The Print)