On Tuesday, June 24, 2018, this is how things are going.
Fighting
- 10 people, including one child, were killed in the Russian drone and missile attack in Kyiv earlier this week, according to the official death toll.
- Three people, including a child, were killed in a separate Russian drone attack in Sumy, northeast of Ukraine, according to local authorities.
- A Ukrainian drone struck an apartment complex outside Moscow early on Tuesday, injuring two people, according to Russia’s TASS news agency. The drone set off a fire on the 17th floor of the structure.
- Overnight, Russia claims to have intercepted about a dozen Ukrainian drones heading for Kursk and Bryansk, both along the Russian-occupied border.
- According to the General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces, Ukrainian forces attacked an oil depot in southern Russia, which supplied Russian forces in occupied regions of the country.
Regional security
- Serbia is accused of passing ammunition through Czech Republic and Bulgarian companies to Ukraine. In contrast to Serbia, both nations are NATO and EU members.
- Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the president of Ukraine, traveled to the UK on Monday, where he met with King Charles III, King Charles III, and Prime Minister Keir Starmer in London.
- A summit of NATO leaders is scheduled to take place on Tuesday in The Hague. The security council continues to show unwavering support for Ukraine, according to NATO head Mark Rutte earlier this week.
- A collaboration between Zelenskyy and Starmer will result in the production of long-range drones capable of hitting targets in Russia.
- According to the UK government, “technical data from Ukraine’s front line will be plugged into UK production lines, allowing British defense firms to quickly design and build, at a scale, cutting-edge military equipment unavailable anywhere in the world.”
Source: Aljazeera
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