kyiv calls to “hold on” in Donbass, Moscow proposes a humanitarian corridor in Sievierodonetsk

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Cover image: A district of the municipality of Pryvillia completely destroyed by Russian bombardments, in the Donbass region. This town of 7,000 inhabitants is located a few kilometers from Sievierodonetsk and Lyssytchansk, places of numerous clashes. June 14, 2022. ARIS MESSINIS / AFP

  • Azot, Azovstal: same fate? While half a thousand people are entrenched in the Sievierodonetsk chemical plant, the Russian Defense Ministry has called on Ukrainians to raise the white flag to signal that they accept this proposal and to stop a “absurd resistance”. “A humanitarian corridor will be opened (…) June 15 » from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. to allow “the safe evacuation of all civilians, without exception”.
  • The three bridges that connect the two cities of Lysytchansk and Sievierodonetsk have been destroyedbut the latter is not “isolated” and the Ukrainian troops are not blocked, affirmed Tuesday June 14 the mayor of Sievierodonetsk, Oleksandr Striouk. “Enemy artillery destroys high-rise buildings and industrial facilities”added the regional governor of Luhansk, Serhi Haïdaï, on Telegram. The ongoing clashes in the east of the country present a toll ” creepy “declared Volodymyr Zelensky, Monday evening, in his video daily.
  • kyiv recovers the bodies of Azovstal fighters during an exchange with Moscow. Ukraine said on Tuesday it had received the bodies of 64 soldiers who died defending the Azovstal steel plant, the last pocket of resistance in Mariupol, as part of an exchange with Moscow that saw it return the remains of Russian soldiers.
  • Russia has “probably made small advances in the Kharkiv sector for the first time in several weeks”estimated, Tuesday morning, the British Ministry of Defense in its daily stitch.
  • There were shellings in several areas of Mykolaivwhich did not cause casualties, reported on Tuesday on TelegramOleksandr Senkevich, the mayor of the city.
  • 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 “a hurricane of famines” in the coming months, according to the United Nations (UN).

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