Local officials said Ukrainian troops have beaten Russian forces controlling half of a flashpoint eastern city, as President Volodymyr Zelensky toured the front lines to support his country’s “true heroes”.
During this, zelensky said on June 3 that its country’s military would stop a Russian offensive in a video marking 100 days of Moscow’s all-out attack on its pro-democracy neighbour.
Meanwhile, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar said that India is not a channel of sale of Russian oil to other countriesClearly refutes international media reports that suggest Indian private refiners are “profiteering” by buying Russian crude at discounted rates and then selling it to other buyers at exorbitant prices.
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nato
NATO conducts Baltic Sea naval exercises with Finland, Sweden
NATO on Sunday began a nearly two-week United States-led naval exercise on the Baltic Sea with more than 7,000 sailors, airmen and marines from 16 countries keen to join two military alliances, Finland and Sweden. .
The annual BALTOPS naval exercise started in 1972 is not conducted in response to any specific threat. But the military alliance said that “with both Sweden and Finland participating, NATO is taking advantage of the opportunity in an unpredictable world to engage with the two Nordic aspirational nations to increase their combined strength, resilience and strength.”
Ukraine
Ukraine says it controls ‘half’ of Severodonetsky
Local officials said Ukrainian troops have beaten Russian forces controlling half of a flashpoint eastern city, as President Volodymyr Zelensky toured the front lines to support his country’s “true heroes”.
As see-saw fighting broke out for the strategically important city of Severodnetsk – the largest in the Lugansk region that is not under Russian control – more help from overseas was promised.
The United Kingdom said it would follow the United States and send a long-range missile system to Ukraine, defying warnings from Russian President Vladimir Putin that it would supply advanced weapons to Kyiv.
Moscow
Moscow says it destroyed tanks supplied by Eastern European countries in attack on Kyiv
Russia said on Sunday that it destroyed tanks supplied to Ukraine by Eastern European countries during the attack on Kyiv.
Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said, “High-precision, long-range missiles fired by Russian aerospace forces on the outskirts of Kyiv destroyed T-72 tanks supplied by Eastern European countries and other armored vehicles.” “
Russia
Vladimir Putin warns of attack on missile supplies as Kyiv explodes
Russian President Vladimir Putin warned on Sunday that Moscow would hit new targets if the West supplies Ukraine with long-range missiles, following several explosions in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv.
If Kyiv is provided with such missiles, “we will draw appropriate conclusions and use our weapons … to strike targets that we have not hit before,” Mr Putin was quoted by Russian news agencies .
He did not specify what goals he meant.
Ukraine
As Ukraine loses troops, how long can it continue fighting?
As they finished burying a veteran colonel killed by Russian shelling, the cemetery workers read the next hole. Inevitably, given how quickly death is piling up Ukrainian soldiers on the front lines, the empty tomb won’t stay that way for long.
Colonel Oleksandr Makhchek leaves behind a widow, Elena, and their daughters Olena and Myroslava-Alexandra. In the first 100 days of the war, his grave was the 40th grave excavated at the military cemetery in Zhytomyr, 90 miles (140 km) west of the capital Kyiv.