Eurovision winners auction trophy for nearly $1 million to aid Ukraine
Updates from key battlefields: Kremlin closing in on Severodonetsk as attacks reduce buildings to rubble
Ukraine suffers on battlefield while pleading for U.S. arms
Russian ship carried grain to Syria, satellite firm says
Zelensky says he fired security official who ‘only thought of himself’
Russian troops push forward in Severodonetsk
Hundreds march in Warsaw to show support for Ukraine
E.U. countries again fail to clinch deal on Russian oil ban
All critical infrastructure in Severodonetsk destroyed, Zelensky says
Duration of war partly depends on support from West, Zelensky says
115 miners stuck underground in hard-hit Donetsk region, official says
Turkish president remains skeptical on Nordic countries’ NATO bid
Duda: Poland boosts defenses so Russia ‘will be afraid to attack us’
Zelensky says he ‘can’t see’ Russians’ willingness to negotiate
Russia’s military professionalism is ‘eroding,’ U.S. think tank says
Eurovision winners auction trophy for nearly $1 million to aid Ukraine
Updates from key battlefields: Kremlin closing in on Severodonetsk as attacks reduce buildings to rubble
Ukraine suffers on battlefield while pleading for U.S. arms
Russian ship carried grain to Syria, satellite firm says
Zelensky says he fired security official who ‘only thought of himself’
Russian troops push forward in Severodonetsk
Hundreds march in Warsaw to show support for Ukraine
E.U. countries again fail to clinch deal on Russian oil ban
All critical infrastructure in Severodonetsk destroyed, Zelensky says
Duration of war partly depends on support from West, Zelensky says
115 miners stuck underground in hard-hit Donetsk region, official says
Turkish president remains skeptical on Nordic countries’ NATO bid
Duda: Poland boosts defenses so Russia ‘will be afraid to attack us’
Zelensky says he ‘can’t see’ Russians’ willingness to negotiate
Russia’s military professionalism is ‘eroding,’ U.S. think tank says
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Russian troops have destroyed all of the “critical infrastructure” and damaged most of the buildings in the eastern city of Severodonetsk, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Sunday.
The Ukrainian band that won the Eurovision Song Contest this month said Sunday that it has auctioned its trophy for nearly $1 million to help fund Ukraine’s fight against Russia.
Kalush Orchestra triumphed this month at the music competition and TV spectacle, boosted by audience votes amid an outpouring of public support for Ukraine. Eurovision features representatives from dozens of countries vying to earn best-song honors; the contest organizers said more than 160 million people tuned in for this year’s contest, which took place in Italy.
Russian forces are attempting to seize control of Severodonetsk, one of the largest Ukrainian-controlled cities in the eastern region of Luhansk. If Russian troops were to take the city, Moscow would occupy nearly all of Luhansk, which makes up roughly half of the Donbas region.
Severodonetsk: Russian attacks have destroyed all of the “critical infrastructure” in this key battleground city, and a large majority of buildings have been damaged, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Sunday. Russian troops are trying to gain a foothold along the northeastern outskirts and conducting operations toward the city center, Ukraine’s military said.
DONETSK OBLAST, Ukraine — The ambulances hurtled into the parking lot one after the other, each carrying wounded troops directly from the nearby front line. One young man stared straight ahead, his face swollen, his neck and back dripping with blood. Others lay silently under foil blankets.
Some stumbled out the back doors and collapsed into wheelchairs as staffers rushed to push them inside. Nearby, bloodied cots sat propped against a tent and other wounded soldiers lingered about, their faces grim, their heads, arms or legs bandaged as the sound of outgoing artillery boomed across the sky.
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Satellite images appear to show a Russian ship picking up grain in Crimea and unloading it in Syria last week, according to the satellite company Maxar Technologies. Ukrainian officials say Moscow is using its war to steal one of their country’s main exports.
Maxar said its pictures probably show the Matros Pozynich, a bulk carrier that sails under the Russian flag, according to global shipping trackers. Images showed the ship docked in Crimea on May 19, Maxar said, and docked again in the Syrian port city of Latakia on Friday.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Sunday that he has fired a regional head of his government’s security and intelligence agency and that the official put his personal interests above the defense of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city.
On Sunday, Zelensky visited the Kharkiv area, where city officials say thousands of residents are returning each day. Local leaders say Russians have occupied nearly a third of the region, but Ukraine maintains control of Kharkiv, a northeastern hub and a major target for Russia that lies close to the border.
Moscow’s troops were advancing in Severodonetsk on Sunday, trying to gain a foothold along the northeastern outskirts and conducting operations toward the city center, Ukraine’s military said.
Russia “does not stop conducting offensive operations” in the eastern battlefront, Ukraine’s military said in a daily update. Kremlin-backed troops were trying to gain full control over Donetsk and Luhansk provinces and block Ukraine’s maritime communications in the northwestern part of the Black Sea.
Marchers carrying Ukrainian flags and a banner that said “They are us” packed Warsaw’s Castle Square on Sunday to show support for Ukrainians, millions of whom Poland has housed during Russia’s months-long invasion.
Videos on social media showed hundreds of people outside the Polish capital’s Royal Castle on Sunday, chanting and waving Ukraine’s blue-and-yellow flag. A concert followed the rally, said Andrii Deshchytsia, the Ukrainian ambassador to Poland, who tweeted his appreciation for the support.
The E.U. has again failed to reach an agreement on a plan to phase out Russian oil, leaving a narrow window to strike a deal ahead of a special European Council summit in Brussels on Monday night and underscoring the challenge of building consensus when it comes to energy sanctions.
A European Commission plan to wean off Russian oil has been held up for about a month, primarily over objections from Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban, who has insisted on more time and money to upgrade his landlocked country’s oil infrastructure.
All of the “critical infrastructure” in Severodonetsk has been destroyed, Zelensky said in video posted on Telegram on Sunday, adding that about 90 percent of buildings have been damaged.
While Ukrainian officials have insisted in recent days that Russia has not succeeded in capturing all of Severodonetsk, Zelensky described it as the “principal task” of the occupying forces.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says he believes that the duration of Russia’s invasion will depend on numerous factors, including ongoing support for Ukraine from the West.
The conditions, he said in an interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria that aired Sunday, include the “desire of the united West to stay united in supporting Ukraine with weapons, with finance, to boost our resilience.”
In the hard-hit Donetsk region, 115 miners are stuck underground because of power outages, a provincial leader said Sunday.
Pavlo Kyrylenko, the governor of the region, wrote on Telegram that two districts — Bakhmut and Kramatorsk — are without electricity “as a result of hostilities.”
Turkey remains to be persuaded that it should back NATO membership bids from Sweden and Finland, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says.
Talks with the two countries last week in Ankara “were not at the desired level,” he told reporters. It is unclear when further meetings might take place. NATO will hold a summit in Madrid at the end of June, and Turkey has said there is “no time pressure” to include NATO’s secretary general in discussions of the issue ahead of that meeting.
Polish President Andrzej Duda says Poles are fearful of Russia but that his nation is boosting its security so that, in a short time, “they will be afraid to attack us.”
Speaking Sunday with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria, Duda said his nation’s long and often violent history with Russia means that many Poles are naturally worried. Poland shares a land border with Ukraine, and several Russian missile attacks have hit within miles of the country.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky suggested in a television interview broadcast Sunday that he does not believe Russian officials are serious about negotiations to end the war.
“I can’t see their willingness, nor can I see any practicality in what we are talking about,” Zelensky said in an interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria.
The latest: The United States hopes the West’s upcoming surge of military assistance to Ukraine — along with Russia’s increasing isolation on the world stage — will drain President Vladimir Putin’s will to fight. The danger of Russia swallowing its neighbor and having its revanchist ambitions emboldened is so high that Biden administration officials said they are willing to risk the global economic turmoil that could accompany a protracted war.
The fight: A slowly regenerating Russian army is making incremental gains in eastern Ukraine against valiant but underequipped Ukrainian forces. The United States and its allies are racing to deliver the enormous quantities of weaponry the Ukrainians urgently need if they are to hold the Russians at bay.
The weapons: Ukraine is making use of weapons such as Javelin antitank missiles and Switchblade “kamikaze” drones, provided by the United States and other allies. Russia has used an array of weapons against Ukraine, some of which have drawn the attention and concern of analysts.
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How you can help: Here are ways those in the U.S. can help support the Ukrainian people as well as what people around the world have been donating.
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