{"id":22685,"date":"2022-05-30T10:01:42","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T10:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=22685"},"modified":"2022-05-30T10:02:10","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T10:02:10","slug":"russia-ukraine-war-latest-development-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/05\/30\/russia-ukraine-war-latest-development-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia-Ukraine War: :Latest Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-xry7m2\">Here is where the crisis currently stands:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"dcr-xry7m2\">\n<li><strong>Officials in eastern Ukraine say Russian shelling of Sievierodonetsk has been so intense that it has not been possible to assess casualties and damage<\/strong>, as Moscow closes in on the largest city still held by Ukraine in the Donbas. Fighting is believed to be taking place in the streets and \u201cthe entire critical infrastructure\u201d of the city has been destroyed, according to president Zelenskiy. Ukrainian authorities have described conditions in Sievierodonetsk as reminiscent of Mariupol.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The \u201cliberation\u201d of Ukraine\u2019s Donbas region is an \u201cunconditional priority\u201d for Moscow<\/strong>, while other Ukrainian territories should decide their future on their own, Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said according to a released from Russia\u2019s foreign ministry.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ukraine\u2019s President Zelenskiy visited troops in<\/strong> <strong>Kharkiv<\/strong> and toured the country\u2019s second-largest city to see damage by Russian forces in his first official appearance outside the Kyiv area since the start of the war. \u201cKharkiv suffered terrible blows from the occupiers\u2026 One third of the Kharkiv region is still under occupation,\u201d he said. According to local officials, over 2,000 apartment blocks have been wholly or partially destroyed by Russian shelling in the region.<\/li>\n<li><strong>About 31% of the Kharkiv region\u2019s territory is temporarily occupied by Russian forces<\/strong> while 5% has been liberated by Ukrainian defenders, the head of the Kharkiv regional military administration said. \u201cWe are not yet able to fully inspect some of the liberated settlements, conduct full-fledged de-mining and begin rebuilding critical infrastructure, as shelling continues. Where we can do it remotely &#8211; we do it,\u201d Oleg Synegubov said according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.president.gov.ua\/en\/news\/glava-derzhavi-proviv-naradu-shodo-potochnoyi-situaciyi-v-ha-75449\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">release<\/a> from the president\u2019s office.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Zelenskiy<\/strong> <strong>said he has fired the head of state security service in<\/strong> <strong>Kharkiv<\/strong> <strong>for not working to defend the city<\/strong>, adding that \u201claw enforcement officers\u201d are now involved. \u201cI came, figured out and fired the head of the security service of Ukraine of the (Kharkiv) region for the fact that he did not work on the defence of the city from the first days of the full-scale war, but thought only about himself,\u201d the president said in his daily national address. \u201cOn which motives? The law enforcement officers will figure it out,\u201d he added.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The EU failed to agree on an embargo of Russian oil during talks on Sunday while debating whether to water down a ban on Russian oil imports to placate Hungary\u2019s leader,<\/strong> <strong>Viktor Orb\u00e1n<\/strong>, who is blocking the latest European sanctions. However, diplomats said they will still try to make progress ahead of a Monday-Tuesday summit on an exemption for pipeline deliveries to landlocked Central European countries. Zelenskiy is set to speak by video link to European Union leaders in Brussels on Monday.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The German economy minister, Robert Habeck, raised concerns that European Union unity on new sanctions against Russia is \u201cstarting to crumble\u201d.<\/strong> \u201cAfter Russia\u2019s attack on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/ukraine\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Ukraine<\/a>, we saw what can happen when Europe stands united. With a view to the summit tomorrow, let\u2019s hope it continues like this. But it is already starting to crumble,\u201d he told a news conference on Sunday.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Russia<\/strong> <strong>will continue to supply gas to<\/strong> <strong>Serbia, <\/strong>after a phone call between the Russian president and his Serbian counterpart. Aleksandar Vu\u010di\u0107 said he agreed a three-year gas supply contract with Putin, with further details to be finalised with producer Gazprom.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Russia is continuing to ship gas to Europe through Ukraine, Gazprom has confirmed.<\/strong> The Russian gas producer said its supply via the Sudzha entry point stood at 44.1 million cubic metres, up from 43.95 on Saturday.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov has denied speculation that president Vladimir Putin is ill. <\/strong>Answering a question from France\u2019s broadcaster TF1, Agence France-Presse quotes Russia\u2019s top diplomat as saying: \u201cI don\u2019t think that sane people can see in this person signs of some kind of illness or ailment.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Zelenskiy said he believed Russia would agree to talks if Ukraine could recapture all the territory it has lost since the invasion<\/strong>. However, he ruled out the idea of using force to win back his land. \u201cI do not believe that we can restore all of our territory by military means. If we decide to go that way, we will lose hundreds of thousands of people,\u201d he said.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ukraine has started receiving Harpoon anti-ship missiles from Denmark and self-propelled howitzers from the United States<\/strong>. \u201cThe coastal defence of our country will not only be strengthened by Harpoon missiles \u2013 they will be used by trained Ukrainian teams,\u201d Ukrainian defence minister Oleksiy Reznikov said.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Poland has also agreed to send artillery to Ukraine,<\/strong> Polish state media reported.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"c96fb179-1eb8-4d03-83db-e35b08a6fe4a\" class=\" dcr-10khgmf\" data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" data-spacefinder-type=\"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.ImageBlockElement\">\n<div class=\"dcr-1b267dg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"dcr-1989ovb\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/0ee0bca859ca59fa6d3d5509ca3c1eff883afb48\/0_0_8233_5489\/master\/8233.jpg?width=445&amp;quality=45&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;dpr=2&amp;s=69e9d703d3f1f192e9c8854e5da53f95\" alt=\"Ukrainian servicemen park a Russian BMP-2, an infantry combat vehicle, in the Kharkiv area, eastern Ukraine, on Sunday.\" width=\"8233\" height=\"5489\" \/><\/div><figcaption class=\"dcr-5yynor\"><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span class=\"dcr-19x4pdv\">Ukrainian servicemen park a Russian BMP-2, an infantry combat vehicle, in the Kharkiv area, eastern Ukraine, on Sunday.<\/span> Photograph: Bernat Armangu\u00e9\/AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is where the crisis currently stands: Officials in eastern Ukraine say Russian shelling of Sievierodonetsk has been so intense that it has not been possible to assess casualties and damage, as Moscow closes in on the largest city still held by Ukraine in the Donbas. Fighting is believed to be taking place in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":22686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[12168,5304,8348,10855,4321,1904,9331,8982,8440,6091,5347,8041,5663,5995,5196,6849,159,6621,9505,1195,5345,5575,3577,5491,5492,7183,5626,8995,5252,6086,5342,8029,6843,10342,10634,5657,5572,7795,12985,5340,12187,5441,11973,7039,837,3805,5646,71,13209,6431,3457,5217,5713,7899,5655,5597,7211,5250,6809,7931,9178,5180,5521,6885,5555,7231,9262,11957,8033,7555,694,5251,8869,3954,10415,594,6874],"class_list":["post-22685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-artillery","tag-attack","tag-ban","tag-blows","tag-broadcaster","tag-brussels","tag-city","tag-combat","tag-crisis","tag-defence-minister-oleksiy-reznikov","tag-denmark","tag-diplomat","tag-diplomats","tag-donbas","tag-economy","tag-embargo","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-european","tag-european-union","tag-foreign-minister","tag-france","tag-future","tag-gas","tag-gazprom","tag-howitzers","tag-hungary","tag-infrastructure","tag-invasion","tag-kharkiv","tag-kyiv","tag-land","tag-lavrov","tag-law","tag-lost","tag-mariupol","tag-military","tag-mining","tag-missiles","tag-moscow","tag-n","tag-oil","tag-one","tag-phone","tag-poland","tag-president","tag-priority","tag-putin","tag-rebuilding","tag-release","tag-russia","tag-russian","tag-sanctions","tag-sane","tag-security","tag-serbia","tag-sergei-lavrov","tag-ship","tag-sievierodonetsk","tag-territories","tag-troops","tag-ukraine","tag-ukraine-war","tag-ukraines-president","tag-ukrainian","tag-union","tag-united-states","tag-unity","tag-video","tag-viktor-orban","tag-vladimir-putin","tag-war","tag-water","tag-will","tag-work","tag-who","tag-zelenskiy"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}