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2022-06-02 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Ukrainian Perspective: Invasion of Ukraine: June 1st, 2022

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[Korrespondent] 23:19 As a result of an enemy missile attack on a transport infrastructure facility in the Lviv region, two people were injured, there is no information about the dead yet, said the head of the OVA Maxim Kozitsky.

23:16 The Russians fired cruise missiles at the Beskydy railway tunnel, which runs through the Carpathians in the Lviv region. The goal is to try to disrupt the railway communication and stop the supply of fuel and weapons from Western partners, Anton Gerashchenko said.

23:14 Explosions were heard in the Stryisky district of the Lviv region, the head of the region Maxim Kozitsky asks residents to stay in shelters.

23:11 The Ukrainian side has not received a single clarifying question from the European Commission on the questionnaire for applying for candidates for EU membership, Natalya Forsyuk, director general of the government office for the coordination of European and Euro-Atlantic integration, said on the air of the telethon.

At the same time, she acknowledged that some EU countries oppose the rapid granting of candidate status to Ukraine, and did not rule out that Kyiv would first receive the status of a "candidate candidate."

22:46 There are sabotage and reconnaissance groups in the Kiev region, so law enforcement officers will more carefully check citizens who are on the street without special passes during the curfew, said OVA head Oleksiy Kuleba.

22:44 In Nikolaev as a result of today's attacks one person was lost on a place, one more - in hospital, the mayor Alexander Senkevich reported. Also, two people were injured. Two high-rise buildings and four private houses were damaged.

22:42 Russia does not have the right to veto the supply of weapons that the United States provides to the Ukrainians, said Deputy Secretary of Defense Colin Hal during a briefing at the Pentagon: "President Biden made it clear that we are not going to enter into a direct conflict with Russia. We are not interested in that the conflict in Ukraine escalates into a wider conflict or World War III, so we keep that in mind, but at the same time, Russia does not have a veto over what we sent to the Ukrainians."

22:38 Lithuania has signed an agreement with Turkey, allowing it to acquire Bayraktar. According to Delfi, the Lithuanian government plans to purchase a Turkish drone and other equipment with money donated by people as part of a fundraising campaign organized by a local TV channel and donate them to Ukraine. In addition, Vilnius is considering the possibility of acquiring such a drone for its own armed forces.

21:53 Ukraine will buy about 60 Polish self-propelled artillery howitzers AHS Krab in addition to those 18 that Poland has already transferred, Polish media write.

21:44 The head of Interpol, Jurgen Stock, said that a significant part of the weapons supplied to Ukraine could eventually end up in the hands of criminals - both in Europe and abroad, the Air Force reports. Shtok called on countries that send weapons to Ukraine to start maintaining databases and tracking the fate of the weapons provided.

21:37 The Russian Ministry of Defense announced that the Ukrainians plan to place "missile systems, the delivery of which is expected from the United States, in order to strike at Russia" in Shostka, Sumy region.

21:24 For today, four civilians were killed in the Donetsk region - one each in Soledar, New York, Tatyanovka and Liman, said the head of the OVA Pavel Kirilenko. Nine civilians were also injured.

21:18 Russia is not yet ready for serious diplomatic work on Ukraine, Blinken said. According to him, the decision on where the dividing lines will be after the end of the conflict depends on Ukraine. Blinken also expressed the opinion that the hostilities in Ukraine could last "many more months."

21:16 Bulgaria has stopped the program of temporary accommodation of Ukrainians in hotels, refugees are now being relocated from Black Sea hotels to buffer centers in Sarafovo and Elhovo, said Deputy Prime Minister Kalina Konstantinova. According to her, Ukrainian refugees will live in buffer zones until the Bulgarian authorities have accurate information about how many people really need help and asylum, and who “knows that he will return to Ukraine, but will sit on the beach until the last ".

20:49 The Pentagon has detailed a new package of assistance to Ukraine. In addition to MLRS HIMARS and ammunition for them (the number is not specified), it will include:

4 Mi-17 helicopters;

1,000 Javelin missiles;

15 tactical vehicles;

5 anti-artillery radars;

2 air surveillance radar systems;

6 thousand units of anti-tank weapons;

15 thousand 155-mm artillery shells;

spare parts and equipment.

The Pentagon stressed that the United States will consider defensive any use of MLRS by Ukraine on its territory.

20:42 The head of the US Embassy in Ukraine, Bridget Brink, recorded a greeting to Ukrainians from Maidan Nezalezhnosti: "At this critical moment, our message is clear: the United States stands by the Ukrainian people in defense of a sovereign, independent, and democratic Ukraine. We will help Ukraine defend itself against unprovoked, unjustified and Russia's brutal war. We will continue to work with our allies and partners to help you defend your country, your homes and your democracy. And we will do this by supporting Ukraine for as long as necessary."

20:35 The new US military aid package includes MLRS and ammunition, four Mi-17 helicopters, a thousand Javelin missiles, 15 tactical vehicles, the Pentagon said. Also, the US Department of Defense reported that the Ukrainian military would need three weeks to master the American MLRS.

20:29 In Severodonetsk, the Armed Forces of Ukraine made test counterattacks, captured six militants, said the head of the Luhansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai. According to him, about 80% of the regional center, including the eastern quarters of the city, has been occupied. Street fighting continues. Gaidai assured that the Armed Forces of Ukraine would fight for Severodonetsk "until the end."

He also stressed that Lysichansk remains under Ukrainian control, and this is a militarily advantageous position: the city's location on a hill gives many opportunities.

20:17 On May 30, as a result of the shelling of Svyatogorsk, Donetsk region, the Holy Dormition Svyatogorsk Lavra was damaged, two monks of this monastery and a nun were killed, three more monks were injured, the information and educational department of the UOC reports.

20:00 Kiev will not accept anything but the status of a candidate for EU membership, Kuleba said on the air of the telethon: "We are tired of constantly listening to alternative scenarios dedicated to Ukraine. <...> We are criticized that we are depriving ourselves of maneuver, but we explain, that this is the question where maneuver is not needed.

19:56 The White House has officially confirmed that the United States will provide Ukraine with HIMARS MLRS.

19:54 Hungary demanded that the head of the Moscow church, Patriarch Kirill, be excluded from the sixth package of EU sanctions against Russia, writes Bloomberg.

19:52 Today, at about 19:35, the Russians fired three rockets from the Tornado MLRS in the Sinelnikovsky district of the Dnipropetrovsk region, said the head of the OVA, Valentin Reznichenko. Information about the destruction and the victims is being specified, the work of rescuers is complicated by bad weather.

19:48 Poland will help Ukraine export goods, mainly grain, and will become an economic hub for Kiev, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said during a visit to Borodyanka. He also said that Warsaw will receive funding from the EU to increase capacity and improve infrastructure.

He added that already today "several agreements between ministries are being prepared, which, on the one hand, will help Ukraine, and on the other hand, will give Poland an economic impetus," and that "this is an agreement on, for example, the export of Ukrainian grain."

During Morawiecki's current visit to Kyiv, several agreements were signed between individual ministries of Poland and Ukraine. According to the speaker of the Polish Prime Minister Piotr Muller, the matter concerns several key decisions regarding cooperation in the economic, defense and cultural spheres.

19:43 The "tribunal" over the Ukrainian military may include "representatives of European countries," said Elena Shishkina, head of the criminal law committee of the "DPR parliament". According to her, invitations have already been sent to them.

19:41 In the occupied settlements of the Kherson region, Russians, dressed in the uniform of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, go from house to house and ask where the positions of the Russian Federation are now. Those who confidentially begin to tell, thinking that they are helping their own people, are seized and taken away in an unknown direction, the Pivden Operational Command reported.

19:38 In the Kherson region, more than 20 settlements have been liberated from the Dnipropetrovsk region , the head of the Kherson OVA, Gennady Laguta, said on the air of the telethon. According to him, the Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to move forward, liberating the Kherson region.

19:35 American medium-range systems will help the Armed Forces of Ukraine more accurately hit targets on the battlefield and reach the rear of the invaders. More about them - in the material , the United States gives Ukraine MLRS HIMARS .

19:33 Italy, if necessary, is ready to take part in demining operations in Ukrainian ports in order to ensure the exit of ships with grain from them, said Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio.

19:28 German Foreign Minister Annalena Burbock confirmed that the delivery of IRIS-T SLM air defense systems to Ukraine will take "months". She explained this by the fact that the weapons will be supplied by the manufacturing company Diehl directly to Ukraine, and not from the warehouses of the Bundeswehr.

19:26 Stoltenberg said that the Kremlin's nuclear blackmail is dangerous and increases tension: "We remind Russia that they agreed that a nuclear war will not be won, therefore it cannot be started. The use of nuclear weapons by Russia will absolutely change this conflict."

19:10 Resolution of the food crisis in the world is impossible without the return of Ukraine's food and Russia's fertilizers to the world market. To do this, the war in Ukraine "must end now," said UN Secretary General António Guterres.

19:07 The governments of Ukraine and Poland are planning to create a joint venture for the manufacture of weapons and military equipment, Shmyhal said: "This will take our defense and military cooperation to a new level and will allow us to create modern types of defensive weapons."

18:59 Russian troops are storming Severodonetsk, having partial success, they have established control over the eastern part of the city, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported. In the Bakhmut direction, the enemy is conducting an assault in Kamyshevakh, but without success. In the Yuzhnobuzhsky direction, it fires at the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from mortars and cannon artillery in the areas of the settlements of Snegirevka, Vysokopole and Zolotaya Balka.

Also, in the Kharkiv direction, Russian troops are shelling the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Russian Tishki, Zolochiv and Dergachi. In the Slavyansk direction, Ukrainian positions were fired from artillery in the areas of the settlements of Svyatogorsk and Rodnoye. They attacked in the direction of Dolgenkiy and Dubravny, but suffered losses and retreated. In the Donetsk direction, the enemy launched air strikes in the areas of Avdiivka, New York, Shcherbak, Rot, Pokrovsky and Novoselovka.

18:54 The Russians launched drones twice in the Nikolaev region to adjust the fire and evaluate the results of the fire raid, and then they fired at Ochakov from the Kinburn Spit from Gradov, the Operational Command Pivden reported.

18:50 Andrey Kartapolov, head of the RF State Duma Committee on Defense, said that Russia "practically stopped incurring losses" during the "special operation" in Ukraine. According to him, this is the result of "a change in the approach to the conduct of hostilities."

He also said that the "special operation" in Ukraine will end when Kyiv is "ripe" for negotiations. And Donbass, according to him, "will be cleared of the remnants of Ukrainian armed formations in the near future."

18:37 The war against Russia will continue at least until winter, since neither side considers itself a winner, Podolyak said in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine: "Until the autumn-winter of this year, everything will develop very paradoxically. Why? Because no one will stop neither side will get a sense of victory in its current form. Ukraine definitely cannot stop. These are objective circumstances... the war cannot stop along the line of demarcation. Neither Kherson, nor Zaporozhye, nor Donetsk, nor Luhansk regions categorically do not want to live in this "Russian world".

Podolyak also stressed that the military leadership fully shares the plans of the political leaders of Ukraine that the freezing of the war is unacceptable, and the army must return the occupied territories.

18:25 Lavrov said that Kiev's demands to the West regarding the supply of MLRS "go beyond all limits of decency, this is a direct provocation."

18:23 Blinken announced a new US $700 million military aid package to Ukraine. The new package included, in particular, long-range missile systems, as well as, according to American media, other large-caliber weapons.

18:19 Blinken said that the Ukrainian authorities gave guarantees to the United States that they would not use Western long-range weapons systems against targets in the territory of the Russian Federation.

18:17 Ukrainian Oleksiy Bokoch measured the area of the occupied territories of Ukraine in Google maps and compared them with the territories of European states.

18:00 The head of the US Cyber Command, General Paul Nakasone, said in an interview with Sky News that the US military is carrying out hacker operations in support of Ukraine: "We have carried out a number of operations of all kinds: offensive, defensive, informational."

He did not elaborate on the details of the cyberattacks, but emphasized that they took place in a legal plane in accordance with Pentagon policy and civilian oversight. According to the general, he daily calculates the possibility of a Russian cyberattack on the United States, so proactive actions in cyberspace to identify Russian hackers and their intentions are an effective means of protecting the United States and allies.

17:48 As a result of today's shelling of Nikolaev lines of one of substations are damaged, the mayor of the city Alexander Senkevich reported. To carry out repairs, the employees of Nikolaevoblenergo were forced to disconnect the Ship District from the power supply, and in one and a half to two hours they promise to fix everything.

17:34 Marina Ovsyannikova, who on March 14 gave an anti-war performance on the air of the Russian First Channel, ended up in the Peacemaker base. She is charged with "participation in the information and propaganda special operations of the Kremlin aimed at eliminating sanctions pressure on Russia."

The day before, the media reported that Ovsyannikova would speak at a press conference in Kyiv and talk about the work of Russian propaganda. This caused a resonance in social networks, after which they decided to cancel the event.

17:26 In Ternopil, it was forbidden to publicly sing songs in Russian, the City Council reported.

17:12 Ukraine and Poland adopted a joint statement based on the results of intergovernmental consultations. Thus, Poland confirmed that it supports Ukraine's accession to the EU and NATO, and will also make efforts so that Ukraine receives the status of a candidate for EU membership in June. The parties agreed to strengthen defense cooperation, develop the Polish-Ukrainian-British alliance and work on strengthening sanctions against Russia. Also, the Polish partners confirmed their readiness to participate in the post-war reconstruction of Ukraine, to strengthen border cooperation.

16:39 Terrorist organizations are supported not only by Sweden and Finland, but also by Germany, France and the Netherlands, Erdogan said.

He means the Kurds, specifically various Communist independence groups originating in Turkey, Iraq, and Syria. The ones in Iran don’t concern him as much.

16:17 In the Yuzhnobuzhsky direction, the invaders are equipping the second and third lines of defense, said the speaker of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Oleksandr Motuzyanyk.

16:15 At 13:30, the enemy fired a rocket from an airplane on the territory of the Shaligin community of the Shostka district of the Sumy region, said the head of the OVA Dmitry Zhivitsky. Six missiles were fired, data on destruction are being specified.

16:14 More than 100 prisoners in Mariupol were moved to a pre-trial detention center as "suspects" , a "court" will decide on them, the head of the "DPR Ministry of Justice" said.

16:12 Russian troops are equipping positions in the Bryansk region, 3 km from the state border of Ukraine, said Defense Ministry spokesman Oleksandr Motuzyanyk. According to him, in the future, an increase in the intensity of shelling of positions of Ukrainian troops, as well as infrastructure facilities in the Sumy direction, is not ruled out.

15:57 In Dії, the voting on the issue of gun ownership has ended - more than 1.7 million Ukrainians took part in it. As the results showed, 59% of respondents believe that all citizens who comply with the requirements of the law can have pistols and can freely carry them with them in public places.

At the same time, 22% believe that pistols should categorically not be used among the civilian population, and 19% are in favor of pistols being available to all citizens who comply with the requirements of the law, but it could only be used in shooting ranges or shooting ranges, but with oneself wearing is prohibited.

15:32 Adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, Petr Andryushchenko, denied his own information about the appearance of filtration camps on the border between Russia and Estonia. According to him, after a thorough check, it turned out that it was not about the camps as such, but about individual interrogations of Mariupol residents by the FSB.

In this regard, Ukrainians who are trying to leave the Russian Federation through other countries are advised to say that the purpose of crossing the border is not to return to Ukraine, but to visit relatives abroad. Also, if there are questions about the status (shelter from war or a refugee), it is advisable to persistently refuse it either right on the spot (referring to an error), or emphasize that there was a refusal in accordance with the law from the city of destination in Russia.

15:26 Prime Minister of Poland Mateusz Morawiecki opened modular towns in Borodianka and Bucha that can accommodate more than a thousand people.

15:24 Reznikov announced "a new portion of good news" from the United States in military support for Ukraine: "Yesterday I had a very informative conversation with a great friend of Ukraine - US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin. We expect a new portion of good news in the near future thanks to the outstanding leadership of the United States in support of the Ukrainian struggle against the Russian invasion".

15:20 Occupants force Mariupol residents to work for water, said the mayor of Mariupol Vadim Boychenko. According to him, residents complain about the acute shortage of water and food. Drinking water tanks have been installed at several points in the city, but access to it is provided after the completion of labor service. Basically, people are involved in clearing the city from garbage, debris and corpses.

15:18 Tankers with Russian oil arrived in the ports of New York and New Jersey in May, despite the fact that the United States imposed an embargo back in March, writes The Wall Street Journal. Oil tankers arrived in the United States from refineries in India. This is probably how traders try to hide the origin of raw materials.

15:02 Progress in negotiations with Russia is impossible, since Moscow has returned to the extremely aggressive initial rhetoric that it uses in the domestic market, Podolyak said in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine: "This is an absurdity. They have ceased to perceive the world as it is. There has been a rollback back". He recalled that during the meeting in Istanbul on March 29, the parties to the talks reached certain formulaic solutions, but after Bucha "there was a severe emotional strain both in Ukraine and in the world."

"Any negotiation process can be prolonged. This is a matter of decision by our military-political leadership. When it considers that we can return to the concept of the Istanbul Communiqué, it will say: sit down, discuss, make changes, taking into account situational circumstances," Podolyak said.

14:56 Nikolaev is being fired from artillery right now, explosions are heard in the city, Mayor Alexander Senkevich said.

14:44 In Ukrainian Kamyshevakh on Tuesday, May 31, Lieutenant Colonel of Kadyrov's special regiment Zaur Dimaev was eliminated, the Russian channel Baza reported. According to him, Dimaev and the driver of the UAZ Patriot, in which a group of Russian soldiers was traveling, died on the spot as a result of the blow, four more occupiers were injured.

14:39 The Ministry of Internal Affairs reported that since the beginning of the war, National Police investigators have opened 393 criminal proceedings on the crimes of the Russian military against Ukrainian children. As a result of these illegal actions, 588 children suffered, of which 162 children died.

Also, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, 139 children are considered missing in Ukraine during the war. Another 234,000 children were illegally taken to Russia from the occupied territories.

14:35 The missile defense missiles and radar promised by Scholz to Kiev are not in the reserve of the Bundeswehr, so deliveries can come directly from enterprises, the German Defense Ministry said.

14:33 The head of the international committee of the State Duma Leonid Slutsky counts on the "accession" of the Donetsk, Luhansk and Kherson regions to Russia in July: "The referendum on the entry of the DPR, LPR and the Kherson region could take place simultaneously, it would be logical" . He stressed that Russia "has enough resources to ensure the inclusion of these territories in its composition."

14:32 The UK and the EU have agreed to ban the insurance of ships with Russian oil, writes the Financial Times. Thus, carriers of Russian oil will lose access to the British Lloyd's of London insurance market, the largest for shipping. This will limit the ability of the Russian Federation to export crude oil by sea, it will have to look for other insurers.

14:21 A National War Memorial Cemetery will be created in Ukraine - the corresponding bill has already been adopted. As people's deputy Volodymyr Vyatrovich said, it will be a place of memory and glory of the heroes who died for Ukraine, with a memorial and a museum complex. According to him, the American Arlington, where war veterans, presidents, astronauts and heads of the US Supreme Court are buried, will become a model for creation.

14:15 Russian General Alexander Dvornikov, who was allegedly appointed to lead all Russian troops in Ukraine, has most likely already been removed from command. Sources of The New York Times say that the general has stopped appearing at the front, he has not been seen for two weeks.

After the appointment, Dvornikov tried to establish interaction between air and ground units. The general was able to streamline the processes in the Russian army - Russian units began to coordinate common goals.

However, at the global level, this changes too little, and the Russian army continues to make the same mistakes as at the very beginning of the war. Western military experts note that there are some things that can no longer be corrected during the war. For example, the lack of opportunity and ability for junior officers to independently make decisions on the battlefield without the consent of senior management.

14:07 Governor of St. Petersburg Alexander Belov arrived in Mariupol. The Russian-appointed "mayor" Konstantin Ivashchenko, together with the leader of the "DNR" Denis Pushilin, is giving him a tour of the ruins of the Drama Theater, adviser to the mayor of Mariupol Petr Andryushchenko said.

13:59 Peskov said that the supply of American weapons to Ukraine "does not contribute to the awakening of Kiev's desire to resume peace negotiations." He also repeated once again that a meeting between Putin and Zelensky "is not ruled out a priori," but it should be prepared and finalized by a document, work on which has now been stopped.

Commenting on the possibility of the "DNR" and "LNR", Kherson and Zaporizhia regions becoming part of Russia, Peskov said that residents "should make their own decisions about their future."

As for the export of grain, he said, "it is necessary that Ukraine bother to move on to demining the ports, then Russia will assist in the exit of ships with grain."

13:46 Podolyak, on the air of the telethon, urged to reduce the degree around the topic of arms supplies: "Firstly, we get everything we need anyway. Maybe not as fast as we wanted ... and this is bad, because we need as soon as possible. But we are getting it, because there is an anti-Russian and pro-Ukrainian consensus, including in the military elites of the West."

He also recalled that people need hype: “I generally believe that everything related to the supply of weapons for us should be closed in the informational sense. If there is a weapon, it will be at the front, it will be used, after that there will be reports, how we did."

And the third component, according to the adviser to the head of the Presidential Office, is Russian information campaigns, which are designed to discredit NATO as weapons suppliers, and should create chaos, including informational chaos, and somehow influence the military elites of Western countries so that they have less desire to send weapons to Kyiv.

13:35 Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas said that at the meeting of the European Council on May 30-31, EU leaders discussed the advisability of phone calls to Putin, "there was a very tense discussion." In her opinion, it is obvious that, despite the good intentions of the initiators of the talks with the President of the Russian Federation, "it can be seen that Putin does not want to take any measures."

“But Scholz and Macron say they are calling Zelensky because Putin does not want to talk with Ukraine. Plus, as far as I understand, Zelensky asked them to be intermediaries,” Kallas added.

13:19 Senator of the Federation Council from Crimea Sergey Tsekov said that "referendums" on joining Donbass, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions to Russia could take place within a year.

13:04 Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Sergey Ryabkov said that the supply of weapons to Ukraine creates the risk of a direct clash with the United States, regardless of how Washington argues them. "The fact that the United States, at the head of a group of states, is purposefully pumping weapons into the Kyiv regime is obvious," Ryabkov said, adding that Moscow would achieve the goals of its "special operation" in Ukraine in any case.

12:52 Troops of the Russian Federation continue to beat across Nikolaev and area, as a result of attacks in a day 22 people were wounded, the head of a regional council Anna Zamazeeva reported. According to her, the Nikolaevsky and Bashtansky districts, Bereznegovatskaya, Shirokovskaya and other communities were shelled. Residential buildings damaged. Also, the invaders continue to hit the residential areas of Nikolaev, Ochakov was fired at night.

12:36 Russian invaders lose in street battles, so they completely destroy Ukrainian cities, Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar said on the air of the telethon: "They try not to enter and not start street fights, because they lose in street fights. Obviously, because of this they prefer to destroy the city altogether and simply seize territory without social infrastructure."

She also noted that the Russian Federation is trying to reach the borders of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions: “This is an ambition that Putin has pursued for the previous eight years. consider some kind of negotiations."

12:24 The Ministry of Internal Affairs has launched a hotline for relatives of prisoners of war, missing and dead Ukrainian soldiers. During the call, you can provide information about your relatives, get psychological help, get clarifications about the rights that relatives of prisoners of war, missing and dead soldiers have. Hotline number: +380 89 420 18 66.

12:03 Denmark is holding a referendum today regarding the participation of the kingdom in the defense cooperation program in the EU. Denmark is a member of NATO, but remains the only EU state not participating in the Common Defense and Security Policy (CSDP). The decision to revise the country's security policy was prompted by the Russian military aggression against Ukraine.

Nearly 4.3 million Danish voters must decide whether to waive the exemptions that have kept Copenhagen out of the EU's common security policy for 30 years. The decision to hold a referendum in early March was announced by Prime Minister Matte Frederiksen after the five leading parliamentary parties agreed to change the country's security policy.

11:46 The Russians are destroying Ukrainian infrastructure because they are not interested in it. Moscow plans to use the territory of Ukraine as a springboard to move the war on Europe, said Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar.

11:40 Over the past day, the Russians fired at the Kievsky district of Kharkov, there were no casualties. The Kharkiv, Izyum, Bogodukhovsky and Chuguevsky districts were also massively shelled, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said. As a result of the shelling, four civilians were killed and seven more were injured. The fighting in the area continues, the enemy is focused on defense and is trying to hold their positions.

11:36 Germany, in agreement with the Netherlands, will supply Ukraine with the most modern air defense system that Germany has - IRIS-T , Scholz said during a speech in the Bundestag. With the help of IRIS-T SLM, you can protect an entire city: it is able to repel attacks from combat aircraft, helicopters, cruise missiles, rocket artillery, drones, anti-radar missiles and bombs.

In mid-May, Bild announced the delivery of these systems. The publication reported that the system could be fully launched in Ukraine from November.

11:33 The United States is ready to provide letters of guarantee to insurance companies and exporters for the export of grain from Russia, said the country's permanent representative to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield. According to her, Western sanctions do not apply to the supply of grain and fertilizers from the Russian Federation, "but the companies are a little nervous." Therefore, Washington is ready to send them letters of guarantee to support efforts to export grain from the Russian Federation.

11:30 The Russians are afraid of a counteroffensive and a breakthrough of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Nikolaev region, so they are undermining bridges. In Nikolaev itself, shelling continues to intensify, "although the city is coming to life," said the head of the OVA, Vitaly Kim. He urged the residents of the city, who left it and want to return, to wait another two to three weeks.

11:26 It is planned to resume water supply in Slovyansk today by the end of the day, Vadim Lyakh, head of the CAA, said. The exception is the Artem-Lesnoy micro-districts, where water supply will be resumed after the high-voltage line that feeds the Mayatsky water conduit is repaired.

11:20 Russians control 70% of Severodonetsk , said the head of the Luhansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai. According to him, part of the Ukrainian troops retreated to more advantageous, pre-prepared positions, and part continues fighting inside the city.

11:18 An international team of lawyers is preparing a massive civil lawsuit against the Russian Federation for compensation for damages from the war. According to The Guardian, a team of about a hundred lawyers and several large law firms wants to seek monetary compensation for millions of Ukrainians. They are going to sue through various US and UK authorities in order to achieve the arrest of Russian assets around the world. The lawsuit will be private and unrelated to the Ukrainian state.

London-based lawyer Jason McKue, who is coordinating the project, believes that claims for reparations from state to state rarely succeed, so the goal of a private initiative is to speed up the process. Lawyers will insist that the Russian invasion is not only a war of aggression, but also partially falls under the legal definition of terrorism, which will make it easier to obtain compensation.

The international team's ties to Ukrainian officials are forged by businessman Serhiy Taruta, who also suffered from the Russian invasion. According to Taruta, at least a trillion dollars can be sued from Russia. And the first to receive compensation, according to him, should be those who lost relatives in the war, were injured and lost their property. Secondly, we should talk about payments to the state and businesses.

10:50 The Russians are deploying rocket launchers on Zmeiny Island - this may mean that they want to protect their ships from the Armed Forces of Ukraine and plan to use weapons along the coast of the Odessa region, OK Pivden reported. In particular, the enemy is installing missile and gun systems, multiple launch rocket systems and an electronic station on Zmeinoye.

At the same time, there are no signs of preparations for a landing operation by the Russian Federation, "but attempts to approach and land the DRG on the coast or the mouth of the Danube or demonstrative shelling of coastal areas are not ruled out," the operational command notes.

10:36 The United States does not see that Russia is ready to use nuclear weapons, but Washington considers the Kremlin's rhetoric dangerous and warns that a nuclear strike will lead to serious consequences, Biden wrote in his column for The New York Times.

10:09 Switzerland has vetoed a request from Denmark to send Swiss-made armored personnel carriers to Ukraine, Reuters writes. The State Secretariat for Economic Affairs rejected Denmark's application to supply Ukraine with about 20 Piranha III infantry fighting vehicles. Neutral Switzerland requires foreign countries buying Swiss weapons to obtain permission to re-export them.

10:04 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced the start of exercises involving nuclear forces. The exercises in the Ivanovo Region involve the RS-24 Yars nuclear systems equipped with an intercontinental ballistic missile with a range of up to 12,000 km.

10:02 In Mariupol, the occupation authorities are preparing to demolish most of the buildings that suffered from their own shelling. Mobile brigades from the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation and the military go around the surviving apartments where people live and warn them about resettlement. Elderly people are planned to be compactly settled in dormitories on Stroiteley Ave., and people involved in work in the port, at the Ilyich plant and debris removal will be occupied in their apartments, said Petr Andryushchenko, adviser to the mayor of Mariupol.

Owners of houses who plan to demolish, regardless of the condition of the apartments, are literally evicted to the street. When asked where to live, they answer that this is not the business of the occupation authorities. Thus, the occupiers embody two scenarios at the same time - coercion to deport to Russia and to work for people of working age, Andryushchenko notes.

09:55 In the center of Odessa, they began to remove the fortifications installed in the first days of the war. As the mayor of the city Gennady Trukhanov explained, this is not a cancellation, but a change in the format of the city's defense. Barriers are also being removed to restore the life of the city - this will allow small and medium-sized businesses to resume work. In particular, fortifications are being moved from Lanzheronovskaya, Rishelyevskaya and Ekaterininskaya streets.

09:50 If Putin manages to gain a foothold in the Donbas, this will have dangerous consequences for the whole of Europe, and the Kremlin will take advantage of the situation to regroup its forces, German Foreign Minister Annalena Berbock said on the air of the ARD TV channel. According to her, in order to prevent such a scenario, it is necessary to continue supporting Ukraine.

09:48 Russians launched a missile attack on Slavyansk early this morning. Three private houses in one of the microdistricts of the city were destroyed, about ten more were damaged. There were no casualties, the OVA said.

09:24 British intelligence notes that Russian ground operations remain concentrated in a small sector of the Luhansk region, fighting has intensified on the streets of Severodonetsk.

Outside the Donbass, Russia continues to launch long-range missile strikes against infrastructure in Ukraine. Under them, in particular, fell a strategically important bridge that connects Ukraine with Romania and Ukrainian ports on the Danube, which have become critical for Ukrainian exports after the blockade of Ukrainian Black Sea ports by Russia, British analysts say.

09:21 Russian troops entered the central districts of Severodonetsk, said the head of the Lugansk OVA Sergey Gaidai: "The Russians are conducting assault operations, gaining a foothold in the center of Severodonetsk, while continuing to destroy infrastructure and industrial facilities. At 18:55 they attacked the Azot association from an aircraft, in as a result of which poisonous substances were released. In the afternoon, the enemy fired artillery at the Proletariy plant in Lisichansk - damage was recorded to several premises. "

09:14 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the enemy on the morning of June 1. The enemy suffered the greatest losses in the Krivoy Rog and Bakhmut directions.

personnel - about 30,700 (+200) people liquidated,

tanks - 1361 (+3),

armored combat vehicles - 3343 (+41),

artillery systems - 659 (+10),

MLRS - 207 (+0),

air defense systems - 94 (+1),

aircraft - 208 (+0),

helicopters - 175 (+1),

UAV operational-tactical level - 519 (+4),

cruise missiles - 120 (+0),

ships/boats - 13 (+0),

automotive equipment and tankers - 2290 (+15),

special equipment - 49 (+1).

08:54 Forbes found out which countries of the world support Ukraine the most, based on 11 criteria:

08:42 Zelensky said in an interview with Newsmax that Ukraine does not intend to attack Russian territory, but we need missile systems that hit further than 100 km: "The White House says that we can use them to attack Russia. Listen, we are not planning to attack Russia. We are not interested in the Russian Federation, we are not fighting on its territory."

08:40 The enemy, albeit slowly, is moving towards the borders of the Dnipropetrovsk region, erasing cities and villages from the face of the earth, said the head of the UVA, Valentin Reznichenko. "Therefore, we are working around the clock, without unnecessary PR support, to strengthen not only the defense lines, but also to strengthen the defense system of Ukraine as a whole," he added.

According to Reznichenko, that night the enemy again fired artillery at the Zelenodolsk bulk, people were not injured. In the Shirokovskaya community, electricians are repairing a line damaged by yesterday's mortar attack in one of the villages.

08:19 The United States will not seek Putin's resignation and will not strike Russian territory if Russia does not strike the United States or its allies, Biden said in his column for The New York Times. He also believes that the war in Ukraine should end at the negotiating table, and American weapons will help in this - "so that Ukraine can fight on the battlefield and take the strongest possible position at the negotiating table."

At the same time, Biden stressed that Washington will not "put pressure on the government of Ukraine - publicly or privately - in order to achieve any territorial concessions." In his opinion, negotiations with Russia have stalled not because Ukraine has turned away from diplomacy, "they have stalled because Russia continues to wage war to take control of as much of Ukraine as possible."

08:17 Taiwan will provide Ukraine with $6 million. Taiwanese Minister Joseph Wu said that his people sympathize with Ukraine, since they themselves could potentially suffer from a Chinese military invasion, CNN reports.

07:56 In the Severodonetsk direction, the enemy conducted assault operations in the northern, southern and eastern districts of the city of Severodonetsk, achieved success with individual units, is fixed in the city center, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports in the morning report .

Fighting continues for the Lisichansk-Bakhmut highway, the Russians are trying to oust the Armed Forces of Ukraine from Belogorovka. There are also battles for Vrubovka, which connects this highway and Ukrainian troops in Gorsky.

In the Slavic direction, the enemy regrouped troops. As a result of losses in the Dolgenkiy area, he led separate units to recovery in Izyum, strengthened the grouping in Kupyansk, conducted reconnaissance using UAVs in the areas of Izyum, Pervomaisky and Bolshaya Kamyshevakhi.

In the Donetsk direction, the aggressor's units, supported by aviation, are concentrating their main efforts on conducting offensive operations. In the Limansky direction, the enemy has reinforced the units and regrouped them, is advancing in the direction of the Liman - Old Caravan.

06:57 Ukraine daily loses 60-100 soldiers killed and about 500 more wounded , Zelensky said in an interview with Newsmax. He stressed that the situation is very difficult, especially in the east of the country.

04:01 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) notes that Moscow's concentration on the capture of Severodonetsk and Donbass creates vulnerabilities for Russia in the Kherson region, where the counteroffensive of Ukrainian forces is underway. The Kherson region is a critical territory for both sides, and the Ukrainian leadership had to make an incredibly difficult but correct choice - not to allocate more resources to saving Severodonetsk. The decision to withdraw was strategically sound, albeit painful.

Analysts point out that Ukraine should conserve its more limited resources and focus on reclaiming critical territory rather than defending territory whose control will not determine the outcome of the war.

It is also noted that the competent Ukrainian prioritization of counter-offensive and defense operations pushed the Russians almost out of Kharkov's reach and stopped the Russian offensive in the Izyum region. These achievements are more important than the defense of Severodonetsk, according to ISW.

03:15 The United States on Wednesday, June 1, will present a new package of military assistance to Ukraine , which will include HIMARS missile systems, counter-battery and anti-aircraft radars, Javelin anti-tank systems, helicopters, cars, the White House said. The military aid package is estimated at about $700 million.

At the same time, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre clarified that the United States would not send long-range missiles to Kyiv for use outside of Ukraine.

00:17 The Biden administration opposes the confiscation of Russian assets, as this could undermine the US reputation as an investment haven, writes The New York Times, citing sources in the White House.

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