Cover image: A Ukrainian soldier, on the front line, in the middle of a field. May 22, 2023. LIBKOS / AP
- Ukrainian forces are now defending positions in sparsely populated areas on the outskirts of Bakhmout according to Kyiv Independent. Ukrainian troops are still able to approach the city, but due to the heavy artillery of the Russian army, the movement of equipment and vehicles to the positions is ” complicated “, says the newspaper. The counterattacks were ultimately not enough to stop Russia’s final advance in the last streets of the city, adds the Ukrainian media.
- Russians and Ukrainians continue to dispute the claim of control of Bakhmout, in eastern Ukraine. The Ukrainian army claims to carry out counter-attacks in this devastated city, which the Russian paramilitary group Wagner and Moscow claimed they had taken control of over the weekend. The boss of the Wagner Group, Evgueni Prigojine, has also announced the forthcoming departure of his troops, to leave the positions to the Russian army.
- Russian authorities reported on Monday the “entry of a sabotage and reconnaissance group of the Ukrainian army into the district of Graivoron”, which is located in the Russian region of Belgorod, bordering Ukraine. Vladimir Putin was informed of this. According to his spokesperson, the operation aims to ” To divert attention “ the capture of Bakhmout, claimed by Moscow but denied by kyiv.
- The governor of the region reported six injuries and announced the establishment of a “legal regime of anti-terrorist operation zone”, which gives increased powers to the authorities to carry out armed operations, control civilians or even evacuate populations. This is a first since the start of the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. He also announced the evacuation of civilians in the area where the incursion is taking place.
- kyiv denied, as usual, any involvement, but the Ukrainian intelligence services confirmed that Russian rebels engaged alongside Ukrainian forces had launched an offensive in the Russian oblast of Belgorod. The operation carried out by the Freedom Legion of Russia and the Russian Volunteer Corps aims to “liberate these territories from the regime of [Vladimir] Cheese fries “said a spokesperson.
- Violent clashes took place in other towns and villages in the east, including Marinka and Avdiivka, in Donetsk Oblastaccording to a press release from the Ukrainian general staff, which specifies that the Russians carried out four missile strikes and forty-five air strikes on Sunday.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky left Japan on Sunday evening, where he had two days of face-to-face meetings with his G7 counterparts.but also with the leaders of third countries invited to the summit, with whom he pleaded in favor of his ten-point peace plan, centered on the requirement of a withdrawal of Russian troops.
- Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, very reluctant to condemn the Russian invasion, said he was “displeased” on Monday at not having met face to face with his Ukrainian counterpart, at the G7 summit in Hiroshima.
- Russia claimed on Sunday that the presence of the Ukrainian president at the G7 had made the summit a “propaganda spectacle”which delivered messages “anti-Russian” And “anti-Chinese”.
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