More rocket attacks on Ukraine
Russia launched a wave of air strikes on Ukraine early this morning, with air defense systems fending off any missiles and drones approaching Kiev, military officials in the city said.
“According to preliminary information, no air targets have reached the capital,” Serhiy Popko, the head of the military administration, said online on Sunday. “The air defenses destroyed everything as they made their way towards the city on their approach.”
This is the state of things on Sunday 4 June
Ukraine is ready for the long-awaited counteroffensive regain the territory occupied by Russia, President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview published yesterday.
THE Ukrainian plans The counteroffensive is still planned, Deputy Defense Minister Volodymyr Havrylov told Reuters yesterday.
Ukraine’s plan for the counteroffensive is “very impressive and can be successful,” he said General David Petraeus on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, adding that Ukrainians are “determined to liberate their country”. Petraeus, who headed the CIA and led international forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, was recently in Kiev to meet with President Zelensky and others.
THE Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin he said factions in the Kremlin are destroying the state by trying to sow discord between him and the Chechen fighters. On Saturday he said a dispute between himself and Chechen forces had been resolved. But Chief Wagner has blamed the discord on unidentified factions in the Kremlin, which he calls “Kremlin towers.”
Yevgeny Prigozhin he said he was ready to send fighters to the Belgorod region, which borders Ukraine and is under heavy shelling.
The President of Kyrgyzstan he said his former Soviet republic is ready to cooperate with the EU. Sadyr Japarov, whose country is allied with Moscow, said on Saturday: “Kyrgyzstan is ready to work hand in hand with the European Union to solve shared problems, encourage dialogue and find lasting solutions.”
THE Indonesian Defense MinisterPrabowo Subianto has proposed a peace plan for the war in Ukraine, calling for a demilitarized zone and a UN referendum in what he calls disputed territory. However, the proposal was rejected by Ukraine.
The Kremlin banned Western journalists from it Davos of Russia‘. The Kremlin has said journalists from “hostile countries” will not be admitted to the international economic forum in St. Petersburg, which starts on June 14, which President Vladimir Putin has used to present Russia’s economy to global investors.
The forced deployment of VDV Russian troops in Bachmoet as Wagner’s mercenaries withdraw means “the whole Russian force is likely to be less flexible in responding to operational challenges,” according to the UK’s MoD.
During an inspection of more than 4,800 shelters, 252 were closed and another 893 “unfit for use,” Ukraine’s interior ministry said through its news service. The mayor of Kyiv, Vitali Klitschkosaid yesterday that authorities in the capital had received more than 1,000 complaints about closed, dilapidated or inadequate bomb shelters within a day of launching an online feedback service.
Russia has said it will return to full compliance with the nuclear arms control treaty A new start if Washington renounces its “hostile attitude” towards Moscow, Russian news agencies reported, citing Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov.
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