Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,221

Here is however things basal connected Sunday, June 29:

Fighting

• A Russian drone onslaught killed a teacher and her hubby successful Ukraine’s Odesa, and wounded 14 others, according to Ukrainian officials. Three of the victims, including a child, were successful captious condition.
• At slightest 2 others were killed successful another Russian onslaught connected the villages of Kostiantynivka and Ivanopillia successful the eastbound portion of Donetsk connected Friday, according to Governor Vadym Filashkin.
• Explosions were heard successful the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, connected Saturday night, with Mayor Vitali Klitschko informing residents to instrumentality structure from Russian drones “heading for the city”, according to the authoritative Ukrinform quality agency.
• Russia’s Ministry of Defence said Russian forces person taken power of the colony of Chervona Zirka successful Donetsk. The ministry aboriginal said it had besides seized the country betwixt the Vovcha and Mokri Yaly rivers.
• Top Ukrainian commandant Oleksandr Syrskii besides said connected Telegram that Russia’s subject was “surging towards” the cardinal metropolis of Kostiantynivka successful Donetsk, but that “apart from sustaining galore losses, [it] has achieved nothing”.
• In Russia, a Ukrainian drone onslaught caused respective injuries to a 43-year-old man, including a traumatic encephalon injury, successful the colony of Glushkovo successful the Kursk region, the TASS quality bureau reported, citing a section official.
• Ukraine’s SBU information work said Ukrainian forces utilizing peculiar drones attacked the Kirovske subject airfield successful Russian-occupied Crimea, destroying 3 onslaught helicopters and an anti-aircraft rocket system.
• Russia’s subject said it destroyed 64 Ukrainian drones implicit occidental Russia and Russian-occupied Crimea overnight and into Saturday.

Politics and diplomacy

• Poland’s outgoing president, Andrzej Duda, during a sojourn to Kyiv, asked Ukraine to “please beryllium patient” during the handover to his nationalist successor, Karol Nawrocki. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told reporters helium would “of course” invitation Nawrocki to Ukraine aft helium assumed office.
• Ruslan Stefanchuk, the talker and chairperson of the Ukrainian Parliament, told Ukraine’s ongoing marathon tv broadcast that a measure is being drafted to clasp elections aft the war, Ukrinform reported.

Source:

Al Jazeera and quality agencies