State-run power company Ukrenergo was forced to shut down on Tuesday Power outages hit several regions, including the capital Kyiv, and the frontline Donetsk and Kharkiv regionsA barrage of Russian missile and drone attacks, including a major attack over the weekend, has damaged Ukraine’s energy networks and strained its air defenses.
Air Raid Warning They were declared in several regions of Ukraine between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning.Ukraine was put on alert after fighter jets took off from Russian territory.
Russian forces are concentrating their forces in the eastern part of Donetsk Oblast. Not in the northeastern city of Kharkiv, where the attack began last month, according to Volodymyr Zelensky.. British Ministry of Defence It said the Avdiivka-Pokrovsk district, located northwest of the city of Donetsk, “was likely to have been the main area of attack by Russian forces over the past 72 hours.”
Zelenskiy said he met senior commanders in Kiev upon returning to Ukraine from visits to European capitals, Singapore and the Philippines last week.The mayor of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s capital and second-most populous city, said Russia carried out 76 air raids on the city in May, nearly three times the number in April.
Ukrainian authorities said Russian forces launched attacks overnight and Tuesday in the central Dnipropetrovsk region and eastern Kharkiv region, wounding eight people.The head of the southern Kherson region said separately that Russian artillery fire had killed an elderly woman in her garden in the village of Veretinske, while shelling in the Sumy region wounded two people, local military officials said.
French President Emmanuel Macron is due to host French President Volodymyr Zelensky in Paris on Friday.“The two presidents will discuss the situation on the ground as Russian military aggression intensifies on the front line and on energy infrastructure,” the Elysee Palace said in a statement. The meeting is scheduled to take place after the anniversary of the Normandy landings. Zelensky is also due to address the French National Assembly.
French military instructors in Ukraine would be a “legitimate target” for Russian forces, said Sergey Lavrov, President Vladimir Putin’s foreign minister. SaidUkraine’s top commander said last week he had signed documents allowing French military instructors to enter a Ukrainian training center soon. French President Emmanuel Macron said last week he did not comment on “rumors or possible decisions.” He said he would elaborate on French support during celebrations this week marking the 80th anniversary of the Normandy landings.
Ukraine’s anti-corruption agency said a former senior Ukrainian government official is on trial for allegedly arranging the purchase of aircraft parts at seven times the price while he was in charge of arms imports.It concerns the period before Russia’s 2022 invasion.
