20 June 2023 in Russo-Ukrainian war

• The Russians shelled Sumy Oblast 16 times in a day: a person was killed and a child was injured
• The Russians attacked Zaporozhye and the suburbs, there is destruction
• Air defense forces destroyed almost 20 enemy drones around Kyiv
• Air defense destroyed 32 of 35 drones that attacked Ukraine at night
• In Lviv, Russia targeted a critical infrastructure object, there were three hits
• Biden: The threat of Putin using nuclear weapons is real
• Ukrainians shot down a Russian helicopter
• Biden announced progress in relations with China after Blinken's meeting with Xi Jinping
• A network of hundreds of garbage sites spreading Russian disinformation was discovered in Bulgaria
• Norway will allocate more than 21 million euros for Ukraine's nuclear safety
• The armed forces are advancing and entrenching themselves in two directions
• The head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Hungary is not involved in the removal of Ukrainian prisoners from the Russian Federation
• Fighting continues in the liberated Pyatikhatki
• As a result of the night shelling, power grids were damaged in two regions
• Russia will again threaten to strike "decision-making centers" in Ukraine
• Amazon, Hilton and other companies promised to employ more than 13 thousand Ukrainian refugees in Europe
• The President of the European Commission proposed to allocate 50 billion euros of aid to Ukraine
• There is an advance in the Tavriy direction, 5 companies of the invaders and 13 tanks have been destroyed
• Ukraine officially joined the Development Bank of the Council of Europe
• In the Tambov region of Russia, a gunpowder factory caught fire: 4 people died
• In Kherson, the rescuers came under fire from the Russians, one died
• The EU believes that Georgia has fulfilled 3 out of 12 recommendations for candidate status
• The Rottenbergs help hide the assets of the Putin family from sanctions
• The occupiers mined the cooler of the ZNPP, there is a threat of detonation
• Ukraine returned three prisoners of war from Hungary
• Representative of Ukraine: The offensive in the south continues according to plan
• The President of Bulgaria considers it a mistake to help Ukraine with artillery shells
• The Parliament of Slovakia recognized the Holodomor as genocide of the Ukrainian people
• The Armed Forces hit 17 enemy artillery units and air defense systems
• During the day, the occupiers shelled the Nikopol district four times, wounding a man
• The public broadcaster of Bulgaria started showing news in Ukrainian for the first time
• Rheinmetall admitted to supplying Russia with products after the full-scale invasion
• Maloney and Macron confirmed further support for Ukraine at a meeting in Paris
• The number of people killed as a result of the HPP explosion has increased to 21
• Pentagon: Ukraine will face difficult battles, there will be losses, but it is capable of success
• Cyprus promises zero tolerance for violations of sanctions against the Russian Federation, but no aid to Ukraine with weapons
• More than a hundred explosions per day were recorded in Sumy Oblast, and there is destruction
• It was revealed that the Pentagon overestimated the cost of aid to Ukraine from February 2022 by more than $6 billion
• A factory was on fire in the Russian suburbs of Moscow
• More than half a hundred enemy strikes along the border were recorded in Chernihiv Oblast
• ISW: The Russian Ministry of Defense has changed its information policy about the Ukrainian counteroffensive
• Heavy fighting continues on 4 fronts, 40 combat clashes took place
• The Ukrainians neutralized another 540 occupiers and 35 enemy drones
• During the day, the Russians shelled the Kherson region 72 times: 2 killed, 8 wounded