Russia-Ukraine War: List of important events, day 1.204 | Russia-Ukraine War news

These are the most important events on day 1,204 of the Russian war in Ukraine.

Here are things on Thursday 12 June:

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• A concentrated nine-minute Russian drone attack on the second largest city of Kharkiv in the middle of the night killed six people and was wounded 64, including nine children, said Ukrainian officials.
• The Ukrainian army said that it had hit a large Russian gunpowder factory in the Western Tambov region at night, which caused a fire on the site.
• Russian mechanized infantry units have reached the western border of the Donetsk region in Ukraine and, together with a tank division, continue their offensive against the bordering region of Dnipropetrovsk, said the Russian Ministry of Defense.
• The Russian air defense systems destroyed 32 Ukrainian drones at night, the Ministry of Defense said on Wednesday. Half of the drones were brought down over the southern Voronezh region, while the rest were intercepted over the Kursk, Tambov, Rostov and the Crimean protection.
• Ukraine brought the bodies of 1,212 soldiers home in his war against Russia, said civil servants of Kiev. The Kremlin said that Ukraine brought back the bodies of 27 Russian soldiers.

Regional security

• Russia sent long distance TU-22m3 bomber aircraft on a flight over the Baltic Sea, the Russian ministry said June 1 Ukrainian attack On Russian air bases in Siberia.
• Russia’s nuclear assets did not suffer considerable damage because of the Ukrainian attacks at his airports, and the scale of the damage is exaggerated, the deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov.
• Russian President Vladimir Putin, who spoke television on the state, said that 95 percent of the weapons in the strategic nuclear forces of Russia were completely up -to -date.

International relations

• The ambassador of the United States of NATO, Matthew Whitaker, said that the Ukrainian drone attack on Russian strategic bombers was “badass” earlier this month, but also “a little reckless and a little dangerous”.
• The Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zenskyy, who addressed a conference of Southeastern European leaders in the Zwarte Sea vessels Odesa, said that Russia was determined to destroy the south of his country, as well as nearby Moldavia and Romania, because he called on an elevated pressure to prevent further Militaire to prevent further Militaire.
• Serbia’s Kremlin-friendly populist President Aleksandar Vucic traveled to Odesa for the regional top. It is the first time that the leader has visited Ukraine for his 12 years in power.
• The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland said that it had called for a Russian diplomat about a suspected violation of 10 June by Russian aircraft airspace, the second event in less than three weeks.
• Slovakia will not support the 18th sanction package of the European Union against Russia, unless the European Commission offers a solution for the situation with which the country is confronted if the block is going through the Russian energy as planned, the Prime Minister Robert Fico of the country has said.
• The import of goods from Germany from Russia fell by 95 percent in the period 2021-2024, while the export of goods to Russia was reduced by 72 percent, the Land Statistics Office reported.
• The EU as a whole reduced its imports from Russia by 78 percent and exports by 65 percent compared to the same time frame, which led to a trade deficit of 4.5 billion euros ($ 5.1 billion) in 2024 compared to 147.5 billion euros ($ 170 billion) in 2022, added datat.

Russian Affairs

• A court in the west of Russia has ruled that opposition politician Lev Shlosberg is placed under house arrest for two months and is confronted with non -specified limitations on his activities for ‘discrediting’ of the Russian army after describing the war in Ukraine as a game of ‘bloody chess’. He is confronted with a maximum of five years in prison if he is convicted.
• The Russian dissident Leonid Volkov, a prominent ally of the deceased opposition leader Alexey Navalny, was absorbed in absent to 18 years in prison for spreading fake news about the war in Ukraine and “Terrorism justify”.