On Wednesday, June 25, 2018, this is how things are going.
Fighting
- More than 200 people were hurt in the city of Dnipro as a result of Russian missile strikes in southeast Ukraine, which also caused extensive damage to dozens of structures and infrastructure.
- In the city of Samara, two people were killed by Russian forces.
- Hennadii Shapovalov has been appointed as the new commander of Ukraine’s ground forces, according to Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s president. Additionally, he will be in charge of international military recruitment initiatives.
- Russia claims that it has seen dozens of drones flying over its territory, including the Voronezh region near the eastern Ukrainian border.
- The village of Dyliivka in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region has been taken, according to Russian forces.
- According to Zelenskyy, Russia and Ukraine are still close to ending a ceasefire. The Russians have once more openly and completely cynically stated that they are “not in the mood” for a ceasefire. Russia wants to fight. This indicates that they are working very hard to maintain their appearances or that the pressure being applied by the world isn’t still hurting them.
Diplomacy
- This week’s NATO summit in The Hague will feature a meeting between Zelenskyy and the White House. Following Zelenskyy’s unsuccessful attempt earlier this month to meet Trump in Canada when the US president abruptly left a G7 summit, Zelenskyy will make a second attempt.
- Trump declined to comment on whether he supported NATO’s Article 5 requirement for collective self-defence on the way to the NATO summit on Tuesday. Depends on your definition, I suppose. He told reporters on Air Force One that “I’m committed to being their friend” and that there are many definitions of Article 5.
- Prior to the summit, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte stated that the security bloc’s “military edge is aggressively challenged by a rapidly rearming Russia, supported by Chinese technology, and armed with Iranian and North Korean weapons.”
- Over the next ten years, NATO members are expected to support a push to increase defense spending to 5% of GDP. Trump and Russia are seen as trying to ease with the move, according to the report.
Finance
- The Netherlands, the country’s host country, announced a new 175 million ($203m) aid package that includes drone detection radars for Ukraine. The news follows another 500-million-euro ($580m) deal to make 600, 000 drones with Ukraine.
Source: Aljazeera
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