Home › Security › What 7 June 2022 showed about the war's pressure points
What 7 June 2022 showed about the war's pressure points
Summary
A look back at the sanctions, arms pledges and strikes reported around 7 June 2022, as the war's financial and military fronts moved together.
What did the days around 7 June 2022 reveal about how the war was being fought beyond the front line? The reports from that date and the preceding days point to three tracks running at once: financial pressure on Russia, new Western weapons for Ukraine, and continued Russian strikes and ground attacks.
Financial pressure
On 7 June 2022, the US Department of the Treasury banned all trading of Russian debt and stocks, including on the secondary market. The step extended the sanctions regime to the trading of existing securities.
A day earlier, on 6 June 2022, a federal judge in New York ordered the seizure of two private jets, a Boeing 787 Dreamliner and a Gulfstream G650ER, owned by the sanctioned Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich. Also on 6 June, Latvia banned all Russia-based TV outlets that threaten the territorial integrity and independence of another country, citing the war. The measure was to last until Russia de-occupies Crimea and ends its warfare against Ukraine.
Weapons and the battlefield
On 6 June 2022, the United Kingdom announced it would send several M270 long-range rocket artillery systems to Ukraine, adding to the foreign military aid flowing to Kyiv.
On the ground, the fighting in the east remained intense. On 5 June 2022, Russian major general Roman Kutuzov was killed in Mykolaivka, Luhansk Oblast. The same day, the Ukrainian president visited troops at the front on the border of Luhansk and Donetsk regions, including in Lysychansk and Soledar, as he said in his evening address. Also on 5 June, Russian forces attacked Bila Krynytsia, which Ukrainian forces had recently retaken. Oleksandr Vilkul, head of the military administration, said Russian units had returned to positions they had occupied earlier.
Strikes on Kyiv
On 5 June 2022, Russia launched airstrikes on Kyiv for the first time since 28 April. The Russian Defence Ministry said the missiles targeted T-72 tanks supplied to Ukraine by several EU countries. At least one person was injured.
Humanitarian warning
On 6 June 2022, Petro Andryushchenko, an adviser to Mariupol Mayor Vadym Boychenko, warned that the city may have suffered a cholera outbreak.
Reading the sequence
Taken together, the reports show an effort to tighten economic restrictions on Russia while Western states supplied heavier weapons, and Russia continued to strike and to contest territory, including near the capital. The Treasury's secondary-market ban, the seizure order and the Latvian media ban each targeted different parts of Russia's economic and information reach, while the rocket systems pledged by the UK addressed Ukraine's military needs.
