As the war enters its 829th day, these are the key developments.
This is the situation on Monday, June 3, 2024.
Fighting
- Ukraine imposed emergency power cuts in all but three regions of the country, a day after Russia unleashed large-scale attacks on energy facilities that also injured 19 people.
- The Russian Defense Ministry said its armed forces had taken control of Umanske in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region. The small village had fewer than 180 residents before Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, and is about 25 kilometers (15 miles) northwest of Donetsk, which is the region’s main city and is under Russian occupation.
- Vyacheslav Gladkov, governor of Russia’s Belgorod region, said six people were injured in Ukrainian shelling in the region, just across the border from Kharkiv. A local employee also died when some munitions were detonated, he said.
- Nearly 1,000 people gathered in central Kiev to remember Iryna Tsybukh, known as Cheka, a 25-year-old journalist and volunteer paramedic who was killed in fighting in the northeast region of Kharkiv last week.
Politics and diplomacy
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told defense and security leaders in Singapore that a peace summit in Switzerland scheduled for later this month was the best way to end the “cruel war” in Ukraine and that he was disappointed that China would not be present. He said he was unable to meet the Chinese delegation in Singapore. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Friday that China, which claims to be neutral in the war but has deepened ties with Moscow, would not participate.
- Zelenskyy and his Defense Minister Rustem Umerov spoke with US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin for more than an hour on Sunday. He also met with the elected President of Indonesia, Prabowo Subianto, and the President of Timor-Leste, José Ramos-Horta.
- German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said NATO’s recent move to bolster defenses in the Baltic States was intended to deter Russia and provide a signal that the security alliance would “defend every square inch of NATO territory against attack.” .
- Russian news agency TASS said former world chess champion Garry Kasparov, who fled the country a decade ago for fear of persecution, could be targeted for allegedly violating the Kremlin’s “foreign agent” law. Moscow added Kasparov, a prominent critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, to its list of individuals allegedly acting as foreign agents shortly after it began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Weapons
- White House national security communications adviser John Kirby confirmed that US President Joe Biden agreed to allow Ukraine to use some US-supplied weapons to attack inside Russia.
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