Right here is how issues stand on Monday, June 30:
Preventing
- Russia launched its greatest aerial assault on Ukraine for the reason that 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 army stated F-16 pilot Lieutenant Colonel Maksym Ustimenko was killed “whereas repelling” the “large enemy air assault”.
- At the very least 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, concentrating on areas as far-off as Lviv, within the far west, the place a drone assault triggered a big fireplace at an industrial facility within the metropolis of Drohobych, and minimize electrical energy to components of the realm.
- Poland stated it scrambled plane, along with different NATO nations, to make sure the security of Polish airspace in the course of 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 lady who was discovered beneath 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 performing 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 the USA and Western allies to strengthen the nation’s air defences.
- He additionally signed a decree to tug Ukraine out of the Ottawa Convention 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 tough however crucial political choice to cease the implementation of irrelevant obligations beneath the Ottawa Conference” as a result of it has led to an “uneven benefit” for Russia.
Politics and diplomacy
- US Senator Lindsey Graham instructed ABC Information that the nation’s Congress will start voting on new Russian sanctions after President Donald Trump instructed him, “It’s time to maneuver your invoice.”
- In the meantime, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov instructed state tv that European nations would really feel the results of imposing harsher sanctions on Russia. “The extra severe the bundle of sanctions, which, I repeat, we contemplate 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 revealed 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.
