What’s the situation on Sunday, June 1?
Fighting
- In a train derailment in the Bryansk region of Russia, according to Alexander Bogomaz, governor of Bryansk, 30 people were killed and 30 were hurt. The derailment and bridge collapse, according to Moscow Railway, were the result of “illegal interference in transport operations” in a post on Telegram. The Ukrainian military did not respond right away.
- The governor of the region, Dolynka, in the Ukrainian village of Zaporizhia, claimed that a child was killed and another was hurt in a Russian attack.
- Governor Oleksandr Prokudin posted a tweet claiming that a man was killed by Russian shelling in the Kherson region of Ukraine.
- On Friday and overnight, Russian forces reportedly launched 109 drones and five missiles across Ukraine, according to the Ukrainian Air Force. 42 of the drones were destroyed, according to the Ukrainian government.
- Vodolahy and Novopil, two villages in the Donetsk and Sumy regions, were captured by Russia’s military, according to a statement from the military.
- The announcement came after Ukraine demanded that 11 more Sumy villages be evacuated, claiming that Russia had amassed about 50 000 troops there.
diplomacy and politics
- Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the president of Ukraine, claimed that Russia did not “look very serious” and that it had “no clear information” about what it would achieve at the next week’s peace talks in Istanbul, Turkiye.
- Russia has said it will send a delegation led by former culture minister Vladimir Medinsky, but he did not comment on whether Ukraine would participate in the new round of negotiations.
- The two are “different in nature and not comparable at all,” according to China’s embassy in Singapore, criticizing French President Emmanuel Macron for bringing up Taiwan’s defense against a Chinese invasion.
- When German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and US President Donald Trump meet at the White House on Thursday, according to a spokesman for the German government, Russia’s war against Ukraine will be at the top of the agenda.
- Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson noted that new regulations for foreign ships entering Swedish territorial waters starting on July 1 come amid “a growing number of concerning incidents in the Baltic Sea” as Russia’s so-called Shadow Fleet is still having issues.
Weapons
- According to British Defence Secretary John Healey, “the hard-fought lessons from]Russian President Vladimir Putin’s illegal invasion of Ukraine show a military is only as strong as the industry that stands behind them,” plans to build at least six new factories producing weapons and explosives.
Source: Aljazeera
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