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Russia has targeted civilian areas throughout its war against Ukraine, which has caused widespread death and destruction in residential areas of the country ...

A volunteer helps a man leaving his home in a building damaged by an overnight missile strike, in Sloviansk, Ukraine. Residents carry water in front of an apartment building damaged in an overnight missile strike, in Sloviansk, Ukraine. View of an apartment building damaged in an overnight missile strike, in Sloviansk, Ukraine.

“The Russians control 70% of Severodonetsk,” Luhansk governor Sergiy Gaiday wrote on Telegram. He said that some Ukrainian troops had retreated to “more ...

Gaiday said earlier Tuesday that 90% of the city had been destroyed after weeks of relentless shelling. “The Russians control 70% of Severodonetsk,” Luhansk governor Sergiy Gaiday wrote on Telegram. He said that some Ukrainian troops had retreated to “more favorable” positions while others continued fighting inside the city. Russian forces have seized 70% of the industrial city of Severodonetsk in a push to control eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region, the regional governor said Wednesday.

Get the latest updates here. Fighting. The United States will send Ukraine the M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS), equipped with munitions that ...

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called Russia’s bombing of Severodonetsk “madness” due to the number of chemical plants in the city. - German companies Uniper and RWE paid for Russian gas under a new scheme proposed by Moscow, in a bid to ensure continued supply of the fuel that is critical to Europe’s top economy. - Russia’s economy will not suffer from the EU’s oil embargo due to new markets and rising fuel prices, the chairwoman of Russia’s Federation Council said. - Pope Francis led an international prayer service in Rome for peace in Ukraine and other places stricken by war – an event attended by about a thousand people, including the Ukrainian ambassador to the Vatican and a number of people wearing the blue and yellow colours of the Ukrainian flag. - Moscow’s focus on seizing Severodonetsk and the Donbas region more generally risks its hold on Kherson, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) said. - Ukrainian forces have had some success near the southern city of Kherson and are advancing in parts of the Kharkiv region, Zelenskyy said.

Russian forces are closing in on the eastern city of Severodonetsk, with a regional military administration official saying troops have now taken control of ...

CNN previously reported that US officials were debating for weeks whether to send Ukraine the advanced rocket systems, because they can strike so much further than any weapons they already have. The M777 Howitzers the US sent to Ukraine last month, for example, marked a significant increase in range and power over previous systems, but even those top out at around 25 kilometers (18 miles) in range. The officials also said the new rocket systems will help put Ukraine “in the strongest possible position at the negotiating table” with Russia, and reiterated that the US will “not pressure the Ukrainian government in public or in private to make any territorial concessions.”

Russian forces are now in control of around 70% of Sievierodonetsk, a strategically important city in Ukraine's east, Luhansk regional governor Serhiy ...

A Russian victory in Sievierodonetsk and its twin city of Lysychansk across the Siverskyi Donets river would bring full control of Luhansk, one of two eastern provinces Moscow claims on behalf of separatists. Russian troops have now taken control of most of Sievierodonetsk, one of two provinces in the Donbas, regional Governor Serhiy Gaidai on Tuesday. Russian forces are now in control of around 70% of Sievierodonetsk, a strategically important city in Ukraine's east, Luhansk regional governor Serhiy Gaidai said on Wednesday.

Russian forces have taken control of most of the key Donbas city of Syevyerodonetsk amid fierce house-to-house fighting as Kyiv awaits delivery of crucial ...

"Forming a new government is of utmost importance because of the situation we are in, a difficult situation," he said. Thirty-seven people were injured in the collapse, while crews continue to search for more bodies. That's why he wants me to be hidden in an underground bunker, guarded by reliable people, just like himself," Navalny said in the series of six tweets. The same provision applies to calls for sanctions against Russia. Protests expanded, with demonstrators setting fire to tires and blocking roads in the nearby town of Shadegan late on May 31. And when they put me in jail, I dared to be disgruntled about it (silly me) and called for rallies. It was one of the opt-outs the Danes insisted on before adopting the EU’s founding document, the 1992 Maastricht Treaty, which laid the foundation for political and economic union. Several of Navalny's associates have already been charged with the same offense. The names of all 102 children were read aloud, while participants displayed white placards with their names and ages. he said, adding that everything must be done to solve the problem and guarantee people's basic right to food staples. The court also ordered Buynitski to pay a 3,520-ruble ($1,040) fine. RFE/RL's Live Briefing gives you all of the major developments on Russia's invasion, how Kyiv is fighting back, the plight of civilians, and Western reaction.

Russian troops are retreating and blowing up bridges in southern Ukraine to prevent a possible Ukrainian advance, a regional governor has said.

Please! Do not use wheat, a basic foodstuff, as a weapon of war," he added, to applause from the crowd. We are losing 60 to 100 soldiers every day and something like 500 wounded in combat,” Mr Zelensky told Newsmax in an interview on Tuesday. The system can launch a rocket capable of 48 miles (77km), the official said. "The Russians threatened that I would not have kidneys left." Russia previously halted natural gas supplies to Finland, Poland and Bulgaria for refusing a demand to pay in rubles. When I fell, I started to suffocate. "We stand firm in our refusal to pay in rubles, and we've been preparing for this scenario," Ørsted CEO Mads Nipper said. Ukrainian TV stations were quickly replaced with Russian state broadcasts. It is estimated that some 20m tonnes of grain are stuck in silos in Ukraine. At least 76 people have been killed and 59 injured in the attacks. "Our troops are holding defensive lines. "The 20 per cent is being fiercely defended by our armed forces," Stryuk said.

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Officials said that would halt two-thirds of Russia's oil exports to Europe at first, and 90% by the end of this year. The EU will ban imports of Russian oil by sea. Attempts are being made to drive out the Russian troops... Shortly after the U.S. decision was announced, the Russian defence ministry said Russia's nuclear forces were holding drills in the Ivanovo province, northeast of Moscow, the Interfax news agency reported. The report did not mention the U.S. decision. We have hope that despite everything we will free the city...," Stryuk said. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com He urged residents to remain inside. Ukrainian forces now control just 20% of Sievierodonetsk, Russian forces 60% and the rest has become a "no-man's land", Oleksandr Stryuk, the Ukrainian head of the city administration, told Reuters. read more Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com KYIV, June 1 (Reuters) - Russian forces on Wednesday pressed closer to the centre of an industrial city in a drive to grab a swathe of eastern Ukraine, while the United States said it would supply advanced rockets to Kyiv to help push Moscow to negotiate an end to the war. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com

U.S. President Joe Biden has pledged to send Ukraine more advanced rocket systems and munitions to more precisely strike key targets on the battlefield. The ...

Residents of Sievierodonetsk have been warned not to leave bomb shelters due to the risk posed by toxic fumes. U.S. President Joe Biden has pledged to send Ukraine more advanced rocket systems and munitions to more precisely strike key targets on the battlefield. "We believe that the U.S. is deliberately pouring oil on the fire. His comments come as Russian forces continue their offensive in the Donbas region. The war has rendered 3 million children inside Ukraine and over 2.2 million children in refugee-hosting countries in need of humanitarian aid, according to UNICEF, which estimated 2 in 3 children have been displaced by the fighting. Poland is receiving EU funds for the purpose, Morawiecki said. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky reaffirmed that the situation in the eastern region of the Donbas is "very difficult," saying Russian air strikes in Sievierodonetsk are "insanity," given the presence of a large-scale chemical plant in the city. Speaking to the RIA Novosti news agency, Ryabkov said of U.S. foreign policy that "the remnants of a responsible, sound approach to the situation have simply been scrapped." Russia has warned that U.S. President Joe Biden's decision to supply advanced rocket systems to Ukraine increases the risk of direct clashes between Moscow and Washington. Russia says Biden's arms supplies to Ukraine increase the risk of direct clashes with the U.S. Russia says U.S. adding fuel to the fire by supplying rockets to Ukraine Guterres reiterated that the world should have access to the Russian production of fertilizers and foods "that is also essential for global markets in the present situation."

Russian forces edged closer Wednesday to taking the key eastern Ukraine city of Severodonetsk but Kyiv's hopes of holding off their invaders were boosted by ...

"These days it is very important for the country, for all people, for all those who are fans and even for those who are not." But Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said it was up to the West and Kyiv to resolve the crisis, starting with the lifting of sanctions. Moscow said a "reorientation" was under way to find alternative destinations for its oil, as it moved to "minimise the negative consequences". "There are some river crossings that need to be completed after the closure of the (Ukraine-controlled) pocket and we've seen previously how difficult those river crossings are." In a boost for the outgunned Ukrainian military, President Joe Biden confirmed that more US weaponry was on the way to allow them to "more precisely strike key targets" in Ukraine. A key industrial hub and with Lysychansk the last pocket of resistence in the eastern Lugansk region, Severodonetsk has become a target of massive Russian firepower since the failed attempt to capture Kyiv.

Russian troops on Wednesday pressed their assault on a factory city targeted in their push to grab a swathe of eastern Ukraine, while the United States said ...

He said Lysychansk was easier to defend because it is located on a hill but that Russian forces would target it with artillery and mortars once in full control of Sievierodonetsk. The EU said it would ban imports of Russian oil by sea. Russia denies the accusations. Ukraine’s General Staff said Russian forces continued to pound northern, southern and eastern districts of Sievierodonetsk, in Luhansk, one of two provinces in the eastern Donbas region that Moscow claims on behalf of separatists. Russian forces now control about 70% of the city, said regional governor Serhiy Gaidai. He has previously said the city has been largely reduced to rubble and that Russian shelling has made it impossible to deliver aid or to evacuate people. "These systems will be used by the Ukrainians to repel Russian advances on Ukrainian territory, but they will not be used on targets in Russian territory," one U.S. official said.

The advanced rocket systems will mean that Ukraine “can fight on the battlefield and be in the strongest possible position at the negotiating table,” Biden ...

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. On Wednesday morning, he wrote in a Telegram post that Russian troops have consolidated in the city center, pushing in from the north, south and east. Oleksandr Petrakov, the team’s 64-year-old coach, was turned away when he tried to enlist. Separately, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Wednesday that Russia does not trust Ukraine’s assurances that U.S.-supplied HIMARS weapons would not be used to strike Russian territory. I make a heartfelt appeal that every effort be made to guarantee the universal human right to food. Unfortunately, there is no such experience at all,” Peskov told reporters when asked to comment on Zelensky’s remarks. “June 1st is International Day for the Protection of Children in Ukraine and across the region,” UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell said in the release. “Today, a simplified procedure for the people willing to adopt a child using the Diia portal has become operational,” Koshelenko said. Kyiv would also be supplied with a tracking radar to spot artillery, he said. The truck was about to pick up refugees near the embattled Ukrainian city of Severodonetsk. Blinken and Stoltenberg characterized Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to invade as a strategic failure. It’s fully within its power to do so.”

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Wednesday said international sanctions are affecting Russia's ability to export its own ...

Moscow offered customers receiving its natural gas to establish an account in dollars or euros at Russia’s third-largest bank, Gazprombank, then a second account in rubles. Kim didn’t specify exactly where the retreat he described was happening. Poland is receiving EU funds for the purpose, Morawiecki said. Baerbock said those were originally supposed to go to another country, which she didn’t identify. And, in principle, all the logistical and financial chains related to the supply of grain to world markets, they were under the sanctions of our Western colleagues.” ___ It also aims to ease shortages in military supplies and equipment. ___ ___ ___ He has said they’re not doing enough to fight Kurdish extremism. Roused by security concerns over Russia’s war on Ukraine, Finland and Sweden applied to join NATO last month.

The European Union is trying to approve a sixth sanctions package targeting Russia for its invasion of Ukraine but the debate is ongoing as Hungary is ...

Russia: Documents revealed that hundreds of Russian soldiers have escaped the fighting in Ukraine or refused to take part during the early stages of the war.

Compared with the same month of 2021, production was down more than 61%. Most economists expect Russia’s economy to contract this year, with the country’s central bank expecting to see a decline in output of between 8% and 10%. Rosstat said automobile production was down more than 30% from March, having fallen sharply in that month.

As Russia advances in eastern Ukraine's Donbas behind a barrage of artillery, the U.S. has met Kyiv's appeals for long-range missile systems.

“If the Ukrainians had two years to absorb all this, that would be no problem. Each city lost by Ukraine is a city leveled to the ground, making each retreat even more painful,” Horowitz said. “But each day the West hesitates is a day Russian artillery rules the battlefield. We’re asking the Ukrainians to do in a couple of weeks what it would take us several months to do." MLRS missiles typically have a range of up to 40 miles, and can be equipped with GPS-guided missiles. A senior Ukrainian official told NBC News after the announcement that he remained “very much worried… A defense official said Tuesday that the Defense Department believes it can get the training for Ukrainian troops down to a week or two for basic operations and that there will be longer training courses for maintenance of the system. “This is an active artillery war. “This war is about shooting and moving. Biden on Monday told reporters that the U.S. would not “send to Ukraine rocket systems that can strike into Russia." A senior administration official said Ukraine has agreed not to use them to launch rockets into Russia. He said that it wasn’t too late for the weapons to help Ukrainian forces defend positions and stanch further Russian advances in the Donbas. The HIMARS is a variant of the longer-range multiple-launch rocket system, or MLRS. The U.S. is sending four of the rocket launch systems to Ukraine.

Kherson. The Ukrainian military has liberated more than 20 settlements in Kherson Oblast, according to its governor, Hennadiy Lahuta. Sumy. Russia launched six ...

Mariupol. In the besieged port city of Mariupol, Russian troops force local residents to work for drinking water. Ukraine requested missiles with a longer range. Russia shut down the Ukrainian mobile network and internet connection in nearly all occupied territories, according to Ukraine’s General Staff. It is difficult to restore the connection as Russians control almost all necessary equipment, according to the Ukrainian State Communication Service. At least 4,113 civilians have been killed in Ukraine and 4,916 more have been injured, according to the UN. Donetsk and Luhansk regions suffered the most civilian casualties – 2,337 people were killed and 2,808 were injured. Severodonetsk. Russia now controls 70% of the eastern city of Severodonetsk, the head of the Luhansk regional military administration said Wednesday. According to him, part of the Ukrainian troops have "retreated to more advantageous positions" while others continue "fighting inside the city." Sumy. Russia launched six missiles on Sumy oblast on June 1, according to its Governor Dmytro Zhyvytsky. The casualties are yet to be determined.

Fighting continues in key eastern city as Volodymyr Zelenskiy says up to 100 Ukrainian soldiers dying each day.

Writing on Twitter he said: “We have an incomplete picture of the current combat status of the Ukrainian armed forces. If Ukraine regains Kherson, on the other hand, Ukraine will be in a much stronger position to defend itself against future Russian attack.” An official in southern Ukraine said Russian troops were retreating and blowing up bridges to obstruct a possible Ukrainian advance. The high levels of attrition on the Ukrainian side, whose defenders have been pounded by Russian shelling, was conceded by Zelenskiy in an interview with the US Newsmax TV channel. What you don’t want is rushing undertrained brigades into combat. “The situation is very difficult; we’re losing 60-100 soldiers per day as killed in action and something around 500 people as wounded in action.

Russian forces are closing in on the eastern city of Severodonetsk, with a regional military administration official saying troops have now taken control of ...

Blinken also said that regarding concerns about Russia interpreting the US sending these new weapon systems to Ukraine as escalatory, that President Biden had been clear with Russian President Vladimir Putin about the consequences of the Russian invasion, including sending security assistance to Ukraine.` It is now 32% higher to fill up your tank than it was the day before Russia invaded Ukraine. Seven states now average $5 or higher, with Illinois becoming the latest to join that unpopular club, according to AAA. New York and Arizona are just pennies away from the $5 threshold. In Luhansk and Donetsk, Russian troops shelled 21 areas on Tuesday, and destroyed 46 "civil objects," the statement said. “I think that all the territories controlled by Russia have a very good chance of being reunited with the Russian Federation. These are originally Russian territories, ” Tsekov said. - It's now over 30% higher to fill up your gas tank in the US than it was the day before Russia invaded Ukraine: Pump prices just took another big step in the wrong direction. "We know the enemy's goals and we are doing everything to stop them from achieving them." - Ukrainians say Russians control eastern districts of Severodonetsk but have been repelled elsewhere: According to the Ukrainian military, Russian forces have tried without success to advance on several fronts Wednesday but have met resistance and fallen back. That is far less than the systems’ maximum range but far greater than anything Ukraine has been sent to date. The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces reported that the Russians "continue to storm Severodonetsk and establish control over the city's eastern part." We will continue to lead the world in providing historic assistance to support Ukraine’s fight for freedom.” “I am announcing a significant new security assistance package to provide timely and critical aid to the Ukrainian military. - Russian foreign minister says Ukraine's demand for US advanced rockets is a "direct provocation": Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Wednesday that Ukraine’s demands to the West regarding thesupply of advanced rocket launchersgo beyond “all limits and decency" and is a "direct provocation.” He continued: "Such risks [of involving third countries in the Ukrainian conflict], of course, exist, what the Kyiv regime demands so categorically, in a business-like way, I would say, from its Western patrons, firstly, goes beyond all the limits of decency and diplomatic communication, and secondly, this is a direct provocation aimed at drawing the West into hostilities.

KYIV, Ukraine — A regional Ukrainian governor on Wednesday said Russian troops have taken control of about 80 percent of the key city of Sievierodonetsk.

Kim didn’t specify exactly where the retreat he described was happening. Poland is receiving EU funds for the purpose, Morawiecki said. Baerbock said those were originally supposed to go to another country, which she didn’t identify. And, in principle, all the logistical and financial chains related to the supply of grain to world markets, they were under the sanctions of our Western colleagues.” It also aims to ease shortages in military supplies and equipment. He has said they’re not doing enough to fight Kurdish extremism. Roused by security concerns over Russia’s war on Ukraine, Finland and Sweden applied to join NATO last month. “We have seen that in the Balkans region,” Stock said. Luhansk Gov. Serhiy Haidai said Russian troops were advancing amid fierce street battles with Ukrainian defenders of the city. ___ ___ KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Wednesday that 200,000 children are among the Ukrainians who have been forcefully taken to Russia and dispersed across the vast country.

Russia hits back at US supply of medium-range rocket systems; Russian forces control two-thirds of Sievierodonetsk; Ukraine suffers 100 casualties a day.

Blinken saidthere was a “strong consensus within Nato, broadly,to support the rapid accession of Sweden and Finland” to Nato and he was confident it would happen. Western officials said Ukraine’s estimate that it is losing 60 to 100 troops a day killed is “pretty credible”. Russia’s foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, said the supply of US advanced rocket systems toUkraineincreases the risk of a “third country” being dragged into the conflict. The expected loss of Sievierodonetsk, the largest citystill held by Kyiv in the Luhansk region, “is unlikely to be the crux”of Russia’s Donbas campaign, a western official said. Anton Gerashchenko, an adviser to the country’s interior minister, said the Russians hit the Beskidy railway tunnel in the Carpathian Mountains in an apparent effort to cut a key railway link and disrupt shipments of weapons and fuel. It will take at least three weeks to get the precision weapons and trained troops on to the battlefield, the Pentagon said.