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Dnipro missile strike and a call for a defence line
Summary
A look back at two security developments reported around 28 June 2024, one on the Ukrainian front line of civilian harm and one in the European Union's eastern debate.
What did security look like from Dnipro to the EU's eastern edge on 28 June 2024? Two reports from those days point to different ends of the same regional picture.
On 28 June 2024, a Russian missile hit a nine-storey residential building in Dnipro, Ukraine. At least one person was killed and 12 others were injured. The target was a block of homes, which put civilians at the centre of the day's reporting from the city.
Two days earlier, on 26 June 2024, the leaders of Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia called on the European Union to build a €2.5 billion (US$2.67 billion) defence line between them and Russia and Belarus. They said the aim was to secure the EU from military, economic and migrant-related threats.
The two items are separate: one is an attack on a Ukrainian city, the other a proposal from four EU states bordering Russia and Belarus. Read together, they show security being discussed both as a matter of immediate casualties in Ukraine and as a question of long-term fortification on the EU's eastern side. The reports do not link the Dnipro strike to the leaders' appeal.
