Russia-Ukraine struggle: Listing of key occasions, day 1,200 | Russia-Ukraine struggle Information

These are the important thing occasions on day 1,200 of Russia’s struggle on Ukraine.

Right here’s the place issues stand on Sunday, June 8:

Preventing

• Russian forces attacked the japanese Ukrainian metropolis of Kharkiv at evening and within the night with drones, missiles and guided bombs, killing not less than 4 folks and wounding greater than 60, together with a child, in response to native officers.
• “Kharkiv is at present experiencing probably the most highly effective assault because the begin of the full-scale struggle,” Mayor Ihor Terekhov mentioned in a publish on Telegram.
• Elsewhere in Ukraine, three folks have been killed within the front-line Donetsk area, which has seen probably the most intense preventing of the struggle, and three extra within the Kherson area, which is partially occupied by Moscow’s forces, the AFP information company reported.
• Russian forces took management of a piece of the Yunakivka-Sudzha freeway in Ukraine’s Sumy area, which “Ukrainian troops as soon as used to produce their group within the [Russian] Kursk Area”, Russia’s TASS information company reported, citing a army analyst.
• The Ukrainian army mentioned that Russia launched 206 drones, two ballistic and 7 different missiles at Ukraine in a single day. Kyiv mentioned its air defence models shot down 87 drones whereas one other 80 drones have been misplaced.
• It additionally mentioned on Telegram {that a} Russian Su-35 fighter jet was shot down after “a profitable Air Drive operation within the Kursk path”.
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy mentioned that Kyiv’s forces lately destroyed three Iskander missile techniques and broken Russian army helicopters. “This helps our defence – each complication for Russia is vital for us,” he mentioned in his night assertion.
• German Main Basic Christian Freuding, in the meantime, mentioned his nation estimates {that a} recent Ukrainian attack broken 10 % of Russia’s long-range bomber fleet however mentioned the assault will solely have an “oblique impact” since Moscow nonetheless retains 90 % of its strategic bombers.
• In Russia, officers mentioned a Ukrainian drone assault within the Moscow area wounded two folks.
• The Russian Ministry of Defence mentioned that air defence models had intercepted and destroyed 36 Ukrainian drones over Russian territory on Saturday, together with the Moscow area.

Prisoner Trade

• Russia and Ukraine accused one another of endangering plans to swap 6,000 our bodies of troopers killed in motion, agreed upon throughout direct talks in Istanbul on Monday.
• Vladimir Medinsky, who led the Russian delegation, mentioned that Kyiv known as a last-minute halt to an imminent swap. In a Telegram publish, Medinsky mentioned that refrigerated vehicles carrying greater than 1,200 our bodies of Ukrainian troops from Russia had already reached the agreed-upon alternate web site on the border when the information got here.
• In response, Ukraine mentioned that Russia was enjoying “soiled video games” and manipulating details.
• In accordance with the primary Ukrainian authority coping with such swaps, no date had been set for repatriating the our bodies. In an announcement on Saturday, the company additionally accused Russia of submitting lists of prisoners of struggle for repatriation that didn’t correspond to agreements reached on Monday.

Weapons

• Zelenskyy appealed to the US to “urgently” ship “constructive indicators” relating to Ukraine’s request to buy air defence systems, following the content hub lethal Russian assaults on Kharkiv. Zelenskyy first publicly requested to buy US Patriot air defence techniques in mid-April this yr.
• France’s armed forces minister, Sebastien Lecornu, informed France’s LCI information {that a} French automotive maker is making ready to fabricate drones in Ukraine.
• Canadian Minister of Nationwide Defence David McGuinty introduced army help value 35 million Canadian {dollars} ($25.5m) for Ukraine, together with Coyote and Bison armoured autos.

Diplomacy

• Russian Deputy International Minister Sergey Ryabkov informed TASS that Russia had requested US officers to renew direct flights between the 2 international locations and elevate restrictions on Russian diplomats within the US.
• “To place it mildly, at this level, they aren’t very enthusiastic,” Ryabkov mentioned relating to the proposal to renew flights.