Right here is how issues stand on Sunday, June 29:
Preventing
- A Russian drone assault killed a trainer and her husband in Ukraine’s Odesa, and wounded 14 others, in accordance with Ukrainian officers. Three of the victims, together with a baby, had been in important situation.
- Not less than two others had been killed in one other Russian assault on the villages of Kostiantynivka and Ivanopillia within the japanese area of Donetsk on Friday, in accordance with Governor Vadym Filashkin.
- Explosions had been heard within the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, on Saturday night time, with Mayor Vitali Klitschko warning residents to take shelter from Russian drones “heading for town”, in accordance with the official Ukrinform information company.
- Russia’s Ministry of Defence mentioned Russian forces have taken management of the settlement of Chervona Zirka in Donetsk. The ministry later mentioned it had additionally seized the world between the Vovcha and Mokri Yaly rivers.
- High Ukrainian commander Oleksandr Syrskii additionally mentioned on Telegram that Russia’s army was “surging in direction of” the important thing metropolis of Kostiantynivka in Donetsk, however that “aside from sustaining quite a few losses, [it] has achieved nothing”.
- In Russia, a Ukrainian drone assault triggered a number of accidents to a 43-year-old man, together with a traumatic mind harm, within the village of Glushkovo within the Kursk area, the TASS information company reported, citing a neighborhood official.
- Ukraine’s SBU safety service mentioned Ukrainian forces utilizing particular drones attacked the Kirovske military airfield in Russian-occupied Crimea, destroying three assault helicopters and an anti-aircraft missile system.
- Russia’s army mentioned it destroyed 64 Ukrainian drones over western Russia and Russian-occupied Crimea in a single day and into Saturday.
Politics and diplomacy
- Poland’s outgoing president, Andrzej Duda, throughout a go to to Kyiv, requested Ukraine to “please be affected person” throughout the handover to his nationalist successor, Karol Nawrocki. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy instructed reporters he would “in fact” invite Nawrocki to Ukraine after he assumed workplace.
- Ruslan Stefanchuk, the speaker and chairperson of the Ukrainian Parliament, instructed Ukraine’s ongoing marathon tv broadcast {that a} invoice is being drafted to carry elections after the conflict, Ukrinform reported.
