AP: Ukraine says Russia launched its largest air strike since the war began
AP report, June 30. Ukrainian military said on Sunday that Russia launched the largest air strike since the war began on the night of the 29th, firing a total of 537 aerial weapons, including 477 drones and 60 missiles. The Ukrainian Air Force said it successfully intercepted 249 drones, while another 226 were rendered ineffective by electronic interference. The attack hit many areas, including Kherson, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, causing at least 10 deaths, including a 70-year-old woman who was killed under the rubble of a collapsed residential building in the Zaporizhzhia region. After an attack on an industrial facility in Lviv, western Ukraine, a fire broke out, and parts of the city lost power. A Western-supplied F-16 fighter jet of the Ukrainian army was damaged and crashed during the interception operation, with the pilot killed. On the same day, the Russian Defense Ministry claimed to have captured the village of Novo-Ukrainka in the Donetsk area and shot down three Ukrainian drones. Meanwhile, the governor of Bryansk Oblast in western Russia said that Ukrainian drones attacked and injured two people. Nikolai Kovalyov, head of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, said he spoke with CIA Director William Burns and agreed to keep communication channels open. Two days before this air strike, Russian President Putin had expressed willingness to restart peace talks in Istanbul, but recent negotiations have made no progress. On the same day, Ukrainian legislators confirmed that Zelenskyy had signed a decree to withdraw from the Ottawa Convention on Anti-Personnel Mines, stating that Russia's continued use of landmines forced Ukraine to take countermeasures. Poland's military said that it has dispatched aircraft with allies to protect the airspace.
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