Right here is how issues stand on Monday, June 30:
Preventing
- Russia launched its greatest aerial assault on Ukraine because the starting of its full-scale invasion in a single day on Sunday, firing a complete of 537 aerial weapons, together with 477 drones and decoys and 60 missiles, based on the Ukrainian air power.
- Ukrainian forces intercepted 475 of the weapons, however the navy stated F-16 pilot Lieutenant Colonel Maksym Ustimenko was killed “whereas repelling” the “huge enemy air assault”.
- No less than 4 others had been additionally killed within the air raids, in Kherson, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk and Kostiantynivka areas, the Related Press information company reported, citing native officers.
- The aerial assaults had been additionally far-reaching, focusing on areas as far-off as Lviv, within the far west, the place a drone assault triggered a big hearth at an industrial facility within the metropolis of Drohobych, and reduce electrical energy to elements of the realm.
- Poland stated it scrambled plane, along with different NATO nations, to make sure the protection of Polish airspace through the assault. Not one of the Russian missiles entered Poland’s airspace, the command stated.
- As well as, two individuals had been killed by Russian shelling, together with a 70-year-old girl who was discovered underneath the rubble of a nine-storey constructing within the Zaporizhia area, AP reported.
- Russia’s Defence Ministry stated it intercepted three Ukrainian drones in a single day, and claimed management of the village of Novoukrainka within the partially Russian-occupied Donetsk area.
- The RIA Novosti information company stated one individual was killed by a Ukrainian drone within the Russian-controlled a part of Ukraine’s Luhansk area, whereas the appearing governor of Russia’s Kursk stated that two individuals had been injured in a Ukrainian assault on the border area.
Weapons
- Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated the air assaults spotlight the necessity for additional assist from america and Western allies to strengthen the nation’s air defences.
- He additionally signed a decree to tug Ukraine out of the Ottawa Conference banning the manufacturing and use of anti-personnel mines, saying Russia has by no means been a celebration to the treaty “and is utilizing anti-personnel mines with utmost cynicism”.
- Roman Kostenko, a senior Ukrainian lawmaker, stated that parliamentary approval was nonetheless wanted to withdraw from the treaty. He stated legislators will maintain a vote on the transfer.
- Ukraine’s Ministry of Overseas Affairs additionally stated the nation has “made the troublesome however mandatory political choice to cease the implementation of irrelevant obligations underneath the Ottawa Conference” as a result of it has led to an “uneven benefit” for Russia.
Politics and diplomacy
- US Senator Lindsey Graham advised ABC Information that the nation’s Congress will start voting on new Russian sanctions after President Donald Trump advised him, “It’s time to maneuver your invoice.”
- In the meantime, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov advised state tv that European nations would really feel the implications of imposing harsher sanctions on Russia. “The extra severe the package deal of sanctions, which, I repeat, we take into account unlawful, the extra severe would be the recoil from a gun to the shoulder. This can be a double-edged sword,” he stated.
- Russian spy chief Sergei Naryshkin stated in remarks printed on Sunday that he had spoken to the director of the US Central Intelligence Company (CIA), John Ratcliffe, and that they’d agreed to name one another at any time.
