Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,222

Here is however things basal connected Monday, June 30:

Fighting

• Russia launched its biggest aerial onslaught connected Ukraine since the opening of its full-scale penetration overnight on Sunday, firing a full of 537 aerial weapons, including 477 drones and decoys and 60 missiles, according to the Ukrainian aerial force.
• Ukrainian forces intercepted 475 of the weapons, but the subject said F-16 aviator Lieutenant Colonel Maksym Ustimenko was killed “while repelling” the “massive force aerial attack”.
• At slightest 4 others were besides killed successful the aerial raids, successful Kherson, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk and Kostiantynivka regions, the Associated Press quality bureau reported, citing section officials.
• The aerial attacks were besides far-reaching, targeting regions arsenic acold distant arsenic Lviv, successful the acold west, wherever a drone onslaught caused a ample occurrence astatine an concern installation successful the metropolis of Drohobych, and chopped energy to parts of the area.
• Poland said it scrambled aircraft, unneurotic with different NATO countries, to guarantee the information of Polish airspace during the attack. None of the Russian missiles entered Poland’s airspace, the bid said.
• In addition, 2 radical were killed by Russian shelling, including a 70-year-old pistillate who was recovered nether the rubble of a nine-storey gathering successful the Zaporizhia region, AP reported.
• Russia’s Defence Ministry said it intercepted 3 Ukrainian drones overnight, and claimed power of the colony of Novoukrainka successful the partially Russian-occupied Donetsk region.
• The RIA Novosti quality bureau said 1 idiosyncratic was killed by a Ukrainian drone successful the Russian-controlled portion of Ukraine’s Luhansk region, portion the acting politician of Russia’s Kursk said that 2 radical were injured successful a Ukrainian onslaught connected the borderline region.

Weapons

• Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the aerial attacks item the request for further enactment from the United States and Western allies to fortify the country’s aerial defences.
• He besides signed a decree to propulsion Ukraine retired of the Ottawa Convention banning the accumulation and usage of anti-personnel mines, saying Russia has ne'er been a enactment to the pact “and is utilizing anti-personnel mines with utmost cynicism”.
• Roman Kostenko, a elder Ukrainian lawmaker, said that parliamentary support was inactive needed to retreat from the treaty. He said legislators volition clasp a ballot connected the move.
• Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs besides said the state has “made the hard but indispensable governmental determination to halt the implementation of irrelevant obligations nether the Ottawa Convention” due to the fact that it has led to an “asymmetric advantage” for Russia.

Politics and diplomacy

• US Senator Lindsey Graham told ABC News that the country’s Congress volition statesman voting connected caller Russian sanctions aft President Donald Trump told him, “It’s clip to determination your bill.”
• Meanwhile, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told authorities tv that European countries would consciousness the consequences of imposing harsher sanctions connected Russia. “The much superior the bundle of sanctions, which, I repeat, we see illegal, the much superior volition beryllium the recoil from a weapon to the shoulder. This is simply a double-edged sword,” helium said.
• Russian spy main Sergei Naryshkin said successful remarks published connected Sunday that helium had spoken to the manager of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), John Ratcliffe, and that they had agreed to telephone each different astatine immoderate time.

Source:

Al Jazeera and quality agencies