Experts predict a resumption of the attack by Russian forces in the south of Ukraine. Current May 23 / Article

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Updated today, 9:20 p.m.

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Battles and attacks

• Also the weekend has continued Implemented by Russian forces rocket fire In Zaporizhia, Kherson, Dnipropetrovsk and Mykolaiv regions. According to local officials and the Ukrainian media, many settlements are “deliberately being swept from the face of the earth” and unusable in some cities is actually huge residential areas.
• The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports that Russian forces have reduced in some places warfare intensityfor example, in the direction of Avdeyevka, Kurakhovskaya, Novopavlovsk and Zaporizhia. Near Donetsk, the attackers are constantly trying to break the line of defense of the Ukrainian forces and cross the administrative borders of the Luhansk region.
• In Mykolaiv also received information about prohibited cluster bomb use. There are also reports that the number of invading forces is increasing in many places, they are actively robbing local people.
• According to Ukrainian intelligence services, the new port of Sevastopol, the main port of the occupied Crimea, has left Russian Navy flagship Admiral Makarov. For this reason, a warning has been issued that the likelihood of attacks from the sea is also increasing in the southern regions of Ukraine.
• Maxim Marcenko, head of the Odessa military administration, has said that Russian forces have been ordered to restore the airfield and equipment. in the internationally unrecognized territory of Transnistria. However, according to Marchenko, it seems that after many years of inactivity, “both the remains of machinery and equipment have been drunk”, so there is nothing to restore. Marchenko has also ordered the leadership of the Russian army to continue to destroy its army from within.

Global response and analysts’ assessment

• According to the US Military Research Institute in its latest opinion, the actions of Russian forces show that an attack to the south could resume soon. The Ukrainian headquarters has previously said that Russian forces are currently focusing on building defense lines, strengthening missile defense systems, stepping up intelligence and firing on Ukrainian positions. All this indicates that a further intensification of the invasion is expected. At the same time, positions are being strengthened north of Kharkiv to stop the crackdown on Ukrainian forces and the move to the Russian border.
• As stated by Joseph Borrell, High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Reserves of military equipment of the European Union countries after assistance to Ukraine are in fact exhausted. He pointed out that the new security situation also required the European Union to take responsibility for its own security and to take on a modern, joint armed force. Earlier, Borrell had stated that the European Union would not allow Ukraine to end the armaments necessary for the war against Russia.

At the heart of the World Economic Forum is the war in Ukraine

After a two-year hiatus in Davos, Switzerland, the World Economic Forum, which brings together the world’s global and business elite, will open on Monday. If in the last two years the covid pandemic disrupted the forum, this time the focus is on the war in Ukraine and its possible political and economic consequences.

According to Berge Brende, President of the World Economic Forum, it is already necessary to start discussions on a new Marshall Plan for the reconstruction of Ukraine. According to him, it is already necessary to start the reconstruction of infrastructure, electricity supply, schools, roads and bridges in the controlled areas of Ukraine. Representatives of Russia have been denied participation in the forum this year, but Ukraine has sent an impressive delegation and Volodymyr Zelensky will also give a virtual address at the meeting on Monday.

Representatives of Ukraine have stated that the forum will have two main demands – not to stop supporting Ukraine and to continue to supply it with weapons that meet NATO standards. However, these will not be the only issues to be discussed, as leaders are particularly concerned about rising energy prices, high inflation and the looming famine and poverty that can be caused, for example, by the inability to export grain from Ukraine.

Current in Ukraine on May 22

CONTEXT:

On February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered to start Russian troops invade Ukraine. Putin claimed that NATO was going to use Ukraine as a bridgehead for aggression against Russia, although there was no evidence of these allegations. Ukraine believes that Putin’s real goal is to destroy Ukraine’s statehood and bring the territory under Moscow’s control.

Russia’s aggression against Ukraine has provoked a general one condemnation of the international communityagainst Russia is new sanctions have been introduced. Many Western companies have decided to leave the Russian market.

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