70% to 80% of the strategic city of Sievierodonetsk is controlled by Russian forces

• Ukrainian forces admitted on Monday that they had abandoned the center of Sievierodonetsk. “With artillery support, the enemy stormed Severodonetsk, achieved partial success, and pushed our units back from the city center. Hostilities are continuing”, said Monday morning the Ukrainian staff. Serhi Haidai, governor of the Luhansk region confirmed that the Ukrainian forces had been pushed back from the center.
• kyiv claims to have lost a quarter of its arable land due to the Russian occupation. According to the Ukrainian Ministry of Agriculture, production will be sufficient to cover domestic consumption. But the impossibility of exporting the cereals produced abroad raises fears of“a hurricane of famines” in the coming months according to the UN.
• In southern Ukraine, too, the fighting is raging, with air battles and Russian helicopter attacks on Ukrainian positions in Mikolaiv and Kherson, according to the latest statement from the command of Ukrainian troops for the south of the country, on the night of Monday to Tuesday. In Mikolaiv, a major port on the Dnieper estuary, the Russian advance was stopped on the outskirts of the city and the Ukrainian army dug trenches there, noted a team from Agence France-Presse
• Ukraine’s request for European Union (EU) candidate status will soon be answeredpromised on Saturday, Ursula von der Leyen. “We want to support Ukraine on its European journey”assured Volodymyr Zelensky, the President of the European Commission, visiting kyiv.
• Amnesty International on Monday (June 13th) accused Russia of war crimes in Ukraine. The organization says hundreds of civilians have died in relentless attacks on Kharkiv, many of which were carried out with cluster bombs. The human rights NGO says it has found evidence showing that in seven attacks on neighborhoods in Ukraine’s second largest city in the northeast of the country, Russian forces used cluster bombs. 9N210 and 9N235 ammunition and cluster mines, two categories prohibited by international treaties.
• President Zelensky pointed out, Saturday nightthe recapture by Ukrainian forces of localities, like Tavriïsk, in the region of Kherson, and in the oblast of Zaporijia, while the Russian army is still pounding the outskirts of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second city. The area around Chortkiv in western Ukraine was also shelled in the evening, regional governor Volodymyr Trouch said.
• During an interview, broadcast on Friday, on the Youtube channel “Feigin Live”, Oleksiy Arestovych, adviser to President Zelensky, admitted that the Ukrainian army had lost about ten thousand fightersat the rate of a hundred a day.
• Speaking via video to the Asia-Pacific Security Forum, Zelensky reiterated call on international community to press for Russia to end blockade of Ukrainian Black Sea portsotherwise “Scarcity of food will inexorably lead to political chaos, which risks bringing about the overthrow of many governments”.
• Chinese Defense Minister Wei Fenghe, speaking at the forum, said on Sunday that Beijing “supported the peace talks” between the two belligerents and assured that his country had not “never provided material support to Russia” in this conflict.

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