These are the most important developments on the 831st day of the war.

Here is the situation on Wednesday, June 5, 2024.

Battle

• At least eight people were injured, including a one-month-old baby, in a Russian missile attack on the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro.
• Andriy Yermak, the Ukrainian president’s chief of staff, said the United States’ move to allow Kyiv to to strike Russia with Western weapons is a “vital decision” that will weaken Russia in its border areas and enable Ukraine to better defend its territory in the northeastern Kharkiv region.
• Ukraine has held a day of remembrance for the hundreds of children killed since Russia's large-scale invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022. Ukraine's First Lady Olena Zelenska called on the country's allies to supply the military with more weapons to repel Russian attacks and prevent such deaths. The United Nations estimates that more than 600 children have been killed in the war, but the actual number is considerably higher.

Politics and Diplomacy

• A senior U.S. Treasury official said the U.S. and its partners in the Group of Seven (G7) were making progress in finding ways to provide much-needed funds to Ukraine using the proceeds from $300 billion in frozen Russian assets. The White House said the issue would be discussed at the G7 summit in Italy on June 13-14.
• French President Emmanuel Macron's office said he would hold talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Paris on Friday to discuss “the situation on the ground” in Ukraine. Zelensky will also address the French National Assembly.

• A Russian military court in the North Karelia region bordering Finland has sentenced a man to 14 years in prison for high treason. He is said to have set fire to railway infrastructure on Ukrainian orders, the Interfax news agency reported. The man was not named.
• A Russian court extended the pre-trial detention of Kurmasheva alsoa Russian-American journalist in Prague who works for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty was sentenced to two months in prison. Her husband called this unjust. The decision was announced on Friday. Kurmasheva has been in custody in the Tatarstan region since October 18.
• Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov called the planned Ukraine peace conference, to be held in Switzerland on June 15-16, “absurd.” Switzerland said more than 80 delegations had confirmed their participation. Russia, which insists the talks must begin because of its occupation of about 18 percent of Ukraine, was not invited. China has said it will attend the conference. not participate.

weapons

• Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said French military instructors training soldiers in Ukraine were an “absolutely legitimate target” for Russian attacks. France currently has no official military personnel assisting or training Ukrainian forces in Ukraine, but Kyiv said last week it was “in talks” with Paris on the matter.
• Ukraine's anti-corruption agency said the former director of Ukrspetsexport, Ukraine's state-owned defense company, faces trial for arranging the purchase of aircraft parts at seven times the price in 2016, when he was in charge of arms imports. The National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) did not name the man.