War in Ukraine: what to remember from the day of Tuesday June 7 – franceinfo

Ukraine needs a victory over Russia “on the battlefield” before any peace negotiations. This is what Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told the British daily Financial Times on Tuesday, June 7, during a day marked by fierce fighting for control of Sievirodonetsk. Franceinfo takes stock of this new day of war. Russia claims to gain ground in Sievierodonetsk Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has claimed that the Russian army has “completely liberated” the residential areas of Sievierodonetsk, a city in eastern Ukraine and the current epicenter of fighting in the region. He added, during a briefing broadcast on television, that “the takeover of his industrial zone and neighboring localities continues[vai]t”. This assertion has not been confirmed by the Ukrainian side. “They do not control the city”, retorted in a video message on Telegram on Tuesday evening the governor of the Lugansk region, Sergey Gaidai. “All forces , all reserves were mobilized by the enemy, the Russian army, to cut off the main Lysytchansk-Bakhmut road in order to take Severodonetsk. They are bombarding Lysychansk very violently,” the governor said. Severodonetsk is, together with its neighboring town Lysyshansk, the last town still under Ukrainian control in the Lugansk region. Its capture would open the road to Kramatorsk, a large city in the Donetsk: A Russian general killed Witness to the intensity of the fighting in the Donbass, the leader of the pro-Russian separatists Denis Pushilin confirmed on Tuesday on Telegram the death of a Russian general, Roman Kutuzov, reported on Sunday by a Russian war correspondent. Russian generals have died since the invasion of Ukraine on February 24. The exact number is unverifiable, with Russian authorities rarely communicating their losses kyiv refuses an IAEA visit to an occupied nuclear power plant The director of the Agency International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi tweeted on Monday that his organization was preparing an expert mission to the plant, but the Ukrainian operator Energoatom opposed it on Tuesday as long as kyiv did not have control of it. A visit under Russian control would come to “legitimize the presence of the occupants”, estimated Energoatom on Telegram. Negotiations on wheat in Turkey An economic battle is also being played out, that of the wheat resources of the cereal superpower that is Ukraine. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov arrived in Turkey on Tuesday evening to discuss the establishment of secure maritime corridors for the export of grain in the Black Sea. Moscow rejects all responsibility for this crisis, which it believes is due solely to Western sanctions. Lavrov is due to meet his Turkish counterpart, Mevlüt Cavusoglu, on Wednesday, with whom he will discuss the possibility of Ukraine exporting its crops stuck in its ports. This blockage is causing prices to soar and posing a serious risk of famine in certain African and Middle Eastern countries.