The Russian and Ukrainian troops exchanged blows in a combat nearly quarter in the eastern part of the nation affected by the war as a soldiers of Moscow, supported by intense bombardments, tried to take a strategic foot for conquer the region. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky also made a rare front line visit to Kharkiv, the second largest city in the country, to assess the Force of National Defense. The Russian forces stormed Sievierodonetsk after trying without success to surround the strategic city of the eastern region, said Ukrainian officials. Zelensky described the situation there as “indescribablely difficult”, with an implacable Russian artillery dam destroying critical infrastructure and damaging 90% of the buildings.
Here are the best updates on the Russian-Ukraine war:
1. Zelensky made his first trip Sunday in the east torn by the war since the beginning of the invasion of Moscow, while the Russian forces tightened their grip in the key cities of the Donbas region. After visiting Kharkiv, Zelensky announced that he had “dismissed the northeast security chief,” reported the news agency Reuters. The Ukrainian president said that the senior official had been dismissed “for not having worked to defend the city of the first days of the war on a large scale, but thinking only of himself”, and that if others had Worked “very effectively”, the former chef had not.
2. The Russian forces maintained their bombing of the city of the Northeast by far, and explosions could be heard shortly after the visit of Zelensky. The bombings and air strikes have destroyed more than 2,000 apartments in the city since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, according to the regional governor, Oleh Syniehubov.
3. The Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Lavrov, said on Sunday that the “liberation” of the region of eastern Ukraine is an “unconditional priority” for Moscow; Other territories should decide their future by themselves. Having failed to take the Kyiv capital at the start of the war, Russia seeks to consolidate its grip on donbas, of which large parts are already controlled by separatists supported by Moscow, reports Reuters.
4. In a television interview later Sunday, Zelensky said that he thought that “Russia would agree to speak if Ukraine could resume the whole territory it had lost” since the invasion that Reuters has quoted as . But he excluded the idea of using force to win back all the land that Ukraine has lost against Russia since 2014.
5. The Ukrainian government has exhorted the West to provide it with longer term weapons in order to turn the wave in the war, now in its fourth month. The president expressed the hope that weapons would be provided and that he expected “good news” in the coming days.
6. Analysts at the Institute for the War Study in Washington said that the Russians have still failed to surround Sierododonetk and the Ukrainian defenders made them “frightening victims”, reported Reuters on Sunday.
7. During this time, Germany has decided to modify its constitution to allow a special defense fund based on credit of 100 billion euros (107.35 billion dollars) proposed after the invasion of Ukraine by Russia announced the German finance ministry. An agreement was concluded on Sunday evening to create a special fund for military purchases which will also allow Berlin to reach the NATO objective to spend two percent of the GDP for the defense.
8. In terms of diplomatic efforts to put an end to the war, the governments of the European Union have not accepted a Russian oil embargo on Sunday, but will continue the talks to prohibit the maritime deliveries of Russian oil while authorizing Deliveries by pipeline. If they are agreed, an agreement would allow Hungary, Slovakia and Cheche to continue to receive their Russian oil via the Druzhba pipeline for a while until alternative supplies can be organized.
9. More than 30,000 Russian soldiers have been killed since the start of the Ukraine war, said Kyiv. More than 60 million people have been moved from their homes in the country torn by the war.
10. The Kremlin launched the offensive against the country to “Dénazify the country”.
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