Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 120

Because the Russia-Ukraine conflict enters its one hundred and twentieth day, we check out the principle developments.

An area man rides a bicycle with an connected water container, as Russia's assault on Ukraine continues, within the city of Lysychansk, Luhansk [File: Oleksandr Ratushniak/Reuters]

Listed below are the important thing occasions thus far on Thursday, June 23.

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Combating

• An adviser to Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated the battles for Severodonetsk and Lysychansk are coming into a “kind of fearful climax”. Russian forces have taken one other two villages close to Lysychansk, Luhansk’s Governor Serhiy Haidai stated, and Russia stated it has Ukraine’s troops surrounded south of town.
• About 25 individuals have been killed in Russia’s shelling of the Kharkiv area on Tuesday and Wednesday, the regional governor Oleh Synehubov stated.
• A British man sentenced to loss of life by a Russian proxy court docket for combating in Ukraine has been advised the execution will likely be carried out, his household have advised the BBC.
• A drone assault has hit a significant Russian oil refinery close to the border with Ukraine, the plant’s administration stated, prompting the suspension of operations.

Diplomacy

• The European Union is ready to make an historic supply of candidacy standing to Ukraine at a summit that begins on Thursday.
• Zelenskyy urged Ukraine’s allies to speed up the cargo of heavy weapons to match Russia on the battlefield because the Donbas area is below intensifying assaults.
• The US is hopeful there'll quickly be a constructive decision of the problems between Turkey, Finland and Sweden relating to the NATO accession bids of the 2 Nordic nations, the State Division’s high diplomat for Europe stated.
• Leaders from the G7 and the NATO alliance will search to extend strain on Russia over its conflict in Ukraine at conferences subsequent week, whereas making clear that they continue to be involved about China, the Reuters information company cited senior US administration officers as saying.

Financial system

• The EU will quickly shift to coal to deal with slowing Russian gasoline flows and hovering costs, an official stated on Wednesday.
• Moscow is engaged on a “sensible” response to Lithuania’s ban on the transit of products sanctioned by the EU to the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, Russian officers stated on Wednesday.
• Ukraine stated it exported 48 % much less grain within the first 22 days of June than a 12 months earlier.
• Russian President Vladimir Putin stated on Wednesday that Russia would focus its commerce on the opposite BRICS rising economies.