Live text broadcast – short and concise about the most important things in the Ukrainian war on May 31. Ukraine has been heroically defending its land against the aggressor’s invasion for more than a year.
22:05. Head of the European Parliament: Strike against the Russian Federation does not change anything – Ukraine must be supported. According to the head of the European Parliament, the need to support Ukraine does not change any remaining drone attacks on Moscow, reports pravda.com.ua.
20:15. French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday called on the West to provide Ukraine with “tangible and credible” security guarantees. Emphasizing that Ukraine “protects Europe today”, Macron said at the forum in Bratislava that it is in the interests of the West that Kyiv has NATO’s security guarantees.
“That’s why I support it – and this will be the subject of collective bargaining in the coming weeks – to offer tangible and credible security guarantees to Ukraine,” he added. Certain NATO countries could provide such guarantees while Ukraine waits to join the alliance, he added.
Something must be created between the security provided to Israel and full membership, Macron explained. “Today, we must help Ukraine by all means to carry out an effective counterattack,” he emphasized. “This is what we are doing now. We must intensify our efforts, because what will happen in the next few months will give even a chance for lasting peace,” the French president stressed.
18:53. Russian authoritarian leader Vladimir Putin has not lost any war, so his old tanks should not be laughed at, Polish President Andrzej Duda has said, urging against hasty determination of Russia’s defeat. “Today it is said that Vladimir Putin has lost the war, but his loss is due to the fact that Finland has joined NATO, although the Finnish people have been vacillating for many years whether they should give up neutrality,” in an interview with Almar Latur, publisher of the “Wall Street Journal” said Duda.
The president admitted that he hopes for Putin’s loss, but “at the moment we have a situation where the Russian road roll is pressing Ukraine, hundreds of people are dying every day, besides, there are 100 million Russians, and less than 40 million Ukrainians”. “This difference alone demonstrates who has superiority here. For Russians, human life means nothing, but for Ukrainians, every life is valued in gold. They are different cultures,” explained Duda.
“Russia is a nuclear power, it has gigantic reserves of weapons, and why do we laugh at the fact that it takes out tanks of the 60s, when each such tank weighs 50-60 tons. If it goes, it will press, no matter what, it is modern or not,” he added. Duda emphasized that Putin will lose when the Russian army is pushed beyond the internationally recognized borders of Ukraine. But for now, Russia is mobilizing more and more, its economy is on the war track, and propaganda is zombifying the population.
17:57 The Russians in Bakhmut are under constant surveillance by Ukrainian air defense intelligence. Now the drones record the regrouping of the invaders, it can be seen that now the enemy does not have as much equipment and personnel as before.
Igor Shepetin, commander of the 135th battalion of the 114th brigade of the TRO of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, spoke about it on the air of channel 1 + 1.
According to him, the rotation of the invaders in the direction of Bahmut significantly affects the intensity of the battles. Because there is almost no fighting, although the airstrikes continue.
The battalion commander noted that the Russians would have lost “machine after machine” in the battles in Bakhmut, but they used a different tactic – to destroy “to zero” the buildings in which the units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces occupied themselves for protection. Although there is currently silence in the direction of Bakhmut, the armed forces of Ukraine are making some progress.
17:32 Ukraine has assured the US that it will not use the weapons it received from the Americans to strike Russian territory. This was announced by the speaker of the White House National Security Council, John Kirby, in an interview with CNN.
According to him, the US presidential administration “privately and publicly made Ukrainians understand” that it does not support attacks on targets in Russia itself.
17:14 Since the beginning of May, Russia has increasingly conceded military initiative and is more likely to react to Ukraine’s actions than to advance its goals, the British military intelligence service says in its latest report on the situation on the Ukrainian fronts.
For 20 nights in May, Russia carried out strikes against Ukraine with drones and cruise missiles, but failed to make much progress in achieving its goals of neutralizing Ukraine’s modernized air defense forces and overwhelming Ukrainian forces preparing for a counterattack, the report said.
The Russian command is trying to create reserve forces and deploy them where, according to their assessment, a counter-attack may occur.
However, some of these forces had to be redeployed to fill gaps in the front line in the Bakhmut district, according to British intelligence.
16:09 Russian occupiers are mining the territory of the Crimean Titan factory near the occupied Armyansk, where chemical emissions had already caused an ecological disaster five years earlier.
The Russians are believed to be preparing another provocation to accuse the Ukrainian armed forces of “environmental terrorism”.
“Apparently, racists believe that Ukrainian forces will soon be on the administrative border with Crimea,” writes ATESH.
15:24 The Russian army has blown up the road in the Chernihiv region of Ukraine at the intersection near the border with Belarus and Russia, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine announced on Wednesday.
The service has published a video of the explosion on its “Telegram” channel.
Ukrainian border guards said the Russians blew up a road on the tri-state border to prevent them from losing their territory.
“From “Kyiv in three days” to “We will blow up the roads so as not to be captured”, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine commented on the actions of the Russian army.
15:03 Two employees of the Russian-occupied Zaporizhia nuclear power plant were able to talk for the first time about the real situation at the occupied nuclear power plant.
They told Sky News journalists on condition of anonymity that the level of Russian military activity has increased dramatically in recent weeks – enemy troops have brought more armored vehicles, ammunition to the station and strengthened their positions.
14:28 Today, the Riga City Council authorized the municipal agency “Rīgas Vaisma” to donate three used cars to Ukraine.
“Light of Riga” will donate two 2008 and 2006 “Renault Kangoo” cars and a 2005 “Renault Thalia” to the Ukrainian Support Society.
The society asked to donate the cars.
As reported earlier, “Rīgas vysma” donated two truck towers to Ukraine.
14:11 Oleksiy Neizpapa, commander of the Naval Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said that the Ukrainian Defense Forces destroyed 18 Russian naval vessels. He pointed out that this figure includes both ships and boats.
“According to all reports, we saw 18 ships, boats were destroyed by the Defense Forces. It’s not just naval ships and boats, they were also ships and other units destroyed by the land forces. As for the landing craft, it is one large landing craft that was sunk by the Land Forces in Berdyansk forces, two ships were damaged, they are still under repair,” Nizhpapa said on the air of an informative telethon.
Also, according to him, the Navy destroyed one “Serna”-type amphibious assault ship and several “Rapter”-type amphibious boats, which were used for operations to capture Zmeinai Island. The other ships are now in ports controlled by the Russian Federation.
12.55. The Ministry of Defense of the United Kingdom has concluded that in recent weeks, Russian troops have lost the initiative in the war and are forced to react to Ukraine’s actions, rather than actively move towards achieving their goals, writes the portal pravda.com.ua.
12.22. The Russian government bans the export of ammunition and cartridge cases until the end of the year, reports pravda.com.ua.
11.28. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Russian President Vladimir Putin plan to visit Turkey after the inauguration of Recep Tayyip Erdogan this weekend, pravda.com.ua reports.
10.21. The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia has declared three Ukrainian army commanders and three generals wanted, reports pravda.com.ua.
08.56. The loss of Russian troops in Ukraine has reached 207,910 soldiers by Wednesday morning, according to the General Staff of the Ukrainian Army. According to the data of the general staff, 470 invaders were destroyed during the day.
Since the beginning of the repeated invasion on February 24 of last year, Russia has lost 3,802 tanks, 7,472 armored personnel carriers, 3,460 cannons, 575 multiple rocket launchers, 333 anti-aircraft artillery systems, 313 airplanes, 298 helicopters, 3,124 drones, 1,107 cruise missiles, 623 0 cars and tankers, 18 ships and speedboats, as well as 454 units of specialized equipment.
07.10. A fire broke out at the Afipsk oil refinery in southern Russia’s Krasnodar region on Wednesday morning, the cause of which is believed to be a drone strike, Krasnodar region governor Venyamin Kondratyev said on the Telegram app.
The governor said one of the fuel oil re-vaporizers at the plant caught fire and the fire may have been caused by drones. Russian “Telegram” channel “SHOT” reported that the drone attack took place around three in the morning. “The factory was engulfed in flames and smoke. A powerful explosion could be heard several kilometers away,” SHOT reported.
00.10. The United States will provide Ukraine with new military aid worth an additional $300 million on Wednesday in a package that is expected to include ammunition for the Patriot anti-missile defense system, pravda.com.ua reports.
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