Here is the current situation on Friday, June 14, 2024.

Combat Situations

• The Ukrainian military reported intense clashes near Chasiv Yar, a crucial hilltop location in Donetsk, noting the situation as "tense." In the southern front near Pokrovsk, a civilian was killed, and another man was killed by Russian attacks in the southern Kherson area.
• Valery Kozhin, a Russian journalist for the state-run NTV television channel, was killed by Ukrainian shelling in a Russian-controlled village in Donetsk, according to Russian news reports. NTV had previously reported that three of its journalists, including Kozhin, were injured and hospitalized.
• US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin mentioned that Russia’s progress in the northeastern Kharkiv region of Ukraine is decelerating, and the front line is stabilizing following some allies' decisions to remove restrictions on Kyiv's use of donated weaponry within Russian territory.

Political and Diplomatic Efforts

• The Group of Seven (G7) countries, meeting in Italy, committed to providing $50 billion in financial support to Ukraine by the year’s end, as announced by Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. The funds will be derived from the profits of frozen Russian assets.
• The United States' President Joe Biden and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy agreed on a 10-year bilateral security pact to strengthen Ukraine’s defense and move it closer to NATO membership.
• Ukraine also finalized a 10-year security agreement with Japan. Zelenskyy stated that Japan will provide $4.5 billion in 2024 and continue support throughout the duration of the agreement, which includes security and defense aid, humanitarian assistance, and technical and financial cooperation.
• According to a report from the United Nations' refugee agency UNHCR, around 750,000 people were newly displaced within Ukraine last year due to Russia’s full-scale invasion, bringing the total number of internally displaced persons to 3.7 million by the end of 2023. Additionally, the number of Ukrainian refugees and asylum seekers increased by over 275,000 to six million.
• A report from Human rights group Global Rights Compliance accused Russian forces of using starvation of civilians as a tactic during the 85-day siege of Mariupol in 2022. The report highlighted Russian attacks on essential resources and blocking of evacuation routes and humanitarian aid.
• Russian prosecutors announced the trial of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, detained in March 2023 and accused of gathering information for the US CIA on a Russian tank factory. Gershkovich denies the charges, which his employer claims are baseless. No trial date has been set.
• The trial of Russian theater figures Zhenya Berkovich and Svetlana Petriychuk, accused of "justifying terrorism" through their play about Russian women who married IS fighters, will be closed to the public due to unspecified "threats" to witnesses. Both defendants deny the charges.
• German lawyer German Moyzhes, holding dual Russian-German citizenship, was detained in Saint Petersburg under unspecified treason accusations. The German Federal Foreign Office confirmed contact with Moyzhes's family, but Russia has not provided details on the detention.
• A fleet comprising Russia’s Admiral Gorshkov frigate and the nuclear submarine Kazan, along with support vessels, arrived in Cuba for a five-day visit, a gesture interpreted as a show of force amid tensions over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Military Supplies

• President Zelenskyy, at a press conference in Italy, stated that Chinese President Xi Jinping assured him that China would not supply weapons to Russia. The timeline of this assurance was not disclosed.
• The Dutch Ministry of Defence announced that Ukraine's allies would provide approximately 350 million euros worth of 152mm artillery shells.
• Canada's Defence Minister Bill Blair noted that Canada would deliver around 2,000 surplus unarmed rockets to Ukraine, along with other weaponry.