These are the most important developments on the 832nd day of the war.

Here is the situation on Thursday, June 6, 2024.

Battle

• One person was killed and four injured in Russian bombings near the town of Toretsk in the frontline region of eastern Donetsk, while another civilian was wounded in a Russian airstrike on the town of Selydove, Ukrainian officials said.
• One person was injured in Ukraine's Poltava region when Russia launched a wave of Shahed combat drones over the country's southern, central and northern regions. The air force said it destroyed 22 of the 27 drones. Some buildings were damaged, but there were no other reports of casualties.
• Ukrenergo, the Ukrainian electricity grid operator, ordered immediate power cuts in twelve regions of the country because of “catastrophic power shortages.” Russia has recently launched a targeted attack on Ukraine's energy infrastructure.
• Officials said Ukrainian men aged 18 to 60 who have permanent residency in other countries would no longer be allowed to leave Ukraine when visiting the country as Kyiv seeks to bolster its military ranks.

Politics and Diplomacy

• Russian President Vladimir Putin reiterated that Moscow supports the deployment Nuclear weapons if it sees Russia's sovereignty or territory threatened. At his first press conference with senior editors of international news agencies, including Reuters and The Associated Press, since launching his full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Putin also warned of the risks to Ukraine's Western allies if they supply weapons to Kiev to defend itself.
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Selenskyj visited Qatar and thanked Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani for Qatar’s role in the return of Ukrainian children forcibly deported to Russia and in supporting Ukraine’s “sovereignty and territorial integrity”.
• US President Joe Biden is expected to hold talks with Zelensky when they meet with Western leaders in Normandy on Thursday to mark the 80th anniversary of the Normandy landings.
• French President Emmanuel Macron confirmed that he will attend the Ukraine peace summit in Switzerland on June 15 and 16.
• Andriy Sybiha, Ukraine's first deputy foreign minister, visited China and urged that a delegation be sent to the peace summit. Beijing said last week that it would not attend the eventand made no mention of the request in his statement on Sybiha's visit.
• A Moscow court sentenced Russian blogger Anna Bazhutova to five and a half years in prison for spreading “false” information after she gave witness testimony about alleged Russian atrocities during the occupation of Buchanorthwest of Kyiv
• US-Russian Yuri Malev was sentenced to three and a half years in prison for mocking a patriotic badge of the Russian army, the St. Petersburg court said. Malev was arrested in December for two social media posts shared in June 2022 and May 2023.

• Russian opposition activist Ilya Yashin, a close ally of the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny and imprisoned for criticising the war in Ukraine, lost an appeal against his designation as a “foreign agent”, Russian news agencies reported. The 40-year-old was imprisoned in December 2022 to eight and a half years in prison for spreading “false information” about the Russian army.

• Russia's Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by sociologist and activist Boris Kagarlitsky against his five-year prison sentence for “justifying terrorism,” state news agency TASS reported. Kagarlitsky, 65, is a longtime political dissident and has repeatedly spoken out against the Ukraine war on his YouTube channel and in a magazine he publishes.

weapons

• The United States is expected to announce a new $225 million arms package for Ukraine this week, Reuters reported, citing unnamed sources.