list of key events, day 832

Here is the situation on Thursday 6 June 2024.

Battler

One person was killed and four wounded in Russian shelling near the town of Toretsk in the eastern Donetsk region, while another civilian was injured in a Russian airstrike on the town of Selydove, Ukrainian officials said.
One person was injured in Ukraine’s Poltava region as Russia launched a wave of Shahed attack drones across the country’s southern, central and northern regions. The Air Force said it destroyed 22 of the 27 drones. Some buildings were damaged, but there were no other reports of casualties.
Ukrenergo, the operator of Ukraine’s electricity grid, has ordered immediate electricity cuts in 12 regions of the country because they are “catastrophically short of electricity.” Russia has targeted Ukraine’s energy infrastructure in the latest attacks.
Officials said Ukrainian men aged between 18 and 60 who have permanent residency in other countries would no longer be allowed to leave Ukraine if they visited as Kiev seeks to bolster its military ranks.

Politics and diplomacy

Russian President Vladimir Putin reiterated that Moscow would not rule out the use of nuclear weapons if it believed Russia’s sovereignty or territory was threatened. In his first news conference with senior editors from international news agencies, including Reuters and the Associated Press, since launching the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Putin also warned of risks to Ukraine’s Western allies in providing weapons to help Kiev defend itself.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited Qatar and thanked Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani for Qatar’s role in bringing home Ukrainian children forcibly deported to Russia and upholding “sovereignty and territorial integrity ” of Ukraine.
US President Joe Biden is expected to meet Zelensky as they join Western leaders in Normandy on Thursday to mark the 80th anniversary of the Normandy landings.
French President Emmanuel Macron has confirmed that he will participate in the peace summit for Ukraine on 15 and 16 June which will take place in Switzerland.
Andriy Sybiha, the first deputy foreign minister of Ukraine, visited China and urged the country to send a delegation to the peace summit. Beijing said last week it would not attend the event and made no mention of the request in its statement on Sybiha’s visit.
A Moscow court has sentenced Russian blogger Anna Bazhutova to five and a half years in prison for spreading “false” information after live-streaming accounts of alleged Russian atrocities during the occupation of Bucha, northwest of Kiev .
Yuri Malev, a Russian-American man, has been jailed for three and a half years for mocking a patriotic ribbon associated with the Russian military, a St. Petersburg court said. Malev was arrested in December for two social media posts shared in June 2022 and May 2023.
Russian opposition activist Ilya Yashin, a close ally of late opposition leader Alexey Navalny and jailed for criticizing the war in Ukraine, has lost a court appeal against being designated a “foreign agent”, news outlets reported Russians. The 40-year-old was jailed in December 2022 for eight and a half years on charges of spreading “false information” about the Russian military.
Russia’s Supreme Court has rejected sociologist and activist Boris Kagarlitsky’s appeal against his five-year prison sentence for “justifying terrorism”, state news agency TASS reported. Kagarlitsky, 65, is a longtime political dissident and has repeatedly spoken out against the war in Ukraine on his YouTube channel and in a magazine he edits.