Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,219

Here is however things basal connected Friday, June 27:

Fighting

• Russian aerial strikes killed 1 idiosyncratic and wounded 2 others successful Ukraine’s confederate portion of Kherson, determination politician Oleksandr Prokudin said connected Telegram.
• Russian troops person taken power of the colony of Shevchenko successful eastbound Ukraine’s Donetsk region, which is adjacent to a lithium deposit, aft fierce absorption from Ukrainian forces, a Russian-backed authoritative successful the occupied portion said.

• Russian troops besides took power of the colony of Novoserhiivka besides successful Donetsk, according to the Russian Ministry of Defence.

• Ukraine’s forces stopped Russian advances successful the borderline country of Ukraine’s bluish portion of Sumy this week, the country’s apical general, Oleksandr Syrskii, said successful a statement.

• Syrskii has besides ordered antiaircraft lines to beryllium built much rapidly successful the Sumy region, arsenic Russian forces summation crushed towards the concern Dnipropetrovsk region.

Military

• North Korea volition nonstop much troops to Russia to assistance successful its warfare against Ukraine, perchance arsenic aboriginal arsenic July, a South Korean lawmaker said, citing accusation from Seoul’s spy agency.

Politics and diplomacy

• Ukraine and Russia exchanged a caller radical of captured soldiers, the latest successful a bid of captive swaps agreed astatine bid talks successful Istanbul earlier this month. Neither broadside said however galore prisoners were released, but they had pledged to swap astatine slightest 1,000 soldiers each during their nonstop gathering successful Istanbul connected June 2.

• Russia said determination was nary advancement yet towards mounting a day for the adjacent circular of bid talks with Ukraine, Interfax quality bureau reported. Another authorities quality agency, TASS, quoted Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov arsenic saying Russia was successful favour of continued United States efforts to mediate talks.

• The European Union’s 27 leaders person agreed to widen sanctions connected Russia for different six months, resolving fears that Kremlin-friendly Hungary would fto the measures lapse, officials said. The sanctions see the continued freezing of much than $234bn successful Russian cardinal slope assets until astatine slightest aboriginal 2026.
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has urged the European Council to nonstop “a wide governmental message” that Brussels backs Kyiv successful its effort to articulation the EU.
• Earlier, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said that a state-organised consultation gave him a “strong mandate” to reason neighbouring Ukraine’s EU accession astatine the EU acme successful Brussels.
• The planetary chemic weapons watchdog, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), said that it had recovered a banned teardrop state successful 7 samples submitted by Ukraine, which has accused Russia of utilizing the riot power cause connected the beforehand line. It was the 3rd clip the OPCW confirmed the usage of CS state successful areas wherever warring is taking spot successful Ukraine.
• Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said a caller arms contention could pb to the autumn of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “regime”, conscionable similar it toppled the Soviet Union.

Press freedom

• A Russian tribunal said it had recovered a photographer, Grigory Skvortsov, blameworthy of treason and jailed him for 16 years aft helium allegedly admitted passing elaborate accusation astir once-secret Soviet-era bunkers to a US journalist.

• Moscow volition summon the German ambassador soon to pass him of retaliatory measures successful effect to what it sees arsenic the harassment of Russian journalists based successful Germany, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.

Source:

Al Jazeera and quality agencies