These are the main events per day 1,205 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.
Here things stand on Friday, June 13:
Fighting
- Local ruler Viacsesslav Grakarouf said a two -year -old boy was killed by a Ukrainian drone strike in the southern Russian region of Beljorod and his grandmother and another adult were injured.
- The Ukrainian army said it had hit the Risonite electronics factory in the Russian Moscow area, which led to explosions.
- The Russian Ministry of Defense said that its forces shot down 260 Ukrainian drones over the past day.
- Russian President Vladimir Putin called for rapid development and deploying separate drone forces within the Russian army. “We are currently establishing drones forces as a separate branch of the army and we need to ensure the deployment and rapid and high -quality development of them.”
- Ukraine President Voludmir Zelinski said that the Ukrainian forces gradually pushing Russian forces out of the border area of Sumi, where Moscow has established a foothold in order to create a buffer zone with the West Korsak region.
- Ukraine and Russia have exchanged another group of war prisoners with wounded and wounded. It was not immediately clear that they were exchanged by each side. President Zelinski said in the Telegram messaging application that all Ukrainian soldiers need treatment.
Penalties
- An unreasonable German government official told Reuters that a group of seven (Group 7) in Canada from June 15 to 17 revolve around the extent of the European Union and the United States managed to sanctions against Russia.
- President Zelinski said he intends to attend the Group of Seven summit and hopes to meet US President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the meeting. Zelinski said he would discuss continuous support for Ukraine, sanctions against Russia and finance reconstruction efforts in Kiev.
- The Secretary -General of Mark Rutti said that Russia’s approach to peace talks with Ukraine is not useful. “The Russians are now sending this historian twice to these talks in Istanbul, in an attempt to start a date 1000 years ago, then explain more or less that Ukraine is wrong here. I think this is not useful,” Root said.
- At a meeting in Rome, foreign ministers from France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain and Britain said they are ready to pressure Russia, “including through more sanctions” that include the banking sector, to weaken Moscow in its war with Ukraine.
Military aid
- Speaking during his fifth visit to Kiev since the beginning of the war, German Defense Secretary Boris Peporius said that his country’s military support for Ukraine reached 7 billion euros (8.12 billion dollars) this year. Peterores said that 1.9 billion euros is the last parliamentary approval.
- Petrius said that Germany is not considering providing cruise missiles to Taurus Company to Ukraine, despite Kiev’s repeated weapons requests.
diplomacy
- Her embassy, US Ambassador to Russia, Lin Trissi, confirmed that she will leave her position soon, after serving her through one of the most difficult and difficult periods of relations between Moscow and Washington.
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