Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,198

Here’s where things stand on Friday, June 6 :

Fighting

• At least four people were killed and 20 others injured in Kyiv, after Russia carried out a barrage of drone strikes in the Ukrainian capital overnight, Kyiv’s Mayor Vitali Klitschko said. He said 16 of those injured were hospitalised.
• Several fires broke out in various districts of Kyiv as a result of the shelling, including at a residential building, a civil infrastructure facility and a metal hangar.
• Russian shelling also damaged train tracks in the Kyiv region, with Ukraine’s national railway operator warning of 90-minute delays. Several strikes also hit western Ukraine’s city of Lutsk and Ternopil region.

• Air defence units were in action repelling Russian drones, according to military authorities in Kyiv, as news outlets reported a series of explosions in the city.

• International monitors at the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine have reported hearing repeated rounds of gunfire that appeared to be aimed at drones apparently attacking the site’s training centre, the UN’s nuclear watchdog said.
• The nuclear plant’s Russian management had earlier said that Ukrainian drones landed on the roof of the training centre in “yet another attack” on the facility. The management said there had been no casualties or damage. The nuclear facility’s reactors are in shutdown mode amid the war.
• Russian investigators announced that they have opened a criminal case into an “act of terrorism” after a stretch of railway track in Russia’s Voronezh region was damaged in an explosion.
• Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov, at his daily briefing with reporters, described the latest rail attack as “nothing other than terrorism at the state level”. Russia has not yet provided evidence that Ukraine ordered the rail attacks, and Kyiv has not acknowledged responsibility.

Politics and diplomacy

• Russia will respond to Ukraine’s latest attacks – which have included an audacious drone attack on heavy bomber warplanes in Siberia – as and when its military sees fit, the Kremlin said, accusing Kyiv of state terrorism as US President Donald Trump downplayed prospects for an immediate peace between the countries.
• Speaking to reporters before his meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Trump said he believed that “at some point” there would be peace between Russia and Ukraine. When asked if he would impose further sanctions on Russia, Trump responded, “When I see the mome