Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,199

Here’s wherever things basal connected Saturday, June 7:

Fighting

• At slightest six radical were killed successful Russian rocket and drone strikes connected the Ukrainian superior Kyiv and crossed the state connected Friday.
• Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said 3 of the victims were exigency responders who were killed successful a rocket and drone onslaught connected Kyiv, portion a further 80 radical nationwide were injured successful the attacks.
• Two radical were killed successful Ukraine’s bluish metropolis of Chernihiv, and astatine slightest 1 much idiosyncratic was killed successful the northwestern metropolis of Lutsk.
• Ukraine’s aerial unit said Russia had utilized 407 drones, 1 of the largest numbers recorded successful a azygous attack, arsenic good arsenic 45 cruise and ballistic missiles successful the attack.
• The Ukrainian subject said it had launched a preemptive onslaught overnight connected the Engels and Dyagilevo airfields successful the Russian regions of Saratov and Ryazan, successful summation to striking astatine slightest 3 substance reservoirs.

• Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said Russia had “responded” to Kyiv’s audacious drone onslaught that destroyed Russian dense bombers astatine airfields successful Siberia past play by attacking civilians and civilian infrastructure successful Ukraine.
• Russia’s Ministry of Defence said its forces had carried retired the strikes, which targeted subject and military-related targets successful effect to what it called Ukrainian “terrorist acts” against Russia.
• Western subject aviation experts told the Reuters quality bureau that Russia volition instrumentality years to regenerate the nuclear-capable bomber planes that were deed successful Ukrainian drone strikes connected airfields successful Siberia.
• Russia’s National Guard said it killed a antheral arsenic helium tried to hole a drone onslaught connected a subject tract successful Russia’s Ryazan region, southeast of Moscow.
• Russian aerial defence units intercepted and destroyed 82 Ukrainian drones implicit Russian territory, including the Moscow region, Russia’s Defence Ministry said aboriginal connected Saturday.

• Moscow’s mayor, Sergei Sobyanin, said six drones headed for the superior metropolis had been destroyed oregon downed.
• In total, Russia’s Defence Ministry said that aerial defences had downed 174 Ukrainian drones implicit 13 regions. Three Ukrainian Neptune missiles were besides changeable down implicit the Black Sea.
• A locomotive bid was derailed successful Russia’s Belgorod portion aft the way was blown up, determination Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said.

Regional security

• German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said immoderate US legislators bash not recognize the standard of Russia’s subject rearmament campaign: “They intelligibly person nary thought what is happening determination close now,” helium said aft a gathering with US President Donald Trump.
• Merz said helium had been reassured by President Trump’s “resounding no” to a question connected whether the US had plans to retreat from NATO.

Politics and diplomacy

• The Kremlin reacted angrily to comments by Trump, who likened the warfare successful Ukraine to a bitter quality betwixt toddlers successful a park.
• Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said it was imaginable Trump believed his ain comments, but for Russia, the warfare connected Ukraine was “existential”.
• “For us, it is an existential issue, an contented connected our nationalist interest, safety, connected our aboriginal and the aboriginal of our children, of our country,” Peskov told reporters.
• Russia has asked the UN atomic watchdog to mediate betwixt Moscow and Washington to resoluteness the question of what to bash with US atomic substance stored astatine Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia atomic plant, which is nether Russian control.
• Russian atomic vigor main Alexei Likhachev said that Russia was consenting either to usage the fuel, supplied by US institution Westinghouse, oregon to region it wholly and instrumentality it to the United States.

Sanctions

• President Trump said that helium had not decided whether to deploy sanctions against Russia that are being considered by the US Senate.

Economy

• The Russian cardinal slope has chopped its cardinal involvement complaint by a afloat percent point, a astonishment determination by the bank, which it justified by pointing to declining ostentation unit and a much robust rouble. It was the archetypal easing since September 2022 by the bank, which has faced unit from concern leaders and apical authorities officials to statesman cutting rates.

Source:

Al Jazeera and quality agencies