These are the key events on day 1,194 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.Here’s where things stand on Monday, June 2:
Fighting
Ukraine said it destroyed Russian bombers worth $7bn at airbases as far away as Siberia, in an attack that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called Kyiv’s “longest-range operation”.
Al Jazeera’s Dorsa Jabbari, reporting from Moscow, said the “simultaneous large-scale attack” was “launched from inside Russia” and targeted “Russian planes that have been carrying out attacks on Ukraine”.
An official at Ukraine’s SBU intelligence service told the Reuters news agency that the operation involved hiding explosive-laden drones inside the roofs of wooden sheds and loading them onto trucks, which were driven to the perimeter of the airbases. At least 41 Russian warplanes were hit, they said.
Russia’s TASS news agency said there were no military or civilian casualties and that “some of the participants” had been detained.
The operation came as Ukraine’s Air Force said Russia had launched 472 drones at the country overnight, in the highest nightly total of the war. Moscow also launched seven missiles.
This included a missile attack on a Ukrainian military training ground that killed 12 soldiers and wounded more than 60 on Sunday morning, according to Ukraine’s Ground Forces.
The assault led Ukrainian Ground Forces commander Mykhailo Drapatyi to announce his resignation, saying he felt a “personal sense of responsibility” for the soldiers’ deaths.
Meanwhile, in Russia, at least seven peop …