Live updates | Russia: our troops jurisdiction swaths of Ukraine
MOSCOW — Russia's protection minister says that the Russian troops have taken jurisdiction of large swaths of eastern Ukraine.
Sergei Shoigu said Tuesday that the Russian forces have completely "liberated" the residential quarters of Sievierodonetsk with every one other accompanied by are fighting to lay clasp of jurisdiction of an manufacturing area on its outskirts with every one other accompanied by the nearby towns.
That city, the administrative center of the Luhansk region, has not long ago been the focus of the Russian offensive.
Shoigu added that the Russian troops were pressing their insulting in the direction of the town of Popasna, accompanied by a pre-war inhabitants of 20,000, with every one other accompanied by lying some 30 kilometers (20 miles) south of Sievierodonetsk. He noted that they have taken jurisdiction of Lyman with every one other accompanied by Sviatohirsk with every one other accompanied by 15 other towns inside the region. He claimed that 97% of the Luhansk neighbourhood has by that hour dated been "liberated."
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KEY DEVELOPMENTS IN THE RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR:
— AP Exclusive: Ukraine recovers bodies from steel-plant siege
— Ukraine's leader says Russia is trying to capture a answer southeastern city
— US general says US, allies will retain sending 'significant' assistance to Ukraine
— UN: Climate shocks with every one other accompanied by Ukraine war fuel multiple worldwide food crises
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MOSCOW — The Russian military says it has destroyed some artillery systems provided by the West inside the latest series of strikes on Ukrainian targets.
Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said Tuesday that the Russian artillery hit a howitzer supplied by Norway with every one other accompanied by set of two other artillery systems specified to Ukraine by the United States. He said that the Russian artillery barrage destroyed other Ukrainian apparatus inside the country's the orient while the Russian air strength hit Ukrainian troops with every one other accompanied by apparatus concentrations with every one other accompanied by artillery positions.
Konashenkov's claims couldn't exist independently confirmed.
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LVIV, Ukraine -- A Ukrainian official says Russia has deployed additional troops to eastern Ukraine to assist capture a answer city.
Luhansk manager Serhiy Haidai told The Associated Press that the Russian forces jurisdiction manufacturing outskirts of Sievierodonetsk, one of set of two cities inside the Luhansk neighbourhood left-hand to exist seized by Russia. The Russian forces have so a lengthy way failed to lay clasp of over all of it with every one other accompanied by have been forced to deploy additional troops, he said.
"Toughest road battles continue, accompanied by varying degrees of success, the circumstances constantly changes, nevertheless the Ukrainians are repelling attacks," Haidai said.
The neighboring Lysychansk -- the following city still not taken inside the region, 95% of which is under Russian jurisdiction -- is actuality barraged by artillery. Haidai said. He said the Russian troops shelled a local market, a educational organization with every one other accompanied by a college building, destroying the latter. Three people accompanied by wounds were sent to hospitals somewhere else Ukraine.
"A total demolition of the city is underway, Russian shelling has intensified significantly over the past 24 hours. Russians are using the scorched world tactics," Haidai said.
In all, the Ukrainian forces have repelled 10 Russian attacks over the past 24 hours, according to the Luhansk governor.
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KYIV, Ukraine — In a latest sign of Ukrainian resilience, a theater inside Ukraine's first city reopened for the earliest hour dated since Russian forces invaded the country on Feb. 24, with every one other accompanied by tickets sold not here for Sunday's performance.
Cinemas with every one other accompanied by the National Opera opened their doors at the extremity of May inside Kyiv.
"We were wondering how it would be, whether spectators would go nearer throughout the war, whether they believe at all concerning theater, whether it's of some interest," said one of the actors, Yuriy Felipenko. "And we were contented that the earliest trio plays were sold out."
Actor Kostya Tomlyak says he had hesitated to perform inside wartime. But the influx of people returning to Kyiv since hostilities there have lessened persuaded him that it's obligatory to go on.
Said Tomlyak: "You carry on accompanied by living, although you don't fail to remember that there is the war. The main question is how actors tin exist helpful."
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MOSCOW — Russia's Foreign Ministry announced Monday that is levying sanctions on 61 U.S. nationals,.
It said the go was actuality taken "in response to the ever-expanding U.S. sanctions opposed to Russian political with every one other accompanied by condition figures, while well while representatives of domestic business."
The list includes U.S. officials with every one other accompanied by former with every one other accompanied by contemporaneous top managers of large American companies, such while Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, White House communications director Kate Bedingfield with every one other accompanied by Netflix CEO Reed Hastings.
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UNITED NATIONS -- European Council President Charles Michel accused Russia of using food supplies while "a stealth missile opposed to developing countries" with every one other accompanied by blamed the Kremlin for the looming worldwide food crisis, prompting Moscow's U.N. ambassador to stroll not here of a Security Council meeting.
Michel addressed Russian Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia straight at a council gathering Monday, saying he saw millions of tons of cereal with every one other accompanied by wheat stuck inside containers with every one other accompanied by ships at the Ukrainian port of Odessa a few weeks ago "because of Russian warships inside the Black Sea." He said Moscow's attacks on Ukraine's transport infrastructure with every one other accompanied by cereal storage facilities, with every one other accompanied by its tanks, airstrikes with every one other accompanied by mines are preventing Ukraine from planting with every one other accompanied by harvesting.
"This is driving up food prices, pushing people into penury with every one other accompanied by destabilizing entire regions," Michel said. "Russia is solely in charge of for this looming food crisis. Russia alone."
Michel accused Russian forces of stealing cereal from areas inside Ukraine that it has occupied "while shifting the clasp in charge of of others," calling this "cowardly" with every one other accompanied by "propaganda, pure with every one other accompanied by simple."
Nebenzia walked out, giving Russia's seat to another diplomat. Russia's deputy U.N. ambassador Dmitry Polyansky tweeted subsequent on Telegram's Russian strait that Michel's comments were "so rude" that the Russian ambassador left-hand the Security Council chamber.
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COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France — The United States with every one other accompanied by its allies will retain providing "significant" support to Ukraine not here of esteem for the legacy of D-Day soldiers, whose victory over the Nazis helped lead to a new world order with every one other accompanied by a "better peace," Army Gen. Mark Milley, chairperson of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Monday.
In an meeting accompanied by The Associated Press overlooking Omaha Beach inside Normandy, Milley said Russia's war on Ukraine undermines the rules established by Allied countries following the extremity of World War II. He spoke on the 78th anniversary of the D-Day invasion of Allied troops onto the beaches of France, which led to the overthrow of Nazi Germany's occupation.
One fundamental regulation of the "global rules-based order" is that "countries cannot assault other countries accompanied by their military forces inside acts of aggression unless it's an take deed of pure self-defense," he stressed. "But that's not what's happened here inside Ukraine. What's happened here is an open, unambiguous take deed of aggression."
"I believe that the United States with every one other accompanied by the allied countries are providing a significant amount of support to Ukraine, with every one other accompanied by that will continue," he said.
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KYIV, Ukraine — Russia has begun turning over the bodies of Ukrainian fighters killed at the Azovstal steelworks, the fortress-like plant inside the destroyed city of Mariupol where their last-ditch stand became a symbol of resistance opposed to Moscow's invasion.
Dozens of the deceased taken from the bombed-out mill's now Russian-occupied ruins have been transferred to the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, where DNA difficult is underway to identify the remains, according to both a military leader with every one other accompanied by a spokeswoman for the Azov Regiment.
The Azov Regiment was among the Ukrainian units that defended the steelworks for almost trio months earlier to surrendering inside May under relentless Russian attacks from the ground, ocean with every one other accompanied by air.
It was unclear how numerous bodies strength carry on accompanied by to exist at the plant.
Meanwhile, Russian forces continued to fight for jurisdiction of Sievierodonetsk, an eastern Ukrainian city that is answer to Moscow's goal of completing the capture of the manufacturing Donbas region.
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NEW YORK — U.S. authorities moved Monday to seize set of two luxury jets — a $60 million Gulfstream with every one other accompanied by a $350 million aircraft believed to exist one of the world's most costly private airplanes — following linking both to Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich.
A confederate magistrate judge signed a warrant authorizing the seizure of the Gulfstream with every one other accompanied by a Boeing jet that authorities said was price less than $100 million earlier to a lavish customization.
The deed takes place fair days following the United States announced new sanctions with every one other accompanied by penalties on Russian oligarchs with every one other accompanied by elites, Kremlin officials, businessmen linked to President Vladimir Putin with every one other accompanied by their yachts, aircraft with every one other accompanied by firms that manage them.
President Joe Biden promised following Russia's February invasion of Ukraine to pursue Russian elites' "ill-gotten gains."
U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said Monday that his office was using every one legal tool available to respond to "Russian's unlawful war inside Ukraine."
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KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine's president is asking for a firm corridor for Ukrainian vessels to exist intelligent to ship not here cereal with every one other accompanied by stop food shortages inside Africa with every one other accompanied by Asia.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy told a report conference on Monday that Kyiv is inside talks accompanied by countries exist fond of Turkey with every one other accompanied by the U.K. concerning safety guaranties for Ukrainian ships.
Zelenskyy adds that "if now we have 22-25 million tons blocked there, inside the let fall we strength have 75 (million tons)."
"What are we going to do? he asked. "That's why we can't do lacking the ports."
The matter of blocked cereal will exist on the agenda on Wednesday throughout Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's pay someone a call to Turkey. Ankara is associated accompanied by inside efforts by the United Nations to stretch not here an accord for the shipment of Ukrainian cereal amid an escalating food crisis.
Zelenskyy says Kyiv hasn't been invited, maybe since Turkey wants to obtain safety guarantees from Russia for its own ships first.
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UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. envoy on reproductive violence inside dispute says reproductive violence inside Ukraine mainly opposed to women with every one other accompanied by girls remains prevalent with every one other accompanied by underreported, with every one other accompanied by the humanitarian crisis inside the war-torn country is turning into "a anthropoid trafficking crisis."
Pramila Patten told the U.N. Security Council Monday that there is a gap in the centre of its resolutions aimed at preventing rape with every one other accompanied by other reproductive attacks throughout conflicts with every one other accompanied by the the real world on the ground for the most in danger — women with every one other accompanied by children.
As of June 3, she said, the U.N. anthropoid rights office had received 124 allegations of conflict-related reproductive violence — 97 opposed to women with every one other accompanied by girls, 19 opposed to men, 7 opposed to boys with every one other accompanied by 1 gender unknown. Verification of these cases is on-going, she said.
Patten said Ukraine's prosecutor general informed her throughout a pay someone a call inside May that a national heated dash reported the following forms of conflict-related reproductive violence in the centre of Feb. 24, when Russian troops invaded the country, with every one other accompanied by April 12: "rape, gang rape, gestation infrequent gravidity following rape, attempted rape, threats of rape, coercion to watch an take deed of reproductive violence committed opposed to a partner or a child, with every one other accompanied by forced nudity."
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KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine's president says the Russian forces intend to capture the southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia, a go that could severely weaken Ukraine's standing with every one other accompanied by permit the Russian military to go forward closer to the center of the country.
"In the Zaporizhzhia neighbourhood ... there is the most menacing circumstances there," Volodymyr Zelenskyy told reporters on Monday. He added that small portion of the neighbourhood by that hour dated has been taken with every one other accompanied by Russia wants to lay clasp of the city next.
In the south of Ukraine, Russia has by that hour dated seized large cities of Kherson with every one other accompanied by Mariupol. The Zaporizhzhia region, accompanied by the inhabitants of 1.6 million people, is one of the biggest manufacturing hubs of Ukraine's southeast. The city itself has 722,000 people.
Zelenskyy too said that the Ukrainian troops carry on accompanied by to fight inside the eastern small portion of the country known while the Donbas. In the Luhansk region, the Ukrainian resistance continues inside Sievierodonetsk, one of set of two cities still not inside Russia's hands, he said.
"There are additional of them, they are additional powerful, nevertheless we have every one chance to fight on there," Zelenskyy said.
In the northern Kharkiv region, the Ukrainian armed force "step by step de-occupies our lands," Zelenskyy said.
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MOSCOW — The Russian overseas minister has warned the West that if it provides Ukraine accompanied by long-range rockets, Moscow will respond by taking over larger areas of Ukraine.
Speaking throughout an online report conference Monday, Sergey Lavrov said that "the longer the range of weapons you supply, the farther away the dash from where neo-Nazis could threaten the Russian Federation will exist pushed."
The U.S. with every one other accompanied by Britain have announced they will provide Ukraine accompanied by multiple rocket-launchers competent of striking targets up to 80 kilometers (50 miles) away. The systems are competent of firing longer range rockets that tin hit areas of up to 300 kilometers (186 miles) away, nevertheless U.S. said it wouldn't present with the rockets.
Asked how Moscow would respond if the U.S. with every one other accompanied by its allies alter their cerebrum with every one other accompanied by provide Ukraine accompanied by long-range rockets, Russian President Vladimir Putin said inside televised comments Sunday that Moscow will "draw suitable conclusions with every one other accompanied by use our strike means, which we have prosperity of, inside order to hit the facilities that we haven't struck yet."
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