This is the case on June 1st (Sunday):
struggle
- Russia's Bryansk Governor Alexander Bogomaz said seven people were killed and 30 were injured in train derailment in the area bordering Ukraine. In an article on the telegram, the Moscow Railway said that derailment and bridge collapse were the result of "illegal intervention in transportation operations." Ukrainian troops did not immediately comment.
- The governor of the region said a Russian attack killed a child and injured another person in Dulinka, a Ukrainian village in Zaporizya.
- Governor Oleksandr Prokudin wrote in a telegram that a man was also killed by Russian shelling in the Hessen region of Ukraine.
- The Ukrainian Air Force said Russian forces fired about 109 drones and five missiles in Ukraine on Friday and overnight. It added that Ukrainian forces destroyed 42 drones.
- The Russian military said it occupied the Ukrainian village of Vodolahy in the Sumi region and Novopil in the Donetsk region.
- The news comes after Ukraine ordered the evacuation of 11 villages in the Sumi area, saying Russia has accumulated about 50,000 soldiers in the area.
Politics and diplomacy
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia's plans obtained in peace talks in Istanbul next week "had no clear information" and gave "had no clear information".
- He did not comment on whether Ukraine would participate in the new negotiations, although Russia said it would send a delegation led by former Culture Minister Vladimir Medinsky.
- China's embassy in Singapore criticized French President Emmanuel Macron for comparing Ukraine's defense with the need to protect Taiwan from Chinese invasion, saying "the two are essentially different and incomparable."
- A German government spokesman said Russia's war against Ukraine would be at the forefront of the agenda when German Chancellor Friedrich Merz met with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday.
- Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said the new regulations would regulate foreign ships passing through Swedish territorial waters from July 1 as Russia's so-called shadow fleet continues to get stuck in problems.
arms
- British Defense Minister John Healey announced plans to build at least six new factories to produce weapons and explosives, saying: "The lessons learned from (Russian President Vladimir) Putin's hard training on Ukraine's illegal invasion of Ukraine are only as strong as the industry standing behind them."