Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,204

Here’s wherever things basal connected Thursday, June 12:

Fighting

• A concentrated, nine-minute-long Russian drone onslaught connected Ukraine’s second-largest metropolis of Kharkiv successful the mediate of the nighttime killed six radical and injured 64, including 9 children, Ukrainian officials person said.
• The Ukrainian subject said it had struck a large Russian gunpowder works successful the occidental Tambov portion overnight, causing a occurrence astatine the site.
• Russian mechanised infantry units person reached the occidental borderline of Ukraine’s Donetsk portion and, on with a vessel division, are continuing their violative against the adjacent Dnipropetrovsk region, Russia’s Ministry of Defence said.
• Russia’s aerial defence systems destroyed 32 Ukrainian drones overnight, the Defence Ministry said connected Wednesday. Half of the drones were downed implicit the confederate Voronezh region, portion the remainder were intercepted implicit the Kursk, Tambov, Rostov portion and the Crimean Peninsula.
• Ukraine has brought location the bodies of 1,212 soldiers killed successful its warfare against Russia, Kyiv officials said. The Kremlin said Ukraine returned the bodies of 27 Russian soldiers.

Regional security

• Russia sent long-range Tu-22M3 bomber planes connected a formation implicit the Baltic Sea, Russia’s Defence Ministry said, successful what appeared to beryllium a ngo aimed astatine sending a connection of business-as-usual pursuing the stunning June 1 Ukrainian attack connected Russian airbases successful Siberia.
• Russia’s atomic capableness did not endure important harm owed to the Ukrainian attacks connected its airfields, and the standard of the harm has been exaggerated, the country’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov claimed.
• Russian President Vladimir Putin, speaking connected authorities television, said 95 percent of weapons successful Russia’s strategical atomic forces were afloat up to date.

International relations

• The United States ambassador to NATO, Matthew Whitaker, said the Ukrainian drone onslaught connected Russian strategical bombers astatine their airbases earlier this period was “badass” but besides “a small spot reckless, and a small spot dangerous”.
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, addressing a league of southeast European leaders successful the Black Sea larboard of Odesa, said Russia was determined to destruct the southbound of his state arsenic good arsenic adjacent Moldova and Romania, arsenic helium called for accrued unit connected Moscow to forestall further subject threats.
• Serbia’s Kremlin-friendly populist President Aleksandar Vucic travelled to Odesa for the determination summit. It is the archetypal clip the person has visited Ukraine during his 12 years successful power.
• Finland’s Ministry for Foreign Affairs said it had summoned a Russian diplomat implicit a suspected June 10 usurpation of Finnish airspace by Russian aircraft, the 2nd specified lawsuit successful nether 3 weeks.
• Slovakia volition not backmost the European Union’s 18th bundle of sanctions against Russia unless the European Commission provides a solution to the concern the state faces if the bloc phases retired Russian vigor arsenic planned, the country’s Prime Minister Robert Fico has said.
• Germany’s imports of goods from Russia fell by 95 percent successful the 2021-2024 period, portion its exports of goods to Russia were chopped by 72 percent, the country’s statistic bureau Destatis has reported.
• The EU arsenic a full chopped its imports from Russia by 78 percent and exports by 65 percent implicit the aforesaid timeframe, starring to a commercialized shortage of 4.5 cardinal euros ($5.1bn) successful 2024 compared with 147.5 cardinal euros ($170bn) successful 2022, Destatis added.

Russian affairs

• A tribunal successful occidental Russia has ruled that absorption person Lev Shlosberg beryllium placed nether location apprehension for 2 months and look unspecified restrictions connected his activities for “discrediting” the Russian service aft describing the warfare successful Ukraine arsenic a crippled of “bloody chess”. He faces up to 5 years successful situation if convicted.
• Russian dissident Leonid Volkov, a salient state of precocious absorption person Alexey Navalny, was sentenced successful absentia to 18 years successful situation for spreading fake quality astir the warfare successful Ukraine and “justifying terrorism”.

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