June 5 (Reuters) – Kyiv was shaken by several explosions in the early hours of Sunday, the mayor of the Ukrainian capital said, a day after officials said troops had recaptured part of the city from the camp. Battle of Sievierodonetsk in a counter-offensive against Russia. Read more
FIGHT
* Ukrainian forces have counterattacked in Sievierodonetsk in eastern Ukraine, the British Defense Ministry said, while regional governor Serhiy Gaidai said Russian forces continue to storm the city, controlling part of it. oriental.
* Russia’s Defense Ministry said Ukrainian forces were retreating to the city of Lysychansk after suffering “critical losses” of up to 90% in some units during the fighting for the next Sievierodonetsk.
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* Russia’s Defense Ministry said its forces shot down a Ukrainian military transport plane carrying weapons and ammunition near the port of Odessa in the Black Sea.
* Reuters could not independently verify battlefield reports.
DIPLOMACY, ECONOMICS
* Putin will talk about the war in an interview that will be broadcast on national television on Sunday. In a brief excerpt, the Russian news agency RIA quoted him as saying that Moscow was easily confronted with the US weapons systems sent to Ukraine and had destroyed dozens of them.
* Ukraine rebuked Frenchman Macron for saying it was important not to “humiliate” Russia, a position that Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitro Kuleba said “can only humiliate France.” Read more
* Russia’s foreign minister said Western sanctions would have no effect on the country’s oil exports, and predicted a big jump in the benefits of energy shipments this year. Read more
* Finland’s and Sweden’s accession to NATO would put Russia in a difficult military position in the Baltic Sea, said US General Mark Milley in Stockholm before a military exercise. Read more
CITES
* The terrible consequences of the war could be stopped at any time if a person in Moscow gave the order, Zelenskiy said in apparent reference to Putin. “And the fact that such an order does not yet exist is obviously a humiliation for everyone.”
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