{"id":22753,"date":"2022-06-01T07:44:12","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T07:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=22753"},"modified":"2022-06-01T07:44:12","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T07:44:12","slug":"russia-ukraine-war-latest-development-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/06\/01\/russia-ukraine-war-latest-development-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia -Ukraine War: Latest Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-xry7m2\">\u00a0Here\u2019s where things currently stand.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"dcr-xry7m2\">\n<li><strong>Russian forces now control of most of the eastern city of Sievierodonetsk.<\/strong>\u00a0The governor of Ukraine\u2019s Luhansk province has said as heavy fighting continued in and around the key city and civilians were told to stay underground. Serhiy Gaidai said in an online post late on Tuesday that Russian shelling had made it impossible to deliver humanitarian supplies or evacuate people.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Zelenskiy has blasted the \u201cmadness\u201d of bombing\u00a0<\/strong><strong>a chemical plant in Sievierodonetsk,<\/strong>\u00a0after an airstrike hit the factory. \u201cGiven the presence of large-scale chemical production in Sievierodonetsk, the Russian army\u2019s strikes there, including blind air bombing, are just crazy&#8230;it is no longer surprising that for the Russian military, for Russian commanders, for Russian soldiers, any madness is absolutely acceptable.\u201d Local officials said the strike hit a nitric acid tank, and posted images of pink smoke billowing.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Zelenskiy said Ukraine\u2019s military forces have had some successes near Kherson and in parts of the Kharkiv region.<\/strong>\u00a0In late-night remarks, Zelenskiy addressed the military situation and outlined some of Ukraine\u2019s advances.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ukraine welcomed EU sanctions, but criticised the \u201cunacceptable\u201d delay<\/strong>. Speaking alongside Slovakia\u2019s president Zuzana Caputova in Kyiv, Zelenskiy noted that 50 days have passed between the 5th and 6th sanction packages.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ukraine is working on an international United Nations-led operation with naval partners to ensure a safe trade route for food exports<\/strong>, according to Ukraine\u2019s foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba who said Russia is playing \u201chunger games with the world by blocking Ukrainian food exports\u201d.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ukraine\u2019s giant seed bank near battlefields is in danger of being destroyed<\/strong>. The genetic code for nearly\u00a0<strong>2,000<\/strong>\u00a0crops rests in underground vaults based in Kharkiv, north-eastern Ukraine, which has come under intense bombing from\u00a0Russia\u00a0forces. Read more of The Guardian\u2019s coverage how vital seed banks are in the climate crisis\u00a0<em>here\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>here<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The\u00a0African Union\u00a0warned EU leaders that Moscow\u2019s blockade of Ukraine\u2019s ports risks \u201ca catastrophic scenario\u201d of food shortages and price rises.\u00a0<\/strong>Senegal\u2019s president, Macky Sall, who chairs the union, said \u201cthe worst is perhaps ahead of us\u201d if current global food supply trends continue.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ukraine to prosecute 80 suspected war criminals, said Ukraine\u2019s prosecutor general, Iryna Venediktova.\u00a0<\/strong>It was announced Tuesday as representatives of a group of countries investigating Russian war crimes and international criminal court prosecutor, Karim Khan, met at The Hague.<\/li>\n<li><strong>A senior Russian lawmaker has suggested kidnapping a Nato defence minister.\u00a0<\/strong>In an interview late on Monday,<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Oleg Morozov, first elected to the Russian parliament in 1993 and a member of the dominant United\u00a0Russia\u00a0party, said on Rossiya-1 state TV he has a \u201cfantastical plot\u201d that a Nato war minister will travel to Kyiv and wake up in Moscow.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sanctions against Russia are directed at ordinary citizens and motivated by hatred,<\/strong>\u00a0the former president\u00a0Dmitry Medvedev\u00a0has said. Medvedev, who advises Vladimir Putin on national security matters, said in a post on Telegram on Tuesday that the \u201cendless tango of economic sanctions\u201d won\u2019t touch the political elite but have incurred losses for big business.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Russia has further cut off gas supplies to Europe.<\/strong>\u00a0State energy giant\u00a0Gazprom\u00a0turned off the taps to a top Dutch trader and halted flows to some companies in Denmark and Germany. The intensification of the economic battle on Tuesday over Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine follows the EU\u2019s overnight decision to place an\u00a0embargo on most Russian oil imports\u00a0as part of its financial sanctions against the Kremlin.<\/li>\n<li>More to follow&#8230;..<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Here\u2019s where things currently stand. Russian forces now control of most of the eastern city of Sievierodonetsk.\u00a0The governor of Ukraine\u2019s Luhansk province has said as heavy fighting continued in and around the key city and civilians were told to stay underground. Serhiy Gaidai said in an online post late on Tuesday that Russian shelling had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":22754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[4899,9436,8217,7358,9330,11555,9331,6848,7823,10507,8440,5262,539,5347,7516,10339,6849,5494,159,6621,11365,6872,6496,5345,7090,5491,5492,66,8100,12298,10954,11211,11493,5252,6086,7601,1925,1152,5342,5721,6194,1429,5572,5340,7693,12085,4802,7964,5441,6873,6332,1198,10302,3805,12103,71,3457,5217,5659,9265,5713,5655,1749,6809,5760,11179,5618,5818,10329,6584,5180,5521,5555,7231,7999,6348,694,5251,5761,3954,36,594,6874],"class_list":["post-22753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-african","tag-airstrike","tag-army","tag-bank","tag-banks","tag-citizens","tag-city","tag-civilians","tag-code","tag-court","tag-crisis","tag-cut","tag-delay","tag-denmark","tag-dmytro-kuleba","tag-dutch","tag-embargo","tag-energy","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-factory","tag-financial-sanctions","tag-food","tag-foreign-minister","tag-games","tag-gas","tag-gazprom","tag-germany","tag-hague","tag-hunger","tag-international","tag-international-criminal-court","tag-interview","tag-invasion","tag-kharkiv","tag-kherson","tag-kidnapping","tag-kremlin","tag-kyiv","tag-losses","tag-luhansk","tag-medvedev","tag-military","tag-moscow","tag-national-security","tag-nations","tag-nato","tag-north","tag-oil","tag-oleg-morozov","tag-online","tag-parliament","tag-plant","tag-president","tag-price","tag-putin","tag-russia","tag-russian","tag-russian-soldiers","tag-sanction","tag-sanctions","tag-security","tag-senegal","tag-sievierodonetsk","tag-slovakia","tag-smoke","tag-soldiers","tag-strike","tag-trade","tag-travel","tag-ukraine","tag-ukraine-war","tag-ukrainian","tag-union","tag-united-nations","tag-us","tag-vladimir-putin","tag-war","tag-war-crimes","tag-will","tag-world","tag-who","tag-zelenskiy"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22753","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=22753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}