A Russian strike against a grocery store and pharmacy in northeastern Kharkiv region on Wednesday left three people dead, including a 14-year-old girl. A 16-year-old boy and a woman were also injured in an airstrike in Lipsi, about 10 kilometers from the Russian border. Another guided airstrike destroyed a hospital in the border town of Vovchansk.
Russian missile kills 4 people, including 10-year-old girl, and injures 7 more in southern Ukraine’s Odesa regionGovernor Oleg Kiper said on Telegram. Ukraine’s Energy Ministry said two facilities in the south were targeted in overnight strikes, causing power outages in the two regions.
Three people, including two children, were killed in a Ukrainian drone attack in Russia on Wednesday., said the local governor in the Kursk border region. Governor Roman Starovoit said in a telegram that a drone fired a rocket at a civilian vehicle in a village in the Kolenevsky district.
Explosions were reported in the northeast, south and west regions on Thursday morning. Explosions were also heard in Kharkiv, Mayor Ihor Terekhov said in a telegram, and Governor Ivan Fedorov said they were also heard in the Zaporizhzhya region. Maxim Kozytsky, the governor of the western Lviv region, said on Telegram that air defense forces were operating in the region.
America’s top commander in Europe told Congress that if more ammunition and weapons were not sent to Kiev soon, Ukraine would be outnumbered 10 to 1 by Russia within weeks. “Russian forces are firing five times as many shells at the Ukrainians as they can counterattack. It will quickly become 10 to 1 within a few weeks,” said General Christopher Cavoly. . “We’re not talking months. We’re not talking what-ifs.”
Joe Biden on Wednesday urged the US House of Representatives to immediately vote on the $60 billion Ukraine bill. “There is overwhelming support for Ukraine among the Democratic and Republican majorities. The vote should happen now,” the president told reporters. The funding passed the Senate, but has been stalled for months in the House, where Speaker Mike Johnson refused to allow a vote on the floor.
Russia’s Foreign Ministry has criticized plans to hold a Ukraine peace conference in Switzerland, saying it is motivated by the US election. The meeting is scheduled to be held on June 15-16, and Swiss media reported that Biden is expected to attend. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told the state-run TASS news agency: “The American Democratic Party is behind this, and they want photos and videos of events that seem to show that the ‘Ukraine’ project is still in progress.” he said.
Ukrainian politicians sparked outrage by scrapping a clause in a draft bill that would have given soldiers serving more than 36 months the possibility of being discharged. The article was removed before second reading under pressure from the military. This reversal risked angering society at large, worn down by years of war, and demoralizing the strained military.
The EU’s highest court has lifted war-related sanctions against prominent billionaires Petr Aven and Mikhail Fridman. The Court of Justice ruled that the European Council had not presented sufficient evidence to establish that the pair were involved in efforts that “undermine or threaten the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine”. was lowered.
Eight Nordic and Baltic states are calling for more aid to Ukraine. Sweden’s Foreign Minister Tobias Bilström said his country supported “an expanded role for NATO in providing security-related assistance to Ukraine.”
Ukraine and UK sign framework agreement to cooperate in defense and weapons production fieldsofficials said in Kiev that it was part of a wartime effort to work with allies to strengthen Ukraine’s domestic arms industry.
China vows not to accept “criticism or pressure” over relations with RussiaAfter Washington warned that it would hold China accountable if Moscow made any profits in Ukraine.
