Right here is how issues stand on Monday, June 30:
Combating
- Russia launched its greatest aerial assault on Ukraine because the starting of its full-scale invasion in a single day on Sunday, firing a complete of 537 aerial weapons, together with 477 drones and decoys and 60 missiles, in response to the Ukrainian air pressure.
- Ukrainian forces intercepted 475 of the weapons, however the army mentioned F-16 pilot Lieutenant Colonel Maksym Ustimenko was killed “whereas repelling” the “large enemy air assault”.
- No less than 4 others have been additionally killed within the air raids, in Kherson, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk and Kostiantynivka areas, the Related Press information company reported, citing native officers.
- The aerial assaults have been additionally far-reaching, concentrating on areas as far-off as Lviv, within the far west, the place a drone assault brought about a big hearth at an industrial facility within the metropolis of Drohobych, and minimize electrical energy to components of the realm.
- Poland mentioned it scrambled plane, along with different NATO nations, to make sure the protection of Polish airspace in the course of the assault. Not one of the Russian missiles entered Poland’s airspace, the command mentioned.
- As well as, two folks have been killed by Russian shelling, together with a 70-year-old girl who was discovered beneath the rubble of a nine-storey constructing within the Zaporizhia area, AP reported.
- Russia’s Defence Ministry mentioned it intercepted three Ukrainian drones in a single day, and claimed management of the village of Novoukrainka within the partially Russian-occupied Donetsk area.
- The RIA Novosti information company mentioned one individual was killed by a Ukrainian drone within the Russian-controlled a part of Ukraine’s Luhansk area, whereas the appearing governor of Russia’s Kursk mentioned that two folks have been injured in a Ukrainian assault on the border area.
Weapons
- Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy mentioned the air assaults spotlight the necessity for additional assist from the US and Western allies to strengthen the nation’s air defences.
- He additionally signed a decree to drag Ukraine out of the Ottawa Convention banning the manufacturing and use of anti-personnel mines, saying Russia has by no means been a celebration to the treaty “and is utilizing anti-personnel mines with utmost cynicism”.
- Roman Kostenko, a senior Ukrainian lawmaker, mentioned that parliamentary approval was nonetheless wanted to withdraw from the treaty. He mentioned legislators will maintain a vote on the transfer.
- Ukraine’s Ministry of Overseas Affairs additionally mentioned the nation has “made the troublesome however mandatory political determination to cease the implementation of irrelevant obligations beneath the Ottawa Conference” as a result of it has led to an “uneven benefit” for Russia.
Politics and diplomacy
- US Senator Lindsey Graham advised ABC Information that the nation’s Congress will start voting on new Russian sanctions after President Donald Trump advised him, “It’s time to maneuver your invoice.”
- In the meantime, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov advised state tv that European nations would really feel the implications of imposing harsher sanctions on Russia. “The extra severe the bundle of sanctions, which, I repeat, we think about unlawful, the extra severe would be the recoil from a gun to the shoulder. This can be a double-edged sword,” he mentioned.
- Russian spy chief Sergei Naryshkin mentioned in remarks revealed on Sunday that he had spoken to the director of the US Central Intelligence Company (CIA), John Ratcliffe, and that they’d agreed to name one another at any time.
