Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,193

Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,193

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These are the key events on day 1,193 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

a man in a grey jacket wheels a bike past two destroyed homes in a village

Russian air attacks damaged homes in Sloviansk, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, on Saturday [Jose Colon/Anadolu]

Published On 1 Jun 2025

Here’s where things stand on Sunday, June 1:

Fighting

  • The governor of Russia’s Bryansk, Alexander Bogomaz, said seven people were killed, and 30 were injured in a train derailment in the region bordering Ukraine. Moscow Railway said in a post on Telegram that the derailment and bridge collapse was a result of “illegal interference in transport operations”. Ukraine’s military did not immediately comment.
  • A Russian attack killed a child and wounded another person in the Ukrainian village of Dolynka in Zaporizhia, the region’s governor said.
  • A man was also killed by Russian shelling in Ukraine’s Kherson region, Governor Oleksandr Prokudin wrote on Telegram.
  • The Ukrainian Air Force said Russian forces launched an estimated 109 drones and five missiles across Ukraine on Friday and overnight. Ukrainian forces destroyed 42 of the drones, it added.
  • Russia’s military said it captured the Ukrainian village of Vodolahy in the Sumy region and Novopil in the Donetsk region.
  • The announcement came after Ukraine ordered the evacuation of 11 more villages in the Sumy region, saying Russia had amassed some 50,000 troops in the area.

Politics and diplomacy

  • Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia did not “look very serious” and had given “no clear information” on what it plans to achieve at peace talks in Istanbul, Turkiye, next week.
  • He did not comment on whether Ukraine would

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