Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 341 of the invasion - The Guardian

Russian shelling of residential areas successful Ukraine’s confederate metropolis of Kherson near astatine slightest 3 radical dormant and 10 injured, local authorities said. The Kherson determination subject medication said connected its Telegram transmission that Russian forces targeted a hospital, school, autobus station, station office, slope and residential buildings successful a onslaught connected Sunday.

A rocket deed an flat gathering successful Kharkiv, Ukraine’s 2nd largest city, sidesplitting 1 idiosyncratic and injuring 3 others, according to the determination governor. Oleh Synehubov said the rocket struck the metropolis centre connected Sunday, and that an aged woman’s assemblage was pulled from the rubble. He said 15 residents of the gathering were evacuated instantly aft the explosion, and volition beryllium provided with impermanent accomodation.

Ukraine’s subject and Russia’s Wagner backstage subject radical are some claiming to person power successful the country of Blahodatne, eastbound Donetsk region. “Units of Ukraine’s defence forces repelled the attacks of the occupiers successful the areas of … Blahodatne … successful the Donetsk region,” Ukraine’s subject reported, adding its forces besides repelled attacks successful 13 different settlements successful the Donetsk region. Wagner, designated by the US arsenic transnational transgression organisation, said connected the Telegram messaging app connected Saturday that its units had taken power of Blahodatne.

The person of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), Denis Pushilin, has said that pro-Russian forces are continuing to marque advances successful Vuhledar.

President Tayyip Erdoğan signalled that Turkey whitethorn hold to Finland joining Nato without Sweden, amid increasing tensions with Stockholm. “We whitethorn present Finland a antithetic connection [on their Nato application] and Sweden would beryllium shocked erstwhile they spot our message. But Finland should not marque the aforesaid mistake Sweden did,” Erdoğan said successful a televised code aired connected Sunday. Sweden and Finland applied past twelvemonth to articulation Nato and request each subordinate countries’ support to join. Turkey and Hungary are holding out.

Volodymyr Zelenskiy has stepped up his run to support Russian athletes retired of the 2024 Paris Games. Ukraine’s president said helium had sent a missive to Emmanuel Macron, and that allowing Russia to vie would beryllium tantamount to showing that “terror is someway acceptable”.

Ukraine’s overseas curate Dmytro Kuleba added to the unit connected Monday, saying “Russia won 71 medals successful Tokyo Olympics. 45 of them were won by athletes who are besides members of the Central Sports Club of the Russian Army. The service that commits atrocities, kills, rapes, and loots. This is whom the ignorant IOC wants to enactment nether achromatic emblem allowing to compete.”

The Kremlin said connected Monday that erstwhile British premier curate Boris Johnson was lying erstwhile helium said Putin had threatened him with a rocket onslaught during a telephone telephone successful the run-up to the penetration of Ukraine. Putin’s spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, told reporters that what Johnson said was not true, oregon “more precisely, a lie”. Johnson, who has repeatedly been accused of dishonesty during his governmental career, was speaking to the BBC for a documentary, and said the Russian person had threatened him with a rocket strike that would “only instrumentality a minute”.

Authorities successful Slovenia person apprehended 2 alleged Russian spies who utilized an bureau dealing successful existent property and antiques arsenic a beforehand for their activities, section media reported connected Monday.

Russia’s overseas curate Sergei Lavrov said it cannot beryllium ruled retired that Poland and the Baltic states whitethorn interruption disconnected diplomatic relations with the Russian Federation entirely. Describing them arsenic states wherever “a frenzied Russophobic run has been unfolding for a agelong time”, helium said “we are not successful favour of breaking diplomatic relations. Even successful the astir hard situation, it is indispensable to support channels for dialogue, resolving issues of our chap citizens and compatriots. If this happens, past the work for this measurement and its consequences volition autumn wholly connected the enactment of these states. We mean to firmly support our nationalist interests, and opponents indispensable recognize that their actions volition person semipermanent consequences.”

Ukrainian premier minister, Denys Shmyhal, has told the Politico website that helium wants the state to articulation the European Union wrong 2 years.

Vyacheslav Gladkov, the politician of the Belgorod portion successful Russia, has said that shelling of Bezliudovka from Ukraine had injured 2 people.

Nato caput wide Jens Stoltenberg has urged South Korea to summation subject enactment to Ukraine, suggesting it reconsider its argumentation of not exporting weapons to countries successful conflict.

Vladimir Putin was unfastened to contacts with Germany’s chancellor, Olaf Scholz, though nary telephone telephone was scheduled, a Kremlin spokesperson told the authorities Ria Novosti quality agency. Scholz told the Berlin regular Tagesspiegel: “I volition besides talk to Putin again – due to the fact that it is indispensable to speak.”

Kyiv and its occidental allies are engaged successful “fast-track” talks connected the anticipation of equipping Ukraine with long-range missiles and subject aircraft, a apical adjutant to Ukraine’s president said. Mykhailo Podolyak said Ukraine’s supporters successful the westbound “understand however the warfare is developing” and the request to proviso planes susceptible of providing screen for armoured vehicles the US and Germany person pledged.

US subject officials are reportedly urging the Pentagon to proviso F-16 jets to Ukraine truthful it is amended capable to support itself from Russian missiles and drones.

Scholz reiterated connected Sunday that Germany volition not nonstop combatant jets. “I tin lone counsel against entering into a changeless bidding warfare erstwhile it comes to weapons systems,” Scholz said successful an interrogation with the Tagesspiegel newspaper. “If, arsenic soon arsenic a determination [on tanks] has been made, the adjacent statement starts successful Germany, that doesn’t travel crossed arsenic superior and undermines citizens’ assurance successful authorities decisions.”

Ukraine has imposed sanctions against 182 Russian and Belarusian companies, and 3 individuals, successful the latest of a bid of steps to artifact Moscow’s and Minsk’s connections to Ukraine. The sanctioned companies chiefly prosecute successful the proscription of goods, conveyance leasing and chemic production, according to the database published by Ukraine’s nationalist information and defence council.