As the war enters its 830th day. these are the main developments.
Here is the situation as of Tuesday June 4, 2024.
Struggle
- Three people, including a 12-year-old boy, were killed and three others injured in Russian attacks in eastern Ukraine. The boy was one of two victims in the village of Mykhailivka. The other death was reported in Slobozhanske, southeast of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, following a rocket attack.
- Ukraine’s General Staff said Russia launched at least 10 attack drones from the Belgorod border region on Monday.
- kyiv has warned of further power cuts following large-scale Russian attacks on Ukrainian power plants and energy infrastructure. “After six massive attacks on the power grid, there is a serious shortage of electricity,” Ukraine’s Energy Ministry said on social media.
- Russian air defense units intercepted 20 Ukrainian drones in the Kursk region in southern Russia, which borders Ukraine, according to regional governor Alexei Smironov. No injuries or damage were reported.
- Rafael Grossi, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said it was not safe to restart Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant while war raged around it. The factory, the largest in Europe, was occupied by Russia shortly after the start of the war.
Politics and diplomacy
- The White House said Vice President Kamala Harris would represent the United States at the Swiss-hosted global peace summit on June 15 on the war in Ukraine and promoted by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
- China, which claims to be neutral in Ukraine’s war but has deepened ties with Moscow, has denied Zelensky’s accusations that it was trying to pressure other countries to attend the peace summit.
- A group of about 20 Russian women, some with young children, knelt outside the Defense Ministry in Moscow to demand that their husbands and sons enlisted in Ukraine be allowed to return home and that authorities impose limits to the soldiers’ length of service before being able to do so. be granted leave. Russia called the women “foreign agents.”
- Polish Interior Minister Tomasz Siemoniak said 18 people had been arrested over the past six months on various allegations of carrying out hostile activities or planning sabotage on behalf of Russia and the Belarus.
- The Russian Foreign Ministry said it has added more British “establishment figures”, journalists and experts to its list of people banned from entering Russia due to their alleged “hostile” actions.
Weapons
- Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said Italy would send a second SAMP/T air defense system to Ukraine. The system, also known as MAMBA, is a Franco-Italian battery capable of tracking dozens of targets and intercepting 10 at a time. It is the only European-made system capable of intercepting ballistic missiles.
