US president says move will enable Ukraine 'to more precisely strike key targets'; most of Sievierodonetsk under Russian control.
Serhiy Haidai, Ukraine’s governor of Luhansk, has said that Russia now controls 70% of the city of Sievierodonetsk, which is the main crucible of Russia’s attack at the present time, and a key objective if Russian forces are to control the whole of the Donbas region. The UK’s ministry of defence latest assessment of the situation on the ground in Ukraine says: “Russian ground operations remain tightly focused, with the weight of fire power concentrated within a small sector of Luhansk oblast. Russia has said that a US decision to supply advanced rocket systems and munitions to Ukraine was extremely negative and would increase the risk of a direct confrontation. Senegal’s president, Macky Sall, who chairs the union, said “the worst is perhaps ahead of us” if current global food supply trends continued. The US president, Joe Biden, has confirmed he will send the more advanced, longer-range rocket systems to Kyiv, a critical weapon that Ukrainian leaders have been asking for as they struggle to stall Russian progress in the Donbas region. We have to realise who is the dark power: it’s Russia. And Russia is not going to stop in Ukraine, for sure. There’s gaps in some of the leaders saying the Russian leader should be offered with a way out. The BBC has gathered multiple first-hand testimonies from Kherson residents who say they were tortured while in the hands of Russian forces. We have to realise who is the dark power: it’s Russia. And Russia is not going to stop in Ukraine, for sure. There’s gaps in some of the leaders saying the Russian leader should be offered with a way out. Attempts are being made to drive out the Russian troops. The hottest in Toshkivka and Zolote, orcs [a slang term for Russian forces] deliberately roam the high-rises.
Pitched street battles raged in Sievierodonetsk as Russian forces pushed into the city center. Germany promised Ukraine an advanced air-defense system, ...
“They need to think of the people,” she said. At the top of that list is the Russian army’s lack of a noncommissioned officers corps empowered to think for itself, Pentagon officials said. He also argued that Mr. Biden would be escalating the conflict with Russia if he conflated cyberattacks with an act of war to justify seizing Russian assets. “The Russians took Kharkiv for a short period of time; the Ukrainians counterattacked and took Kharkiv back,” Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III said at a news conference at the Pentagon last week. The tone of Mr. Biden’s article indicated that he believed Americans should prepare for the war to continue for a long time. “Standing by Ukraine in its hour of need is not just the right thing to do,” he wrote. Nearby, Russian forces were trying to push southward, part of a pincer move to trap the Ukrainian troops still holding a pocket of territory in the two eastern provinces of Donetsk and Luhansk. The area where a limb was amputated changes shape and size in the months following a traumatic injury, a process that she said she has to let finish naturally. But Mr. Biden also offered specific assurances for Mr. Putin that the United States does not intend to provoke a wider conflict or the use of weapons of mass destruction. Artem Sandul, 20, pulled on a cigarette under the cover of a wood and mud bunker in the trenches as dawn broke. Pope Francis appealed on Wednesday for a resolution to the effective blockade of grain exports from Ukraine. “Please do not use wheat, a staple food, as a weapon of war,” Francis said to the faithful who had gathered in St. Peter’s Square for his weekly audience. Kherson was the first major Ukrainian city to fall to Russian hands in the war.
Notable, Kyiv has been urging its western allies to provide these types of weapons to stall Russian progress in the Donbas regions. The United States is not ...
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia's combat power is at "maximum" strength in the Donbas region, which includes Luhansk.
The ICC joined the effort the following month to “deepen cooperation and collaboration” with the states involved. The new charge came to light just a few days after a court upheld Navalny’s nine-year sentence in a separate fraud case. Ukrainian forces say their counterattacks have managed to push back Russian troops from the city of Kharkiv, the country’s second-largest. He encouraged residents to wear gas masks if they have them. But the bloc made concessions to exempt pipeline deliveries, and several countries will get extensions or exemptions to the ban, according to E.U. officials and diplomats. Pipeline deliveries are exempt from the ban, a concession to holdout countries — especially Hungary, which is heavily reliant on oil from Russia and had blocked a deal for weeks. “I am grateful to everyone who worked to reach this agreement,” Zelensky said during a Tuesday evening address. A local separatist leader said the port city had started shipping grain to Moscow — amid a Russian blockade of Ukrainian grain exports elsewhere. It is “impossible” to get humanitarian aid in, or people out, because of the Russian shelling, he said. On Tuesday, the American ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, acknowledged that companies looking to export Russian grain “are a little nervous,” even though the United States has not sanctioned such products. The Institute for the Study of War, a Washington-based think tank, said Ukraine’s decision to apparently withdraw troops from Severodonetsk is “strategically sound, however painful.” I can’t remember when I spoke to him last.”
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.
Berlin accuses the Kremlin of attempting to 'flatten' and 'depopulate' the conflict-hit eastern Ukrainian region.
“Our mood, I would describe as a fighting mood, because everyone understands what is going on in Ukraine these days.” “The EPP supports the candidate status for our Ukraine friends.” "We want to see a democratic, independent, sovereign and prosperous Ukraine with the means to deter and defend itself against further aggression." Russia’s all-out assault on the city has been met by tough resistance from Ukrainian forces. It added that Ukrainian forces were now withdrawing from Severodonetsk, allowing Russian forces to move in “relatively quickly”. “The decision should be made by the residents themselves, and I am sure that they will accept it. New: Moscow’s focus on seizing#Severodonetsk(and Donbas) is creating vulnerabilities for Russia in Kherson Oblast, where Ukrainian counter-offensives continue. Russia had previously halted natural gas supplies to Finland, Poland and Bulgaria for refusing a demand to pay for its exports in roubles. “We stand firm in our refusal to pay in roubles, and we’ve been preparing for this scenario,” CEO Mads Nipper said. He said Germany will also supply Ukraine with radar systems to help locate enemy artillery. When asked how Russia would respond if Ukraine used US-supplied rockets to strike Russian territory, Peskov said: “Let’s not talk about worst-case scenarios.” “City by city, village by village, Russian troops are destroying them from a safe distance,” she said.
Russia's military said it's holding drills that involve nuclear-capable missiles but gave no indication if a test-launch is imminent. European Union leaders ...