{"id":23210,"date":"2022-06-09T06:45:30","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T06:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=23210"},"modified":"2026-07-10T02:43:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T02:43:52","slug":"russia-ukraine-war-latest-development-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/06\/09\/russia-ukraine-war-latest-development-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia-Ukraine War : Latest Development"},"content":{"rendered":"
If you\u2019re just waking up, or just dropping in to find the latest information, here\u2019s a summary of the main points you might have missed:<\/p>\n
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Ukrainian forces have been\u00a0pushed back by a Russian bombardment\u00a0in the frontline eastern city of Sievierodonetsk and now only control its outskirts.\u00a0<\/strong>Serhiy Haidai, the governor of Luhansk, said most of the city was now in Russian hands and that it was no longer possible to rescue civilians stranded there.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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The battle for Sievierodonetsk – where the fate of Donbas is being decided –<\/strong>\u00a0is probably the most difficult seen so far during the war<\/strong>, Ukraine\u2019s president\u00a0Volodymyr Zelenskiy\u00a0has said. \u201cBattle for Sievierodonetsk is probably one of the most difficult during this war, and in particular the fate of Donbas is being decided there,\u201d he said in his latest national address on Wednesday night.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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A Russian-backed official in Ukraine\u2019s partially occupied southeastern region of Zaporizhzhia said Russia has begun to send grain from occupied areas to Turkey and the Middle East through Crimea.<\/strong>\u00a0A Russian official in Crimea, Oleg Kryuchkov,\u00a0said the first train carrying grain had arrived from Melitopol,\u00a0a city in Zaporizhzhia. The Kremlin also claimed shipments of grain will\u00a0restart in the coming days from the Russian-occupied Ukrainian port of Berdiansk\u00a0after work to de-mine the area.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Russia\u2019s foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, said Moscow was willing to open corridors to allow grain exports from Ukraine, but that these efforts relied on the Ukrainian side to remove mines from their ports.\u00a0<\/strong>Kyiv dismissed\u00a0Lavrov\u2019s remarks\u00a0as \u201cempty\u201d words and\u00a0said military equipment was required to protect the coastline\u00a0and a navy mission to patrol the export routes in the Black Sea.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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A Ukrainian journalist\u00a0confronted Lavrov about grain exports\u00a0from Ukraine<\/strong>\u00a0during a visit to Ankara, Turkey. \u201cApart from cereals, what other goods did you steal from Ukraine and who did you sell them to?\u201d Muslim Umerov asked.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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The UN\u2019s secretary general, Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, warned that Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine is \u201cthreatening to unleash an unprecedented wave of hunger and destitution, leaving social and economic chaos in its wake\u201d.\u00a0<\/strong>A new report by the UN\u00a0said an estimated 94 countries, home to around 1.6bn people,\u00a0are \u201cseverely exposed to at least one dimension of the crisis and unable to cope with it\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Russian-installed officials in the occupied part of Ukraine\u2019s Zaporizhzhia region reportedly plan to stage a referendum later this year on joining Russia.\u00a0<\/strong>A Kremlin-backed official, Vladimir Rogov, was quoted by the Russian state-owned news agency Tass as\u00a0saying: \u201cThe people will determine the future of the Zaporizhzhia region.\u201d\u00a0Ukraine says any referendums held under Russian occupation would be illegal and their results fraudulent.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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\u00a0More than 1,000 Ukrainian servicemen and foreign mercenaries, who had surrendered in Mariupol, have been transferred to Russia for an investigation there<\/strong>, Russian state-owned news agency Tass reports. More Ukrainian prisoners of war will be taken to Russia \u201clater on\u201d,\u00a0a Russian law enforcement source told the outlet.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Moscow\u2019s chief rabbi, Pinchas Goldschmidt, has\u00a0left Russia after coming under pressure to support its invasion of Ukraine, according to a relative.\u00a0<\/strong>Goldschmidt flew to Hungary to raise money for refugees in Eastern Europe after refusing to publicly support what Moscow calls its \u201cspecial military operation\u201d in Ukraine.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Two British men captured by Russian forces while fighting alongside Ukrainian soldiers in Mariupol\u00a0face 20 years in prison<\/strong>, according to a video shared by Russian state media. Aiden Aslin, 28, and Shaun Pinner, 48, appeared in court in the separatist Donetsk People\u2019s Republic (DPR).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Britain\u2019s economy will\u00a0suffer more than any other major industrial country\u00a0from the effects of Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine.<\/strong>\u00a0The UK will grow by 3.6% in 2022 before posting zero growth in 2023, according to the Paris-based thinktank the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Ukraine has received the first billion dollars of the $40 billion aid package that the US Congress approved last month.\u00a0<\/strong>In a tweet on Wednesday,\u00a0<\/strong>US ambassador to\u00a0Ukraine\u00a0Bridget A Brink said: \u201cSupporting Ukraine means strengthening its economy. Direct support of $1 billion is already here to help Ukraine and its people move forward.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Zelenskiy said he met with American philanthropist Howard Buffet, son of billionaire investor Warren Buffet, in Kyiv to discuss rebuilding efforts.\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cWe discussed assistance that would be valuable for our state. I offered him the chance to join projects restoring irrigation systems in the Odesa region, supporting our people, (and) mine clearance,\u201d Zelenskiy\u00a0said\u00a0in a tweet.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Russian authorities have further cracked down against citizens who speak out about the fighting in Ukraine.\u00a0<\/strong>A Moscow court on Wednesday extended the detention of Vladimir Kara-Murza Jr., a journalist and former associate of assassinated Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, accusing him of spreading lies about the Russian military. Russian investigative journalist Andrei Soldatov said a criminal case had also been opened against him.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
<\/div>Ukrainian service members walk on the road near the town of Soledar in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, 8 June, as Russia\u2019s attack on Ukraine continues.<\/span>\u00a0Photograph: Gleb Garanich\/Reuters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
If you\u2019re just waking up, or just dropping in to find the latest information, here\u2019s a summary of the main points you might have missed: Ukrainian forces have been\u00a0pushed back by a Russian bombardment\u00a0in the frontline eastern city of Sievierodonetsk and now only control its outskirts.\u00a0Serhiy Haidai, the governor of Luhansk, said most of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":23228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[6850,7045,3152,6349,10410,5304,9264,5717,6573,5090,5307,5268,12758,7960,8924,6369,11555,9331,6848,6693,10507,6623,968,8440,9304,9309,5995,6193,6141,5196,6621,5345,3577,6032,6543,6345,5626,12298,10321,5252,10197,5562,6030,1152,5342,6843,10342,5423,6194,5657,10433,12309,9477,8719,5572,10423,5612,5340,5865,10349,9237,6072,11973,12727,1253,9177,11082,3805,8306,11926,10959,13209,7400,5524,13301,3457,5217,7211,7046,7044,6809,5618,9317,9616,2570,7100,12605,5180,5521,6885,5555,5465,9262,6348,10514,8033,6886,5251,3954,10415,594,8280,6874],"class_list":["post-23210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-aid","tag-aiden-aslin","tag-ankara","tag-antonio-guterres","tag-assassinated","tag-attack","tag-billion-dollars","tag-billionaire","tag-black","tag-boris","tag-britain","tag-british","tag-captured","tag-case","tag-chance","tag-chaos","tag-citizens","tag-city","tag-civilians","tag-congress","tag-court","tag-crimea","tag-criminal-case","tag-crisis","tag-detention","tag-dollars","tag-donbas","tag-donetsk","tag-eastern-europe","tag-economy","tag-europe","tag-foreign-minister","tag-future","tag-goods","tag-growth","tag-guterres","tag-hungary","tag-hunger","tag-illegal","tag-invasion","tag-investigation","tag-irrigation","tag-journalist","tag-kremlin","tag-kyiv","tag-lavrov","tag-law","tag-lies","tag-luhansk","tag-mariupol","tag-melitopol","tag-men","tag-mercenaries","tag-middle-east","tag-military","tag-mine","tag-money","tag-moscow","tag-muslim","tag-navy","tag-nio","tag-odesa","tag-one","tag-package","tag-paris","tag-pinchas-goldschmidt","tag-port","tag-president","tag-prison","tag-prisoners","tag-prisoners-of-war","tag-rebuilding","tag-referendum","tag-refugees","tag-results","tag-russia","tag-russian","tag-sergei-lavrov","tag-shaun-pinner","tag-sievierodonestk","tag-sievierodonetsk","tag-soldiers","tag-soledar","tag-train","tag-turkey","tag-turkwy","tag-uk","tag-ukraine","tag-ukraine-war","tag-ukraines-president","tag-ukrainian","tag-un","tag-united-states","tag-us","tag-us-ambassador","tag-video","tag-volodymyr-zelenskiy","tag-war","tag-will","tag-work","tag-who","tag-zaporizhzhia","tag-zelenskiy"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23210","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=23210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52262,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23210\/revisions\/52262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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