Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,213

Here is however things basal connected Saturday, June 21:

Fighting

• Drones and missiles launched by Russia overnight person damaged vigor infrastructure successful cardinal Ukraine’s Kremenchuk territory successful Poltava, said section subject authorities.
• One idiosyncratic was injured successful the attack, according to Volodymyr Kohut, the region’s subject governor, who did not supply further details connected the grade of the damage.
• Russia had targeted the district’s refinery, according to a study by online quality outlet Strana.ua.

Politics and diplomacy

• Ukraine and Russia speech much prisoners of war, officials from some countries said, the 2nd swap successful 2 days nether an statement struck successful Turkiye earlier this month. All the captured soldiers were wounded, sick oregon nether 25 years old. Neither broadside said however galore soldiers had been freed.
• At Russia’s flagship economical forum successful Saint Petersburg, President Vladimir Putin said helium did not “rule out” his forces taking power of Ukraine’s northeastern metropolis of Sumy arsenic portion of efforts to make a buffer portion on the border.
• The Sumy portion is not 1 of the regions Moscow has formally annexed, though Russian forces person precocious made inroads determination for the archetypal clip successful 3 years, with Putin claiming his troops had precocious up to 12km (7 miles) successful the region.
• In a drawstring of hawkish remarks, Putin besides appeared to repetition his denial of Ukrainian statehood. Ukraine said Putin’s comments showed “disdain” for the bid process.
• The German subject considers Russia to beryllium an “existential risk” to the state and Europe, according to a Spiegel quality mag study that cites a caller Bundeswehr strategy paper. Russia is verifiably preparing for a struggle with NATO, peculiarly by strengthening forces successful occidental Russia “at the borders with NATO,” the study cites the strategy insubstantial arsenic saying. Germany tin lone antagonistic this menace “with a accordant improvement of subject and society-wide capabilities,” the papers concludes.
• Putin has reaffirmed Moscow’s absorption to the dispersed of weapons of wide destruction, including immoderate imaginable acquisition by Iran. Putin told Sky News Arabia that Russia supports Iran’s close to make atomic vigor for peaceful purposes, emphasising that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has recovered nary grounds suggesting Tehran seeks to physique atomic weapons. Putin besides stated that Russia is prepared to assistance Iran successful the improvement of its civilian atomic programme.

Economy

• At the economical forum successful St Petersburg, Putin besides urged officials not to fto Russia autumn into recession “under immoderate circumstances”, arsenic immoderate successful his ain authorities warned of a deed to economical growth. Economists person warned for months of a slowdown successful the Russian economy, with the state posting conscionable 1.4 percent year-on-year maturation successful the archetypal 4th of 2025, the weakest gait successful 2 years.
• A determination by the OPEC+ radical of starring planetary lipid producers to velocity up accumulation present looks far-sighted and justified amid the Middle East conflict, said Igor Sechin, caput of Russia’s largest lipid shaper Rosneft, astatine the forum. Sechin besides said that determination volition beryllium nary lipid glut successful the agelong word contempt the accumulation rise, and that the European Union seeks to trim Russia’s lipid headdress to $45 to amended the profitability of its purchases, not to chopped Russia’s fund revenues.