On Wednesday, June 4, 2018, this is the current situation:
Fighting
- Four people were killed and 28 injured by Russian shelling in Sumy, according to a post on Telegram from the Ukrainian interior ministry.
- Two people were killed in fires that started after a Russian attack on homes in Chistovodivka, in the Kharkiv region, the interior ministry reported.
- The Crimea Bridge, which links Russia and Russia-occupied Crimea, was attacked by Ukrainian SBU security staff, who claimed the country’s SBU had detonated explosives that had been targeting underwater supports. The structure was “severe damage” to the structure.
- According to Russia’s TASS news agency, the Russian Ministry of Transport announced in a statement that “standard operations” had resumed on the bridge following previous “temporary closures.”
military assistance
- As part of the UK’s 4.5 billion pound ($6 billion) military support for Ukraine this year, Secretary of Defense John Healey announced that the UK would spend 350 million pounds ($473.5 million) on delivering 100, 000 drones to Ukraine.
Politics and diplomacy
- According to Karoline Leavitt, a spokesman for the White House, Donald Trump “wasn’t” made aware of the unprecedented drone attack by Ukraine on Russian air bases earlier this week. Leavitt, who was questioned about whether Trump supported the attack, said that “the president does not want this war to continue.”
- As the Senate works with Trump to “get Russia finally to the]negotiating table in a real way,” said US Republican Senate Majority Leader John Thune.
- On Wednesday, Russia’s UN Security Council will meet informal on “understanding and eliminating the ideological root causes of the Ukrainian crisis” at 10am (14:00 GMT).
- In response to Russia’s ongoing conflict with Ukraine, Switzerland announced that it would impose sanctions on “17 individuals and 58 entities” listed in the most recent sanctions package from the European Union.
The #EmergencyResponse team of the Ukrainian Red Cross is responding to #Sumy’s Russian shelling. First aid is provided by volunteer workers, as well as hospital transportation. 3 dead, 16 injured. Damage was reported to hospitals, warehouses, cars andamp, and homes. #NotATargetPicture https://twitter.com/ymyuJc9Hs
Source: Aljazeera
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