The lifeless embody lots of of kids killed largely in intense shelling, missile and air strikes.
Hey and welcome to Al Jazeera’s persevering with protection of Russia’s warfare on Ukraine.
An replace on the main developments:
- Russian President Vladimir Putin has instructed an occasion in St Petersburg that the nation has weathered financial sanctions imposed on account of the invasion of Ukraine.
- The European Union’s government arm has backed Ukraine’s bid for EU candidacy standing.
- UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson made a shock go to to Kyiv and supplied to supply coaching to Ukrainian troops.
Listed below are the most recent updates:
Russia frees medic who filmed horror of Mariupol siege
Russia has freed a Ukrainian medic whose footage was smuggled out of the besieged metropolis of Mariupol by an Related Press crew, Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskyy has introduced.
Yuliia Paievska, recognized in Ukraine as Taira, used a physique digicam to movie her crew’s efforts over two weeks to avoid wasting the wounded, together with each Russian and Ukrainian troopers.
She transferred the clips to the AP journalists, one in every of whom fled with it embedded in a tampon on March 15. Taira and a colleague had been taken prisoner by Russian forces the following day.
US high-tech drone sale to Ukraine hits snag: Reuters
The Reuters information company is reporting that america’ plans to promote 4 MQ-1C Grey Eagle drones to Ukraine have been placed on maintain due to considerations the subtle surveillance tools might fall into enemy arms.
The technical objection to the sale of the armable drones was raised throughout a deeper evaluate by the Pentagon’s Protection Know-how Safety Administration, which is charged with holding high-value know-how protected from enemy arms, Reuters stated, citing two folks aware of the plan.
TikTok pressed on whether or not it permits ‘pro-war’ propaganda
Republican senators in america have written to TikTok Chief Govt Shou Zi Chew about stories the social media website had allowed Russian state-approved media content material however barred different movies.
“Latest stories point out TikTok… has allowed Russian state media to flood the platform with harmful pro-war propaganda. No firm ought to discover itself within the place of amplifying the Kremlin’s lies, which gas public assist for Russia’s warfare of selection in Ukraine,” the letter stated.
The senators wrote they had been “deeply involved” that TikTok “is enabling the unfold of pro-war propaganda to the Russian public, which dangers including to an already devastating human toll for each Ukrainians and Russians.”
UN says civilian casualties exceed 10,000
The United Nations says greater than 10,000 civilians, together with lots of of kids, have now been killed or injured within the warfare in Ukraine.
Some 4,509 folks had been killed and 5,585 injured as of midnight in Kyiv (21:00 GMT) on June 16, the United Nations Workplace of the Excessive Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) stated in its every day replace. The lifeless embody 294 youngsters, the OHCHR stated.
“Many of the civilian casualties recorded had been triggered by means of explosive weapons with a large influence space, together with shelling from heavy artillery and a number of launch rocket methods, and missile and air strikes,” the assertion stated, including that the precise figures had been in all probability a lot larger.
Learn all of the updates from June 17, right here.
