On June 8, 2001, at dawn in the village of Raduzhnoye, Grozny District, Russian units carried out a “cleansing operation”. During it, a large number of people were insulted and beaten. Some of them subsequently had to seek medical help.

The water level in the flooded city of Novaya Kakhovka is decreasing. 900 people were evacuated. Eight are missing.
The Energodar mayor's office advises residents to leave the city due to the uncontrollable situation at the occupied Zaporozhye nuclear power plant.
The Russian Volunteer Corps announced the capture of Novaya Tavolzhanka in the Belgorod region.

The US State Department once again called on the Azerbaijani government to release activist Bakhtiyar Hajiyev. Similar appeals concern another oppositionist, Zamin Salaev.

Karachay-Cherkessia and Chechnya took fourth and eighth places in the ranking of the worst condition of urban roads, of which 33% and 30%, respectively, are of unsatisfactory quality in the republics. This is reported by the Federal Road Agency (Rosavtodor).

The average salary of a social worker in Russia is 44,000 rubles, according to Rosstat. The lowest salaries were recorded in the North Caucasus.

Against a resident of Kabardino-Balkaria, 35-year-old Erik Kanokov, a criminal case was opened on treason. According to investigators, he planned to leave for Ukraine and fight in the combat unit "Muslim Corps - Caucasus" as part of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

The representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Zakharova commented on the statement of the Secretary of the Security Council of Armenia Armen Grigoryan that in the event of unblocking transport communications in the region, Armenia, and not the Russian Federation, will exercise control over the borders.

In Tbilisi, a protest rally was held near the parliament building due to the explosion of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station. The participants, local citizens of Ukraine, accused the Russian Federation of a war crime.

At least seven compositions by the Chechen bard Timur Mutsuraev are included in the list of materials for the dissemination of which the courts most often imposed administrative fines. According to the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation, they are recognized as "extremist materials."

After the break of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station dam, more than 1,800 buildings were flooded. Tons of machine oil could have gotten into the Dnieper. Experts speak of a humanitarian and environmental catastrophe.