airstrikes on kyiv; Moscow claims to have targeted armored vehicles delivered by Eastern European countries

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Cover image: Clouds of smoke in the sky of kyiv, after several explosions in the districts of Darnytsky and Dniprovsky, Sunday June 5, 2022. SERGEI SUPINSKY / AFP

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  • In Sievierodonetsk, each side claims progress on the ground. Ukrainian forces seek to“restore full control” of the city, where street fighting continues, assured the mayor of the city Oleksandr Striouk. The Russian Defense Ministry claims that Ukrainian military units were withdrawing from Sievierodonetsk, “having suffered critical casualties in combat”.
  • In the region of Khersonwhere Ukraine is leading a counterattack, “Residents have left the village of Trudoliubivka” and Russian forces “continue to bombard the occupied territories and the positions of the Ukrainian army”assured the Ukrainian presidency, warning of an increasingly urgent humanitarian crisis in the areas under Russian control.
  • Also in the south, kyiv reported a Russian cruise missile hitting an agricultural business in the major port ofOdessa. According to initial information, the attack caused two” victims “. HAS Mykolaivthe mayor reported the death of at least three civilians after a Russian bombardment.
  • The head of Ukrainian diplomacy, Dmytro Kuleba, blasted French President Emmanuel Macron’s calls not to “humiliate” Russiajudging that this position could only“humiliating France”.
  • US Chief of Staff General Mark Milley posted the determination of the United States to support Sweden and Finland before they join NATOaboard theUSS Kearsargethe largest US warship ever to dock in Stockholm harbour.
  • kyiv has announced the death of four foreign volunteers who came to fight Russian troops. A German, a Frenchman, an Australian and a Dutchman were killed according to the International Defense Legion of Ukraine, which did not specify where and when. Paris had confirmed on Friday the death of a Frenchman, who perished, according to the press, in the Kharkiv region.
  • In more than three months, the war forced “nearly 14 million Ukrainians to flee their homesthe majority being women and children”denounced Friday the coordinator of the UN in Ukraine, Amin Awad, referring to a phenomenon“unprecedented in history”.

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