[Korrespondent] 23:40 Zelensky said in an evening video message that Donbass will be Ukrainian: “We are defending our land in the way that the defense resource available today allows. And we are doing everything to strengthen it. If the occupiers think that Liman or Severodonetsk will be theirs, then they "They are wrong. Donbass will be Ukrainian. Because that is its essence. And even if Russia brings destruction and suffering everywhere, we will still restore every city and every community. And there is and will not be any real alternative to Ukrainian flags."
23:37 Ukrainian society will not accept the strengthening of the powers of government institutions, while it is necessary to build a tough security system in the state, Zelensky said during a conversation with the Stanford University community. He also emphasized that for the effectiveness of the already existing and discussed sanctions against Russia, a single strong position of the whole world is needed, which would make it impossible to circumvent these restrictions.
23:14 Zelensky said in an evening video message that the situation in Donbas is very difficult: “The invaders are trying to achieve the goals that they hoped to achieve in the first days after February 24, at least until a hundred days of war. Therefore, they concentrated maximum artillery, maximum reserves in Donbas. There are missile strikes and aviation. We are defending our land in the way that the defense resource available today allows. And we are doing everything to strengthen it."
23:02 The US government has made a preliminary decision on the supply of modern M270 MLRS and M142 Himars launchers to Ukraine, writes The Wall Street Journal, citing US officials. The Biden administration may announce deliveries of both types of launchers to Ukraine as early as next week. These installations have a greater range than any of the MLRS available to the APU.
22:58 Russia has been fighting in Ukraine for the fourth month already, the Kremlin says that everything allegedly "goes according to plan", but even inside the Russian Federation, despite the total tightening of the screws, doubts creep in about the realism of this very "plan". Foreign Policy writes about the first signs of dissatisfaction with the war in the Caucasus. More details - in the material Caucasian revolt .
22:50 Another Russian sapper was blown up during the demining of Azovstal today, Petr Andryushchenko, adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, said.
22:47 Biden, during an opening speech to graduates of the US Naval Academy, said that Putin "is trying to wipe the culture and identity of the Ukrainian people from the face of the earth," writes The Washington Post. The President also criticized attacks on Ukrainian hospitals, schools and other civilian buildings. According to Biden, Putin inadvertently "subdued all of Europe to NATO" - due to the fact that Sweden and Finland decided to join the alliance after Russia invaded Ukraine.
22:31 The number of Ukrainian refugees has reached 6.7 million people, according to the UN. In the last 24 hours alone, 41,000 people have left the country. In three months, most of the refugees went to Poland - 3.5 million - about a million each to Romania and Russia, another 665 thousand to Hungary.
22:28 Washington has not yet made a decision on providing Ukraine with multiple launch rocket systems, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said at a briefing. According to him, the US Department of Defense "remembers and knows about Ukraine's request."
"I won't go so far as to say that it's too late to provide the Ukrainians with any systems or facilities they might need because they are very active in combat and pushed the Russians back near Kharkov," Kirby added.
21:51 The Pentagon is convinced that Putin will not go to peace talks with Kiev. US Department of Defense spokesman John Kirby noted that after three months of Russian military intervention, Putin does not express a desire to negotiate with Ukraine. At the same time, Moscow has not yet achieved a single strategic goal: "Not a single large city has been captured, except for Mariupol. But Putin has shown that he is ready to continue the war in the Donbass: he is building up troops, pulling equipment, delivering air strikes."
21:40 Yanukovych released a six-page statement in which he accused Poland of intending to annex the western regions of Ukraine, and advised Ukrainians not to rely on the West, but to negotiate with Russia not from a position of strength, but with respect.
21:29 AFU in the Kherson direction carried out a successful counterattack, which was probably supported by aircraft, Arestovich said. In his opinion, the consequence of this counterattack could be cutting off the group of Russian troops near Krivoy Rog from the Kherson group.
21:22 The latest achievements of Russia in the Donbass are related to the fact that the Russian troops are advancing on a smaller territory, as well as with the geography of the area, Pentagon Speaker John Kirby said at a briefing. He recalled that the offensive of Russian troops on Kyiv ended in failure due to logistical problems, as a result of which the convoy of equipment was stretched for tens of kilometers far from the sources of support.
"Donbass is a different area. It's flatter, more open, lots of fields, small towns and villages. And because it's in eastern Ukraine, it's closer to Russia's borders and their supply and resource chains. They're moving more carefully now so they don't go too far away," Kirby explained. At the same time, the Pentagon does not believe that Russia has fully managed to cope with the problems in the offensive - management, ensuring the integration of ground and air operations.
Kirby also said that the US is not considering military intervention to unblock Ukrainian grain exports via the Black Sea.
20:55 Kuleba said that he spoke with Blinken: “I appreciate his personal efforts to ensure sustainable support for Ukraine from the United States and the whole world. Heavy weapons are at the top of our agenda, and more are coming to us. Ukraine and the United States are working hand hand in hand to deliver our food exports despite the reckless Russian blockade."
20:21 Reznikov will take part in the NATO meeting at the level of heads of defense departments on June 15-16 in Brussels. The defense ministers of Ukraine, Georgia, Finland, Sweden and EU representatives will take part in a working dinner on June 15, which will be closed to the media, the press service of the alliance reported.
20:17 The Council of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church condemned the position of the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, regarding the war in Ukraine and decided on the complete independence and independence of the UOC.
20:15 President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, Congressman from the ruling Democratic Party of the United States Gerald Connolly does not consider the transfer of military assets to Kiev that would ensure control over the country's airspace as a way out of the situation in connection with the war in Ukraine: "We must look for other options for Ukraine to implement this control."
According to Connolly, the actions of the alliance should not be aimed at escalating the conflict, but at its completion. The spring session of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly opened today in Vilnius.
20:09 The Ukrainian command may consider withdrawing from Severodonetsk in order to avoid encirclement, the head of the Luhansk OVA, Serhiy Gaidai, said on the air of the telethon: "The Russians will not be able to capture the Luhansk region in the coming days, as analysts predict, we will have enough strength and means to defend. However, we will not it is possible that in order not to get into the environment, you will have to move away.
He also said that Severodonetsk "is not cut off, fighting continues in the vicinity of the city," and the Russians entered the area of the Mir Hotel and the bus station. The Lisichansk-Bakhmut highway, according to him, is now completely shot through, moving along it is dangerous, but evacuation is still possible.
20:02 The Kremlin is again considering the possibility of storming Kiev and hoping for a full-scale victory. The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine announced the inability of the Russian Federation to repeat the invasion from the north now, but noted that the threat to Kyiv from Russia will now always exist. Meanwhile, Belarus has become more active on the Ukrainian border. Experts doubt that Russia's campaign to the north of Ukraine is possible even with Belarus, but not all. For more details, see the article Will the Russian Federation Go North .
19:57 Zelensky said that he spoke on the phone with Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi, who spoke with Putin the day before and said after that that he "did not see hope for peace" in Ukraine.
"I informed about the situation at the front. We expect further defense support from our partners for Ukraine. I touched on the issue of fuel supply. We discussed ways to prevent a food crisis. We must jointly unblock Ukrainian ports," Zelensky wrote.
19:42 Podolyak called for the preservation of the world order: "Today the world could talk about climate change, AI or the search for exoplanets. Instead, we talk about shelling cities, raping women and stealing grain. As if we live in the time of Genghis Khan. All because one country decided to eradicate an entire nation in the center of Europe and appropriate its land.Russia proved to be a barbarian country that threatens world security.Illogical, inconsistent, inadequate.Russia makes everyone poorer in Europe and provokes hunger in Asia.Russia must be stopped by force together. This is not a question of Ukraine, it is a question of maintaining world order."
19:36 The "head" of the occupying Zaporozhye administration, Yevgeny Balitsky, announced the establishment of the Melitopol "state" university, which will be adapted to the Russian system. "Vuz" is created on the basis of several educational institutions of the region.
19:12 The enemy does not have a numerical advantage in the Luhansk region over the Armed Forces of Ukraine, but he has more heavy weapons, said the head of the Severodonetsk regional administration Roman Vlasenko on air of the BBC.
19:00 The Russians are trying to oust the Ukrainian units from Liman and develop an offensive against Slavyansk, and in the Severodonetsk direction they carried out assault operations in the areas of Shchedrishchevo, Borovsky and Toshkovka, the fighting continues, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports. In the Bakhmut direction, the enemy attacked in the areas of the settlements of Kamyshevakh, Berestovo, Belogorovka, but to no avail.
18:52 Sources of Meduza report that the Kremlin is again discussing a possible assault on Kiev and hope for a full-scale victory in the war "by autumn." Thus, in the domestic political bloc of the presidential administration of the Russian Federation, against the background of the advance of Russian troops in the Donbass, there was hope that Russia would be able to "bring the war in Ukraine to victory" in a few months.
Moscow now considers the capture of the entire territory of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions as the minimum program for declaring victory, and the taking of Kyiv under control as the maximum program.
18:45 The head of the State Inspectorate for Nuclear Regulation of Ukraine, Oleg Kornilov, denied the information of the IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi that plutonium and enriched uranium are stored at the Zaporozhye NPP, which can be used to produce nuclear weapons.
18:43 In the Kherson region, some farmers agreed to cooperate with the occupiers, said the head of the OVA Gennady Laguta: "The Russians are exporting food and grain from Kherson. Traffic jams on the road to Crimea are already kilometer-long. These are not only the products that the occupiers take away, but also those which are part of the "cooperation" of some of our leaders with the occupation authorities. That is, individual citizens have already established trade with the Russians. This is tens of thousands of tons of grain and vegetables."
18:41 The occupation of territories should not prevent Ukraine from joining the European Union, said the head of the EU Delegation to Ukraine Matti Maasikas: "So far, no one will give a 100 percent guarantee that this can prevent it. However, for me there are some fundamental questions. From the EU point of view, if some part of the country that wants to join the European Union is under occupation, then this actually involves a third party in the process, which can say its "no" ... But the decision, again, is made by the EU, therefore, according to In my opinion, this fact should not interfere.
He recalled that Cyprus is a member of the EU, 37% of whose territory is currently occupied, but this fact did not affect the process of accepting the state into the ranks of the European Union. Maasikas added that it is now difficult to predict how soon Ukraine will receive the status of a candidate or a full member of the EU.
18:28 From June 1 to August 31, Belarus restricts access to the border strip in three areas near the border with Ukraine. We are talking about the Bragin, Loevsky and Khoiniki districts.
18:26 The GTS operator of Ukraine and Naftogaz sent an appeal to the German Ministry of Economy and the regulator because of the work permit for the Russian Nord Stream-1, the head of the OGTSU Sergey Makogon said on television. According to him, Ukrainian companies are asking to cancel the exceptions granted to the gas pipeline in the legislation.
Makogon recalled that these exceptions were based on the fact that the gas pipeline would contribute to strengthening the security of gas supplies to Europe, the principles of market competition and energy solidarity of the continent. "But we see that Russia completely violates such principles. We know that they created an artificial gas deficit last year, that they unilaterally insist on paying for gas in rubles, that Russia unilaterally suspended gas supplies to Poland, Bulgaria and Finland," he said.
18:11 German Development Minister Svenja Schulze visited Ukraine on Friday, May 27, becoming the second member of the German government to visit since the beginning of Russian aggression, writes Bild. During her visit to Borodyanka, she spoke about the help from Germany. Thus, the allocation of 185 million euros for emergency measures has already been approved.
18:07 Zelensky hopes that the war with Russia will end before the G-20 summit, which will be held in mid-November in Indonesia. In his address to the politicians and people of Indonesia, the Ukrainian president thanked their leader for the invitation to the summit and expressed the hope that before the meeting "the world will solve this big problem: we must prevent large-scale famine, stop killings and repressions, we must forever wean any state of the world from nuclear blackmail and flirting with the threat of chemical or biological weapons."
"I believe that only friendly states, partner states will be at the summit, and there will be no occupiers," Zelensky said.
18:03 A secret conference was held in Lithuania to discuss scenarios for Russia without Putin, writes Bild. According to the publication, about 70 participants came to the meeting - former leading politicians, experts, journalists and human rights activists, including Russians who have long lived abroad. The participants discussed the "de-Putinization" of Russia, in particular the scenario in which the uprising of the "unenlightened masses" would lead to the disintegration of the Russian Federation into many republics.
17:53 Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer said that the purpose of the call to Putin was to find out if potential humanitarian solutions could be found in Ukraine. According to the chancellor, Putin told him that he was ready to discuss the exchange of prisoners with Ukraine.
17:51 At the Pogonvo and Boguchar military training grounds in the Voronezh region of the Russian Federation, up to 1,500 Russian reservists are being trained for motorized rifle, tank and artillery units. They can be sent to fight in Ukraine, Defense Ministry spokesman Oleksandr Motuzyanyk said: "It is possible that upon completion of this three-week training, these personnel may be involved in combat operations in Ukraine."
17:49 Czech Defense Minister Yana Chernokhova denied Western media reports about the existence of some kind of tacit agreement between NATO countries, which allegedly obliges them not to supply heavy military equipment to Ukraine: “Such an agreement does not exist, at least I don’t know anything about it. If such an idea had arisen, the Czech Republic would not have supported it."
17:47 The invaders took all the convicts and staff out of correctional colony No. 10 in the village of Daryevka, Kherson region, and settled the personnel of the Russian army there. The prisoners were distributed to correctional colonies No. 7 (Golaya Prystan) and No. 90 (Kherson). There is also military equipment on the territory of colony No. 10, the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine reports.
Intelligence also reports that approximately from mid-June, the occupiers will stop supplying money and "humanitarian aid" to Mariupol, which will further aggravate the humanitarian catastrophe in the city.
In the village of Shevchenkove, Kharkiv region, the Russian military asks at the local bazaar where they can buy Ukrainian-made cartridges. The reason for their interest is explained by the desire to make a crossbow, passing it off as a combat wound.
In Kupyansk, Veliky Burluk, Shevchenkovo, Izyum, Kharkiv region, cases of disappearances have become more frequent. Most often they are men from 18 to 60 years old and young women. The disappearances are linked to the "work" of the Russian special services. Currently, all exit routes to the territories controlled by Ukraine are blocked. Cars that people are trying to evacuate are carefully filtered and returned back.
17:36 Teachers in Kherson refused to cooperate with the occupiers, the head of the OVA Gennady Laguta said at a briefing: "Where there are no hostilities, in the occupied territory, the Russians are trying to "improve life." Yesterday in Kherson, the gauleiter held a meeting with teachers. School administration teachers "Just heroes. Only 20 people came to listen to him, despite the fact that there are 71 schools in the city. Teachers are encouraged to prepare for training under the new program, to go to the Crimea to improve their skills. In fact, all directors said that they were not satisfied with this, and left."
Laguta also said that the situation in the region remains difficult. It is impossible to bring in humanitarian cargo, because the occupiers do not provide green corridors. Constant shelling of the liberated territory continues, the enemy is trying to reach the borders of the region.
17:27 Putin, in a telephone conversation with the Austrian chancellor, announced the sabotage of Russian-Ukrainian negotiations by Kiev, the Kremlin said. Also, the Russian president called baseless attempts to make Russia responsible for the difficulties with food supplies.
17:00 Lukashenka instructed to create a "people's militia" in the country, said Belarusian Defense Minister Viktor Khrenin. According to him, in this way the number of defenders of Belarus "will increase many times over."
16:54 Russia has used 2,400 missiles of various types against Ukraine since February 24, Zelensky said, speaking at the Indonesian think tank Foreign Policy Community of Indonesia. The vast majority of them are for civil infrastructure, enterprises, warehouses, including food warehouses, residential buildings, and railroads.
Since the beginning of the war, according to the president, Russian combat aircraft have appeared in the Ukrainian skies more than 3,000 times. More than 600 healthcare institutions and almost 2,000 educational facilities have been destroyed.
16:46 Turkey's recent negotiations with the delegations of Sweden and Finland over NATO membership have not led to significant shifts, Reuters reports, citing two sources familiar with the negotiations.
16:23 Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger ended up in the Peacemaker's base "for participating in a special information operation of the Russian Federation." Kissinger said in Davos that Ukraine would have to make territorial concessions in order to make peace with Moscow.
16:06 Today, at about 14:00, a MiG-29 fighter of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine shot down a Russian Su-35 fighter in the sky of the Kherson region, which was hunting for Ukrainian attack aircraft, the Command of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported.
15:53 The impact of the Russian default on the global economy will be minimal, White House Speaker Karine Jean-Pierre said: "We expect the impact on the US and the global economy to be minimal, given that Russia was already financially isolated."
15:52 In Severodonetsk, the Russian DRG was driven out of the Mir Hotel, but the invaders are trying to get inside the building again, said Alexander Stryuk, head of the CAA. According to him, the city is in a tough defense, fighting continues in the vicinity. In Severodonetsk, fires do not stop due to continuous powerful shelling by Russian invaders on residential areas, infrastructure facilities, and the Azot enterprise.
15:48 Despite the public statements of the Russian leadership, "not a single indicator" indicates Russia's readiness for negotiations, Kuleba said at a joint briefing with his North Macedonian counterpart Buyar Osmani in Kiev.
15:45 Negotiations on the exchange of prisoners of war between Ukraine and Russia are ongoing, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said: "There is a stagnation in the negotiation process between Russia and Ukraine, even Ukraine said that the negotiations were suspended ... There is a discussion on the exchange of military personnel captured by Russia and Russian soldiers captured in Ukraine".
According to Cavusoglu, the ceasefire negotiations have receded into the background, the issue of unblocking sea routes for grain exports from Ukraine remains relevant.
15:42 Putin issued a decree ordering the payment in rubles to accounts in Russian banks of obligations to foreign copyright holders who are associated with unfriendly countries, supported anti-Russian sanctions, left Russia due to Western sanctions or discredited the Russian army, and also "indecent form express disrespect for Russia, its society, authorities and official symbols.
15:38 Johnson said that the British government is negotiating with Ankara regarding the delivery of grain from Ukrainian blocked ports to markets. In particular, he said he had a "good conversation" with Erdogan the other day, but stressed that he "would not pretend that there is an immediate solution to this problem at the snap of a finger."
15:22 Journalist Yury Butusov said that he was forbidden to visit military units on the front lines. This happened after the People's Deputy Maryana Bezuglaya demanded that the SBU take action against Butusov, who, according to her, "constantly spreads tons of information about our military, positions, operational situation with impunity, shakes, disorients and plays along with Russia."
15:17 Chairman of the Board of Naftogaz Yuriy Vitrenko said that foreign companies are again using Ukraine's underground gas storage facilities: "There are already foreign companies that, starting from April, in war conditions, still take risks and store gas in our storage facilities."
Vitrenko recalled that in the first month of the war, Ukraine suspended such an opportunity, but reopened storage facilities for non-residents. According to him, the volumes of storage by non-residents "are still mostly small, the question is simply that there is a certain shortage of gas in Europe."
15:12 The EU is developing a plan of action in case Russia decides to stop gas supplies this year, European Commissioner for Energy Kadri Simson said, reports the Financial Times. According to the European Commissioner, the European Union is now trying to pump in as much gas as possible and will be able to replace two-thirds of the supplies from Russia this year, but more needs to be done in case of a complete cessation of supplies.
The plan being developed by the EC includes measures to limit the supply of gas to industry: “We are faced with a situation where any member state can be next ... So far, we have been able to take care of the security of the supply of these three member states, mainly through the solidarity of neighbors” .
Earlier it was reported that Poland, Bulgaria and Finland were cut off from Russian gas supplies after they refused to pay for it in rubles.
15:01 In Canada, they plan to adopt a law on the confiscation of property and funds of Russians and their transfer to the restoration of Ukraine. Now Canadian and Ukrainian experts are working on this issue, said Canadian Ambassador to Ukraine Larisa Galadza, Espreso reports.
The ambassador hopes that Canada will be the first country to approve such a bill and be able to transfer confiscated Russian property to Ukraine: “We are at the forefront of this issue around the world. The confiscation of property of Russia or Russians is a very difficult issue, but we are trying to figure out all these circumstances. Canadian experts, together with Ukrainian ones, are working on how to do this."
14:56 Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer announced that he was going to call Putin today at 16:00 Kyiv time. He plans to discuss a possible prisoner exchange and the creation of green corridors for agricultural products.
14:52 The head of the administration of Severodonetsk, Lugansk region, Alexander Stryuk, said that "almost two-thirds of the city's perimeter is occupied by the enemy," while the city is not surrounded. Stryuk also said that 90% of the buildings in the city are damaged, 60% of the houses will need to be rebuilt.
14:41 In Ukraine, a shortage of some vegetables is expected due to the occupation of the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, First Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy Taras Vysotsky said in an interview with Ukrainian Radio. In particular, the shortage will affect young onions, carrots and beets. At the same time, there will be enough potatoes for domestic consumption, and sugar beet can even be exported. There are also sunflower stocks.
Vysotsky said that the sowing campaign this year can be considered completed - 90% of the planned sowing has been sown.
14:27 Zelensky addressed the politicians and people of Indonesia: "The sooner our lands are liberated from the invaders, the more reliably people around the world will be protected. Protected from the aggressive desires of those who want to pursue a colonial policy, as in the old days. If the world really is united and honest about this Russian aggression against our sovereign state, then the speed of ending this war will be measured in weeks. Weeks, not even months."
13:49 Prime Minister of Finland Sanna Marin, who visited Kiev the day before, opposes granting Ukraine special conditions for joining the EU. "I don't see how we could make exceptions," Yle quoted her as saying.
13:33 Ukrzaliznytsia from June 11 appoints night train No. 53/54 Kiev - Przemysl (Poland). The train will depart from Kyiv at 19:48 and arrive in Przemysl the next day at 7:21. In the opposite direction, the train will start running from June 12, departing at 18:39 and arriving in Kyiv at 9:21.
13:18 Since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, the United States has supplied Kiev with 23.8 thousand tons of weapons and military equipment, the Transportation Command of the United States Armed Forces reported.
In particular, 23,942 anti-tank guided missiles, 1,033 anti-aircraft missile systems and 1,468 missiles for them, 90 howitzers, 174,173 artillery shells, nine helicopters, 33 radars, 7,888 machine guns and pistols, and about 60 million cartridges for small arms were deployed from the United States. . In addition, about 68.5 thousand body armor and 50 thousand helmets were sent to Ukraine.
13:04 Iran and Russia may conclude barter agreements to facilitate trade between the countries. So, Iran can get Russian steel in exchange for auto parts and gas turbines, Iranian Minister of Trade and Industry Reza Fatemi Amin said.
12:57 Sweden and Finland are unlikely to become candidates for NATO membership at the upcoming alliance summit at the end of June, if Turkey's demands are not met before that, Stoltenberg said. In turn, Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel said that NATO has no plans to offer membership to Ukraine yet.
12:55 Former US Secretary of State urged Ukrainians to make territorial concessions to the invaders. The network reflects on the reasons, Western politicians talk about his war crimes. For more details, see Reaction to Kissinger about Ukraine .
12:51 This morning, the enemy launched three missile attacks on the Dnipro district of the Dnipropetrovsk region. Chairman of the Public Council of Dnipro Gennady Korban said on television that about ten people were killed as a result of the missile strike, and about 35 more were injured. According to him, the Iskander missile hit the National Guard training ground, the launch was carried out from the Rostov region.
“These are not ballistic Iskanders, this is the so-called Iskander-K, a cruise missile. Two arrivals were not accurate and did not hit the target, one hit the barracks where there were people,” Korban said.
12:47 The city of Liman in the Kramatorsk district of the Donetsk region is mainly controlled by Russian troops, and the Ukrainian military has taken up new fortified positions in the Liman direction, Pavel Kirilenko, head of the OVA, told Hromadske. In the Svetlodar direction, according to him, there was a regrouping of the forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in order to take up fortified positions. The enemy is now on the territory of the Svetlodar community.
12:45 Johnson said in an interview with Bloomberg TV that Russia is making slow but tangible progress in the war with Ukraine: “I am afraid that Putin, at great cost to himself and the Russian military, continues to gnaw through the ground in the Donbas. He continues to achieve gradual, slow but, I fear, tangible progress, and therefore it is absolutely essential that we continue to support the Ukrainians militarily."
The British prime minister advocated supplying Ukraine with multiple launch rocket systems and compared Putin to a crocodile: "How can you deal with a crocodile when it's eating your left leg? This guy can't be trusted at all."
12:42 The head of the Kharkiv OVA, Oleg Sinegubov, said that yesterday the Russians fired at the city from Peonies, as a result of which nine people were killed. According to him, shelling of the region continued at night. In particular, a boarding school was damaged in Lyubotin, Chuguev was also fired upon. Residential buildings were damaged, there were no casualties.
Sinegubov said that fierce battles continue in the region - in the Kharkiv direction, the Russians are focused on holding their previously occupied positions, in the Izyum region they continue to attempt an offensive.
12:39 In Kherson, the "authorities" together with the National Guard are taking measures to return Mariupol residents home. Places of compact settlement and single accommodation are being established, buses are being formed and all established Mariupol residents will be sent home, said Petr Andryushchenko, adviser to the mayor. He noted that the reasons and purpose are now incomprehensible, "but the fact of turning Mariupol into a real ghetto for Ukrainians becomes indisputable."
12:35 The Russians forcibly took almost all the men from the "DPR" to the war, the "mobilized" captive invader told the SBU: "We have no time for politics, we are working people, we worked ... And we were drafted by almost 100% of the male population. You know how it is now" "DPR" name-calling? "ZhNR". There are practically no men left."
12:31 Russia's actions in Ukraine provide ample evidence that Moscow is inciting genocide and committing atrocities aimed at destroying the Ukrainian people. This is stated in the first independent legal report, signed by more than 30 leading legal scholars and experts in the field of genocide. The report was produced by the New Lines Institute for Strategy and Policy, an American think tank and the Raoul Wallenberg Center for Human Rights.
The document accuses Russia of violating several articles of the UN Genocide Convention. The allegations are backed up by a long list of evidence, including examples of massacres of civilians, forced deportations, and inhumane anti-Ukrainian rhetoric used by top Russian officials.
12:27 In Mariupol, in addition to mobile televisions with propaganda, the distribution of newspapers has resumed. They write that Mariupol is an example of how the Russian military, together with the "DPR", "surgically precisely without mass destruction" took the city to save the lives of Mariupol residents. According to the mayor's adviser Pyotr Andryushchenko, newspapers are handed out at the points of issue of humanitarian aid - "against the background of a panorama of total ruins a hundred meters from the morgue, where corpses are piled up in the street."
12:16 Podolyak posted on Twitter a video of the use of the Solntsepek heavy flamethrower system by the Russian army in Ukraine and once again called for the transfer of multiple launch rocket systems to Kiev: "The video shows the work of the Russian Solntsepek flamethrower system. Some partners doubt whether to give us the necessary weapons, fearing "Escalations?! Escalations?! The Russian Federation is already using the heaviest non-nuclear weapons against Ukrainians, forcing people to burn alive. Maybe it's time to give back to non-humans and transfer MLRS to Ukraine?"
12:11 Russia is reducing the population of eastern Ukraine, relocating people thousands of miles from home with no way to return. Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians passed through a series of Russian filtration camps and were sent to Russia as part of a systematized forced eviction program, CNN reports, citing sources familiar with the intelligence. They are usually sent to economically depressed areas, including Sakhalin, more than 16,000 kilometers from the Ukrainian border.
All this is part of Moscow's efforts to strengthen political control over the occupied territories - partly by eliminating Ukrainians who are considered to be sympathetic to Kyiv, and partly by reducing Ukrainian national identity through depopulation and what some human rights activists call "cultural genocide."
12:07 The head of the Lugansk OVA, Serhiy Gaidai, said that the enemy DRG had seized the Mir Hotel in a remote area of Severodonetsk. The fighting continues, the Ukrainian defenders managed to eliminate two Russian companies. Now the Armed Forces of Ukraine do not control the territory of the hotel, but they are working to dislodge the invaders.
12:04 In Mariupol, during the analysis of the rubble of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation on the street. Kuindzhi, on the territory of the former Oktyabr plant, about 70 bodies of the dead were found. The cause of death - people were locked in the rubble of the building after the shelling, said the adviser to the mayor of the city, Petr Andryushchenko. The bodies of the dead were packed in plastic bags and taken out for burial in a mass grave in the village. Old Crimea. Identification has not been carried out, but locals say that the condition of the bodies would hardly allow it.
11:48 The enemy shelled the Sumy region from its territory all night long, the head of the OVA Dmitry Zhivitsky reports. According to him, from 4:30 every half an hour, mortar shots were heard on the territory of the Shostka district. Private houses of civilians in the vicinity of Seredino-Buda were damaged. And at 6:30, the neighborhood of the village of Starye Vyrki, Belopolsky community, Sumy region, was fired from self-propelled guns. The enemy fired from their territory, there were no casualties.
11:37 The United States is not discussing the easing of sanctions against Russia in exchange for the deblockade of the occupied ports of Ukraine, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said: "It is Russia that blocks exports from Ukrainian ports and provokes world hunger. Tons of food are on ships that do not may exit due to a Russian naval blockade. US and partner sanctions do not ban the export of Ukrainian or Russian agro-industrial products, nor do they ban bank transfers or ships required for these exports. Russia should immediately allow Ukrainian exports."
11:16 Podolyak said on the air of the telethon that if Russia wins, World War III will begin: "If Russia does not lose, then Russian revanchism, Russian chauvinism will only swell. They will become larger and larger. And the third world war, which they are so afraid of "It will definitely be. Because Russia will hate us much more. Because we humiliated them. We proved that this is not the second army in the world. And they will want to take revenge on us."
According to the adviser to the head of the Presidential Office, intense fighting is connected with the intention of the Russian Federation to take away part of the territories: “They want to take at least part of our territory. And therefore there are very intense hostilities. that will record the results of the war is impossible. Parallel to this, diplomatic work is underway at the level of political advisers in terms of guarantees after the war."
11:02 In the Black Sea, a multi-day traffic jam has formed near the Danube due to Ukrainian grain, as Romania does not have time to process ships with Ukrainian exports, writes Forbes. So, at present, about 100 ships are in the Black Sea near the Romanian port of Sulina, waiting to pass through the Sulina Sea Canal - the most convenient way to the Danube ports of Ukraine, Romania and Moldova.
Experts note that there are not enough pilots in Romania to navigate ships through the canal, because they were not ready for an increase in Ukrainian cargo traffic.
10:55 The "DPR" stated that they had established full control over Krasny Liman, in total, 220 settlements were allegedly captured in the region.
10:44 Kherson and Zaporozhye regions are switching to the Russian telephone code +7, new operators have entered the regions, Russian media report, citing a representative of the "authorities" of Crimea.
10:31 Finland will intensify the supply of weapons to Ukraine, the government announced following a visit to Kiev by Prime Minister Sanna Marin.
10:20 Scholz's speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos was "weak and indecisive," Ukrainian Ambassador to Germany Andriy Melnyk told Bild. According to him, Kyiv expected to hear from the chancellor about concrete steps of the ruling coalition in Germany to support Ukraine.
According to Melnyk, the chancellor's words were particularly lacking in clarity about the immediate delivery of heavy weapons: "Obviously, there is a lack of leadership and courage. In military terms, Berlin is simply letting Ukraine down."
10:07 Greece and Cyprus support Ukraine's EU membership, but oppose an accelerated accession process, writes Euractiv Greece, citing diplomatic sources.
09:36 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the enemy on the morning of May 27. The enemy suffered the greatest losses over the past day in the Avdiivka direction.
- personnel - about 29,750 (+150) people liquidated,
- tanks - 1322 (+7),
- armored combat vehicles - 3246 (+11),
- artillery systems - 623 (+6),
- MLRS - 201 (+0),
- air defense systems - 93 (+0),
- aircraft - 206 (+0),
- helicopters - 170 (+0),
- UAV operational-tactical level - 503 (+1),
- cruise missiles - 115 (+1),
- ships/boats - 13 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tankers - 2226 (+1),
- special equipment - 48 (+1).
09:19 The war will continue until winter, Vadim Skibitsky, a spokesman for the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, said in an interview with Radio Liberty. According to him, Putin does not want to give up his positions and abandon his plans, therefore, according to analysts, the war will be long.
Skibitsky also said that since May, in the Kherson region, the Russian army has been building several defense lines, mining bridges and roads. Russia has already used 60% of its stock of precision-guided weapons. Stocks are running out, so they got old Soviet ammunition. After the destruction of the Moscow and Saratov ships, Russian ships do not come close to the Ukrainian coast.
09:12 Russia is transferring personnel and military equipment, including Grads, from Crimea to the Zaporizhia region, the Zaporizhia OVA reports. Over the past day, the enemy in the Zaporozhye direction fired at the positions of Ukrainian troops from mortars, rocket and cannon artillery, and conducted a counter-battery fight. Also, the enemy grouping was additionally reinforced by the formed tank battalion on T-62 tanks.
The Russian Federation is deploying not only ground forces, but also air and sea components, the IVA said. In the direction of Melitopol, a convoy of military equipment drove from the Crimea - about 20 tilt trucks and the same number of Grad multiple rocket launchers.
08:50 British intelligence reports that Russian troops continue to try to encircle Severodonetsk and Lysychansk, and also transfer T-62 tanks to the south of Ukraine. Also, Russian ground forces have recently captured several villages northwest of Popasnaya and are putting pressure on the Severodonetsk region. Ukraine maintains control over several defense sectors, preventing the Russian Federation from establishing full control over the Donbass.
The task of occupying the southern territory of Ukraine is likely to remain before the southern grouping of Russian troops, analysts say. They estimate that re-mothballed 50-year-old T-62 tanks, likely deployed to southern Ukraine, will almost certainly be especially vulnerable to anti-tank weapons, and their presence on the battlefield highlights Russia's lack of modern combat-ready equipment.
08:31 Johnson offers Ukraine to abandon the idea of joining the EU and create a new system of unions. The British prime minister explains such an initiative with distrust of Brussels, and especially Germany, in the matter of countering Russia, writes Corriere della sera. According to the publication, Johnson "has been weaving his web for more than a month." He voiced this idea to Zelensky in Kyiv on April 9.
The model of the new European Commonwealth promoted by Johnson includes the UK as a leader and, in addition to Ukraine, Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. And also, perhaps, Turkey "at a later stage." Kyiv has not yet responded.
08:16 In Severodonetsk, four people died in a day, a police station was fired at in Lisichansk, and about 50 houses were damaged in the Luhansk region, said the head of the OVA Serhiy Gaidai. According to him, throughout the day, the Russians tried to break into Severodonetsk from the direction of Purdovka and Shchedrishchevo, attacked the positions of the Ukrainian military in the Ustinovka area.
08:12 Speaker of the Odesa OVA Serhiy Bratchuk called Russia's statements about the alleged opening of "humanitarian corridors" from Ukrainian ports "an information-psychological operation" of the enemy. According to him, the entire Odessa water area is mined by Russia, and in principle no ships can pass there.
Bratchuk is convinced that such statements are made by Moscow in order to transfer the blame for the lack of food in the world to the Ukrainian side. He also stressed that Russia did not coordinate the work of such corridors with Ukraine.
08:00 The Biden administration may announce the transfer of long-range missile systems (MLRS) to Ukraine next week, writes CNN. The issue was high on the agenda at two meetings last week at the White House, US officials said.
07:56 In Severodonetsk, on May 26, an enemy DRG entered the Mir hotel, but the Armed Forces of Ukraine were able to repulse the attack, said the head of the city's military-civilian administration Alexander Stryuk. During the day, 12 people were evacuated from the city.
07:52 The Russians were firing at night in the Dnepropetrovsk region. There is serious destruction, now the rubble is being cleared and people are being searched, said the head of the OVA, Valentin Reznichenko.
07:48 Governor of the Belgorod region of the Russian Federation Vyacheslav Gladkov said that in the Russian border village of Zhuravlevka, a woman allegedly died from shelling from the Ukrainian side. According to him, constant shelling is going on in Zhuravlevka, Nekhoteevka and Sereda.
07:45 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reports that in recent days, although the defense of Ukraine remains effective, the Russian armed forces have made some progress in the conduct of hostilities and are preparing a third line of defense. Thus, the Russian troops have taken control of more than 95% of the Lugansk region and, probably, their goal is to complete the capture of Severodonetsk in the coming days.
At the same time, the Russians unsuccessfully tried to move southeast of Izyum near the borders of the Kharkov and Donetsk regions. They continued the siege of Severodonetsk and, probably, aim to completely cordon off the area of Severodonetsk-Lysichansk in the coming days.
The occupiers are moving steadily south and west from Popasna towards Bakhmut, but the pace of their advance is likely to slow down as they approach the city itself. Most likely, Russian troops in the occupied areas of the southern direction are preparing a "third line of defense" in order to consolidate long-term control over the region and prepare to repel possible future Ukrainian counteroffensives, analysts say.
07:37 The enemy resumed the offensive in the Slavyansk direction and wants to develop success in Bakhmutsky, cutting off Ukrainian units from the main forces, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports in the morning summary.
07:05 The Pentagon says that recently none of the parties in Ukraine has made significant progress. According to Pentagon spokesman John Kirby, the Ukrainians are keeping the Russians from advancing on Mykolaiv, and settlements in the Donbas are changing hands.
06:59 WHO adopted a resolution condemning Russia, which called on Moscow to "immediately stop all attacks on hospitals and other healthcare facilities" in Ukraine, and to ensure the protection of medical personnel, the sick and the wounded in accordance with the Geneva Conventions. China, Russia, Algeria, Belarus, Burundi, Eritrea, North Korea, Cuba, Laos, Mali, Nicaragua and Syria voted against the resolution. Serbia and Hungary did not vote.
05:56 Ukrainian military bases in the Zaporozhye region should be transferred to Russia, said a member of the "main council of the military-civil administration" of the region Vladimir Rogov. According to him, the Ukrainian naval base Vostok, located in Berdyansk on the coast of the Sea of Azov, could become the location of the Russian military base, and "the military air base in Melitopol would be even more useful."
02:47 China and Russia have vetoed the strengthening of UN sanctions against North Korea, initiated by Washington for testing Pyongyang's ballistic missiles.
00:13 Following the rejection of Russian monuments and street names with the outbreak of war, Ukraine is also trying to abandon the Russian Orthodox Church. The Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church, Kirill, praises young Russians who join the army and go to kill Ukrainians. More details in the material Church war .
00:02 Zelensky in the evening address: “Exactly eight years ago, on May 26, the Donetsk airport stopped working. <...> The catastrophic unfolding of events could still be stopped if the world treated the situation in Ukraine as its own situation. If the powers that be would not flirt with Russia, but really put pressure on her to end the war.<...> Since May 26, 2014, and even more so since February 24 of this year, to this day, there have been many opportunities for those who really have for this, the strength to put an end to it and say: now Russia will really feel the full price for what it is doing against Ukraine, against European unity and against freedom as such."