Editor’s note: This page summarizes the Ukrainian of Sunday, June 26.
The G-7 leaders’ assembly in Germany plans to engage indefinitely with Ukraine “for as long as necessary,” Bloomberg News reported, presenting a draft statement.
Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United States and the United Kingdom are about to announce that their countries “will continue to provide financial, humanitarian, military and diplomatic supplies and to Ukraine for as long as necessary,” the assignment said. The pledge may ease considerations among some Ukrainian leaders that the West will pressure them to settle for an unsatisfactory deal with Russia to end the war quickly.
Earlier Sunday, President Joe Biden announced that G-7 countries would ban new imports of Russian passports, the latest sanction aimed at increasing the value Russia has to pay for its incursion into Ukraine. The White House says the passport comes to power among Russian exports. About 90% of Russia’s passport exports pass to the G-7 countries, with the vast majority passing to Britain.
“The United States has imposed unprecedented prices on Putin to deny him the profits he wants to fund his war on Ukraine,” Biden said in a tweet Sunday. “Together, the G-7 will announce that we will ban the import of Russians. “gold, a primary export that brings tens of billions of dollars to Russia. “
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko warned that Russia’s missile attack on his city overnight may have been just a “symbolic attack” ahead of the summit. When Biden was asked about his reaction to the new Russian attack, he said “it’s more their barbarism. “
MAPPING AND TRACKING: The Russian Invasion of Ukraine
Latest developments:
Russia defaulted on its foreign debt for the first time since the 1917 Bolshevik revolution after it failed to meet bond bills with two foreign currencies on Sunday, the Wall Street Journal reported. money.
Four U. S. medium-range rocket launchers arrived in Ukraine this week, and 4 more are on the way. Ukraine’s Defense Ministry has released a video showing the first use of high-mobility artillery rocket systems, or HIMARS, in Ukraine. The video did not provide any location or indication of the targets. Rockets can reach about forty-five miles.
Four Russian cruise missiles fired from the Black Sea hit an “army object” in Yaroviv, Lviv regional governor Maksym Kozytskyy said. Yaroviv has a military base used to train the fighters, foreigners who volunteered to fight for Ukraine.
Ukrainians took to the streets this weekend for the country’s largest annual LGBTQ rights event, KyivPride. But this year, participants were unable to march in their home countries, but traveled for a peace march in Warsaw, Poland.
If Russia wins the war in Ukraine, LGBTQ people threaten to be “completely erased,” KyivPride director Lenny Emson said.
Russia decriminalized homosexuality decades ago, but LGBTQ people still face discrimination and animosity. In 2012, the Moscow city government ordered a ban on gay pride parades for the next hundred years. The following year, parliament unanimously passed a law banning “propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations” among minors.
This year’s event, Emson said, “is a celebration. “He added: “We will wait for victory to celebrate. “
Russian troops have targeted the fury of their shelling in the eastern city of Lysychansk, while Kyiv and other spaces around Ukraine after capturing Sieferodonetsk over the weekend, Ukrainian officials said sunday.
Lysyschansk is the last city in Luhansk Oblast to remain under the control of Ukrainian forces. Russia is already part of Donetsk Oblast: the two provinces make up the Donbass region that has been targeted by Russian forces since a first failed effort to hit Kyiv.
Vitaly Kiselyov, an official with the self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic, said some six hundred Ukrainian fighters surrendered near Lysyschansk. Sievierodonetsk maximum.
“There is a lot of destruction. Lysychansk is almost unrecognizable,” Haidai wrote. “The TV tower fell, the multi-story buildings burned down. The bridges leading to the city are on fire and damaged. “
Kyiv Mayor Vitaly Klitschko warned that an imposter posing as him had called several mayors via video across Europe. German publication Bild reported that the mayor of Vienna, Austria, did not know he was talking to a fake Klitschko during the entire call. The mayors of Madrid and Berlin understood this after lengthy talks, Bild said. Berlin Mayor Franziska Giffey has called on the National Criminal Police Office to investigate.
“It’s a tool of war,” he said.
A senior Ukrainian official said his country is conducting a prisoner exchange to lose two U. S. military veterans. U. S. troops captured by Russian forces while serving as war volunteers in Ukraine. huge obstacles. They underscore Russia’s preference for discouraging war volunteers by punishing men, and diplomatic relations between the United States and Russia are at an all-time low.
“If the purpose (of the Russians) is to deter other people from doing this, if their purpose is to punish other people who do it, they are not looking to lose them soon,” said William Pomeranz, acting director of the Wilson Center. Kennan. Institute, which focuses on studies in Russia and Ukraine. Learn more here.
– Chris Kenning and Kim Hjelmgaard
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Sunday in an appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union” that Russian President Vladimir Putin “had already failed” in his attempt to overthrow Ukraine. the map, to surround it in Russia. It failed,” he said, adding that a “sovereign and independent Ukraine is going to exist much longer than Vladimir Putin on the scene. “
The Associated Press reported that Russia advanced into eastern Ukraine and also introduced attacks overnight that hit two residential buildings and a kindergarten in Kiev. The Russian invasion began in February with a mechanized march on Kyiv that failed, forcing Russia to focus its attention on the east. Blinken said the missile strikes on Kyiv were designed to “terrorize” Ukrainians.
“Since Putin lost the Battle of Kyiv, he has had to lead,” Blinken said, adding that Russian forces have “launched missiles from a distance to terrorize people. “
– Merdie Nzanga
Contribute: The Associated Press