Russia-Ukraine War: List of the most important events, day 845 | News about the Russia-Ukraine War

These are the key developments as the war enters its 845th day.

Here is the situation on Wednesday, June 19, 2024.

Battle

• Ukrainian forces launched a drone strike overnight that set fire to several oil storage tanks in the southern Russian region of Rostov, defense sources in Kyiv told AFP and Associated Press news agencies. Local governor Vasily Golubev said there was a fire at one warehouse, while video from Russia’s Emergencies Ministry showed thick smoke and flames rising from several oil storage tanks at an unknown location.
• Ukrainian grid operator Ukrenergo said the country would experience rolling power outages on Wednesday following a series of Russian attacks on Ukrainian power plants to ensure the country’s supply.
• The Ukrainian Air Force said its air defense systems destroyed all 10 drones that Russia fired at the Zaporizhia and Dnipropetrovsk regions overnight. There were no reports of damage or injuries.

Politics and Diplomacy

• Russian President Vladimir Putin has arrived in Pyongyang for his first visit in 24 years amid concerns that North Korea is supplying Moscow with weapons for use in Ukraine. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met Putin at the airport and state media said the two countries were committed to creating a “new multipolar world.”
• Ukrainian Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin said his office was investigating the alleged beheading of a Ukrainian soldier by Russian forces in an occupied part of the eastern Donetsk region after aerial reconnaissance discovered what appeared to be a severed head on an armored vehicle.
• Ukraine sentenced a man in the eastern Donetsk region to 15 years in prison after he was found guilty of passing sensitive military information to Russian forces. The regional prosecutor’s office said the man, whose identity is not known but who lives in a village near the front line, committed treason by passing information about the location of Ukrainian troops in the region to Russian forces.
• An Estonian court sentenced Viacheslav Morozov, a former professor of political theory at the University of Tartu and a Russian citizen, to six years and three months in prison for spying for Moscow, the country’s public broadcaster ERR reported. Morozov was arrested in January and accused of collecting information on Estonia’s domestic, defense and security policies, as well as related individuals and infrastructure, ERR reported.
• Ukrainian President’s Chief of Staff Andriy Yermak said authorities had begun preparations to organize a second peace summit, which took place in Switzerland last weekend. More than 90 delegations attended the event, but Russia was not invited. Some non-aligned countries refused to sign the final declaration.