As the war enters its 837th day, these are the key developments.
This is the situation on Tuesday, June 11, 2024.
Fighting
- At least six people were injured after Russia fired three guided bombs at the city of Kharkiv in northeastern Ukraine. Mayor Ihor Terekhov said the attack on the country’s second-largest city damaged at least two houses and several cars, and also caused a fire.
- Four people, including a cameraman for Rossiya-24 television, were injured when a mine exploded in Shebekino, in Russia’s Belgorod region, near the border with Ukraine. Three other people were injured in Ukrainian shelling, according to regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov.
- Russia’s Defense Ministry said its forces had captured the village of Staromaiorske on the southern flank of Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region. The Ukrainian military made no such acknowledgment in a report released Monday night. It stated that Russian forces attempted to advance near Staromaiorske and a nearby village, Vodiane, “but were unsuccessful. The defense forces control the situation.”
- The Ukrainian military said it damaged three Russian surface-to-air defense systems in missile attacks on Ukraine’s Moscow-occupied Crimean peninsula. The strikes hit an S-400 system in Dzhankoi and two less advanced S-300 systems near Yevpatoriya and Chornomorske, resulting in “significant losses” for Russian air defenses, Ukraine’s General Staff said. There were no official comments from Russia. Explosions in the area were reported on social media channels.
- The Ukrainian military has appointed Vadym Sukharevskyi as commander of drone forces, highlighting the importance of drone warfare in the conflict.
Politics and diplomacy
- Switzerland said it had seen an increase in cyberattacks and disinformation in the run-up to this weekend’s peace summit on Ukraine. Ninety states and organizations have registered to take part in the talks near the central city of Lucerne on June 15-16. Russia was not invited.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived in Germany for a conference on Ukraine’s post-war reconstruction and recovery and is also expected to hold talks with Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
- Mustafa Nayyem, head of Ukraine’s State Agency for Infrastructure Restoration and Development, has resigned, citing budget cuts and bureaucratic delays.
- Russian newspaper Vedomosti said President Vladimir Putin would visit North Korea and Vietnam in the coming weeks, with Russian ambassador to North Korea Alexander Matsegora telling the newspaper that Putin’s visit to Pyongyang was being “actively ready”. Relations between Moscow and Pyongyang have deepened in recent months, with leader Kim Jong Un’s meeting with Putin in eastern Russia last September. United Nations monitors say Russia used North Korean weapons in Ukraine.
- A court in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg sentenced a man to three years in prison for mocking an 11-year-old boy who was wearing a hat with the pro-military “Z” symbol. Alexander Neustroyev was charged with vandalism after being caught on a security camera shouting: “Put that hat up your ass, you idiot!” at the boy as he passed by. The letter “Z,” which was painted on Russian tanks sent to Ukraine in February 2022, has become a symbol of support for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
- Russia’s Foreign Ministry said it had rescinded the accreditation of Maria Knips-Witting, a correspondent for Austrian public broadcaster ORF, and told her to leave the country in response to Austria’s expulsion of a journalist from the Russian state news agency TASS.
Weapons
- Serhii Holubtsov, head of aviation in command of the Ukrainian military’s air force, told the US government-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty that Ukraine has plans to park some of the F-16s being given by allies Europeans. at overseas bases due to security concerns.
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