Right here is how issues stand on Sunday, June 29:
Preventing
- A Russian drone assault killed a instructor and her husband in Ukraine’s Odesa, and wounded 14 others, based on Ukrainian officers. Three of the victims, together with a toddler, have been in essential situation.
- At the least two others have been killed in one other Russian assault on the villages of Kostiantynivka and Ivanopillia within the japanese area of Donetsk on Friday, based on Governor Vadym Filashkin.
- Explosions have 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 the town”, based on the official Ukrinform information company.
- Russia’s Ministry of Defence stated Russian forces have taken management of the settlement of Chervona Zirka in Donetsk. The ministry later stated it had additionally seized the realm between the Vovcha and Mokri Yaly rivers.
- High Ukrainian commander Oleksandr Syrskii additionally stated on Telegram that Russia’s army was “surging in the direction of” the important thing metropolis of Kostiantynivka in Donetsk, however that “other than 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 damage, within the village of Glushkovo within the Kursk area, the TASS information company reported, citing an area official.
- Ukraine’s SBU safety service stated Ukrainian forces utilizing particular drones attacked the Kirovske army airfield in Russian-occupied Crimea, destroying three assault helicopters and an anti-aircraft missile system.
- Russia’s army stated 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 informed reporters he would “after all” invite Nawrocki to Ukraine after he assumed workplace.
- Ruslan Stefanchuk, the speaker and chairperson of the Ukrainian Parliament, informed Ukraine’s ongoing marathon tv broadcast {that a} invoice is being drafted to carry elections after the warfare, Ukrinform reported.
