Have you missed the latest events on the war in Ukraine? 20 Minutes takes stock for you every evening. Here is the gist of this Saturday, June 13, 2026, on the 1,570th day of the conflict.
Fact of the day
Ukraine’s Russian-controlled Zaporizhia nuclear power plant was reconnected to the grid on Saturday almost three days after losing all external power after a strike on a power station, the International Atomic Energy Agency said (IAEA).
During the external power outage, the nuclear power plant, the largest in Europe, had to use emergency diesel generators to provide the electricity needed to cool the reactors, the IAEA explained. It was the 19th time since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 that the Ukrainian power plant lost all external power supply. This outage was due to a strike Wednesday evening against an electrical post. “Lasting almost three days, this power outage was one of the longest the site has experienced, which highlights the extreme fragility of the electrical network,” the IAEA stressed.
The number of the day
Two. This is the number of Russian fighter jets flying over the Baltic Sea spotted near Swedish airspace. Sweden announced on Saturday that it had urgently taken off two pairs of JAS 39 Gripen fighters to intercept them. NATO aircraft also took off “to maintain security in the common airspace,” the Swedish army said in a press release. Swedish airspace was not violated in these two incidents, she said. “Russian actions are serious and constitute recurring behavior threatening both our territorial integrity and our security,” said Vice Admiral Ewa Skoog Haslum, head of joint operations, quoted in the press release.
The trend
Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky will participate in the same working meeting of the G7 summit in France on Tuesday, and the American president will have dinner the next day in Versailles with Emmanuel Macron, a senior American official said on Saturday.
This dinner, after the conclusion of the summit which will be held from Monday to Wednesday in Evian (France), is a way of celebrating the 250th anniversary of the independence of the United States in a “high place of Franco-American friendship where was signed in 1783 the treaty consecrating it, according to the French presidency.
Donald Trump will have a bilateral meeting with the French president upon his arrival in the spa on Monday.
He will also have face-to-face meetings on Tuesday and Wednesday with the Qatari, Emirati, Egyptian and Indian leaders. The American president and Volodymyr Zelensky “could very well cross paths on the sidelines” of Tuesday’s working meeting, said the senior American official, who requested anonymity, while indicating that a formal bilateral meeting was not planned on the agenda of Donald Trump. He judged that the 79-year-old billionaire was the “only” international leader who could put an end to the war between Russia and Ukraine, but without elaborating on the subject.
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