Russia andUkraine trade drone strikes
The Moscow-Ukraine War of June 24, 2006: Ukrain defense and air strikes are causing death in Kiev, Russia, the media reported
Denis Pushilin said that the main building of the M. Tugan-Baranovsky University of Economics and Trade was damaged by Ukrainian shelling.
Russia and Ukraine traded blows with drones. Russia hit an important Ukrainian port with a missiles on Wednesday. Kyiv’s military administration said that air defense forces destroyed almost a dozen Russian drones on the approach to the Ukrainian capital. Russian air defenses shot down Ukrainian drones bound for Moscow, and a Moscow airport had to stop flights after another was destroyed, according to Russia’s Defense Ministry. Ukrainian sea drones also damaged a Russian tanker in an attack on a Black Sea naval base Friday.
The attack was one of four strikes on the Russian capital in the space of a month, spotlighting Moscow’s vulnerability as Russia’s war in Ukraine drags into its second year.
A woman in her eighties was also killed by Ukrainian shelling in Russian-held Donetsk, the city’s Moscow-appointed mayor Alexei Kulemzin said Sunday. The Vnukovo airport, southwest of the Russian capital, temporarily halted flights on Sunday morning after a drone was shot down over the city.
“This war crime alone says everything about Russian aggression,” Zelenskyy wrote on social media. “Defeating terrorists is a matter of honor for everyone who values life.”
Two people were killed and four more were injured following a Russian air strike in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, said the head of the local regional military administration, Oleh Syniehubov.
The Azov Brigade Trial: Russian and Ukrainian Trade Drone Strikes: Kyiv removes Soviet symbol; Putin denies the Geneva Conventions
The trial of 22 members of the Azov Battalion — Ukrainian POWs captured following Russia’s weeks-long siege of a steelworks plant in Mariupol in May 2022 — on terrorism charges continues Wednesday at a military court in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don. Rights groups have denounced the proceedings as a violation of the Geneva Conventions.
Following peace talks that took place in Copenhagen in June, Saudi Arabia hosted a peace summit in Jeddah on Saturday and Sunday, attended by national security advisers and representatives from more than 40 countries including the U.S., China, Turkey, India and Brazil. Many of the countries that were represented have taken a neutral stance on the war. Russia was not invited. The parties agreed to attend again, but a date hadn’t been set.
The soviet hammer and sickle, which was part of the tallest statue in the country, was removed from the Motherland Monument by the Ukrainians. Ukrainian authorities have ordered the removal of statues depicting Russian and Soviet writers and leaders since the start of the war.
Ukrainian pilots will start training to fly F-16 fighter jets in August, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced. He said that the delivery and combat use of F-16s should take place as soon as possible.
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NPR’s State of Ukraine: Summary of the Crimes in Ukraine and the UN Security Council’s High-Treatment 2015 General Meeting
A Russian court sentenced jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny to an additional 19 years in prison on extremism-related charges. The ruling comes amid a wider crackdown against domestic critics of the war in Ukraine.
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed into law a measure that raises the military conscription age cap from 27 to 30 years old. The Kremlin is trying to increase the number of Russian recruits for the war in Ukraine.
The impact of the Ukraine war on the world’s food supply will be a focus when the United Nations Security Council holds its monthly meeting in August.
Yale’s Conflict Observatory reported that Russian authorities are forcing Ukrainians living in Russian-occupied land to take Russian citizenship or be deported or detained. Russia claims that it’s given citizenship to some 3 million Ukrainians since 2014, when Russian proxies took over parts of eastern Ukraine as well as Crimea in the south.
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Russia’s Defense Ministry said on Saturday that it had shot down several Ukrainian drones on the Russian border and a Moscow airport had to stop flights after another one was destroyed. It was the fourth strike on the Russian capital in the last month. A woman was also killed by Ukraine shelling in Russian-held Donetsk, the city’s Moscow-appointed Mayor said on Sunday.