24 June 2024

June 2024 in brief

An overnight strike on energy sites left the Dnipro hydroelectric station in critical condition and no longer generating, Zaporizhzhia Governor Ivan Fedorov said, with at least 20 people reported injured across Ukraine. ^[1] WHO recorded attacks on health care in places including Kharkiv and Kupiansk-Vuzlovyi. ^[1][2] Russian officials said a missile strike near a Sevastopol beach killed four people, including two minors, and Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov blamed the US; the toll was not independently verified. ^[1] A peace summit in Switzerland, to which Russia was not invited, ended with a communique signed by 78 countries, after Putin said Russia would cease fire only if Ukraine withdrew from four regions and gave up NATO membership, conditions Zelensky rejected as ultimatums. ^[1] The G7 agreed a 50 billion dollar loan backed by profits on frozen Russian assets, the US and Ukraine signed a 10-year security pact, and the EU formally opened accession talks with Ukraine and Moldova. ^[1][2] Putin and Kim Jong Un signed a treaty with a mutual assistance clause in Pyongyang, and the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Shoigu and Valery Gerasimov over strikes on Ukraine's power grid. ^[1][2] In Europe, the Leiden dataset recorded five coffins marked as French soldiers in Ukraine left near the Eiffel Tower and an attempted arson attack on buses in Prague that the Czech prime minister said Russia organised. ^[1][2]

Written from the records it cites; every figure appears in a cited record.