the situation remains confused in Sievierodonetsk, where “street fighting continues”, according to kyiv

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Cover image: A Ukrainian woman walks past a residential building damaged by a Russian missile strike in the town of Soledar, not far from Sievierodonestk, Donbass, eastern Ukraine, June 4, 2022. ARIS MESSINIS / AFP

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• Russia believes it has fulfilled some of the objectives of “special military operation” that she triggered for “Denazifier” Ukraine and protect its Russian-speaking population. The Luhansk region would be 90% under control of Russia, according to British Ministry of Defense. “Victory will be ours”for his part, retorted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday June 3 in an Instagram video, where he appears in front of the presidential administration building in kyiv with several of his collaborators.
• Fighting rages in Sievierodonetsk where “fighting continues for total control” of the city, said the general staff of the Ukrainian army. Governor of Luhansk region Serhi Haidai admitted that “the situation in the whole region” was “extremely difficult”.
• In the South, in particular in Kherson, the Ukrainians are worried about a possible annexation of the conquered regions by the Russian forces, Moscow evoking referendums on the subject as early as July. But, according to the southern command of the Ukrainian armed forces, the Russians meet very strong resistance from the population.
• Concern grows over grain supplies, particularly in Africa. The continent imports more than half of its grain from Ukraine and Russia. Concerns brushed aside by Vladimir Putin, who mentioned several ways to export them, according to him. The current president of the African Union (AU) and Senegalese head of state, Macky Sall, said “reassured” Friday after his meeting with the Russian president. Ukraine’s foreign minister said on Friday that Ukraine was ready to “resume exports from the port of Odessa”provided that what “Russia does not take advantage of the trade route to attack the city”.
• The European Union has banned most Russian oil imports with an embargo within six months, in its sixth package of sanctions against Moscow to dry up funding for the war against Ukraine, after arduous negotiations due to pressure from Hungary.
• Switzerland rejected a request from Denmark to send twenty-two armored vehicles Swiss made in Ukraine. Switzerland’s War Materials Act, also known as the “Neutrality Act”, prohibits the transfer of weapons systems, ammunition and other war materials manufactured in Switzerland to countries involved in international conflicts.

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