{"id":23556,"date":"2022-06-18T09:04:21","date_gmt":"2022-06-18T09:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=23556"},"modified":"2022-06-18T09:04:21","modified_gmt":"2022-06-18T09:04:21","slug":"russia-ukraine-war-latest-development-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/06\/18\/russia-ukraine-war-latest-development-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia-Ukraine War: Latest Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-xry7m2\">these are the latest developments.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"dcr-xry7m2\">\n<li><strong>A Ukrainian paramedic has been\u00a0released\u00a0from Russian captivity<\/strong>, the Ukrainian president,\u00a0Volodymyr Zelenskiy, announced on Saturday.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>He said Ukraine had been able to secure the release of Yulia Payevska, a civilian paramedic who was captured by Russian forces in Mariupol on 16 March.<\/li>\n<li>The Ukrainian president,\u00a0<strong>Volodymyr Zelenskiy, tweeted that the bravery of Ukrainians had created the opportunity for Europe to \u201ccreate a new history of freedom<\/strong>, and finally remove the grey zone in Eastern Europe between the EU and Russia\u201d. In his nightly video address,\u00a0<strong>Zelenskiy<\/strong>\u00a0hailed\u00a0Brussels\u2019 support for Ukraine\u2019s European Union bid\u00a0as a \u201chistoric achievement\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>The Russian president,\u00a0<strong>Vladimir Putin, said Moscow had \u201cnothing against\u201d Ukraine\u2019s possible membership of the European Union<\/strong>. He said on Friday after the\u00a0European Commission recommended granting Kyiv candidate status\u00a0of the 27-member bloc: \u201cIt\u2019s their sovereign decision to join economic unions or not \u2026 It\u2019s their business, the business of the Ukrainian people.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>The German chancellor, Olaf Scholz,\u00a0said\u00a0it was \u201cabsolutely necessary\u201d for leaders to speak directly with Putin in attempts to end the war.\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cI will continue to do so, as the French president will also,\u201d Scholz told German news agency DPA on Friday.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Four civilians died<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>and six were wounded<\/strong>\u00a0on Friday in Russian bombing in the Donetsk region of the Donbas, governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said on Telegram.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dozens of Ukrainian civilians\u00a0performed\u00a0military exercises on Friday in fortified positions left by Russian troops in Bucha<\/strong>, a town synonymous with war crimes blamed on Moscow\u2019s forces.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lithuania has told the Russian region of Kaliningrad it will block the import and export of a large number of goods by rail<\/strong>\u00a0because of western sanctions, the regional governor said on Friday. The region is home to the Russian Baltic fleet and a deployment location for nuclear-capable Iskander missiles.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ukraine\u00a0received\u00a0a $733m loan from Canada.\u00a0<\/strong>Ukraine\u2019s finance ministry said on Friday the funds would be \u201cdirected to the state budget to finance priority expenditures \u2013 in particular, to ensure priority social and humanitarian expenditures\u201d.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Biden administration\u2019s plan to sell four large, armable drones to\u00a0Ukraine\u00a0has been\u00a0paused<\/strong>\u00a0over the fear its sophisticated surveillance equipment might fall into enemy hands, Reuters reported, citing two people familiar with the matter.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Russian media has supposedly\u00a0shown\u00a0images of two US citizens captured in\u00a0Ukraine.\u00a0<\/strong>On Friday, the Izvestia newspaper showed footage of what it said was an interview with Andy Huynh, 27. The Russian channel RT also posted a photo of a man it identified as Alexander Drueke, 39. Drueke\u2019s mother, Lois Drueke, told the Guardian she\u00a0believed the clip was authentic and it gave her \u201cgreat hope\u201d.<\/li>\n<li><strong>US Republican senators on Friday asked the TikTok chief executive, Shou Zi Chew, about reports the social media site had allowed Russian state-approved media content<\/strong>\u00a0but barred other videos. TikTok said it was looking forward to continuing to engage with members on these issues and answering their questions.<\/li>\n<li><strong>A group of international investigators and experts have\u00a0visited\u00a0war-torn areas near Kyiv<\/strong>, including a burnt-out school, as part of Ukraine\u2019s ongoing investigation into alleged war crimes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<footer class=\"dcr-1eoy87d\">\n<div class=\"dcr-16kzvwd\"><\/div>\n<\/footer>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>these are the latest developments. A Ukrainian paramedic has been\u00a0released\u00a0from Russian captivity, the Ukrainian president,\u00a0Volodymyr Zelenskiy, announced on Saturday.\u00a0He said Ukraine had been able to secure the release of Yulia Payevska, a civilian paramedic who was captured by Russian forces in Mariupol on 16 March. The Ukrainian president,\u00a0Volodymyr Zelenskiy, tweeted that the bravery of Ukrainians [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":23557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[5178,13071,1904,5640,5249,1953,12758,1425,11555,6848,5241,5995,6193,7445,6141,159,6621,9505,6564,1195,8057,12354,4028,6351,6032,12138,10954,11493,10197,2471,7226,5342,7181,7225,5657,5572,12985,5340,6666,7202,3805,5646,71,8598,6431,6944,11541,3457,5217,11233,5713,6736,5349,10841,7592,9178,5180,5521,5177,5555,7231,6348,8033,694,6886,5251,5761,3954,594,6874],"class_list":["post-23556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-biden","tag-bravery","tag-brussels","tag-bucha","tag-budget","tag-canada","tag-captured","tag-chancellor","tag-citizens","tag-civilians","tag-died","tag-donbas","tag-donetsk","tag-drones","tag-eastern-europe","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-european","tag-european-commission","tag-european-union","tag-fear","tag-finance","tag-freedom","tag-french","tag-goods","tag-import","tag-international","tag-interview","tag-investigation","tag-joe-biden","tag-kaliningrad","tag-kyiv","tag-lithuania","tag-loan","tag-mariupol","tag-military","tag-missiles","tag-moscow","tag-nuclear","tag-olaf-scholz","tag-president","tag-priority","tag-putin","tag-rail","tag-release","tag-republican","tag-rt","tag-russia","tag-russian","tag-russian-troops","tag-sanctions","tag-school","tag-social-media","tag-surveillance","tag-tiktok","tag-troops","tag-ukraine","tag-ukraine-war","tag-ukraines-president-volodymyr-zelensky","tag-ukrainian","tag-union","tag-us","tag-video","tag-vladimir-putin","tag-volodymyr-zelenskiy","tag-war","tag-war-crimes","tag-will","tag-who","tag-zelenskiy"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23556","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=23556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}