Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,220

On Saturday, June 28, 2018, this is how things are going.

Fighting

The Marinovka base, which is located 900 kilometers (550 miles) from the Ukrainian border, is where the Ukrainian military claims to have struck four Russian Su-34 warplanes.
In Samar, in the southeast of Ukraine, a Russian missile attack has claimed the lives of at least five people and injured more than 20 people.
Nova Kruhlyakivka in the eastern Kharkiv region of Ukraine has been taken over by Russian troops, according to the country’s state news agency TASS.
According to regional governor Oleksandr Prokudin, a Russian attack has damaged an “important power facility” in the southern Kherson region of Ukraine, leading to power outages in some of the region’s settlements.
A war correspondent for Chinese news outlet Phoenix TV was hurt by a Ukrainian drone attack in the Kursk region, according to Russian authorities, who were urging the UN to respond.
In a quick attack, the Ukrainian air force reported that it had destroyed 359 out of 363 drones and six of the eight missiles launched by Russia.
After President Vladimir Putin demanded that production be increased, drone production in Russia increased by 16.9 percent in May from the same month last year, according to data from a think tank close to the government.

Donald Trump, the president of the United States, cited his recent call with Putin as evidence that he believes Russia’s conflict in Ukraine will be “settled.” He also provided no further information.
Putin attributed President Trump’s efforts to stabilizing the relationship between Russia and the US, which he claimed was due to. Puntin once more stated that he was open to meeting the US leader and that he had “great respect” for him.
Putin added that, despite the uncertainty over the location and location, Moscow was prepared to hold a new round of peace talks with Ukraine. These could take place in Istanbul.

Lithuania has informed the UN that it is leaving the antipersonnel landmine treaty. In response to Latvia, Estonia, Finland, and Poland, all NATO and EU members bordering Russia, it joined them in withdrawing from the agreement because their country’s neighbors are in greater military danger.
The Kremlin alleged that Estonia’s stated readiness to host NATO allies’ US-made F-35A stealth jets, which could carry nuclear weapons, posed a direct threat to Moscow.
Putin compared NATO’s plan to increase its collective spending goal to 5% of GDP over the next ten years with Russia’s stated desire to reduce its military spending from the following year.

Senator Ron Wyden, a top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, demanded that US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent agree to impose sanctions against Russia in response to comments made about Russia joining an international bank payment network.
Wyden also sought clarifications regarding how any government or country that supported Russia’s war effort would benefit from the US-Ukraine critical minerals deal and investment agreement rather than helping Ukraine improve its post-war security.
After failing to stop the trade, a top Ukrainian diplomat in South Asia said, Ukraine plans to ask the EU to sanction Bangladeshi businesses that it claims are importing wheat from Ukrainian-occupied territories.

Source: Aljazeera