Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,205 | Russia-Ukraine war News

These are the key events of day 1 205 of the Russian war against Ukraine.

Here is where things are on Friday June 13:

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A two-year-old boy was killed by a Ukrainian drone strike in the Southern Russia region Belgorod and his grandmother and another adult was injured, said local governor Vyacheslav Gladkov.
The Ukrainian army said it had hit the Rezonit electronics plant in the Moscow region in Russia, causing explosions.
The Russian Ministry of Defense said that its forces had shot down 260 Ukrainian drones in the last day, the Interfax news agency reported on Thursday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin called for rapid development and deployment of distinct drone forces within the Russian army. “We are currently creating troops of unmanned systems like a separate branch of the army and we must ensure their rapid and high -quality deployment and development,” said Putin, the Russian press agencies.
Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the Ukrainian forces gradually pushed the Russian forces outside the Sumy border region, where Moscow has established a stamped area with the western region of Kursk in Russia.
Ukraine and Russia exchanged another group of sick and seriously injured prisoners of war. It was not immediately clear how many people had been exchanged on each side. All Ukrainian soldiers need treatment, President Zelenskyy said on the Telegram messaging application.

A meeting of seven of seven (G7) in Canada from June 15 to 17 will be the extent to which the European Union and the United States will be able to align itself with the sanctions against Russia, said an unnamed German government official at the Reuters news agency.
President Zelenskyy said he was planning to attend the G7 summit and hoped to meet US President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the meeting. Zelenskyy said that he would discuss the continuous support of Ukraine, sanctions against Russia and the financing of kyiv’s reconstruction efforts.
NATO secretary general, Mark Rutte, said that Russia’s approach to peace with Ukraine was not useful. “The Russians now send this historian twice to these talks in Istanbul, trying to start with the history of 1000 years ago, then explain more or less that Ukraine is at fault here. I think it is not useful,” said Rutte.
During a meeting in Rome, the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain and Great Britain declared that they were ready to intensify the pressure on Russia, “including other sanctions” involving the energy and bank sector, to weaken Moscow in his war with Ukraine.

Speaking during his fifth visit to kyiv since the war start of the war, the German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius, said that his country’s military support in Ukraine had reached 7 billion euros (8.12 billion dollars) this year. Pistorius said that an additional 1.9 billion euros were awaiting parliamentary approval.
Pistorius said that Germany did not plan to deliver Cruise missiles in Ukraine despite the repeated requests from kyiv on arms.

The American ambassador to Russia Lynne Tracy will soon leave her post, confirmed his embassy, after having served through one of the most tense and most difficult periods in relations between Moscow and Washington.