These are the important thing occasions on day 1,203 of Russia’s warfare on Ukraine.
Right here’s the place issues stand on Wednesday, June 11:
Preventing
- Russia launched a large-scale drone-and-missile assault on Ukraine, killing one particular person in Kyiv and two within the southern port metropolis of Odesa. Not less than 13 folks had been injured.
- A Ukrainian drone assault on a petroleum station within the Russian metropolis of Belgorod killed one particular person and injured 4 others, the area’s governor, Vyacheslav Gladkov, stated.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated Russia’s assault on Kyiv was “one of many greatest” within the three-year-old warfare. It brought about a number of fires and broken buildings, together with St Sophia Cathedral, a UNESCO World Heritage landmark.
- In northeastern Ukraine, the governor of Kharkiv, Oleh Syniehubov, stated the area’s defence council determined to order the obligatory evacuation of seven villages.
- The Ukrainian navy stated that Russia launched 315 drones and 7 missiles at Ukrainian cities in whole. Ukrainian air defenders shot down 213 drones, two ballistic missiles and two cruise missiles, the navy stated.
- Ukrainian forces additionally engaged in 167 firefights with Russian troops throughout a number of fronts on Tuesday, the Normal Workers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine stated.
- The Russian Ministry of Defence stated that air defence models shot down 109 Ukrainian drones from Monday night time into Tuesday.
Prisoner alternate
- The Russian Defence Ministry confirmed a “second group of Russian servicemen was returned from the territory managed by the Kyiv regime” after a prisoner alternate occurred on Monday. They may now endure “remedy and rehabilitation”, the ministry stated.
- Zelenskyy stated Ukraine additionally obtained prisoners within the “first stage of the return of our injured and severely wounded warriors from Russian captivity”.
- “The exchanges are to proceed,” Zelenskyy added. Either side are anticipated to launch greater than 1,000 prisoners every, underneath an agreement struck at talks in Istanbul, Turkiye, final week.
- Ukrainian households of lacking troopers stated they’re anxiously awaiting info because the exchanges proceed.
Politics and diplomacy
- German Chancellor Friedrich Merz denounced Russian “terror towards the civilian inhabitants” of Ukraine after Moscow’s heavy drone and missile strikes.
- United States Secretary of Protection Pete Hegseth advised lawmakers that the US will scale back navy help to Ukraine within the upcoming defence price range.
- “This administration takes a really totally different view of that battle. We consider {that a} negotiated peaceable settlement is in the perfect curiosity of each events and our nation’s pursuits, particularly with all of the competing pursuits across the globe,” Hegseth stated.
- The European Fee proposed an 18th bundle of sanctions towards Russia, concentrating on its oil revenues, banks and weapons business.
- Russian authorities have arrested opposition politician Lev Shlosberg, and charged him with discrediting the Russian military after he known as the warfare on Ukraine a sport of “bloody chess”.
- Finnish Minister of Defence Antti Hakkanen alleged {that a} Russian navy plane violated Finland’s airspace, prompting an investigation by the Finnish Border Guard.
