Russia-Ukraine War: List of key events, day 1 219 | Russia-Ukraine War News

Here’s how things are on Friday June 27:

Struggle

• Russian air strikes killed a person and injured two more The southern region of Kherson of Ukrainesaid regional governor Oleksandr Prokudin on Telegram.
• Russian troops have taken control of the village of Shevchenko in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine, which is close to a lithium depot, after a fierce resistance from the Ukrainian forces, said a responsible for Russia in the occupied region.

• Russian troops have also taken control of the Novoserhiivka colony also in Donetsk, according to the Russian Defense Ministry.

• The forces of Ukraine arrested Russian advances in the border area of ​​the northern Ukraine of Sumy this week, the country’s best general, Oleksandr Syrskii, said in a statement.

• Syrskii also ordered that the defensive lines be built faster in the Sumy region, while Russian forces gain ground to the industrial region of Dnipropetrovsk.

Military

• North Korea Will send more troops to Russia to help his war against Ukraine, perhaps in July, said a South Korean legislator, citing information from the Seoul espionage agency.

Politics and diplomacy

• Ukraine and Russia exchanged a new group of soldiers capturedThe last in a series of prisoners exchanged agreed during the peace talks in Istanbul earlier this month. None of the parties declared how many prisoners have been released, but they were committed to exchanging at least 1,000 soldiers each at their direct meeting in Istanbul on June 2.

• Russia said that there was not yet progress towards the date of the next series of peace talks with Ukraine, reported the Interfax news agency. Another state news agency Tass quoted the Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov, saying that Russia was in favor of the continuous efforts of the United States to mediate on talks.

• The 27 leaders of the European Union have agreed to extend the sanctions against Russia for an additional six months, resolving the fears that convivial Hungary in the Kremlin allowed measures to travel, officials said. The sanctions include continuous freezing of more than $ 234 billion in assets from the Russian central bank until the beginning of 2026.
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged the European Council to send “a clear political message” that Brussels supports kyiv in his efforts to join the EU.
• Earlier, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said that a consultation organized by the State gave it a “strong mandate” to oppose the neighboring membership of the EU to the EU at the EU top in Brussels.
• The Watchdog of international chemical weapons, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), said that it had found a lacrymogen gas prohibited in seven samples submitted by Ukraine, which accused Russia of using the riot control agent on the front line. It was the third time that the OPCW has confirmed the use of CS gas in areas where the fighting has been in Ukraine.
• Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said that a new arms race could lead to the fall of the “regime” of Russian president Vladimir Putin, just as reversed the Soviet Union.

Press freedom

• A Russian court said that he had found a photographer, Grigory Skvortssov, guilty of betrayal and imprisoned him for 16 years after pretending to have transmitted detailed information on bunkers of the Soviet era once secret to an American journalist.

• Moscow will soon convene the German ambassador to inform him of the reprisal measures in response to what she considers the harassment of Russian journalists based in Germany, said spokesperson for the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova.