Russia-Ukraine war live: Zelensky calls for more long-range weapons after seven killed in Zaporizhzhia
The Russian attack near Zaporizhzhia killed seven people, including two children, and injured 31 others
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Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has renewed his call for more long-range weapons after seven people were killed in a Russian strike.
The Russian attack on the town of Vilniansk, near the southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia, also injured 31 others, Ukrainian officials said.
“Our cities and communities suffer daily from such Russian strikes,” Mr Zelensky said after the attack which left two children dead.
But he added that there were “ways to overcome this”, including “destroying Russian missile launchers, striking with real long-range capability and increasing the number of modern air defence systems”.
Western allies have already supplied Ukraine with long-range weapons - including Scalp missiles from France, Storm Shadow from the UK and ATACMS from the US - as well as US-made Patriot air defence systems.
Meanwhile, the Kremlin has refused to comment on Donald Trump’s claim he would “settle the war” in Ukraine if he was re-elected in November.
Trump made the claim during Thursday’s US presidential debate, where he and president Joe Biden competed to appear tougher on foreign policy.
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Zelensky hopes for second peace summit
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky and Slovenian president Natasa Pirc Musar visited a memorial in Kyiv to Ukrainian soldiers killed in the war.
The pair discussed plans for a second peace summit, similar to the one held earlier this month in Switzerland, and a bilateral security agreement.
Putin hints at restarting production of intermediate-range missiles
Russian president Vladimir Putin has called for the resumption of production in Russia of intermediate-range missiles that were banned under a now-scrapped treaty with the United States.
The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces treaty, which banned ground-based missiles with a range of 500-5,500 km (310-3,410 miles), was regarded as an arms -control landmark when then-Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and US president Ronald Reagan signed it in the 1980s.
The United States withdrew from the treaty in 2019, citing Russian violations.
“We need to start production of these strike systems and then, based on the actual situation, make decisions about where - if necessary to ensure our safety - to place them,” Mr Putin said at a meeting of Russia’s national security council.
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Former Russian defence minister Sergei Shoigu, a close ally of Vladimir Putin, and military chief General Valery Gerasimov have been accused of “directing attacks at civilian objects”, “causing excessive incidental harm to civilians or damage to civilian objects”, and perpetrating the crime against humanity of “inhumane acts”.
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Ukraine and other European nations have complained to the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) about the alleged satellite interference impacting navigation services and television shows, The Telegraph reported.
Ukraine, in its complaint to the ITU on 3 June, recorded at least 11 cases of interference in the last three months affecting dozens of Ukrainian television programmes, the report added. ITU is a specialized agency of the UN responsible for matters related to information and communication technologies.
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The decision comes on the heels of heated debates between pro-Russian and pro-Western parties in Bulgaria about whether Radev, as the commander-in-chief of the military, should represent the country at the NATO summit.
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Officials say five gunmen in the regional capital of Makhachkala and the city of Derbent opened fire at Orthodox churches and two synagogues, as well as a police post, killing at least 20 people before being slain by authorities.
The large-scale and coordinated assault raises difficult questions for the Russian authorities about continued security lapses, especially after an attack claimed by an affiliate of the Islamic State group at a Moscow-area concert hall in March killed 145 people.
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A Russian missile strike hit a nine-storey residential building in the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro on Friday, injuring at least three people and destroying four storeys, officials said.
A photograph published by Governor Serhiy Lysak and other images circulated on social media showed a badly damaged building that had smoke rising from a gaping hole in its upper storeys.
President Volodymyr Zelensky called on Ukraine’s allies to step up supplies of air defences to help the military intercept Russia’s regular aerial attacks.
Dnipro, which had a pre-war population of almost one million people, is a major Ukrainian city that lies on the road to the east of the country where the most intense fighting with Russian forces is raging.
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The Russian Defense Ministry noted a recent “increased intensity” of U.S. drones over the Black Sea, saying they “conduct intelligence and targeting for precision weapons supplied to the Ukrainian military by Western countries for strikes on Russian facilities.”
“It shows an increased involvement of the U.S. and other NATO countries in the conflict in Ukraine on the side of the Kyiv regime,” the ministry said in a statement.
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