Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,220

Here is however things basal connected Saturday, June 28:

Fighting

• Ukraine’s subject has said it struck 4 Russian Su-34 warplanes astatine the Marinovka basal extracurricular Russia’s metropolis of Volgograd, immoderate 900km (550 miles) from the Ukrainian border.
• A Russian rocket onslaught has killed astatine slightest 5 radical and wounded much than 20 successful Samar successful Ukraine’s southeast, successful the 2nd onslaught connected the concern metropolis successful 3 days.
• Russian troops person captured the colony of Nova Kruhlyakivka successful Ukraine’s eastbound Kharkiv region, Russia’s authorities quality bureau TASS reported.
• A Russian onslaught has damaged an “important powerfulness facility” successful Ukraine’s confederate Kherson region, causing powerfulness cuts successful immoderate settlements successful the region, determination politician Oleksandr Prokudin said.
• A Ukrainian drone onslaught connected Russia’s Kursk portion injured a warfare analogous from Chinese quality outlet Phoenix TV, Russian authorities said, arsenic they urged the United Nations to respond to the incident.
• Ukraine’s aerial unit said it downed 359 retired of 363 drones and six of 8 missiles launched by Russia successful an overnight attack.
• Russia’s drone accumulation jumped by 16.9 percent successful May compared with the erstwhile month, information from a deliberation vessel adjacent to the authorities showed, aft President Vladimir Putin called for output to beryllium stepped up.

Ceasefire deal

• United States President Donald Trump said helium thinks thing volition hap successful Russia’s warfare successful Ukraine that would get it “settled”, citing his caller telephone with Putin but offering nary different details.
• Putin said relations betwixt Russia and the US were opening to stabilise, attributing the betterment to efforts by President Trump. Putin reiterated that helium had “great respect” for the US person and was consenting to conscionable him.
• Putin besides said Moscow was acceptable to clasp a caller circular of bid negotiations with Ukraine, perchance successful Istanbul, though the clip and venue person yet to beryllium agreed.

NATO

• Lithuania has notified the UN that it is leaving the pact banning antipersonnel landmines. It joins Latvia, Estonia, Finland and Poland – each NATO and European Union members bordering Russia – successful withdrawing from the treaty, citing the accrued subject information from their Russian neighbour.
• The Kremlin said Estonia’s stated readiness to big NATO allies’ US-made F-35A stealth jets, susceptible of carrying atomic weapons, posed a nonstop menace to Moscow.
• Putin said Russia was looking to chopped its subject expenditure from adjacent year, contrasting that with NATO’s program to rise its corporate spending extremity to 5 percent of gross home merchandise (GDP) successful the adjacent 10 years.

Sanctions

• Senator Ron Wyden, the apical Senate Finance Committee Democrat, pressed US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to perpetrate to enforcing Ukraine-related sanctions against Russia and to clarify comments astir Russia rejoining an planetary slope payments network.
• Wyden besides sought answers connected however the US-Ukraine captious minerals woody and concern statement would assistance amended Ukraine’s post-war information and not payment immoderate entity oregon state that aided Russia’s warfare effort.
• Ukraine plans to inquire the EU to authorisation Bangladeshi entities it says are importing wheat taken from Ukrainian territories occupied by Russia, aft its warnings to Dhaka failed to halt the trade, a apical Ukrainian diplomat successful South Asia said.

Source:

Al Jazeera and quality agencies