Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,203

Here’s wherever things basal connected Wednesday, June 11:

Fighting

• Russia launched a large-scale drone-and-missile assault connected Ukraine, sidesplitting 1 idiosyncratic successful Kyiv and 2 successful the confederate larboard metropolis of Odesa. At slightest 13 radical were injured.
• A Ukrainian drone onslaught connected a petrol presumption successful the Russian metropolis of Belgorod killed 1 idiosyncratic and injured 4 others, the region’s governor, Vyacheslav Gladkov, said.
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia’s onslaught connected Kyiv was “one of the biggest” successful the three-year-old war. It caused respective fires and damaged buildings, including St Sophia Cathedral, a UNESCO World Heritage landmark.
• In northeastern Ukraine, the politician of Kharkiv, Oleh Syniehubov, said the region’s defence assembly decided to bid the mandatory evacuation of 7 villages.
• The Ukrainian subject said that Russia launched 315 drones and 7 missiles astatine Ukrainian cities successful total. Ukrainian aerial defenders changeable down 213 drones, 2 ballistic missiles and 2 cruise missiles, the subject said.
• Ukrainian forces besides engaged successful 167 firefights with Russian troops crossed aggregate fronts connected Tuesday, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said.
• The Russian Ministry of Defence said that aerial defence units changeable down 109 Ukrainian drones from Monday nighttime into Tuesday.

Prisoner exchange

• The Russian Defence Ministry confirmed a “second radical of Russian servicemen was returned from the territory controlled by the Kyiv regime” aft a captive speech took spot connected Monday. They volition present acquisition “treatment and rehabilitation”, the ministry said.
• Zelenskyy said Ukraine besides received prisoners successful the “first signifier of the instrumentality of our injured and severely wounded warriors from Russian captivity”.
• “The exchanges are to continue,” Zelenskyy added. Both sides are expected to merchandise much than 1,000 prisoners each, nether an agreement struck astatine talks successful Istanbul, Turkiye, past week.
• Ukrainian families of missing soldiers said they are anxiously awaiting accusation arsenic the exchanges continue.

Politics and diplomacy

• German Chancellor Friedrich Merz denounced Russian “terror against the civilian population” of Ukraine aft Moscow’s dense drone and rocket strikes.
• United States Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth told lawmakers that the US volition trim subject assistance to Ukraine successful the upcoming defence budget.
• “This medication takes a precise antithetic presumption of that conflict. We judge that a negotiated peaceful colony is successful the champion involvement of some parties and our nation’s interests, particularly with each the competing interests astir the globe,” Hegseth said.
• The European Commission projected an 18th bundle of sanctions against Russia, targeting its lipid revenues, banks and weapons industry.
• Russian authorities person arrested absorption person Lev Shlosberg, and charged him with discrediting the Russian service aft helium called the warfare connected Ukraine a crippled of “bloody chess”.
• Finnish Minister of Defence Antti Hakkanen alleged that a Russian subject craft violated Finland’s airspace, prompting an probe by the Finnish Border Guard.

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Al Jazeera and quality agencies