Latest news from the war in Ukraine: Russia attacks Kyiv again

Russian missile flies very close to a nuclear power plant in Ukraine 1:20 (CNN Spanish) — Russia’s war in Ukraine has already exceeded 100 days and the situation is worsening in various parts of the invaded country. Now, the Russian forces are targeting their forces to the eastern region, particularly the city of Severodonetsk. These are the main news of this June 6 of the conflict that keeps the world in suspense: “Fierce battles” worsen the position in Severodonetsk, in the east of Ukraine After recovering the territory during the weekend, the Ukrainian forces in the eastern city of Severodonetsk are under new attack, the region’s top official said on Monday. “The fiercest battles continue here,” Serhiy Hayday, head of the Luhansk regional military administration, said in a television interview. “Our defenders managed to fight back for a while: they liberated almost half of the city. However, now the situation has gotten worse for us again.” Hayday said the Russians are using “usual scorched earth tactics” and evacuation of the estimated 15,000 civilians remaining in Severodonetsk is impossible due to heavy fighting. He said Russia is directing most of its bombardment at the neighboring city of Lysychansk, which sits on strategic high ground across the Siverskyi Donets River from Severodonetsk. “From there, it’s much easier to defend and maintain a defensive line,” Hayday said. “They continue to destroy houses and humanitarian aid centers.” He said another 15,000 civilians remain in Lisychansk and police are managing to evacuate a small number of them. Finally, he said that Russia has dedicated a “simply unbelievable” number of troops and equipment to bombing the main access road to Lisychansk and Severodonetsk, which runs between Bakhmut and Lisychansk. “The Russians don’t control this highway, but the entire route is being bombed,” he said. “The Russians have built up huge reserves. Time will tell if they have enough strength to take this route.” More civilians are ready to flee Donetsk, with casualties suffered “almost every day”, official says A growing number of civilians are now ready to evacuate from the Ukrainian-controlled Donetsk region, the top regional official said on Monday. “People who did not try, and did not want to leave at first, when it was safer, are leaving now,” Pavlo Kyrylenko, head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration, said on Ukrainian television. “We evacuated them from both the frontline settlements and the cities of Bakhmut, Soledar and Slovyansk. Now the pace has increased,” he said. Some background: Fighting in the eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions has intensified in recent weeks, with advancing Russian attacks on the city of Sloviansk, and an intense urban battle for Severodonetsk, the easternmost city controlled by the government. ukrainian A CNN crew in eastern Ukraine on Monday saw long lines of civilian cars heading west from the Ukrainian-controlled part of the Donetsk region. Civilian casualties are almost daily: Kyrylenko called the evacuations “extremely dangerous.” “Every day we evacuate people, even from the front line. This is much more difficult to do under or between shelling, because the movement of an evacuation bus or a small car does not mean that the occupants are not going to shoot at he said. He said that the front line in the Donetsk region “has not changed in the last day” and that “almost every day we have civilian casualties.” Russia attacked Ukraine’s capital Kyiv again Smoke rises after a missile attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, on June 5. (Photo: Vladyslav Sodel/Reuters) A Russian missile attack on Kyiv on Sunday was likely an attempt to disrupt the supply of Western military equipment to Ukrainian front-line units, the UK Ministry of Defense said in its latest assessment of intelligence on Monday. One of the missiles was intercepted by the Ukrainian air defense unit, but the rest hit “infrastructure facilities in the north of the Ukrainian capital,” the General Staff of the Ukrainian armed forces said. Vadym Denysenko, adviser to the Ukrainian Interior Minister, said one military target was hit and one civilian. Several of the missiles hit the Darnytsia railcar repair plant, injuring a railway worker, according to Oleksandr Kamyshin, general director of the Ukrainian state railway company Ukrzaliznytsia.
But passenger trains were not delayed by the attacks, he said. Kamyshin denied Russian reports that his company housed military equipment, inviting journalists to check it out by visiting the plant. The UK Defense Ministry also said heavy fighting continues in the eastern city of Severodonetsk and Russian forces continue to advance towards the eastern Ukrainian city of Sloviansk in the Donetsk region. Russian forces are likely to have moved multiple air defense assets to Snake Island in the Black Sea, including the SA-15 and SA-22 systems, and these weapons are likely intended to provide air defense for ships. Russian naval forces operating around Snake Island, the ministry said. Russia’s activity on Snake Island contributes to its blockade of the Ukrainian coast and makes it difficult to resume maritime trade, including Ukrainian grain exports,” he added. Putin blames the West for the international food and energy crisis. Russia’s Vladimir Putin reiterated that Moscow’s actions have nothing to do with the looming food and energy crisis in the world and again blamed Western economic and financial policies for creating that scenario. The energy sector tell CNN that they are concerned that the Russian invasion of Ukraine, after years of underinvestment in the energy sector, has led the world into a crisis that will rival, or even surpass, the oil crises of the 1990s. 1970s and early 1980s US President Joe Biden blamed the Russian invasion for soaring domestic prices and a global shortage of d and food. In an interview with the state television channel Rossiya-1, conducted this Friday and broadcast in full this Sunday, the Russian leader blamed the United States for “injecting large sums of money” into its economy as a means of combating the consequences of the coronavirus pandemic. coronavirus, which caused inflation and an “unfavorable situation in the food market, because, first of all, food prices went up”. Ukrainian musicians sing war hymns on top of a burned Russian tank 0:42 Putin also blamed “the short-sighted policy of European countries, and especially the European Commission, in the energy sector” as another reason for the crisis in the food and energy market. “Among other things, the Europeans did not listen to our urgent requests to preserve long-term contracts for the supply of the same natural gas to European countries, and also began to (terminate the contracts)… This had a negative impact on the European energy market: prices went up. Russia has absolutely nothing to do with this,” he said. As soon as gas prices rose, fertilizer prices “immediately increased, because some of these fertilizers are produced, even at the expense of gas. Everything is interconnected,” Putin added. “But we already warned about it, and this has nothing to do with any Russian military operation,” Putin said. The Kremlin said last week that Moscow is ready to make a “significant contribution” to averting the food crisis by exporting grain and fertilizer, if the West lifts “politically motivated restrictions” on Russia.