Listed below are the important thing occasions on day 1,216 of Russia’s struggle on Ukraine.
Right here is how issues stand on Tuesday, June 24 :
Combating
- The official demise toll from a Russian drone and missile assault on Kyiv earlier this week has risen to 10 individuals, together with one little one.
- A separate Russian drone assault on Ukraine’s northeastern area of Sumy has killed three individuals, together with a baby, in keeping with native authorities.
- Two individuals have been injured when a Ukrainian drone hit an residence constructing exterior Moscow early on Tuesday, in keeping with Russia’s TASS information company. The drone hit the seventeenth flooring of the constructing and began a hearth.
- Russia says it intercepted a couple of dozen Ukrainian drones in a single day that have been heading in direction of Moscow and the Russian border areas of Kursk and Bryansk.
- Ukrainian forces hit an oil depot in southern Russia that was supplying Russian forces in occupied sections of Ukraine, in keeping with the Basic Workers of Ukraine’s Armed Forces.
Regional safety
- Moscow’s international intelligence company has accused Serbia of promoting ammunition to Ukraine and routing it by companies within the Czech Republic and Bulgaria. Each international locations are EU and NATO members, in contrast to Serbia.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made a visit to the UK on Monday, the place he met with Prime Minister Keir Starmer in London and King Charles III at Windsor Fortress.
- Zelenskyy is because of attend a NATO leaders’ summit, which is scheduled to start out in The Hague on Tuesday. NATO head Mark Rutte stated earlier this week that the safety bloc maintains its unwavering assist for Ukraine.
- Zelenskyy and Starmer signed an settlement to share “battlefield expertise” that can see Ukraine and the UK produce long-range drones collectively – which will probably be able to placing targets in Russia.
- The UK authorities stated “expertise information units from Ukraine’s entrance line are set to be plugged into UK manufacturing strains, permitting British defence companies to quickly design and construct, at scale, leading edge navy tools accessible nowhere else on the planet”.
