What’s the situation on Sunday, June 8th, according to the following:
Fighting
- According to local officials, Russian forces attacked the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv at night and in the evening with drones, missiles, and guided bombs, killing at least four people and injuring more than 60, including a baby.
- Mayor Ihor Terekhov stated in a post on Telegram that “Kharkiv is currently experiencing the most powerful attack since the start of the full-scale war.”
- Three people were killed elsewhere in Ukraine in the front-line Donetsk region, where the conflict has raged the most intensely, and three more in the Kherson region, which Moscow’s forces have partially occupied, according to the AFP news agency.
- According to a military analyst, Russian forces took control of a section of the Yunakivka-Sudzha highway in the Sumy region of Ukraine, which “Ukrainian troops once used to supply their group in the]Russian] Kursk Region,” according to Russia’s TASS news agency.
- Russia has fired 206 drones, two ballistic missiles, and seven other missiles at Ukraine overnight, according to the Ukrainian military. According to Kyiv, its air defense units shot down 87 drones and lost 80.
- A Russian Su-35 fighter jet was shot down after “a successful Air Force operation in the Kursk direction,” according to a statement posted on Telegram.
- Russian military helicopters were damaged by Russian forces, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Every problem Russia poses is crucial to us, he said in his evening statement.
- Meanwhile, German Major General Christian Freuding said his country believes a recent Ukrainian attack has damaged 10% of Russia’s long-range bombers, but that it will have an “indirect effect” because Moscow still has 90% of its strategic bombers at its disposal.
- Officials in Russia reported that two people were hurt by a Ukrainian drone attack in the Moscow region.
- 36 Ukrainian drones were intercepted and destroyed over Russian territory on Saturday, including the Moscow region, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense.
Prisoner Exchange
- In direct negotiations held on Monday in Istanbul, Russia and Ukraine accused one another of putting an end to plans to swap 6, 000 soldiers’ bodies.
- Vladimir Medinsky, the Russian delegation’s leader, claimed Kyiv called a last-minute stop to an upcoming swap. More than 1,200 Ukrainian troops’ bodies from Russia had already arrived at the agreed-upon exchange site at the border, according to Medinsky in a Telegram post.
- In response, Ukraine retorted and claimed that Russia was “playing dirty games” and fabricating information.
- No date has been set for the repatriation of the bodies, according to the main Ukrainian authority that deals with these swaps. The organization also claimed that Russia had submitted lists of war prisoners for repatriation that did not match the Monday agreements it had reached in a statement on Saturday.
Weapons
- In response to the most recent deadly Russian attacks on Kharkiv, Zelenskyy urged the United States to “urgently” send “positive signals” regarding Ukraine’s request to purchase air defense systems. US Patriot air defense systems were first requested publicly by Selenskyy in mid-April of this year.
- Sebastien Lecornu, the minister of armed forces in France, reported to LCI News that a French automaker is preparing to build drones in Ukraine.
- David McGuinty, the Canadian minister of national defense, announced $ 35 million ($25. 5 million) in military assistance for Ukraine, including Coyote and Bison armored vehicles.
Diplomacy
- Sergey Ryabkov, the deputy foreign minister of Russia, reported to TASS that Russia had requested that US officials resume direct flights between the two nations and ease US diplomatic restrictions.
- They are not very enthusiastic about the proposal to resume flights, Ryabkov said to put it mildly.
Source: Aljazeera
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