Putin in Vietnam live: Russian president on state visit to Hanoi after signing North Korea defence pact

South Korea’s presidential office has condemned an agreement reached by Russia and North Korea that vowed mutual defence assistance in the event of war, the Associated Press reported.

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The office also said South Korea will reconsider its policy of limiting its support to Ukraine to non-lethal supplies.

\n “It’s absurd that two parties with a history of launching wars of invasion — the Korean War and the war in Ukraine — are now vowing mutual military cooperation on the premise of a preemptive attack by the international community that will never happen,” the office of South Korea’s president, Yoon Suk Yeol, said.

\n “In particular, Russia’s decision to support North Korea and cause harm to our security, despite its status as a permanent member of the Security Council that has endorsed the sanctions resolution against North Korea, will inevitably have a negative impact on (South Korea-Russia) relations,” it added.

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EU ambassadors this morning agreed on a 14th package of sanctions targeting Russia.

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I welcome the agreement on our 14th sanctions package against Russia.

This hard-hitting package will further deny Russia access to key technologies.

It will strip Russia of further energy revenues.

And tackle Putin’s shadow fleet and shadow banking network abroad. https://t.co/iquZOtEOWf

— Ursula von der Leyen (@vonderleyen) June 20, 2024

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Russian missile and drone attacks earlier today caused “significant” damage to a thermal power plant and maintained pressure on the electricity grid, Ukrainian officials said, Reuters reported.

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The attack on energy infrastructure in four regions wounded seven workers and cut off electricity to more than 218,000 consumers, according to Ukraine’s energy ministry.

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Vadym Filashkin, the head of the Donetsk regional military administration, said this morning that two people were killed in Russian shelling in the Donetsk region over the past day.

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“On June 19, Russians killed two residents in the Donetsk region: in Toretsk and Rozkishne. Four more people suffered injuries,” he said, Ukrinform reported.

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Volodymyr Zelenskiy, the Ukrainian president, said today that he is “grateful to Zambia for joining the Peace Summit’s Communiqué and supporting efforts to achieve a sustainable, comprehensive, and just peace.”

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“We appreciate the growing support for the Peace Summit and its final Communiqué from all continents, including Africa,” he added.

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I am grateful to Zambia for joining the Peace Summit’s Communiqué and supporting efforts to achieve a sustainable, comprehensive, and just peace.

We appreciate the growing support for the Peace Summit and its final Communiqué from all continents, including Africa. We value that…

— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) June 20, 2024

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Good morning and welcome to the Guardian’s live coverage of the war in Ukraine, which today we’re leading with Vladimir Putin’s state visit to Vietnam.

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The Russian president touched down in Hanoi in the early hours of Thursday and is set to begin his official engagements at noon local time with a meeting with his Vietnamese counterpart To Lam. He will also meet with Nguyen Phu Trong, the powerful general secretary of the ruling Communist Party, and the prime minster, Pham Minh Chinh.

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His reception is likely to be more muted than in North Korea, where he was greeted with huge ceremony and signed a defence pact with leader Kim Jong-un on Wednesday.

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In Hanoi Russian officials say Putin will focus on economic, education and energy issues. But observers say that in private, Ukraine and defence cooperation are likely to be on the table.

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Vietnam, which officially pursues a neutral foreign policy it calls “bamboo diplomacy” in its relations with world powers, has abstained from condemning Russia’s attack on Ukraine, a stance that Western countries view as too close to the Kremlin.

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More on that soonest. In other developments:

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Ukraine has bid farewell to a fighter pilots counted among the fabled “Ghosts of Kyiv”. Lt Col Valentin Korenchuk, referred to in the military as Beekeeper, piloted a MiG-29 fighter jet in the 40th Tactical Aviation Brigade. He was lauded as Ukraine’s “best pilot” in an air force statement that this week confirmed his death in combat.

A senior Ukrainian presidential aide on Wednesday said North Korea was helping Russia kill Ukrainian civilians and called for greater international isolation of both countries. Leader Kim Jong-un “deliberately provides resources for the mass murder of Ukrainians”, said Mykhailo Podolyak, blasting the “absolute incapacity” of current sanctions. “We need a more rigorous approach to real isolation.

Russian forces have escalated attacks near Toretsk, a frontline town in the Donetsk region that had remained relatively calm over recent months of fighting, officials and AFP journalists reported on Wednesday. The head of the region, Vadym Filashkin, said on Wednesday that Russian fire near the town of Pokrovsk farther south had killed one person and wounded another over the last 24 hours.

Ukraine’s SBU security service said it had detained a man recruited by Russian agents on an online dating platform who had tried to provide Moscow with sensitive details about Ukrainian troops. The arrest took place in Kharkiv. “The SBU seized the man’s phone, used by the suspect to communicate with his Russian ‘friend’ and take photos of military facilities,” said an SBU statement.

Ukraine has set up a national registry for sexual violence allegedly committed by Russian forces. Viktoriia Litvinova, the Ukrainian deputy prosecutor general, said there had already been five convictions in absentia. Litvinova said 303 cases of conflict-related sexual violence have been registered since the start of the full-scale invasion in early 2022, with 112 involving male and 191 involving female victims. The actual number is likely to be much higher.

A man and a woman were killed by Ukrainian shelling of Donetsk on Wednesday morning, the Russian occupation’s mayor, Alexei Kulemzin reported. Two other people, including a child, were wounded and in a serious condition, Denis Pushilin, the Russian-appointed governor of Ukraine’s occupied Donetsk region, added. Ukraine denies targeting civilians and targets that do not have a military connection.

Russia has “significant amounts” of western assets and property on its territory that could be targets for retaliation by Moscow if the west seizes income from Russian assets, its foreign ministry said on Wednesday. Leaders of the G7 agreed at a summit in Italy last week to use interest from Russian assets frozen in the west to provide a US$50bn loan to Ukraine.

An oil terminal in Russia’s port city of Azov continued to burn for more than a day and a half after a Ukrainian drone strike on Tuesday, the Rostov regional governor said.

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Speaking in Vietnam today, the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, said that Moscow and Hanoi are interested in building what he called a reliable security architecture in the Asia-Pacific region, Reuters reported.

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Putin also said Russian companies were ready to invest in liquified natural gas projects in Vietnam.

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Key events

South Korea says it will consider supplying arms to Ukraine after Russia-North Korea deal

South Korea’s presidential office has condemned an agreement reached by Russia and North Korea that vowed mutual defence assistance in the event of war, the Associated Press reported.

The office also said South Korea will reconsider its policy of limiting its support to Ukraine to non-lethal supplies.

“It’s absurd that two parties with a history of launching wars of invasion — the Korean War and the war in Ukraine — are now vowing mutual military cooperation on the premise of a preemptive attack by the international community that will never happen,” the office of South Korea’s president, Yoon Suk Yeol, said.

“In particular, Russia’s decision to support North Korea and cause harm to our security, despite its status as a permanent member of the Security Council that has endorsed the sanctions resolution against North Korea, will inevitably have a negative impact on (South Korea-Russia) relations,” it added.

Here are some of the latest images from Ukraine.

Ukrainian soldiers wait inside a US-made M113 armoured personnel carrier to depart for the front in an undisclosed area in the Donetsk region, on June 19. Photograph: Roman Pilipey/AFP/Getty Images

A Ukrainian serviceman of the 22nd Separate Mechanised Brigade stands next to a Russian T-62 Soviet main battle tank crafted with anti-drone protection that was recently captured by his unit, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, at an undisclosed location in Donetsk region, Ukraine, July 19. Photograph: Alina Smutko/Reuters

Vietnam’s president, To Lam, congratulated Russia’s Vladimir Putin on his re-election and praised Russia’s achievements, including “domestic political stability”, Reuters reported.

Putin is visiting Hanoi today.

“Once again, congratulations to our comrade for receiving overwhelming support during the recent presidential election, underlining the confidence of the Russian people,” Lam said.

Lam and Putin witnessed the exchange of 11 agreements and memorandums of understanding, including deals on oil and gas.

Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) and Vietnamese President To Lam make a joint statement following a meeting at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi, Vietnam. Photograph: Vladimir Smirnov/SPUTNIK/KREMLIN POOL/EPA

EU agrees on new sanctions package against Russia

EU ambassadors this morning agreed on a 14th package of sanctions targeting Russia.

I welcome the agreement on our 14th sanctions package against Russia.

This hard-hitting package will further deny Russia access to key technologies.

It will strip Russia of further energy revenues.

And tackle Putin’s shadow fleet and shadow banking network abroad. https://t.co/iquZOtEOWf

— Ursula von der Leyen (@vonderleyen) June 20, 2024

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I welcome the agreement on our 14th sanctions package against Russia.

This hard-hitting package will further deny Russia access to key technologies.

It will strip Russia of further energy revenues.

And tackle Putin’s shadow fleet and shadow banking network abroad. https://t.co/iquZOtEOWf

— Ursula von der Leyen (@vonderleyen) June 20, 2024

Ukrainian infrastructure hit in Russian attack

Russian missile and drone attacks earlier today caused “significant” damage to a thermal power plant and maintained pressure on the electricity grid, Ukrainian officials said, Reuters reported.

The attack on energy infrastructure in four regions wounded seven workers and cut off electricity to more than 218,000 consumers, according to Ukraine’s energy ministry.

Yesterday, North Korea’s Kim Jong Un presented Vladimir Putin with two dogs.

This picture taken on June 19, 2024 and released on June 20, 2024 from North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) via KNS shows North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un (R) presenting Russia’s President Vladimir Putin (L) with a pair of dogs in the garden of the Kumsusan State Guesthouse in Pyongyang. Photograph: KCNA VIA KNS/AFP/Getty Images

Two civilians killed in Russian shelling, Ukrainian official says

Vadym Filashkin, the head of the Donetsk regional military administration, said this morning that two people were killed in Russian shelling in the Donetsk region over the past day.

“On June 19, Russians killed two residents in the Donetsk region: in Toretsk and Rozkishne. Four more people suffered injuries,” he said, Ukrinform reported.

Zelenskiy ‘grateful’ to Zambia for joining summit’s communiqué

“We appreciate the growing support for the Peace Summit and its final Communiqué from all continents, including Africa,” he added.

I am grateful to Zambia for joining the Peace Summit’s Communiqué and supporting efforts to achieve a sustainable, comprehensive, and just peace.

We appreciate the growing support for the Peace Summit and its final Communiqué from all continents, including Africa. We value that…

— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) June 20, 2024