Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 467

By William On Jun 5, 2023

As the war enters its 467th day, here are the key developments.

This is the state of affairs on Monday, June 5, 2023.

To fight

Ukraine’s Defense Ministry renewed its plea for operational silence around a long-awaited counter-offensive against Russia, posting a video saying, “plans love silence.”
Russia’s defense ministry said it repelled a cross-border incursion by a group of pro-Ukrainian “saboteurs”, the Interfax news agency reported.
Pro-Ukrainian Russian partisan groups said they captured several soldiers during a cross-border raid into southern Russia and would hand them over to Ukrainian authorities.
Russia launched a new wave of airstrikes against Ukraine, hitting an airfield in a central region but failing to reach the capital Kyiv, Ukrainian authorities said.
A Russian airstrike hit a residential area in the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro, killing a two-year-old girl and injuring 22 residents, regional governor Serhiy Lysak said.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said at least 500 Ukrainian children have died since Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
Alexander Kamyshin, a senior Ukrainian government official, expressed “disbelief” after learning that nearly half of Kiev’s bomb shelters inspected during an internal audit were either closed or unfit for use.
Fighting continued around Bakhmut, a city in eastern Ukraine that saw the longest and bloodiest battle since the start of the war.

Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov rejected an Indonesian peace plan proposed by the Defense Minister during a security summit in Singapore. “It sounds like a Russian plan, not (an) Indonesian plan,” Reznikov said.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said representatives from Turkey and Sweden will meet on June 12 to try to resolve their differences over the Nordic country’s entry into the security alliance.
China’s Defense Minister Li Shangfu warned against establishing “NATO-like” military alliances in the Asia-Pacific, saying they would plunge the region into a “vortex” of conflict.

Zelenskyy said Russia used a network of suppliers to circumvent international sanctions designed to prevent it from making missiles and other weapons. He accused unnamed countries and companies of helping Russia acquire technology with an emphasis on producing missiles.
The Kremlin said the supply of long-range missiles by France and Germany to Kiev would lead to another round of “rising tensions”. Ukraine has asked Germany for Taurus cruise missiles, which have a range of 500 km (310 mi), while President Emmanuel Macron has said France will give Ukraine missiles with a range that will allow it to launch its long-awaited counter-offensive.