[Korrespondent] 23:15 The EU countries have decided to abandon plans to introduce a ban on the purchase of real estate by Russians, which was proposed to be added to the new package of sanctions against the Russian Federation, Bloomberg reported. Previously, Cyprus opposed such a ban.
23:11 The European Union cannot afford not to reach an agreement on the sixth package of sanctions against Russia, including the oil embargo, said the head of the European Parliament, Roberta Metzola: "I really hope that the agreement will be. We cannot afford not to have it. Although I I understand the realities faced by different countries, there is a limit of flexibility that we cannot cross without losing the confidence of our population."
She also commented on the prospect of Ukraine's EU bid: "In my opinion, we have no choice but to bring Ukraine even closer to us, and the worst signal we could send at this point would be to waver. And what Ukraine needs now is hope and perspective."
23:08 Zelensky said on his Twitter that on the evening of May 30 he had a telephone conversation with Erdogan, discussed the threats to food security created by Russia, ways to unblock ports and cooperation in the field of security.
According to CNN Turk, during the conversation, Erdogan assured that Turkey, as a mediator, is making every effort to resume negotiations between Ukraine and Russia. Erdogan also touched upon the topic of a safe corridor for the export of Ukrainian agricultural products. To ensure the transportation of grain and other crops by sea, the Turkish president supported the creation of a monitoring center that will work under the auspices of the UN in Istanbul.
23:05 Zelensky said in an evening video message that the situation in the Donbas remains very difficult overall, the Russian army is trying to selectively gather superior forces to put more pressure on the Ukrainian defenders: "The maximum combat power of the Russian army is now gathered there. Severodonetsk, Lysichansk, Bakhmut, Avdiivka and other settlements remain key targets for the occupiers in this direction."
22:59 French journalist Frédéric Leclerc, who died in the Luhansk region from Russian shelling while trying to evacuate civilians from combat areas, became the 32nd media worker who died in Ukraine after February 24, Zelensky said in an evening video message and expressed his condolences to colleagues and relatives Frederick.
22:50 Boris Yeltsin's son-in-law Valentin Yumashev resigned from his position as Putin's adviser, where he worked for 22 years, writes Reuters.
22:48 Russians who oppose Russia's war with Ukraine can now obtain a German national visa and a residence permit in Germany under a simplified procedure, German Interior Minister Nancy Feather said: "We offer Russian women and Russians who are subjected to harassment and threats, protection in Germany. Especially for Russian journalists, we will provide free and independent coverage of events from Germany."
22:09 France is ready to become a mediator in negotiations between Ukraine and Russia, said Foreign Minister of the country Catherine Colonna in Kiev at a joint briefing with Kuleba: "Now there are intense, fierce battles, and there is no talk of negotiations. But the day will come when negotiations And in order to have an open and serious dialogue, to really reach a result, we will be next to Ukraine in order to be a mediator in such negotiations and in those conditions, in the context when these negotiations will be needed" .
22:01 Arestovich said that over the past 24 hours, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have destroyed a command post, a communication center in Liman, two columns of 40 units and an echelon of tanks in the Kherson region.
21:44 The Russians are trying to attack the eastern communities of the Zaporozhye region, artillery, rocket and air strikes are being applied along the line of collision, the OVA reported.
21:27 Russian troops have advanced deep into Severodonetsk, street fighting is underway in the city, said the head of the Luhansk OVA, Sergei Gaidai. In turn, Arestovich said that the enemy was trying to bypass Severodonetsk from the south. According to him, this is an attempt to cut off Severodonetsk from Lisichansk.
20:39 New US Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink has arrived in Kiev, reports The Guardian.
20:37 The head of the Odesa OVA Maxim Marchenko announced a missile attack on the railway bridge across the Dniester estuary in the Zatoka region: "Today, the enemy fired two missiles at the broken bridge across the Dniester estuary. It received additional serious damage." The third missile, he said, was shot down by Ukrainian air defense.
20:21 On May 30, the occupiers fired on Kharkiv again - three civilians were wounded, the regional prosecutor's office reports.
20:19 Rada tomorrow intends to express no confidence in the Commissioner of the Verkhovna Rada for Human Rights Lyudmila Denisova, the Ombudsman herself said. Head of NGO ZMINA. The Human Rights Center Tatyana Pechonchik notes that there are no constitutional grounds for removing Denisova from her post. Earlier, Ukrainian journalists were outraged by Denisova's rhetoric in the context of sexual crimes committed by Russian occupiers.
20:12 From 50 to 100 killed citizens are found under almost every blockage or destroyed house in Mariupol. In total, in Mariupol, the invaders completely destroyed more than a thousand high-rise buildings in two months, the mayor of the city, Vadym Boycheno, said on Freedom.
20:09 Zelensky addressed the European Council: "Europe must demonstrate strength. Because Russia perceives only force as an argument. This time has come. The time has come to be not separate, not fragments, but a single whole. Ukraine showed by its example why this is important. In our country, since February 24, there has been maximum unification, everyone is working for one result - to protect the state. And thanks to this, something that the world did not expect was possible: Ukraine stopped the Russian army - and everyone was afraid of it, remember? - and was able to release part of its occupied territory. Greater unity is the foundation of this strength. And you know it. Finally, any divisions in Europe, internal disputes, which only encourage Russia to put more pressure on you, must stop."
19:53 Today, about 95% of the Luhansk region is under Russian occupation. Severodonetsk and Lysichansk are the last major settlements in the region under Ukrainian control. About why Russia threw huge forces into their capture, and about the further development of the situation in the east - in the material Why Russia needs the Lugansk region .
19:25 In Mariupol, the occupiers have begun the procedure for accepting documents to obtain a Russian passport. To do this, Mariupol residents must first obtain a certificate of registration in Donetsk, and then apply for a passport in Novoazovsk to the "DPR migration service."
"Given the state of communication with Donetsk, this is a bit problematic. For now. But we can state that the annexation of Mariupol by Russia has moved into the next stage of implementation. Active," said Petr Andryushchenko, adviser to the mayor of Mariupol.
19:12 Lukashenka announced "mobilization exercises" near Ukraine. According to Belta, the exercises will be held in the Gomel region from June 22 to July 1 "to increase the level of combat and mobilization readiness of military commissariats, improve military knowledge and practical skills of those liable for military service."
19:10 In the "DPR" they began to actively disperse fakes about "crimes of the Red Cross." The search of the premises of the Red Cross in Mariupol on the street was used as a pretext. Trading, which was previously destroyed by a Russian air bomb. In the premises, according to the occupiers, more than a thousand medical records of children with healthy organs marked, instructions for handling weapons for children, as well as reports on the purchase of incubators for laboratories designed to grow biological microorganisms, were found.
Propaganda concludes that the Red Cross covered the Azov Regiment in the cultivation of militant nationalists from childhood, planned to launch the process of mass transplantation of children's organs for sale and promoted the activities of biolaboratories.
"All this would be funny, but do not forget that it is the Red Cross that is an active intermediary of humanitarian missions in Mariupol, in particular, in Azovstal. We should expect arrests of Red Cross employees, new "evidence" and other things, as was the case with the OSCE," - wrote the adviser to the mayor of Mariupol Petr Andryushchenko.
18:58 The UK Ministry of Defense initiated the creation of an innovation fund to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine and called on the British industry to accelerate the development of equipment for Ukraine by creating a fund in the amount of 25 million pounds.
18:54 During the successful offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the enemy suffered losses and retreated from the settlement of Nikolaevka, Kherson region , which led to panic among servicemen of other units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said.
18:33 EU countries will decide on an embargo on Russian oil at the next summit in June, Scholz believes. In turn, Borrell said that EU leaders could agree on a sixth package of sanctions against Russia today.
18:29 Putin signed a decree on the simplified admission of orphans from the "LDNR" and Ukraine to Russian citizenship.
18:27 The Kremlin reported that Putin, in a telephone conversation with Erdogan, announced Russia's readiness to "facilitate unhindered maritime transit" of goods in coordination with Turkey, including when exporting grain from Ukrainian ports. The President of the Russian Federation also confirmed that in the light of problems in the world food market, Russia can export significant volumes of fertilizers and agricultural products - if the relevant sanctions are lifted.
18:23 The Dutch GasTerra refused to pay for Russian gas in rubles, after which Gazprom notified it of the termination of supplies from May 31. The Danish energy company Orsted also stated that it would not switch to paying for Russian gas in rubles, and therefore did not rule out the termination of supplies from the Russian Federation.
18:17 The National Guard reported that their conscript with the call sign Bandit shot down the third Russian Su-25 attack aircraft from the Igla MANPADS.
18:13 In Stockholm, in the Mariebergsparken park next to the Russian Embassy, the Free Ukraine Square appeared, the Dagens Nyheter newspaper reports.
18:05 The occupiers in the Mariupol port have completed loading rolled steel onto the PM3 vessel of the Slavutich class under the flag of the Russian Federation. The exit from the port water area is tentatively scheduled for the morning of May 31, the destination is Rostov-on-Don, Piotr Andryushchenko, adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, said.
18:03 Ukraine has information about the conditions of detention of the Ukrainian defenders of Mariupol, but cannot disclose them, Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar said on the air of the Rada channel: "We have all the information, but now it is secret, and this is connected not only with the negotiation process itself but also with the safety of these people. This is personal data."
17:57 French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna announced new deliveries of Caesar self-propelled artillery systems to Ukraine: "There will soon be new deliveries of Caesar self-propelled guns, and we will continue cooperation in this context."
17:46 Kuleba, at a joint briefing with his French colleague Catherine Colonna in Kiev, commented on Macron's idea of a new format of European cooperation: "I received the necessary explanations and I am satisfied with what I heard. Both France and Ukraine proceed from the fact that the idea of a European political union is not what -an alternative for the future membership of Ukraine in the EU, is not some special solution for Ukraine.You already know how tired we are of some half-measures, special approaches, separate models that are constantly invented in individual countries in order to prevent Ukraine from being a candidate ... I am very grateful to my colleague, who reasonably explained that this idea is not some kind of alternative, a third solution, but a pan-European process that will make both Ukraine and the EU stronger."
17:42 Orban said he would support the embargo on Russian oil if pipelines were excluded from its action and Budapest would have a guarantee to receive this oil even in the event of an "accident" on the pipeline.
17:40 Ursula von der Leyen said that at the EU summit on May 30-31, the sixth sanctions package against Russia will not be agreed: "I do not expect that this will be resolved in the next 48 hours, but I am sure that there will be such an opportunity later. My message to EU members is clear: we have one key path to victory, and that is solidarity with Ukraine and EU unity."
17:37 In the Bakhmut district, as a result of hostilities, an ammonia leak occurred, the tightness of the branch of the Togliatti-Odessa ammonia pipeline was damaged, said the head of the Donetsk OVA Pavel Kirilenko. A cloud of ammonia is moving over the soil from the village of Maya towards Bakhmut. Bakhmut, Gladosovo, Dacha, Nikolaevka Second, Odradovka and Experienced can get into the affected area.
This branch has not been used since 2014, the latches are closed, but ammonia is now flowing out of it by gravity. Information about the injured and dead is not yet available.
17:35 Putin and Erdogan held telephone conversations. According to the office of the Turkish President, Erdogan invited Putin to hold a meeting in Istanbul between the delegations of Russia, Ukraine and the UN: "Turkey is ready to take part in a possible monitoring mechanism in Ukraine, if Moscow and Kyiv reach an agreement on this."
17:13 The fighting in the east of Ukraine has reached its maximum intensity, the most fierce battles are taking place in the Severodonetsk, Bakhmut and Kurakhov directions, said the speaker of the Ministry of Defense Oleksandr Motuzyanyk. According to him, Russia's goals now are to seize the Lugansk and Donetsk regions, establish a land corridor from the Rostov region to the Crimea and block Ukraine's maritime communications.
17:07 Biden said that Washington will not supply Ukraine with long-range missile systems , Reuters writes: "The United States will not send Ukraine missile systems that can reach Russian territory."
16:59 There is not a single surviving building left in Avdiivka, the shelling lasts for 16 hours a day, said the head of the CAA Vitaliy Barabash. According to him, there is no water in the city, due to damage to communal equipment as a result of the fighting, the authorities cannot organize the supply of either drinking or technical water. Citizens can collect it only in wells.
Barabash urged the people who remained in the city, especially those with children, to evacuate while there was still an opportunity. Three people died in Avdiivka yesterday.
16:52 Negotiations with Russia continue only in the humanitarian part, the political and diplomatic part is suspended, Podolyak said in an interview with lb.ua. He noted that the humanitarian side of the negotiation process includes the issues of the exchange of prisoners, humanitarian corridors, and evacuation.
The political-diplomatic part has been stopped because it is a question of connection between what is happening in the world, the adviser to the head of the Presidential Office added: "Russia looks at it inadequately. This is a paradox that will also be written into textbooks."
16:46 Vereshchuk announced that she was transferring her powers for the exchange of prisoners of war to the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense and the SBU. According to her, the corresponding registers for prisoners of war have already been created, organizational issues have been worked out and communication channels have been established with the Russian Federation. Vereshchuk noted that the Ministry of Reintegration remains responsible for maintaining the registers of prisoners of war and working with specialized international organizations.
16:22 The situation in Severodonetsk is difficult, street fighting is taking place in the vicinity, Motuzyanyk, spokesman for the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, said: "Ukrainian servicemen are holding back the enemy's assault, which is also abandoning personnel, somewhere he fails - he retreats."
16:07 Ukraine intends to identify sailors who take part in the export of looted grain, Podolyak said: "Russia continues to export bloody Ukrainian grain to Syria. Each sailor participating in the scheme and helping to sell property obtained by criminal means will be identified and submitted to the international wanted. In every port of the world, Interpol will be waiting for marauders with an arrest warrant."
15:48 Israel is resuming exploration of natural gas and hopes to conclude an agreement on its export to Europe in the near future, Energy Minister Karin Elharrar said.
15:44 There are two versions of today's explosion in Melitopol - internal disassembly and the actions of Ukrainian partisans, the mayor of the city Ivan Fedorov said. According to the first version, the occupiers are cleaning up collaborators because they do not fulfill their promises. As for the second version, according to Fedorov, "in Melitopol, of course, there are resistance forces, but law enforcement officers should comment on this version."
15:42 Last year's wheat crop, which was stored in the Kherson region, began to be exported to Russia, said the "deputy head" of the region Kirill Stremousov.
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"There is a place where to put the new crop, although, of course, a lot of grain is here. Now people are partially exporting, agreed with those who buy from the Russian Federation," Stremousov said.
15:37 In Mariupol, the invaders found seven surviving trolleybuses in the premises of the trolleybus and tram department and sent them to Donetsk. Now the trolleybuses are being repainted in the colors of United Russia and are planned to be launched in early June, Piotr Andryushchenko, adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, said.
15:35 Permanent representatives of the EU countries at a meeting on Monday, May 30, again failed to agree on the sixth package of sanctions against the Russian Federation, Radio Liberty journalist Rikard Jozwiak said.
15:30 The occupiers fired on the evacuation vehicle in the Luhansk region, a French journalist was killed. The evacuation of people from the region is no longer possible, said the head of the Luhansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai.
An armored evacuation transport was going to pick up ten people from the area and came under enemy fire. Shell fragments pierced the car's armor, an accredited French journalist who wrote a story about the evacuation was mortally wounded in the neck, and a helmet saved a patrol policeman.
15:01 Soldiers of the Russian Guard from Krasnodar, who fought in Ukraine in February-April and whom they tried to send back here, filed reports with a refusal, Kavkaz.Realii reports, citing a source in the main department of the federal troops of the National Guard of the Krasnodar Territory. According to him, the National Guard is extremely dissatisfied with the payments received for the two months of their stay in Ukraine - they turned out to be much lower than what the propaganda media say.
14:47 Russian invaders abducted more than 500 civilians in Melitopol in three months, Mayor Ivan Fedorov said.
14:43 In the Kharkiv region, the curfew has been reduced, now it will operate from 22:00 to 6:00.
14:37 There are no signs of the formation of Russian troops for an attack on Kiev, but the danger remains, said the head of the Kiev GVA Nikolai Zhirnov.
14:35 Support for Ukraine in the war with Russia must be "constant and unyielding," said Gerald Connolly, president of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly. He also reaffirmed full support for Ukrainian sovereignty and territorial integrity and condemned recent offers to Kyiv to surrender territories in exchange for a peace deal.
14:31 Families of Ukrainian defenders of Azovstal will create a Council of wives and mothers of servicemen. As Natalya Zaritskaya, wife of a military man from the Azov Regiment, said at a briefing, the Council will become "a mediator between relatives and authorities, a powerful public force and a ray of light in preserving human values."
14:22 As a result of morning shelling by Russians of Nikolaev in one of districts of the city 21 private houses are damaged, it is known about one wounded. In the city the threat of artillery attacks is declared, the mayor of Nikolaev Alexander Senkevich reported.
14:16 The Kiev regional prosecutor's office has submitted to court the first case of sexual violence by Russian servicemen, Prosecutor General Irina Venediktova said. Mikhail Romanov, a serviceman of the 239th regiment of the 90th Guards Tank Vitebsk-Novgorod Division, will be tried for the murder of a civilian man and sexual abuse of his wife.
14:07 The main battles between the Ukrainian and Russian military in the east are now going for two goals, said Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar: "The first goal is to completely take control of the Luhansk region from the Russian troops, the second goal is to encircle the Ukrainian troops. So far, no they fail in one or the other, but the battles are fierce."
14:05 The Armed Forces of Ukraine advanced 8-10 km in Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, Vadim Denisenko, adviser to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, said.
13:54 Poland has stopped free supplies of fuel to Ukraine, Anna Moskva, Minister of Climate and Environment, said in an interview with BiznesAlert: "At the beginning of the war and after the bombing of the refinery, we sent fuel free of charge. Currently, these are Orlen's commercial supplies, which require large logistics costs. Usually these deliveries are carried out via pipelines, so we had to build new supply channels. We implement them on an ongoing basis, maintaining the priority of deliveries to the Polish market."
13:39 The confiscation of Russian reserves frozen in the EU in favor of Ukraine is being discussed, but the result is not guaranteed, said European Commissioner for Economic Affairs Paolo Gentiloni: "The transfer of reserves is being discussed, but a legally complex process is envisaged from freezing to confiscation. Various European countries, with the support of the EC, are studying legal and financial arrangements.
13:35 4.8 million people out of 7.6 million who left the country have already returned to Ukraine, that is, 60%, said Viktor Andrusiv, adviser to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Some of the reasons why people are returning home include poor conditions in free housing, high rental prices and a language barrier to getting a job.
"Therefore, there is no need to fear that Ukrainians will not return home. Conflict statistics show that 80% return after the end of the war, of which 50% return before the end," Andrusiv wrote.
13:10 Minister of Defense of Slovakia Yaroslav Nagy officially confirmed the transfer of eight self-propelled guns Zuzana 2 with a caliber of 155 mm to Ukraine. Such a howitzer can strike at a distance of up to 40 km.
12:52 In the Kherson region, some representatives of the local population are hindering the process of liberation of the territories, Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar said on the air of the telethon: "We are faced with a difficult situation when there are some representatives of the local population who start working for the occupier. Of course, these people are found, they are worked with, but their destructive activity complicates the process of liberation."
12:26 Canada will help Ukrainian women who have suffered from sexual violence by the occupiers to receive all the necessary assistance, including access to abortions. The assistance will include assistance in moving from Poland, where abortion is prohibited, to other countries in order to terminate a pregnancy. This was announced by the Minister of National Defense of Canada Harjit Sajjan. According to him, he has already ordered that Canadian officials working in Ukraine and neighboring countries conduct all the necessary preparations.
12:22 The SBU military counterintelligence thwarted the FSB's special operation to discredit the OSCE. According to the press service of the SBU, the Russian special services in the occupied territories forcefully beat out testimony from OSCE employees that they were allegedly spying for the SBU. And from May 16 to May 23, FSB officers, threatening to kill, forced the mission workers to “testify” on camera about the robbery of the office allegedly by Ukrainian law enforcement officers, although before that the invaders themselves had come and robbed it five times.
12:17 The Bakhmut-Lysichansk highway is controlled by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, but is under fire from the Russian Federation, said the head of the Donetsk OVA Pavel Kirilenko: "Its importance in two aspects - the evacuation of residents, the delivery of products to the neighboring region, and it is also an important route for the armed forces. When the enemy "If he can't capture the highway, he just fires at it. In general, the situation in the region is difficult, the shelling does not stop, but the enemy has no success, he is in his positions." The most difficult situation is in Avdeevka, Toretsk, Liman direction, Bakhmut and Soledar.
12:13 The military of the Russian Federation fired at the border areas of the Sumy region with artillery shells stuffed with flashers. Steel rods from Russian shells damaged buildings and property of residents of the Shostka district, the State Border Service reports.
12:04 The number of those killed in Mariupol at the hands of the occupiers may increase significantly. Thus, 25 new trench-type sectors appeared at the Starokrymsky cemetery within a month. The bodies are stacked in several layers, and then "disguised" with plates as individual burials.
In total, since mid-April, the invaders have buried at least 16 thousand Mariupol residents in mass graves - near the villages of Stary Krym, Mangush and Vinogradnoye. About 5,000 more people were buried by public utilities until mid-March. Under the rubble, in spontaneous cemeteries and in temporary morgues, thousands of bodies still remain.
"We estimated the number of dead Mariupol residents at 22,000. But more and more evidence suggests that the consequences of the crimes of the rashists are much worse. This requires special attention of the world community, as well as the horrific situation of the local population in the occupation," said the mayor of Mariupol Vadim Boychenko.
11:47 The war between Russia and Ukraine may drag on significantly, while the aggressiveness of the actions of the Russian Federation will increase, Borrell said in an interview with France Info. Borrell admitted that Russia would drag out the conflict, but the Russian economy, in his words, is already "beginning to stop." He also called for strengthening anti-Russian sanctions to help Ukraine take a better position in the negotiations.
11:30 The "DPR" said that the Ukrainian military allegedly attacked the center of Donetsk, as a result of which three schools were damaged, six people died, 14 were injured. The "head" of Donetsk said that shelling "may be carried out from the Ukrainian side with American heavy weapons."
11:26 Russia has created the first filtration camps for Ukrainians in the area of the crossing points of the state border of the Russian Federation with Estonia. Now the Russians, when identifying Ukrainians who are trying to cross the border and for whom there is evidence that they received the status of refugees from the war, deliver them to such a filtration camp, said Petr Andryushchenko, an adviser to the mayor of Mariupol.
Residents of Mariupol, who came to such a camp for the first time two weeks ago, say that the camp in the Bezymenny "DPR" looks like "child's play" compared to the Russian border one. Andryushchenko urges Ukrainians who are trying to escape Russia to use other routes, in particular through Belarus and Georgia.
11:23 Russia is moving troops to the borders in the Kursk region. According to Governor Roman Starovoit, "a large number of personnel of the Ministry of Defense" were sent to the territory of the region after shelling allegedly from the Ukrainian side: "Additional weapons have already arrived and are arriving in the form of artillery installations, rocket launchers to ensure the safety of citizens' lives."
11:21 NATO at its summit on June 28-30 plans to adopt a strategic concept for the alliance, which will guide it over the next decade. As the Italian representative to NATO, Francesco Maria Talo, said, China will appear in the new concept and the attitude towards Russia will change: and hybrid safety, as well as climate change."
Also at the summit in Madrid, NATO members will discuss the war in Ukraine and the membership of Finland and Sweden.
11:16 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that more than 15 Ukrainian tanks and infantry fighting vehicles and five artillery pieces were allegedly destroyed by an artillery strike on a hangar on the territory of the Ocean shipyard in Nikolaev.
11:14 During the explosion in Melitopol, the niece of the "head" of the Zaporozhye region, Yevgeny Balitsky, was wounded. According to RIA Melitopol, the explosion occurred near the cafe Storm in the area of the central square of the city. Previously, a Mercedes car exploded. Three ambulances left for the scene, among the wounded was Evgenia Zaitseva, the daughter of Balitsky's late brother Oleg.
In addition, according to preliminary data, two women and a young man were injured. After the explosion, the central square of Melitopol was cordoned off. It is here that the authorities occupied by Russians and collaborators are located. Probably, the undermining was the work of the Zaporizhzhya partisans.
Meanwhile, Russian propaganda media write that the explosion allegedly occurred during the distribution of "humanitarian aid" and "volunteers" were injured.
10:57 In Brovary, the dismantling of Soviet-era equipment in Victory Park began this morning, Mayor Igor Sapozhko said. According to him, only three objects are going to be dismantled in the city. Instead, residents will offer their own options. One of the proposals is a model of the Mriya aircraft.
10:54 Power supply of the Bakhmut and Kramatorsk districts of the Donetsk region was resumed last night, the head of the OVA Pavel Kirilenko said. Also this morning, repairmen began work on the launch of the second Donetsk water pipeline, "but everything will depend on the security situation." According to Kirilenko, under favorable conditions, the supply of water can be restored by lunchtime.
10:52 In the Izyum direction, in the area of Dolgenkiy, Kharkiv region, Ukrainian attack aircraft destroyed the enemy's company-tactical group - this is at least 100 military. In addition, a warehouse with ammunition and armored vehicles was bombed, the command of the Ukrainian Air Force reported. The strike was carried out with the help of a Su-25 attack aircraft and a Su-24M bomber.
10:44 The Russian command is holding hostage the families of servicemen who are fighting in Ukraine. So, according to Ukrainian military intelligence, in the Western Military District of the Russian Federation, the families of officers were forbidden to leave the country. If the occupiers refuse to carry out combat missions, their wives and children are threatened with resettlement in the depressed regions of the Far East.
The command of the Western Military District has already ordered the forcible eviction of several families of servicemen from the 332nd Separate Helicopter Regiment of the 6th Army of the Air Force and Air Defense from service apartments.
10:39 NATO may no longer comply with previous obligations to refrain from deploying its forces in Eastern Europe, since Russia has violated the agreements, said the deputy secretary general of the alliance, Mircea Joanne. In his opinion, the attack of the Russian Federation on Ukraine has deprived of any sense the founding act of NATO-Russia, which describes the principles of cooperation. There is no dialogue between the parties.
"They made a decision, they pledged not to attack their neighbors, but they do it, and to hold regular consultations with NATO, but they don't. Therefore, I think that in fact this constituent act is not actually effective because of Russia," said Joan.
According to him, Russia has effectively withdrawn from the 1997 treaty: "Now we have no restrictions to have a strong position on the eastern flank and ensure that every square inch of NATO territory is protected by Article 5 and our allies."
10:23 Ukraine handed over to Erdogan's adviser a list of ships by which Russia is trying to take out the stolen Ukrainian grain and other goods, the leader of the Crimean Tatar people, Mustafa Dzhemilev, said. According to him, the Turkish side was informed that the Russian Federation transports goods stolen in Ukraine, including through the ports of Turkey, "although four years ago it was decided that no ships visiting ports in the occupied territories, primarily in Crimea, could be accepted and serviced in the ports of Turkey".
Dzhemilev said that a list of ships was handed over to Turkey, on which wheat stolen from the Kherson region was loaded, and they exported it through the ports of Turkey and tried to sell it to Turkey, Syria and Egypt. "We agreed that they would take it under control," Dzhemilev added.
10:16 All sanctions against pipeline oil have been removed from the new version of the sixth package of anti-Russian sanctions, reports Brussels correspondent of Radio Liberty Rikard Jozwiak. According to him, the sixth package of sanctions will apply to crude oil, as well as oil products - "with a temporary exception for crude oil supplied through the pipeline."
10:13 French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna announced that she had arrived on a visit to Ukraine.
09:46 Ukrainian saboteurs are behind the explosion in Melitopol, RIA Novosti was told in the "administration" of the Zaporozhye region and stressed that "it is necessary to strengthen anti-terror measures." Two people were hospitalized after the explosion.
09:35 In the Luhansk region, cars with volunteers and doctors came under fire. As the head of the Luhansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai said, a car with two volunteers was shot, they were wounded. Also lost contact with three doctors. There is a photo of the car, where you can see that the front of the minibus is torn.
Gaidai also said that it is now dangerous to use the Lisichansk-Bakhmut highway, safer options for evacuation and transportation of humanitarian cargo are being used.
09:33 Germany will change the constitution to create a special defense fund in the amount of 100 billion euros, writes Reuters. The project appeared after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. According to him, within two years, the German defense budget will grow by 50 billion euros. This will allow the country to meet NATO's targets of spending 2% of GDP annually on defense.
09:32 A powerful explosion thundered in the center of Melitopol. The media write about an explosion in the area of the shopping center Kvartal, where the high-rise building of the "governor" of the Zaporozhye region, Yevgeny Balitsky, is located. According to RIA Novosti, citing a source in the "administration" of the city, three people, according to preliminary data, were injured in a car explosion in the center of Melitopol.
09:30 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the enemy on the morning of May 30. The enemy suffered the greatest losses over the past day in the Zaporozhye direction.
- personnel - about 30,350 (+200) people liquidated,
- tanks - 1349 (+11),
- armored combat vehicles - 3282 (+12),
- artillery systems - 643 (+12),
- MLRS - 205 (+2),
- air defense systems - 93 (+0),
- aircraft - 207 (+0),
- helicopters - 174 (+0),
- UAV operational-tactical level - 507 (+3),
- cruise missiles - 118 (+2),
- ships/boats - 13 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tankers - 2258 (+18),
- special equipment - 48 (+0).
09:25 Arestovich announced the defeat of the enemy ammunition depot in Chernobaevka for the 22nd time. According to him, the detonation lasted at least an hour.
09:23 During the night, the Russians fired at the border areas of the Sumy region four times with rockets, MLRS, self-propelled guns and mortars, said the head of the OVA Dmitry Zhivitsky. According to preliminary information, there are no casualties, the destruction is being specified.
09:16 British intelligence reports that Russia probably suffered huge losses among middle and junior officers. The reason is that brigade and battalion commanders are most likely to move forward into danger, since they bear uncompromising responsibility for the actions of their units.
Due to a lack of manpower, junior officers direct the lowest level tactical actions. All this will exacerbate the current problems in modernizing the approach to command and control, analysts say. Therefore, the Russian battalion tactical groups that are recreated in Ukraine from the surviving units are likely to be less effective due to the lack of junior commanders. In addition, there are local rebellions among the Russian forces.
08:44 The Crimean mobile operator has earned in the Kherson region, said the "deputy head" of the region Kirill Stremousov.
08:30 Artillery and the Russian Aerospace Forces are targeting Ukrainian grain warehouses and fields, reports France 24. Moreover, the strikes are accurate: on a small but critical bridge near the port, on a grain loading station, on a cattle shed. Confirmed attacks include multiple mines in sown fields preparing for harvest, rocket attacks on silos and cattle feeding grounds, shelling of convoys with grain (both wagons and entire trains), the abduction and removal of Ukrainian agricultural equipment and grain.
France 24 calculated that Ukraine is losing a significant part of its agricultural capacity due to these strikes, which is about 10% of GDP.
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"Heavy battles for Severodonetsk and Lisichansk. The enemy used all possible weapons, uses aircraft. However, our military holds the defense firmly to prevent the enemy deep into the country," Gaidai wrote.
08:15 Enemy artillery fired again at the Kryvyi Rih region, they hit the Zelenodolsk and Apostolovsk communities, people were not injured, said the head of the Dnipropetrovsk OVA, Valentin Reznichenko.
07:53 At night and at dawn, the Russians launched two missile strikes on the Odessa region, tried to get into a broken bridge across the Dniester estuary, but got into a previously broken path, OK Pivden reports. The shock wave damaged several private houses, there were no wounded or dead.
Also, the representative of the Odessa OVA, Sergey Bratchuk, said that a unit of anti-aircraft missile forces destroyed an X-type cruise missile fired by a Russian strategic bomber in the direction of the Black Sea in the Odessa region.
07:40 In the Slavyansk direction, enemy units are regrouping troops to resume the offensive in the direction of Izyum - Barvenkovo, Izyum - Slavyansk. In order to increase efficiency, the invaders restored the railway bridge near the city of Kupyansk, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports in the morning report .
In the Donetsk direction, the Russian army focused on conducting offensive operations with the aim of cordoning off the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of Lysichansk, Severodonetsk and blocking the main logistics routes.
In the Liman direction, the enemy is entrenched in Liman, is regrouping for an attack on Slavyansk. On Severodonetsk - it is fixed on the northeastern and southeastern outskirts of Severodonetsk. In the Bakhmut direction, the invaders are regrouping for a further offensive in the direction of Alexandropolye - Kamyshevakh.
05:15 Anonymous hackers said they hacked Belarusian government websites "for involvement in the invasion of Ukraine."
04:33 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) suggests that the counteroffensive of the Ukrainian defenders in the Kherson region will violate Russia's plans to control the occupied territories in the south.
Analysts also report that the Russians continued the assault on Severodonetsk on May 29, but did not have a confirmed advance, and their progress will be slow. The Russian army in eastern Ukraine, which aimed to capture the entire Luhansk and Donetsk regions, is now almost entirely concentrated in Severodonetsk.
Experts believe that Russian forces are unlikely to be able to conduct multiple simultaneous operations and are likely to further deprioritize advances southeast of Izyum and west of Liman in favor of concentrating existing forces on Severodonetsk.
The invaders also continued offensive operations to cut Ukrainian land lines of communication northeast of Bakhmut and are unlikely to attempt a direct attack on the city.
04:16 Blinken called Lukashenka an accomplice in Russia's war against Ukraine: "On the Day of Solidarity with Belarus, we remember the suffering caused by the actions of the Lukashenka regime - the suppression of human rights, ignoring international norms and complicity in the war of Russia against Ukraine."
03:51 The occupiers fired at the New Bug of the Nikolaev region late in the evening, there is significant destruction in the city center, the City Council reported.
03:42 Lavrov said that France plays one of the initiative roles "in inciting Ukrainian nationalism, neo-Nazism." According to him, Paris is actively arming Kyiv, including with offensive weapons, "demands to wage war to a victorious end", "to defeat Russia." "This only means that all our many years of appeals to the West with a call to negotiate on an equal footing were not only not heard, but deliberately ignored," the Russian Foreign Minister said.
02:36 In Kharkov, on May 29, the creation of a new division of the Azov Special Operations Forces was officially proclaimed. Anatoly Sidorenko became the commander. The fighters of the unit are already performing combat missions in the Kharkiv region.
01:45 President of Poland Andrzej Duda confirmed in an interview with CNN that his country is ready to become a security guarantor for Ukraine: "Vladimir Zelensky asked me if I agree that Poland should be one of the security guarantors of Ukraine. We believe that, as neighbors, we simply obliged. Therefore, if Ukraine offers us to be the guarantor of security and the guarantor of peace when the war is over, and if such terms of the peace treaty are accepted - yes, Poland will participate in this."