Russia-Ukraine War: List of key events, day 1,200 | Russia-Ukraine War News

These are the key events of day 1,200 of the Russian war against Ukraine.

Here is where things are on Sunday June 8:

Struggle

• The Russian forces attacked the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv at night and in the evening with drones, missiles and guided bombs, killing at least four people and injuring more than 60 years, including a baby, according to local officials.
• “Kharkiv is currently experiencing the most powerful attack since the start of the war on a large scale,” said Mayor Ihor Terekhov in an article on Telegram.
• Elsewhere in Ukraine, three people were killed in the front -line Donetsk region, which saw the most intense fights in the war, and three others in the Kherson region, which is partially occupied by the forces of Moscow, reported the AFP news agency.
• The Russian forces have taken control of a section of the Yunakivka-Sudzha motorway in the Ukraine Sumy region, which “Ukrainian troops used to provide their group in the (Russian) region of Kursk,” reported the Russian TASS news agency, citing a military analyst.
• The Ukrainian army said Russia launched 206 drones, two ballistics and seven other missiles in Ukraine overnight. Kyiv said its air defense units killed 87 drones while 80 other drones were lost.
• He also declared on Telegram that a Russian hunting plane Su-35 had been shot after “a successful Air Force operation in the direction of Kursk”.
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said kyiv forces recently destroyed three ISKANDER missile systems and damaged Russian military helicopters. “This helps our defense-each complication for Russia is important to us,” he said in his evening declaration.
• The German Christian General Christian Freuding, said his country believes that a Recent Ukrainian attack Damaged 10% of the long -range Kamikazes fleet of Russia, but said that the attack will have only “indirect effect” since Moscow still retains 90% of its strategic bombers.
• In Russia, officials said that a Ukrainian drone attack in the Moscow region had injured two people.
• The Russian Defense Ministry said that air defense units had intercepted and destroyed 36 Ukrainian drones on Russian territory on Saturday, including the Moscow region.

Exchange of prisoners

• Russia and Ukraine have accused each other of having endangered plans to exchange 6,000 bodies of soldiers killed in combat, agreed on Monday during direct talks in Istanbul.
• Vladimir Medinsky, who directed the Russian delegation, said Kyiv qualified the last minute stop to an imminent exchange. In a telegram post, Medinsky said that refrigerated trucks carrying more than 1,200 Ukrainian troops in Russia had already reached the border exchange site when the news arrived.
• In response, Ukraine said Russia played “dirty games” and manipulated the facts.
• According to the main Ukrainian authority dealing with these Swaps, no date had been set to replace the bodies. In a press release on Saturday, the agency also accused Russia of submitting lists of prisoners of war for repatriation which did not correspond to the agreements concluded on Monday.

Weapons

• Zelenskyy called on the United States to send “emergency” Buy air defense systemsFollowing the last deadly Russian attacks against Kharkiv. Zelenskyy first publicly asked to buy Us Patriot Air Defense Systems in mid-April this year.
• The French Minister of the Armed Forces, Sébastien Lecornu, told France LCI News that a French car manufacturer was preparing to make drones in Ukraine.
• Canadian Minister of National Defense David McGuinty announced military assistance worth Canadian $ 35 million ($ 25.5 million) for Ukraine, including armored and bison armored vehicles.

Diplomacy

• Russian Foreign Deputy Minister Sergey Ryabkov told Tass that Russia had asked US officials to resume direct flights between the two countries and raise Russian diplomats in the United States.
• “To put it slightly, at this stage, they are not very enthusiastic,” said Ryabkov concerning the proposal to take over the flights.