Live: Battles rage across Ukraine's east, fierce standoff in Sievierodonetsk

Fierce street-to-street preventing is ongoing in the important thing jap metropolis of Sievierodonetsk, with the Russian shelling hitting a nitrogen fertilizer plant sheltering a whole lot of civilians, leading to a big hearth, Luhansk regional governor Serhiy Haidai mentioned.

Exterior of the Donbas, Ukrainian officers have reported that the military has made progress in repelling the Russian forces within the Kherson area, whereas the Ternopil area was bombarded in a single day by the Russians.

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Sunday's key factors:

  • Intense preventing continued in Sievierodonetsk, based on regional governor Serhiy Haidai, whereas the Ukrainian forces have repelled a Russian advance on Popasna on Saturday night time.
  • Scholz, Macron and Draghi are planning to go to the Ukrainian capital and meet with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy forward of the G7 summit.
  • European Fee President Ursula von der Leyen, visiting Kyiv, informed President Zelenskyy that Brussels would finalise its evaluation on Ukraine's eligibility for EU membership "by the top of subsequent week".
  • Ukrainian and British officers warned that Russian forces are counting on Soviet-era missiles which might be "extremely inaccurate" and more likely to trigger vital civilian casualties, as a consequence of a scarcity of extra exact fashionable weapons.
  • Russia on Saturday handed out its first passports to residents of Kherson and Melitopol in southern Ukraine.
  • Almost 800 youngsters have been killed or injured in Ukraine because the starting of Russia’s invasion, Ukrainian authorities mentioned Saturday.
  • Kyiv insists it was prepared for conflict after President Biden mentioned Zelenskyy "didn’t need to hear" US intelligence stories that Russia was planning to invade Ukraine.
  • 9 jap flank nations have met in Bucharest to demand extra assist from NATO to counter the Russian risk.
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Scholz, Macron and Draghi plan to go to Kyiv earlier than finish of June, German press claims

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, French President Emmanuel Macron and Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi are all planning to journey to Ukraine's capital earlier than the G7 meets on the finish of June.

However not one of the leaders has but confirmed that the go to will go forward, Bild am Sonntag reported on Sunday.

If it does occur, it will likely be the primary time the three have visited Kyiv since Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February, now holding about 20% of the nation beneath its management.

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IAEA receiving knowledge from Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant once more, company says

The connection between the Ukrainian nuclear energy plant of Zaporizhzhia -- beneath Russian management since early March, and the Worldwide Atomic Power Company -- is restored nearly a month and a half after the lack of transmissions, introduced the Ukrainian operator, Energoatom.

The connection had been misplaced on 30 Could, "when the Russians minimize off the Ukrainian cellphone operator Vodafone at Enerhodar", the town that hosts the plant.

"Due to the joint efforts of Energoatom and Vodafone ... the connection between the positioning's nuclear materials monitoring servers and the IAEA was restored," Energoatom added within the assertion.

The IAEA mentioned this week that it was "actively working" to arrange a go to to the Zaporizhzhia plant, which Ukraine opposes so long as the positioning is occupied by the Russians.

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