Russia-Ukraine War Russian

2022 - 6 - 5

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Russia-Ukraine war live updates: Putin threatens new targets if ... (The Washington Post)

Explosions hit Kyiv. Ukraine regained ground in Severodonetsk. Kyiv rebuked French President Emmanuel Macron.

The Institute for the Study of War said Ukraine appears to be having some success slowing Russia’s advances and its defenses “remain strong.” Severodonetsk is one of the last cities standing in the way of Russia controlling the entire Luhansk region. The weapons: Ukraine is making use of weapons such as Javelin antitank missiles and Switchblade “kamikaze” drones, provided by the United States and other allies. Severodonetsk: Ukrainian forces are regaining land and now control about half of this city, according to the governor of the Luhansk region, Serhiy Haidai. Russian forces had captured about 70 percent last week. Elsewhere in Luhansk: Haidai countered a Friday assessment by Britain’s Defense Ministry that Russian forces would probably control all of the heavily contested Luhansk region in the next two weeks. In March, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church said a bomb fell near a bridge and blasted the facility, breaking windows. Kirill has been a supporter of Russian President Vladimir Putin and the invasion. Russia’s Defense Ministry, meanwhile, said in a Telegram post that Ukrainian forces are suffering “critical losses” in the fight for Severodonetsk and are retreating. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said recently that Ukraine is losing up to 100 soldiers daily in the conflict. “It controls the eastern part of the city.” The conflict has raised tensions between the Ukrainian and the Russian Orthodox churches. The monastery is part of the Svyatogorsk Lavra, a sacred site along the Siversky Donets river. An intense street-by-street fight continues for territory in the key eastern city of Severodonetsk and surrounding areas, where Kyiv’s forces said they have regained ground.

Explosions rock Ukraine's capital after weeks of relative calm (Aljazeera.com)

The attack on Kyiv is the first since Russia turned its military focus to the east and south of Ukraine.

Moscow instead claimed its own forces were making gains in the city. “The city is now, more or less, divided in half.” “Services are already working on site.”

Will Hit New Targets In Ukraine If...: Putin's Warning To West Over ... (NDTV)

Russian President Vladimir Putin warned Sunday that Moscow will hit new targets if the West supplies Ukraine with long-range missiles, hours after several ...

Ukraine and Russia are among the top wheat exporters in the world. to strike targets we haven't hit before". "We are currently doing everything necessary to re-establish total control" of the city, he said in an interview broadcast on Telegram. In the east of the country, Russian and Ukrainian forces fought for control of Severodonetsk -- the largest city still in Ukrainian hands in the Lugansk region of the Donbas region. "The Russians were in control of about 70 percent of the city, but have been forced back over the past two days," Gaiday said on Telegram. The battle for the control of the strategically important eastern city of Severodonetsk also raged on, with regional governor Sergiy Gaiday saying Ukrainian forces now control "half of the city".

Russia-Ukraine war: what we know on day 103 of the invasion (The Guardian)

Putin warns that Moscow will hit new targets if west supplies Ukraine with long-range missiles as Kyiv reels from first attack in more than a month.

Nato kicked off nearly a two-week US-led naval exercise on the Baltic Sea on Sunday with more than 7,000 sailors, airmen and marines from 16 nations, including Finland and Sweden whom aspire to join the military alliance. Ukrainian forces havecounterattacked and retaken half of the city of Sievierodonetskin the east of the country, officials said. Russiastruck Ukraine’s capital Kyiv with missilesearly on Sunday for the first time in more than a month. The comments were made in response to a pledge from the US went through with the delivery of Himars rocket artillery that the White House promised last week. Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov’s visit to Serbia has been cancelled after countries around Serbia closed their airspace to his aircraft, according to local media reports. Britain is tosupply long-range rocket artillery to Ukraine, including a handful of tracked M270 multiple launch rocket systems, which can hit targets up to 80km (50 miles) away.

Russia hits Kyiv with missiles; Putin warns West on arms (Associated Press)

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia took aim Sunday at Western military supplies for Ukraine, launching airstrikes on Kyiv that it claimed destroyed tanks donated ...

Dozens of military doctors and paramedic ambulances worked to evacuate civilians and Ukrainian servicemen, and a hospital was busy treating the injured, many hurt by artillery shelling. In remarks carried by Ukraine’s Unian news agency, Petro Andriushchenko said Russian authorities controlling the city have imposed a quarantine. He received a battle report, thanked troops and met with refugees in what was only his second public visit outside the Kyiv area since the war began. Ukraine’s railway authority subsequently led reporters on a guided tour of a rail car repair plant in eastern Kyiv that it said was hit by four missiles. Both sides in the conflict have been waging an information war, especially on television, along with military attacks. “All this fuss around additional deliveries of weapons, in my opinion, has only one goal: to drag out the armed conflict as much as possible,” Putin said. Two residents of that district said the warehouse-type structure that billowed smoke was part of a tank-repair facility. However, a government adviser said on national TV that military infrastructure also was targeted. Ukraine said the missiles aimed at the capital hit a train repair shop. Military analysts say Russia hopes to overrun Ukraine’s embattled eastern industrial Donbas region, where Russia-backed separatists have fought the Ukrainian government since 2014, before the arrival of any U.S. weapons that might turn the tide. Residents described waking to the sound of missile strikes, with rubble and glass falling down around them. It came days after the United States announced plans to deliver $700 million of security assistance for Ukraine that includes four precision-guided, medium-range rocket systems, as well as helicopters, Javelin anti-tank systems, radars, tactical vehicles and more.

UK to supply Ukraine with rocket systems; Kyiv airstrikes hit train ... (CNBC)

Explosions were reported in Kyiv after missiles hit key sites, the mayor of the Ukrainian capital city said.

CNBC was not able to immediately confirm the troop movements. CNBC was not able to immediately confirm the report. It said using proxy troops is a Russian tactic that was previously seen in Syria and suggests a desire to limit casualties among Moscow's own forces. Ukrainian officials have been asking the West for weeks to send advanced, longer-range rocket systems to aid them in the war. Haidai also said Russian occupiers lost a huge number of personnel and eight Russians were taken prisoner. It would take place in Latvia, where the Spanish Army has deployed 500 soldiers within the framework of NATO's Enhanced Advanced Presence operation. "We don't have any military machinery on our factory," Kamyshin wrote in a tweet. Some of Ukraine's primary export infrastructure, including rail yards, bridges and warehouses, have been targeted and damaged by Russian attacks. "There are locals there, who were asked to leave the city," Serhiy Haidai told the news outlet. The Guardian published a video from Ukraine's national police force that shows damaged buildings. 98 people chose security," Haidai wrote, according to an NBC News translation. In Kyiv, missile strikes hit a train-repair facility and other infrastructure.