Because the struggle enters its 832nd day, these are the primary occasions.
Right here is the state of affairs on Thursday, June 6, 2024.
Battle
- One individual was killed and 4 wounded in Russian shelling close to the city of Toretsk within the japanese Donetsk area, whereas yet another civilian was injured in a Russian airstrike in town of Selydove, Ukrainian officers stated.
- One individual was injured in Ukraine’s Poltava area when Russia launched a wave of Shahed assault drones within the southern, central and northern areas of the nation. The air power stated it destroyed 22 of the 27 drones. Some buildings have been broken, however there have been no different reviews of casualties.
- Ukrenergo, Ukraine’s energy grid operator, ordered speedy energy cuts in 12 areas throughout the nation as a result of it had a “catastrophic electrical energy scarcity.” Russia has been focusing on Ukraine’s power infrastructure in current assaults.
- Authorities stated Ukrainian males aged between 18 and 60 who’ve everlasting residence in different international locations would now not be allowed to go away Ukraine in the event that they visited as kyiv tries to construct up its navy ranks.
Politics and diplomacy
- Russian President Vladimir Putin reiterated that Moscow wouldn’t rule out the usage of nuclear weapons if it felt Russia’s sovereignty or territory was threatened. In his first information convention with editors from worldwide information businesses, together with Reuters and The Related Press, since launching his full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Putin additionally warned of the dangers to Ukraine’s Western allies in offering weapons to assist Kiev to defend itself.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited Qatar and thanked Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani for Qatar’s function in bringing residence Ukrainian kids forcibly deported to Russia and supporting Ukraine’s “sovereignty and territorial integrity.”
- US President Joe Biden is anticipated to carry talks with Zelenskyy once they be part of Western leaders in Normandy on Thursday to mark the eightieth anniversary of the D-Day landings.
- French President Emmanuel Macron confirmed that he would attend the June 15-16 Ukrainian peace summit in Switzerland.
- Andriy Sybiha, First Deputy Overseas Minister of Ukraine, visited China and urged it to ship a delegation to the peace summit. Beijing stated final week it could not attend the occasion and didn’t point out the request in its assertion about Sybiha’s go to.
- A Moscow court docket sentenced Russian blogger Anna Bazhutova to 5 and a half years in jail for spreading “false” data after she livestreamed witness testimonies about alleged Russian atrocities throughout their occupation of Bucha, northwest of kyiv.
- Yuri Malev, a Russian-American man, was sentenced to 3 and a half years in jail for mocking a patriotic tape related to the Russian navy, the St. Petersburg judicial service stated. Malev was arrested in December for 2 social media posts shared in June 2022 and Could 2023.
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Russian opposition activist Ilya Yashin, a detailed ally of the late opposition chief Alexey Navalny and jailed for criticizing the struggle in Ukraine, has misplaced a court docket attraction towards his designation as a “overseas agent,” Russian media reported. The 40-year-old man was sentenced in December 2022 to eight and a half years in jail on expenses of spreading “false data” in regards to the Russian navy.
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Russia’s Supreme Courtroom has rejected an attraction by sociologist and activist Boris Kagarlitsky towards his five-year jail sentence for “justifying terrorism,” state information company TASS reported. Kagarlitsky, 65, is a longtime political dissident and has repeatedly spoken out towards the Ukrainian struggle on his YouTube channel and in {a magazine} he edited.
Weapons
- America is anticipated to announce a brand new arms bundle value $225 million for Ukraine this week, Reuters reported, citing sources it didn’t title.