As the war enters its 829th day, these are the main events.
Here is the situation on Monday, June 3, 2024.
Struggle
- Ukraine imposed emergency power cuts in all but three regions of the country, a day after Russia unleashed large-scale attacks on energy facilities, also wounding 19 people.
- Russia's Defense Ministry claimed its armed forces had seized Umanske in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region. The small village had fewer than 180 residents before Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, and is located about 25 kilometers (15 mi) northwest of Donetsk, which is the region's main city and It is under Russian occupation.
- Vyacheslav Gladkov, governor of Russia's Belgorod region, said six people were wounded in Ukrainian shelling of the region, just across the border from Kharkiv. A local official also died when some ammunition detonated, he said.
- Nearly 1,000 people gathered in central kyiv to remember Iryna Tsybukh, known as Cheka, a 25-year-old prominent journalist and volunteer paramedic who was killed in combat in the northeastern region of Kharkiv last week.
Politics and diplomacy
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told defense and security leaders in Singapore that the peace summit in Switzerland scheduled for later this month was the best way to end the “cruel war” in Ukraine and that he was disappointed in that China did not attend. He said that he had not been able to meet the Chinese delegation in Singapore. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Friday that China, which claims to be neutral in the war but has deepened ties with Moscow, will not participate.
- Zelenskyy and his Defense Minister Rustem Umerov held talks with US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin for more than an hour on Sunday. He also met with the president-elect of Indonesia, Prabowo Subianto, and with the president of East Timor, José Ramos-Horta.
- German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said NATO's recent move to strengthen defenses in the Baltic states was aimed at deterring Russia and was a sign that the security alliance would “defend every square centimeter of NATO territory against attacks.” .
- Russia's TASS news agency said former world chess champion Garry Kasparov, who fled the country a decade ago for fear of persecution, could be subject to alleged violations of the Kremlin's “foreign agents” law. Moscow added Kasparov, a prominent critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, to its list of people allegedly acting as foreign agents shortly after beginning its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Weapons
- White House national security communications adviser John Kirby confirmed that US President Joe Biden had agreed to allow Ukraine to use some US-provided weapons to attack inside Russia.
