Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,212

Here are the cardinal events connected time 1,212 of Russia’s warfare connected Ukraine.

This is however things basal connected Friday, June 20:

Fighting

• At slightest 1 idiosyncratic was killed, and 13 others injured, including 3 rescuers, erstwhile Russian drones attacked the Ukrainian Black Sea metropolis of Odesa overnight, damaging high-rise buildings and railway infrastructure, Ukrainian authorities said.

• Odesa Governor Oleh Kiper reported harm to civilian infrastructure, including residential buildings, a higher acquisition institution, a state pipeline and backstage cars. Emergency services said astatine slightest 10 drone attacks were carried retired successful the area.
• Ukrainian authorities railways Ukrzaliznytsia reported that Odesa railway presumption was damaged during the attack, with powerfulness wires and rails damaged.
• Russian drones besides attacked Kharkiv successful northeastern Ukraine overnight, damaging respective backstage and multistorey houses, Kharkiv officials said.
• Ukraine’s aerial unit said Russia had launched 86 drones connected Ukraine overnight, with the aerial defence portion shooting down 34, portion 36 others were lost, successful notation to the Ukrainian subject utilizing physics warfare to redirect them, oregon they were drone simulators that did not transportation warheads. It said drones deed 8 locations.
• Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said aerial defence systems had downed 2 drones en way to the Russian capital.

• Russian forces person taken power of the colony of Moskovka successful Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, the Defence Ministry said. Russia’s assertion could not beryllium independently verified immediately.

Military

• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appointed Hennadiy Shapovalov arsenic commandant of Ukraine’s onshore forces, replacing Mykhailo Drapatyi, who resigned implicit a deadly onslaught connected a grooming country carried retired by Russia. Drapatyi was reassigned to the station of commandant of the associated forces arsenic portion of a subject shake-up.

• Major-General Christian Freuding, who is successful complaint of coordinating German subject assistance to Kyiv, dismissed arsenic “nonsense” repeated warnings by Russian President Vladimir Putin that delivering Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine mightiness marque Berlin enactment to the war.

Politics and diplomacy

• Russia expects to hold with Ukraine adjacent week connected a day for a 3rd circular of bid talks, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said. He said that Kremlin adjutant Vladimir Medinsky, who heads the Russian delegation, is successful interaction with his Ukrainian counterpart astir the details of the imaginable talks.

• Peskov besides said helium could not foretell whether Putin would conscionable US President Donald Trump this twelvemonth fixed however turbulent the satellite had become.

• Ukraine and Russia exchanged much prisoners of war, officials from some countries said, the latest circular of swaps nether an statement struck successful Istanbul.

• Zelenskyy said Russia’s defence of Iranian authorities amid the Israel-Iran struggle had underscored the request for intensified sanctions against Moscow.

• Zelenskyy added that Russia’s deployment of Iranian-designed Shahed drones and North Korean munitions showed that Kyiv’s allies were applying insufficient unit against Moscow.

• Zelenskyy besides expressed willingness to conscionable Putin for talks.
• Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said the struggle betwixt Israel and Iran had exposed Russian hypocrisy, with Moscow defending Iran’s atomic programme and condemning strikes against Tehran portion “ruthlessly” attacking Ukraine.

• The International Atomic Energy Agency said the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant successful Ukraine cannot resume operations until challenges related to the availability of cooling h2o and off-site powerfulness are afloat resolved.

Economy

• Foreign nonstop concern into Russia has fallen sharply, the latest United Nations information showed, and Russia’s premier economical forum successful Saint Petersburg this week is offering scant anticipation of a revival, with Western investors mostly absent.

• Soaring defence spending has propped up Russia’s $2 trillion economy since its full-scale penetration of Ukraine successful 2022.

• Sergei Aleksashenko, a erstwhile lawman politician of Russia’s cardinal slope present surviving abroad, said fewer superior businesses would consider Russia as an concern destination adjacent if the warfare were to extremity tomorrow.

Source:

Al Jazeera and quality agencies