At least three dead in Russian strike
A Russian missile strike on civilian industrial infrastructure on Tuesday, June 23, left at least three people dead and around twenty injured in Kryvyi Rig, in central Ukraine, local authorities said.
“Civilian infrastructure was affected. Unfortunately, three people were killed,” the head of the Kryvyi Rig municipal military administration, Oleksandr Vilkul, said on Telegram.
According to Oleksandr Ganja, the governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region, at least 23 people were injured during this bombing on this town where Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is from and which is now some 80 kilometers from the front line.
Zelensky absent from conference in Poland
President Volodymyr Zelensky will not participate in a conference on the reconstruction of Ukraine organized this year in Poland, the Ukrainian authorities announced on Tuesday, against a backdrop of strong tensions with Warsaw around the memory of the Second World War.
“I will lead the Ukrainian delegation and all of our work at the Conference on the Reconstruction of Ukraine 2026 in Gdansk,” declared Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko, effectively confirming that Volodymyr Zelensky would not attend this conference which opens on Thursday.
Moscow believes that the United States has moved away from its role as “impartial mediator” in the negotiations to end more than four years of conflict in Ukraine, said the head of Russian diplomacy Sergei Lavrov.
“As for the United States, judging by its actions, it seems to be abandoning any pretensions to the role of impartial mediator and instead following a path of intensifying sanctions pressure on Russia,” he told foreign diplomats in Moscow.
The Russian foreign minister also said that by providing military support to kyiv, “Europe is once again becoming the main threat to global peace and security.”
