Portal:Current events/2022 June 5
June 5, 2022 (Sunday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russo-Ukrainian War
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Battle of Donbas
- Russian major general Roman Kutuzov is killed in Mykolaivka, Luhansk Oblast. (Reuters) (Ukrayinska Pravda)
- Russia launches airstrikes on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv for the first time since April 28. The Russian Defence Ministry says that the missile strikes targeted T-72 tanks that had been supplied to Ukraine by several EU countries. At least one person is injured. (The Guardian)
- Battle of Donbas
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Herder–farmer conflicts in Nigeria
- Owo church attack
- Fulani herdsmen kill 32 people in four attacks in Kajuru, Kaduna State. (AP)
- 2021–2022 Democratic Republic of the Congo attacks; Allied Democratic Forces insurgency
- Suspected Allied Democratic Forces fighters kill at least 18 people in an attack on the village of Otomabere, Irumu Territory in the Ituri Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Reuters)
Business and economy
- Minimum wage in Germany
- The Bundestag votes 400–41, with 200 abstentions, to approve raising the minimum wage in Germany to €12 ($12.90) an hour. (DW)
Disasters and accidents
- Sitakunda fire and explosions
- At least 49 people are killed and over 400 others injured by a fire and explosions at a storage depot in Sitakunda, Chittagong District, Bangladesh. (BBC News)
- Wildfires in 2022
- The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology raises the alert status of Mount Bulusan to level 1 after the volcano experienced a phreatic eruption. (Rappler)
- Two pilots are killed when their plane crashes in Ar-Ramtha, Jordan. (Reuters)
- One person is killed and 14 others are injured by heavy thunderstorms and flash flooding in France. (AP)
- Twenty-six people are killed and 4 others injured when a bus falls into a gorge in Uttarakhand, India. (Reuters)
Health and environment
- 2022 monkeypox outbreak
- Timeline of the 2022 monkeypox outbreak
- 2022 monkeypox outbreak in the United States
- Colombia reports its first confirmed case of monkeypox in a man who travelled from Spain. (24 News Recorder)
- Timeline of the 2022 monkeypox outbreak
International relations
- 2021–2022 North Korean missile tests
- North Korea fires at least eight short-range ballistic missiles into the Sea of Japan from several locations in the country. (The Japan Times)
- Russia–Serbia relations
- Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov cancels his scheduled visit to Serbia after neighbouring states in the Balkans refuse to let Lavrov's plane use their airspace. (BBC News)
Law and crime
- 2022 Chattanooga shooting
- Three people are killed and 14 others are injured in a mass shooting in Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States. Three people are also hit by cars, with one person later dying. (AP)
Politics and elections
- 2022 Kazakh constitutional referendum
- Kazakhs go to the polls to vote on 56 amendments to the constitution and President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev's "Second Republic" proposals, among them the reduction of presidential powers, reform of the Parliament, the curbing of former President Nursultan Nazarbayev's powers, and the creation of three new regions. (The Economist)
Sports
- 2022 French Open – Men's singles
- Rafael Nadal defeats Casper Ruud to win the men's singles tennis title at the 2022 French Open, extending his all-time record for the most Grand Slam men's singles titles to 22. (BBC Sport)
- 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification
- In association football, Wales defeats Ukraine 1–0 at the Cardiff City Stadium to become the final team from UEFA to qualify for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. It is the first time that Wales has qualified for a FIFA World Cup since 1958. (Al Jazeera)