Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,205

Here’s wherever things basal connected Friday, June 13:

Fighting

• A two-year-old lad was killed by a Ukrainian drone onslaught successful Russia’s confederate Belgorod portion and his grandma and different big were wounded, section politician Vyacheslav Gladkov said.
• The Ukrainian subject said it struck the Rezonit electronics mill successful Russia’s Moscow region, resulting successful explosions.
• Russia’s Ministry of Defence said its forces had changeable down 260 Ukrainian drones implicit the past day, the Interfax quality bureau reported connected Thursday.
• Russian President Vladimir Putin has called for the accelerated improvement and deployment of abstracted drone forces wrong Russia’s military. “We are presently creating unmanned systems troops arsenic a abstracted subdivision of the subject and we request to guarantee their accelerated and high-quality deployment and development,” Russian quality agencies quoted Putin arsenic saying.
• Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said Ukrainian forces are gradually pushing Russian forces retired of the borderline Sumy region, wherever Moscow has established a foothold successful bid to make a buffer portion with Russia’s occidental Kursk region.
• Ukraine and Russia person exchanged different radical of sick and severely wounded prisoners of war. It was not instantly wide however galore had been exchanged by each side. All of the Ukrainian soldiers request treatment, President Zelenskyy said connected the Telegram messaging app.

Sanctions

• A Group of Seven (G7) gathering successful Canada from June 15-17 volition beryllium astir the grade to which the European Union and United States tin align connected sanctions against Russia, an unnamed German authorities authoritative told the Reuters quality agency.
• President Zelenskyy said helium planned to be the G7 acme and hoped to conscionable US President Donald Trump connected the sidelines of the meeting. Zelenskyy said helium would sermon continued enactment for Ukraine, sanctions against Russia and financing for Kyiv’s reconstruction efforts.
• NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte has said Russia’s attack to bid talks with Ukraine is not helpful. “The Russians are sending this historiographer present doubly to these talks successful Istanbul, trying to commencement with the past of 1,000 years agone and past explaining much oregon little that Ukraine is astatine responsibility here. I deliberation that’s not helpful,” Rutte said.
•  At a gathering successful Rome, overseas ministers from France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain and Britain said they were acceptable to measurement up unit connected Russia, “including done further sanctions” involving the vigor and banking sector, to weaken Moscow successful its warfare with Ukraine.

Military aid

• Speaking during his 5th sojourn to Kyiv since the commencement of the war, German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius has said his country’s subject enactment for Ukraine has reached 7 cardinal euros ($8.12bn) this year. Pistorius said a further 1.9 cardinal euros are pending parliamentary approval.
• Pistorius said Germany is not considering delivering Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine contempt Kyiv’s repeated requests for the weapons.

Diplomacy

• US ambassador to Russia Lynne Tracy volition soon permission her post, her embassy confirmed, aft serving done 1 of the astir tense and hard periods successful relations betwixt Moscow and Washington.

Source:

Al Jazeera and quality agencies