RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR Russian

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Russia-Ukraine war: what we know on day 98 of the invasion (The Guardian)

Sievierodonetsk mostly under Russian control; Russia further cuts gas supplies to Europe; seed bank in Kharkiv at risk.

Oleg Morozov from the United Russia party said on Rossiya-1 state TV he had a “fantastical plot” that a Nato war minister would travel to Kyiv and wake up in Moscow. Senegal’s president, Macky Sall, who chairs the union, said “the worst is perhaps ahead of us” if current global food supply trends continued. Serhiy Haidai, Ukraine’s governor of Luhansk, has said that Russia now controls 70% of the city of Sievierodonetsk, which is the main crucible of Russia’s attack at the present time, and a key objective if Russian forces are to control the whole of the Donbas region. The UK’s ministry of defence latest assessment of the situation on the ground in Ukraine says: “Russian ground operations remain tightly focused, with the weight of fire power concentrated within a small sector of Luhansk oblast. Russia has said that a US decision to supply advanced rocket systems and munitions toUkrainewas extremely negative and would increase the risk of a direct confrontation. US PresidentJoe Bidenhas confirmed he will send the more advanced, longer-range rocket systems to Kyiv, a critical weapon that Ukrainian leaders have been asking for as they struggle to stall Russian progress in the Donbas region.

Russia Ukraine War News Live Updates: Russian forces advance in ... (The Indian Express)

Ukraine's General Staff said Russian forces, now 98 days into their invasion, were pounding infrastructure in eastern and southern regions including the ...

In Pictures: Ukrainian Cities In Ruins After Russian Shelling (Outlook India)

Russia has targeted civilian areas throughout its war against Ukraine, which has caused widespread death and destruction in residential areas of the country ...

A volunteer helps a man leaving his home in a building damaged by an overnight missile strike, in Sloviansk, Ukraine. Residents carry water in front of an apartment building damaged in an overnight missile strike, in Sloviansk, Ukraine. View of an apartment building damaged in an overnight missile strike, in Sloviansk, Ukraine.

Live updates | Germany's FM urges long-term Ukraine support (Charlotte Observer)

Annalena Baerbock told the German parliament that Russian President Vladimir Putin has “fundamentally changed” his strategy after failing to take Ukraine ...

Moscow offered customers receiving its natural gas to establish an account in dollars or euros at Russia’s third-largest bank, Gazprombank, then a second account in rubles. Kim didn’t specify exactly where the retreat he described was happening. ___ ___ Poland is receiving EU funds for the purpose, Morawiecki said. ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ Baerbock said those were originally supposed to go to another country, which she didn’t identify.

Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 98 (Aljazeera.com)

Get the latest updates here. Fighting. The United States will send Ukraine the M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS), equipped with munitions that ...

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called Russia’s bombing of Severodonetsk “madness” due to the number of chemical plants in the city. - German companies Uniper and RWE paid for Russian gas under a new scheme proposed by Moscow, in a bid to ensure continued supply of the fuel that is critical to Europe’s top economy. - Russia’s economy will not suffer from the EU’s oil embargo due to new markets and rising fuel prices, the chairwoman of Russia’s Federation Council said. - Pope Francis led an international prayer service in Rome for peace in Ukraine and other places stricken by war – an event attended by about a thousand people, including the Ukrainian ambassador to the Vatican and a number of people wearing the blue and yellow colours of the Ukrainian flag. - Moscow’s focus on seizing Severodonetsk and the Donbas region more generally risks its hold on Kherson, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) said. - Ukrainian forces have had some success near the southern city of Kherson and are advancing in parts of the Kharkiv region, Zelenskyy said.

Live updates: Russia's war in Ukraine (CNN International)

Russian forces are closing in on the eastern city of Severodonetsk, with a regional military administration official saying troops have now taken control of ...

CNN previously reported that US officials were debating for weeks whether to send Ukraine the advanced rocket systems, because they can strike so much further than any weapons they already have. The M777 Howitzers the US sent to Ukraine last month, for example, marked a significant increase in range and power over previous systems, but even those top out at around 25 kilometers (18 miles) in range. The officials also said the new rocket systems will help put Ukraine “in the strongest possible position at the negotiating table” with Russia, and reiterated that the US will “not pressure the Ukrainian government in public or in private to make any territorial concessions.”