09:27
Response this Thursday from the US Senate for $40 billion in aid to Ukraine
The $40 billion aid plan for Ukraine passed by the US Congress on May 11 is the subject of a vote in the US Senate this Thursday. Aid includes military, economic and humanitarian assistance. If the Senate agrees, the law is expected to be signed into law by US President Joe Biden.
08:59
“Significant” casualties for Russian forces in Sloviansk
Ukraine’s General Staff also indicated on Thursday that Russian forces attempting to break through to Sloviansk in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region suffered “significant” casualties and retreated. “The enemy conducted combat operations in the Velyka Komyshuvakha area with artillery support; failed, suffered heavy casualties in some areas and had to retreat to previously occupied positions,” the Ukrainian military said.
08:45
28,500 Russian soldiers have died since the conflict began
In his daily report, the Ukrainian Defense Minister points out that since the conflict began on February 24, almost 28,500 Russian soldiers have lost their lives. 203 aircraft or 1254 tanks were also destroyed.
08:31
NATO: Biden meets with Finnish and Swedish leaders this Thursday
US President Joe Biden is set to meet leaders of Finland and Sweden on Thursday in a statement of support from the United States after the two countries submitted their formal applications for NATO membership.
08:16
The shelling of Severodonetsk continues
The governor of the Luhansk region Serhiy Gaidai told Telegram that the shelling in the city of Severodonetsk continued Thursday morning. At least eight buildings were destroyed. Four people were killed in Severodonetsk on Wednesday, still under Russian shelling.
08:02
Azovstal: More than 900 Ukrainian soldiers taken to a detention center
The Russian Foreign Ministry said that more than 900 Ukrainian soldiers who had been hiding in the Azovstal steelworks and who had surrendered in recent days have been taken to a temporary detention center.
Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova reiterated that the injured were being treated at the hospital in Novoazovsk in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, while the others were being taken to an examination center in Olenivka, a town near the front lines but in one of the DPR controlled territory.
07:47
Former President George W. Bush’s Big Slip
In a speech on behalf of the George W. Bush Institute on Wednesday night, the former US President made a telling slip of the tongue. “The result is a lack of controls and counterbalances in Russia and a one-man decision to launch a totally unwarranted and brutal invasion of Iraq,” George W. Bush said before pulling himself together and shaking his head, “I mean … .from Ukraine. »
07:32
The new Russian “Berezina”
During this conflict with Ukraine, the Russian army tried to cross the Donets River exactly where Ukrainian artillery awaited them, causing significant human and material losses. Autopsy of a fiasco.
07:14
Russia: An attack near the Ukrainian border claims one dead and several injured
One person was killed and injured in an attack in a village in south-west Russia on the border with Ukraine in the Kursk region, the region’s governor said on Thursday. “Another enemy attack in Tyotkino, which took place at dawn, unfortunately ended in tragedy. At the moment we know about the death of at least one civilian,” Roman Starovoyt said on Telegram, adding that other people had been injured and were receiving medical treatment.
The victim, according to initial information, is a truck driver who was delivering to a local distillery that was “hit multiple times,” the governor added.
07:04
On the way to a stalemate at the front?
According to a NATO official contacted by CNN, progress on the ground from both the Russian and Ukrainian sides will be minimal in the coming weeks. According to him, “we’re going to be stuck in a dead end for a while.”
“I think they could retake Crimea and Donbass, yes,” the official said, before adding, “Not now, not soon, but if they can keep fighting, I think so.” »
06:50
Zelensky, hyperactive communication
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, a figure in Ukraine’s resistance to the Russian invader, is multiplying appearances via videoconference, from Science-po to the Cannes Film Festival. deciphering his communication strategy.
06:37
15 civilians killed in shelling of 43 towns in Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts
In eastern Ukraine, “the occupiers bombed 43 towns in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions” and “killed at least 15 civilians,” the Ukrainian army said in the evening. The Russians are trying to break through near Popasna and towards Severodonetsk, one of the largest Ukrainian-held cities in the area, a senior local official has warned. The Russian army is therefore aiming to “encircle” and “defeat” Ukrainian units “in order to take full control of the Donetsk, Lugansk and Kherson regions,” the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense noted.
06:26
Azovstal: a thousand Ukrainian fighters still entrenched
“The commanders and senior fighters of the (regiment) Azov have not yet emerged from the last bastion of Ukrainian resistance in this port city,” asserted Denis Pushilin, a pro-Russian separatist leader. According to him, a thousand members of this paramilitary unit integrated into the Ukrainian army are still hiding there. Ukraine gave the same number, but last week. Several hundred civilians had taken refuge in these cellars and were evacuated at the end of April.
06:15
Reopening of the US Embassy in Kyiv
The United States on Wednesday reopened its embassy in Kyiv, which had been closed in mid-February ahead of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, announced the head of American diplomacy Antony Blinken.
“Today we officially resume operations at the US Embassy in Kyiv. The people of Ukraine, with our security assistance, defended their homeland from the irresponsible invasion of Russia, and as a result, the Stars and Stripes again flies over the embassy,” he said in a statement after the American flag was raised.
06:05
Welcome to this life
You can follow the events surrounding this 85th day of war in Ukraine throughout the day.