Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,222 | Russia-Ukraine war News

Here’s how things are going on Monday June 30:

Struggle

• Russia has launched its greatest air attack on Ukraine since the start of its large -scale invasion on Sunday, drawing a total of 537 aerial weapons, including 477 drones and lures and 60 missiles, according to the Ukrainian Air Force.
• Ukrainian forces intercepted 475 weapons, but the army said that Lieutenant-Colonel du F-16 Colonel Maksym Utimenko was killed “While repelling” “the massive enemy air attack”.
• At least four others were also killed in air raids, in the regions of Kherson, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk and Kostiiantynivka, reported the Associated Press news agency, citing local officials.
• Air attacks were also large, targeting the regions as far as Lviv, in the far west, where a drone attack caused a large fire in an industrial installation of the city of Drohobych and reduced electricity in certain parts of the region.
• Poland said it had scrambled the planes, as well as other NATO countries, to ensure the security of Polish airspace during the attack. None of the Russian missiles entered Poland’s airspace, command said.
• In addition, two people were killed by Russian bombings, including a 70 -year -old woman who was found under the rubble of a nine -story building in the Zaporizhia region, reported AP.
• The Russian Defense Ministry said it had intercepted three Ukrainian drones overnight and claimed control of the village of Novoukrainka in the Donetsk region, partially Russian.
• Ria Novosti’s news agency said that a person had been killed by a Ukrainian drone in the Ukrainian Luhansk part, while the acting governor of the Kursk of Russia said that two people had been injured in a Ukrainian attack in the border region.

Weapons

• Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the air attacks highlight the need for additional support from the United States and Western allies to strengthen the country’s air defenses.
• He also signed a decree to withdraw Ukraine from the Ottawa Convention Prohibit the production and use of anti-personal mines, claiming that Russia has never been a party to the treaty “and uses anti-personal mines with the greatest cynicism”.
• Roman Kostenko, a Ukrainian legislator, said that parliamentary approval was still necessary to withdraw from the treaty. He said legislators will have a vote on the move.
• The Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs also declared that the country had “made the political decision difficult but necessary to put an end to the implementation of unrelevant obligations under the Ottawa Convention” because it led to an “asymmetrical advantage” for Russia.

Politics and diplomacy

• American senator Lindsey Graham told ABC News that the country’s congress is starting to vote on new Russian sanctions after President Donald Trump said: “It’s time to move your bill.”
• Meanwhile, the Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov, told state television that European countries would have the consequences of the taxation More severe sanctions against Russia. “The more serious the package of sanctions, which I repeat, we consider illegal, the more the decline is the decline of a shoulder gun. It is a double-edged sword,” he said.
• The head of the Russian spy, Sergei Jolyshkin, said in the remarks published on Sunday that he had spoken to the director of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), John Ratcliffe, and whom they had agreed to be called at any time.