These are important events on the 1,94th day of the Russian War of Ukraine.
This is where things stand on Monday, June 2nd.
Fineting
Ukraine said it destroyed $7 billion worth of Russian bombers on an air base far away to Siberia in what Ukrainian President Voldymi Zelenki called Kiev’s “longest range operation.” Al Jazeera’s Dosa Jabari, who reported from Moscow, said the “at the same time the massive attack” was “launched from within Russia” and targeted “Russian planes attacking Ukraine.” Officials with Ukrainian SBU Intelligence Services told Reuters that the work had hidden an explosive drone inside the roof of a wooden shed and loaded it into a truck driven to the air-based boundary. At least 41 Russian fighter jets were attacked, they said. Russia’s TASS News Agency said there were no military or civilian casualties, and “some of the participants” had been detained. The operation happened as Ukrainian air forces stated that Russia fired 472 drones overnight in the country with the highest total of the war. Moscow has also launched seven missiles. This included missile attacks on Ukrainian military training grounds that killed 12 soldiers and wounded more than 60 people on Sunday morning, according to Ukrainian ground forces. The attack led to Ukrainian ground force commander Mikhailo Drapati to announce his resignation, saying he felt a “personal responsibility” for the soldier’s death. Meanwhile, in Russia, at least seven people were killed and 69 were injured when bridges in Ukraine and adjacent Briance region collapsed on a passenger train passing by. The Moscow Railway said in a Telegram post that the bridge had collapsed “as a result of illegal interference in the operation of transportation.” The collapse of the second bridge led to the freight train derailing in the Kursk region of Russia. This is also adjacent to Ukraine, causing injury to the train driver. The Ukrainian drone attack on Kursk caused a fire after debris from the destroyed drone fell into a private home, the representative governor said.
Politics and diplomacy
Zelenskyy confirmed that Ukraine is sending a delegation led by the Ukrainian Defense Minister for second round of peace negotiations. Vladimir Medinsky, former Minister of Culture who leads the Russian delegation in Istanbul, said Moscow has received a “version of the memorandum of understanding on peaceful reconciliation” in Ukraine. However, Zelenskyy said Russia has not yet shared its own memorandum. “We don’t have it. We don’t have it on the Turkish side. We don’t have Russian documents either,” the Ukrainian president said in a post on X. Tas reported that Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his US Marco Rubio spoke about “several initiatives aimed at political solutions to the Ukrainian crisis.” An exit poll in the Polish presidential spill shows that the two candidates are very close and the race is still too close.
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