Listed here are the important thing occasions on day 1,206 throughout Russia’s struggle on Ukraine.
Right here’s the place issues stand on Saturday, June 14:
Preventing
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy mentioned troops halted Russian forces from advancing within the northeastern Sumy area following Moscow’s deployment of roughly 53,000 troops in its path.
- Zelenskyy dismissed Russia’s claims that its forces had crossed the executive border into the central Ukrainian area of Dnipropetrovsk.
- Russia’s defence ministry mentioned troops had taken management of the village of Zelenyi Kut within the japanese Donetsk area.
- Russian air defences shot down 110 aircraft-type unmanned aerial automobiles, its defence ministry added.
- Governor of Kherson, Oleksandr Prokudin, mentioned on Telegram {that a} 45-year-old resident was killed after a drone assault.
Diplomacy
- Russia and Ukraine exchanged prisoners of struggle for the fourth time in a single week below agreements signed in Turkiye earlier this month.
- Russia’s defence ministry mentioned troopers had been receiving medical therapy in Belarus earlier than being transferred to Russia, however the ministry didn’t say what number of prisoners of struggle had been concerned within the swap.
- Ukraine mentioned it acquired the our bodies of 1,200 troopers from Moscow. In response to Russian state media, Moscow didn’t obtain any of its useless troopers from Kyiv.
- The prisoner swaps are anticipated to proceed till June 20-21.
- Zelenskyy burdened that Europe’s help for his nation was “stalling” with out the USA.
- The Ukrainian chief wrote on X that “US-Russia dialogue feels too heat” and warned that appeasing Russian President Vladimir Putin wouldn’t finish the struggle.
- Ukraine mentioned it hoped that the continuing army escalation between Iran and Israel wouldn’t have an effect on its assist, because the assaults have led to a “sharp rise in oil costs”, which can harm Kyiv and assist Moscow, Zelenskyy mentioned.
- The 2 sides aren’t any nearer to any short-term ceasefire settlement as a concrete step in the direction of ending the struggle, regardless of some preliminary momentum from United States President Donald Trump.
