Struggle
- Ukrainian officials said that at least five people were killed for fighting and bombing along the first line of the war in East Ukraine, which is mostly occupied by Russia.
- The Ukrainian bombing and drone attacks against the key infrastructure in the Russian areas or southeast Ukraine led to energy cuts throughout the Zaporizhia region, according to the officials installed in Russian there.
- The similar attacks damaged the electrical substations in the adjacent region of Kherson, which leads to a loss of energy for 100,000 residents and 150 cities and towns, according to the officials installed in Russian.
- However, there has been no effect on the Zaporizhia Nuclear Energy Station in Ukraine, the largest nuclear installation in Europe, according to the Russian officials who occupy the site. The station is currently in closing mode.
Cease-fire
- A small advance was made between Russian and Ukrainian officials in Istanbul, but the two parties agreed to change thousands of prisoners and the remains of 6,000 dead soldiers. The agreement will also include all injured soldiers and those between 18 and 25 years.
- Russia established a memorandum in the conversations to finish its war in Ukraine. The terms include the Ukrainian forces that withdraw from the four regions and Russia in September 2022, but that the Russian forces have not been able to capture the war mobilization efforts of the kyiv War and a freezing about kyiv that import Western weapons.
- The Russian document also proposes that Ukraine ends the martial law and celebrates the elections, after which the two countries could sign an integral peace treaty.
- Ukraine must also abandon his prayer to join NATO, establish limits in the size of the armed forces and raise Russia as the official language of the country with the Ukrainian, according to the memorandum.
- Ukraine, which Moscow has previously rejected all these demands, said it would spend next week reviewing the memorandum and proposed another round of conversations between June 20 and 30.
- The White House said the president of the United States, Donald Trump, is “open” to a three -way summit with Russian leader Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zenskyy.
- Zenskyy’s chief chief said in a telegram post after the conversations that did not believe that Moscow wanted a high fire. “The Russians are doing everything possible so as not to stop shooting and continue the war. The new sanctions are now very important,” he wrote.
Sanctions
- The United States Senate said it would begin working on more rounds for sanctions for Russia and secondary sanctions for its commercial partners if peace conversations continue to stagnate.
- Possible sanctions include 500 percent tariffs in countries that buy Russian exports, such as oil, gas and uranium. Tariffs would hit India and China, the two largest energy clients in Moscow.
- The leader of the majority of the US Senate, John Thune, said the senators “are ready to provide President Trump with any tool that he needs to finally reach the table in a real way.”
