Right here’s the place issues stand on Sunday, June 1:
Preventing
- The governor of Russia’s Bryansk, Alexander Bogomaz, mentioned seven individuals have been killed, and 30 have been injured in a practice derailment within the area bordering Ukraine. Moscow Railway mentioned in a submit on Telegram that the derailment and bridge collapse was a results of “unlawful interference in transport operations”. Ukraine’s army didn’t instantly remark.
- A Russian assault killed a baby and wounded one other particular person within the Ukrainian village of Dolynka in Zaporizhia, the area’s governor mentioned.
- A person was additionally killed by Russian shelling in Ukraine’s Kherson area, Governor Oleksandr Prokudin wrote on Telegram.
- The Ukrainian Air Drive mentioned Russian forces launched an estimated 109 drones and 5 missiles throughout Ukraine on Friday and in a single day. Ukrainian forces destroyed 42 of the drones, it added.
- Russia’s army mentioned it captured the Ukrainian village of Vodolahy within the Sumy area and Novopil within the Donetsk area.
- The announcement got here after Ukraine ordered the evacuation of 11 extra villages within the Sumy area, saying Russia had amassed some 50,000 troops within the space.
Politics and diplomacy
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy mentioned Russia didn’t “look very critical” and had given “no clear data” on what it plans to attain at peace talks in Istanbul, Turkiye, subsequent week.
- He didn’t touch upon whether or not Ukraine would take part within the new spherical of negotiations, although Russia has mentioned it will ship a delegation led by Vladimir Medinsky, a former tradition minister.
- China’s embassy in Singapore criticised French President Emmanuel Macron for evaluating the defence of Ukraine with the necessity to defend Taiwan from a Chinese language invasion, saying that “the 2 are totally different in nature and never comparable in any respect”.
- Russia’s warfare on Ukraine shall be on the high of the agenda when German Chancellor Friedrich Merz meets with United States President Donald Trump on Thursday on the White Home, in response to a spokesman for the German authorities.
- Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson mentioned new guidelines set to manage overseas ships crossing Swedish territorial waters from July 1 come amid “a rising variety of regarding incidents within the Baltic Sea”, as Russia’s so-called Shadow Fleet continues to run into issues.
Weapons
- British Defence Secretary John Healey publicizes plans to construct no less than six new factories producing weapons and explosives, saying that “the hard-fought classes from [Russian President Vladimir] Putin’s unlawful invasion of Ukraine present a army is just as robust because the trade that stands behind them.”
