Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,206

Here’s wherever things basal connected Saturday, June 14:

Fighting

• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said troops halted Russian forces from advancing successful the northeastern Sumy portion pursuing Moscow’s deployment of astir 53,000 troops successful its direction.
• Zelenskyy dismissed Russia’s claims that its forces had crossed the administrative borderline into the cardinal Ukrainian portion of Dnipropetrovsk.
• Russia’s defence ministry said troops had taken power of the colony of Zelenyi Kut successful the eastbound Donetsk region.
• Russian aerial defences changeable down 110 aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles, its defence ministry added.
• Governor of Kherson, Oleksandr Prokudin, said connected Telegram that a 45-year-old nonmigratory was killed aft a drone attack.

Diplomacy

• Russia and Ukraine exchanged prisoners of warfare for the fourth time successful 1 week nether agreements signed successful Turkiye earlier this month.
• Russia’s defence ministry said soldiers were receiving aesculapian attraction successful Belarus earlier being transferred to Russia, but the ministry did not accidental however galore prisoners of warfare were progressive successful the swap.
• Ukraine said it received the bodies of 1,200 soldiers from Moscow. According to Russian authorities media, Moscow did not person immoderate of its dormant soldiers from Kyiv.
• The captive swaps are expected to proceed until June 20-21.
• Zelenskyy stressed that Europe’s enactment for his state was “stalling” without the United States.
• The Ukrainian person wrote connected X that  “US-Russia dialog feels excessively warm” and warned that appeasing Russian President Vladimir Putin would not extremity the war.
• Ukraine said it hoped that the ongoing subject escalation betwixt Iran and Israel would not impact its aid, arsenic the attacks person led to a “sharp emergence successful lipid prices”, which volition wounded Kyiv and assistance Moscow, Zelenskyy said.
• The 2 sides are nary person to immoderate impermanent ceasefire statement arsenic a factual measurement towards ending the war, contempt immoderate archetypal momentum from United States President Donald Trump.