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U.S. Makes First Airdrop of Aid Into Gaza
The United States made its first airdrops of humanitarian aid into Gaza on Saturday, as the Biden administration tried to prevent a greater humanitarian disaster in the Palestinian territory.
Three U.S. Air Force cargo planes airdropped 38,000 ready-to-eat meals, in a joint operation with the Jordanian Air Force, U.S. Central Command said in a statement on Saturday.
The airdrops, which some aid experts criticized as insufficient and largely symbolic, contribute “to ongoing U.S. government efforts to provide lifesaving humanitarian assistance to the people in Gaza,” the statement said. “We are conducting planning for potential follow-on airborne aid delivery missions.”
One of the U.S. officials briefing reporters on the operation on Saturday said that 66 pallets had been dropped over Gaza. The official said that drop sites had been chosen in relatively safe areas where people are sheltering and in need. The U.S. did not coordinate its operation with Hamas or any other group on the ground, the official said.
The operation was intended to be the first in a sustained campaign of airdrops, the official said, adding that the United States is also exploring other avenues of bringing more aid into Gaza, including by sea. The official and others at the briefing spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss military operations and diplomatic efforts.
The drops came a day after President Biden said the United States would find new ways to get aid to Palestinians in desperate need because of Israel’s five-month military campaign to destroy Hamas. It also comes two days after more than 100 Palestinians were killed as Israeli forces opened fire around a convoy of aid trucks in northern Gaza.
Although Mr. Biden has implored Israel, which has sealed its border with Gaza, to allow more aid in, the demand for food, water and medicine after nearly five months of war there remains huge. Those conditions have put Mr. Biden under political pressure to do more to help the Palestinians even as the U.S. supplies Israel with military hardware.
Despite his frustrations with Israel’s political leadership, Mr. Biden has declined to threaten any limits on American aid to the country as a way of shaping its military offensive.
The convoy disaster on Thursday underscored the desperation Palestinians in Gaza face, and the fact that the ground convoys Israel has allowed into the territory have not provided enough relief.
U.S. officials have cautioned that airdrops cannot move supplies at the scale of convoys. Even big military cargo planes, like the C-130 airplanes used on Saturday, can carry only a fraction of the supplies that a convoy of trucks can haul. In addition, aid dropped on the ground is difficult to secure and distribute in an orderly way.
The United States’ top goal, the officials said in Saturday’s briefing, is to negotiate a pause in fighting that would allow far more truck traffic to enter.
The Biden administration is still working to achieve a limited cease-fire along with an increase in aid into the enclave and the release of “vulnerable” Israeli hostages in Gaza in return for Palestinian prisoners in Israel.
Israel has agreed to a plan that would include a six-week cease-fire, another U.S. official said Saturday. The official added that the United States and other countries, including Egypt and Qatar, are trying to persuade Hamas to accept the deal.
It was not clear when the next airdrop might be, as poor weather was forecast for Gaza on Sunday.
As hunger and illness grow in Gaza, U.S. officials have pressured Israel to allow more aid convoys into the territory, with limited success.
A third U.S. official briefing reporters on Saturday said that the shortage of supplies has been compounded by lawlessness within Gaza, which has made effective distribution difficult. Criminal gangs are plundering aid and selling it for exorbitant prices. Flooding Gaza with supplies will lower prices and reduce the incentive for theft, the official said.
Some humanitarian aid experts were critical of the U.S. airdrops as far too little to make a real difference. Dave Harden, a former Gaza director at the U.S. Agency for International Development, wrote on social media that “there will be no meaningful humanitarian impact in Gaza” from the drops.
Without security in the drop zone and coordination with relief workers on the ground, he said, “assume that the strongest — not the most vulnerable and needy — will take and control the food.”
On Friday, the International Rescue Committee said airdrops “do not and cannot substitute for humanitarian access.” The group urged Israel to reopen border crossings in northern Gaza and let aid flow in. Airdrops “distract time and effort from proven solutions to help at scale,” the committee said, adding that more than half million people in Gaza “are facing famine conditions.”
Eric Schmitt contributed reporting.
ReutersA company that bankrolled Vaughan Gething’s successful bid to become Wales’ first minister was linked to a criminal investigation at the time, the BBC can reveal.
Mr Gething’s leadership campaign accepted £200,000 from a firm controlled by millionaire businessman David Neal.
A criminal investigation into suspected environmental offences by one of Mr Neal’s firms, Resources Management Limited (RML), is being carried out by Natural Resources Wales (NRW).
A spokesman for Welsh Labour said the issues had “previously been addressed by Vaughan Gething and are a matter of public record”.
The BBC can also reveal that a senior Welsh Labour figure offered to lend Mr Gething money so he could pay back the donation in full, but he declined to take up the offer.
Mr Gething, who narrowly won the Welsh Labour leader contest earlier this year, previously said he had done nothing wrong and has not broken the ministerial code.
The continuing row in Wales is an unwelcome distraction to Sir Keir Starmer during the general election campaign – although the Labour leader has publicly backed Mr Gething.
RML runs the Withyhedge landfill site near Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, which people have complained since October 2023 is a “stink bomb on steroids”.
RML said it would “continue to fully cooperate with any pending investigations by Natural Resources Wales”.
But it is not the first time a waste management company controlled by Mr Neal has been investigated.
He was twice convicted for environmental crimes relating to two companies in 2013 and 2017, and one of those also pleaded guilty in March this year to another offence.
One woman said she moved back to her childhood home in the nearby village of Crundale with her partner and two young children for a “better quality of life”, but it has been marred by the Withyhedge site.
“I went out of the house to go to work and was hit with a horrible stench of rotten eggs, I held my breath until I got to the car. It was horrible,” Jenny Clubbe told Wales Investigates.
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“When I got to the car, my lips started tingling and I started getting headaches soon after.
“We’ve been shutting the windows because we don’t want to wake up to my house smelling of rotten eggs, which is worse than my son’s nappy.”
RML said it would no longer be accepting “a number of waste streams” they say contributed to the smell, and are planning engineering work to make sure it doesn’t happen again.
Sue LewisRetired council worker Colin Barrett, who also lives near the landfill, has organised community protests over the smell and has been complaining to NRW for seven months.
“We started a Facebook campaign based on the fact that the local Facebook for Spittal village got overwhelmed by questions about the tip.
“When the drone footage [of the site] that I took went public, they started investigating it more, and it’s only since then there’s been more pressure from us that they’ve had to keep going back.”
The group Mr Barrett started now has more than 2,000 members and he said it was a “massive campaign now”.
“They’re probably very surprised they’ve had such fierce resistance from a rural area that they thought was quite small, but the problem is, they’ve affected so many of those villages.
He added that very early on in a public meeting Mr Neal stood up and said he wanted to be a good neighbour.
“Well, if this is being a good neighbour, forget it. Just go away.”
NRW says it has identified the smell as hydrogen sulphide.
Huwel Manley, head of operations for the South West, said the regulator was working with the local authority, local health board and Public Health Wales to fix the issues.
“We identified issues of concern late last year,” he added.
“The company is under investigation at the moment”.
Who knew about the investigation?
NRW is overseen by the Welsh government and it had been briefing ministers about the Withyhedge site controlled by Mr Neal since before Mr Gething became first minister in mid-March.
Health secretary Eluned Morgan and then-climate change minister Julie James both had meetings with the regulator about problems at Withyhedge in February.
It was revealed in March that Mr Gething has also previously spoken to NRW on behalf of Mr Neal back in 2016, asking them to ease restrictions on one of his businesses, Atlantic Recycling Ltd.
The second chunk of money Mr Neal gave Mr Gething in January 2024 was donated the day before another of Mr Neal’s company’s outlined plans for a new solar farm on the Gwent levels, in an area of Special Scientific Interest.
In a statement Mr Neal said: “All donations made have come from a separate account to those used for the development of our business; we have never requested or expected anything in return.”
But Plaid Cymru leader, Rhun ap Iorwerth said there was now a perception the company had bought favours from the first minister.
“One would have thought that somebody paying that much money would want something, and it’s that that causes the questions here,” he said.
“Why is it that a first minister would be so happy to leave himself wide open to such obvious accusations of some kind of improper relationship?
“It just adds up to very poor judgement.”
Some Labour members have also questioned the judgement of the first minister, with the BBC learning that one senior figure within Welsh Labour offered to loan Mr Gething the money to allow him to pay back the donation – which was turned down.
But other senior party figures have also publicly backed the first minister, including party leader Sir Keir Starmer and shadow Welsh secretary Jo Stevens.
Speaking on the election campaign trail, she said: “Vaughan didn’t break any rules in that leadership campaign and we are just looking forward to getting on with the general election. There’s positive reaction for him on the doorsteps.”
Senedd CymruPoliticians in the Senedd will vote on Wednesday on whether they have confidence in Mr Gething’s leadership.
If he were to lose the vote, he would not be forced to resign, but it would put him in a difficult position.
It was proposed by the Welsh Conservatives leader in the Senedd, Andrew RT Davies, who said the debate will give people the chance to have their say on Mr Gething’s “judgement, transparency and truthfulness”.
One person died and two others were injured in a car-to-car shooting in downtown Los Angeles early Sunday, with the gunman apparently popping up through the sunroof of one vehicle and firing at people seated in another car, police said.
The shooting occurred a few minutes after midnight near the intersection of Maple Avenue and 12th Street in Santee Alley, the heart of L.A.’s fashion district, said Officer Norma Eisenman, a spokesperson for the Los Angeles Police Department.
The gunman’s vehicle pulled up next to the other car, which was stopped, Eisenman said, and he fired multiple shots from the sunroof, hitting three people in the other car, before fleeing.
A male victim believed to be between 17 and 20 died at a hospital, Eisenman said. The other two victims — a 20-year-old man and 18-year-old woman — were taken to a hospital, where he remained in critical condition and she in stable condition.
Eisenman said officers believe the shooting was “gang-related,” but she didn’t have more details on how they’d arrived at that conclusion.
The investigation is ongoing, she said, and police haven’t made any arrests.
Ukraine has fired US-made weapons at targets inside Russia for the first time, according to Russian sources.
Russia’s ministry of defence and Russian military bloggers have reported that HIMARS, long-range artillery, were fired by Ukraine at Russia on Saturday evening.
“The enemy has begun using Western-made weapon systems to attack ‘old’ Russian territory. These are fragments of M142 HIMARS MLRS shells,” said the sanctioned Russian war reporter and Kremlin propagandist Evgeniy Poddubny on his Telegram channel underneath a slideshow of several photos. “The Russian Army’s air defence crews destroyed more than 10 missiles in the sky over the Belgorod region.”
Ukraine has not commented.
The US this week gave Ukraine limited permission to fire US-made weapons at targets inside Russia close to the border with the Kharkiv region.
It had delayed handing permission to Ukraine because of fears the strikes would escalate the war.
Ukraine, though, said that Russia was massing forces behind the border ahead of attacks and it needed to strike them as an act of self-defence.
US permission only covers the area immediately north of the border and only allows Ukraine to fire HIMARS at targets in Russia, not longer-range missiles.
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Thank you for following our live coverage. The key developments from the day were:
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Russia’s defence ministry claimed to have captured a village in eastern Ukraine and said it is advancing “in all tactical directions”.
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Volodymr Zelensky criticised Joe Biden for not doing enough in allowing US weapons to be fired into Russia as Ukraine faces the threat of a renewed invasion. He also said he discussed bolstering Ukraine’s air defence system and the F-16 coalition at a meeting with US secretary of defense Lloyd Austin.
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Ukraine fired US-made weapons at targets inside Russia for the first time, according to Russian sources.
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Greece sent the first Nato F-16 fighter jet instructor to Ukraine, Greece’s defence-point.gr website has reported.
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Ukraine imposed emergency power shutdowns in most of the country on Sunday, a day after Russia unleashed large-scale attacks on energy infrastructure.
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German chancellor Olaf Scholz said in a speech directed at Vladimir Putin that Nato is prepared to “defend every square inch” of its territory against attacks.
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Mr Zelensky will attend the Group of Seven (G7) Summit on 13-15 June in Italy, Giorgia Meloni confirmed.
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The Ukrainian president also said that 106 countries and organisations had so far agreed to participate in a summit in Switzerland in mid-June aimed at bringing peace to his war-ravaged nation. However, he accused Beijing of working with Moscow to undermine the summit.
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A 24-year-old Ukrainian policewoman was “starved, beaten and abused” as a prisoner of war by Russian forces, her mother said as she was released after two years in captivity.
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Nearly 1,000 people attended a ceremony today honoring the memory of Ukrainian journalist Iryna Tsybukh, who was killed in action while serving as a volunteer combat medic.
05:28 PM BST
Greece sends first Nato F-16 fighter jet instructor to Ukraine
Greece has sent the first Nato F-16 fighter jet instructor to Ukraine, Greece’s defence-point.gr website has reported.
Ukrainian pilots have been training to fly F-16 fighter jets at air bases across Europe for the past 12 months, mainly in Romania and Denmark, but have not previously been reported to be in Ukraine.
“The presence of the Greek airman in the capital of Ukraine is apparently part of the F-16 training coalition initiative, an international coalition,” the website reported.
The Greek government has not commented on the report.
With the permission of the US, European countries have donated several F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine and Ukraine hopes that its first pilots trained to fly F-16s will take to the skies in the next few weeks.
Last month, France said that it may send military trainers to Ukraine.
04:39 PM BST
Nearly 1,000 people honor Ukrainian journalist and combat medic killed in action
Nearly 1,000 people attended a ceremony today honoring the memory of Ukrainian journalist Iryna Tsybukh, who was killed in action while serving as a volunteer combat medic.
Tsybukh, 25, was killed while on rotation in the Kharkiv area, where Russia started its offensive nearly a month ago.
She had left a note describing how she wished the ceremony to be held, asking people to sing Ukrainian songs and attend in vyshyvankas – traditional embroidered shirts – instead of black clothes.
“I want everyone to sing at the farewell, to learn at least 10 meaningful songs and sing them in unison, to extinguish sorrow with native songs,” she wrote. Instead of flowers she asked people to make donations to the Hospitallers Volunteer Medical Batallion, in which she served.
A large crowd gathered in the courtyard of Kyiv’s St. Michael’s Golden-Domed Monastery, where the memorial service was held. People later joined a column that moved to central Independence Square, a ritual that has become common during funerals of servicemen killed in action, chanting “Heroes don’t die”.
Tsybukh’s death sparked wide reaction on social media, where her letter went viral for several days after her death.
“Today everything is behind me, my life has ended, and it was important for me to live it with dignity: to be an honest, kind, and loving person,” she said in the letter that she wrote a year ago while serving in the embattled Donetsk region. Her brother shared it, as she wished, on Instagram.
“To have the strength to be a free person, one must be brave,” she wrote.
04:30 PM BST
In Russia ‘punishment is more often a political tool’, says MoD
Today’s intellience update from the Ministry of Defence.
04:05 PM BST
‘Starved, beaten and abused’ – Ukrainian policewoman returns home after two years in captivity
A 24-year-old Ukrainian policewoman was “starved, beaten and abused” as a prisoner of war by Russian forces, her mother said as she was released after two years in captivity.
Maryana Checheliuk, an investigator with the National Police of Ukraine, was taken prisoner after being caught up in the siege of Mariupol’s Azovstal steel works.
Her full story was recounted to The Telegraph magazine by her family last year, who told how she had been forced through a Russian filtration camp and then blocked from returning home.
On Friday, Ms Checheliuk was released in a prisoner exchange, after enduring years of severe mistreatment, including being starved, beaten and abused. She appeared frail as she finally arrived back on Ukrainian soil in tears.
In her first phone call to her family after being released, Ms Checheliuk said: “Mummy, I’m home.”
Her mother replied: “My lovely and dear sunshine, we finally got this day.”
03:06 PM BST
Ukraine publishes video from destroyed Vovchansk
The Liut Assault Brigade of Ukraine’s National Police has published a video from Vovchansk in the north of Kharkiv Oblast, where fighting continues.
The DeepState analytical project reported that 50-80 per cent of the city’s buildings have been destroyed and cannot be rebuilt.
02:55 PM BST
Zelensky to arrive in Philippines
Volodomyr Zelensky is set to visit Manila and is scheduled to arrive late on Sunday, Rappler news site reported, quoting diplomatic sources.
There was no immediate confirmation from the Philippine president’s office or the Philippine foreign ministry.
Mr Zelensky would be coming from Singapore where he made an unscripted appearance at the Shangri-La Dialogue conference, his second visit to Asia since Russia first invaded Ukraine in February 2022.
02:41 PM BST
Italy’s PM confirms Zelensky’s attendance at G7 Summit
Volodymyr Zelensky will attend the Group of Seven (G7) Summit on 13-15 June in Italy, Giorgia Meloni has confirmed.
Ms Meloni said the G7 Summit will be attended by “at least fifteen” countries and international institutions, in addition to the leaders of the Group and the Pope.
Earlier, it was also reported that Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will attend the summit.
01:44 PM BST
Scholz: We will defend ‘every square inch’ of Nato territory
German chancellor Olaf Scholz has said in a speech directed at Vladimir Putin that Nato is prepared to “defend every square inch” of its territory against attacks.
Nato’s recent move to strengthen its eastern border is aimed at deterring Russia, Mr Scholz said, adding it should be clear to Moscow that the alliance will be ready to defend itself if necessary.
Speaking at the Eastern German Economic Forum Mr Scholz said: “The threat from Russia will continue, we and other allies decided last year to deploy additional units to the Baltic states and to station an entire brigade there permanently in future.
“But this turnaround in security policy is necessary to show Russia: We are prepared to defend every square inch of Nato territory against attacks.”
He said diplomacy would only be successful from a position of strength.
01:22 PM BST
Russia ‘captures village in Donetsk’
Russia’s defence ministry claims to have captured a village in eastern Ukraine and says it is advancing “in all tactical directions”.
Russian troops “have managed to liberate the village of Umanskoye in the popular republic of Donetsk”, the ministry said in reference to the Ukrainian village of Umanske, a tiny village home to fewer than 180 inhabitants before Russia’s invasion.
The village lies about 25 kilometres to the northwest of Donetsk, which is the main city of the region and is under Russian control.
Ukraine’s outnumbered and outgunned forces have been under pressure for several months, particularly since Russia launched a new push in early May around the eastern city of Kharkiv.
Russian defence minister Andrei Belousov said on Friday Russia had made advances “in all tactical directions” and that Moscow’s forces had seized 880 square kilometres of territory this year alone.
12:59 PM BST
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12:33 PM BST
Situation on Pokrovsk front is tense, says Ukraine
On the Pokrovsk front, the Russians are trying to advance on Novooleksandrivka and Sokil, Ukraine’s General Staff has reported.
Two attacks were repelled and three more are ongoing, with defence forces taking measures to stabilise the situation, according to online Ukrainian newspaper Pravda.
11:52 AM BST
Energy shutdowns hit Ukraine after Russian attacks target infrastructure
Ukraine imposed emergency power shutdowns in most of the country on Sunday, a day after Russia unleashed large-scale attacks on energy infrastructure.
The shutdowns were in place in all but three regions of Ukraine following Saturday’s drone and missile attack on energy targets that injured at least 19 people.
Ukraine’s state-owned power grid operator Ukrenergo said the shutdowns affected both industrial and household consumers.
11:07 AM BST
Zelensky criticises Biden over Atacms ban
Report from Nicola Smith, in Singapore:
Volodymr Zelensky criticised Joe Biden for not doing enough in allowing US weapons to be fired into Russia as Ukraine faces the threat of a renewed invasion.
The Ukrainian president thanked Mr Biden for giving Kyiv permission to strike inside Russian territory with American munitions, but said restrictions – including on the use of long-range Atacms – should also be dropped.
He said: “Is that sufficient? No. Why? Because I have given you the example of airfields from which Russia is permanently firing, in calm knowing that Ukraine will not fire back because it has no corresponding systems and no permissions.”
After weeks of pressure Biden gave permission for Ukraine to use American missiles like Himars to fire across the border north of Kharkiv, where Russian forces are massing. But he blocked Ukraine from using the more advanced Atacms systems.
Mr Zelensky said Russia continued to use artillery, long-range fire, and some 300 weapons systems carrying tens of thousands of missiles on its side of the border to target the Ukrainian population.
“So they have these weapons there and they do not remove them because they know that Ukraine cannot target them with Western weaponry even if they fire against us,” he said.
10:48 AM BST
Russia claims capture of village in Ukraine’s Donetsk region
Russia’s defence ministry has claimed to have captured a tiny village in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine, where it has been on the offensive making territorial gains.
Russian troops “have managed to liberate the village of Umanskoye in the popular republic of Donetsk”, the ministry said in reference to the Ukrainian village of Umanske.
The claims could not immediately be verified.
10:34 AM BST
Watch: Monument to Wagner Group founder Prigozhin unveiled in St Petersburg
A life-sized monument to the founder of Russia’s Wagner private mercenary group Yevgeny Prigozhin has been unveiled at his grave in St. Petersburg.
The site was visited by several dozens of people, many of whom laid flowers. Some were dressed in military uniform and were wearing PMC Wagner symbols.
Prigozhin, head of the Wagner mercenary group that fought for Russia in Ukraine, waged a long-running feud with the defence establishment that culminated in an outright mutiny in late June 2023.
It ended quickly but was widely seen as a serious challenge to President Vladimir Putin’s almost quarter-century-old grip on power.
10:24 AM BST
Zelensky says 106 nations and organisations to attend Switzerland summit
Volodomyr Zelensky has said that 106 countries and organisations had so far agreed to participate in a summit in Switzerland in mid-June aimed at bringing peace to his war-ravaged nation.
Mr Zelensky wants the peace summit, scheduled for June 15-16 in Switzerland, to produce a front to support the withdrawal of Russian troops and the restoration of Ukraine’s 1991 borders.
10:15 AM BST
Ukraine says it downs 24 Russia-launched attack drones
Ukraine’s air defence systems destroyed 24 of the 25 attack drones that Russia launched overnight, Kyiv’s air force said on Sunday.
Russia also launched an Iskander-K cruise missile towards the Kharkiv region and an anti-aircraft guided missile, the air force said on the Telegram messaging app. It did not say what happened to the missiles.
10:06 AM BST
Russia threatens former chess champion Kasparov with criminal charges
Former world chess champion Garry Kasparov, who fled Russia a decade ago for fear of persecution, may face a criminal case in Moscow for violating the Kremlin’s “foreign agent” law, TASS news agency reported on Sunday.
Russian law enforcement officials, the state news agency reported, said there is “every reason” to charge Mr Kasparov, without providing further details. The fierce Kremlin critic could face up to two years in prison or a fine if a case is initiated, the unnamed officials said.
Russia added Mr Kasparov to the list of individuals acting as foreign agents, which includes dozens of critics of Vladimir Putin, soon after the Russian president launched his full-scale invasion on Ukraine in 2022.
09:39 AM BST
Zelensky and Pentagon chief discuss bolstering Ukraine’s air defence
Volodymyr Zelensky said he discussed bolstering Ukraine’s air defence system and the F-16 coalition at a meeting with US secretary of defense Lloyd Austin.
The meeting between the Ukrainian president and the Pentagon chief took place on the sidelines of the Shangri-La Dialogue defence summit in Singapore.
“We discussed the key issues: the defence needs of our country, bolstering Ukraine’s air defence system, the F-16 coalition, and drafting of a bilateral security agreement,” Mr Zelenskyy said.
09:17 AM BST
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09:13 AM BST
Zelensky says being allowed to strike Kharkiv with some US weapons not enough
Volodymyr Zelensky has said that he was grateful to the United States for allowing Kyiv to use US-supplied High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) in the Kharkiv region, but added that it was not enough.
Ukraine is weathering a renewed assault from Russian forces, more than two years after the invasion began.
09:09 AM BST
Local official dies in Russia’s Belgorod as ammunition detonates, governor says
A local official in Belgorod died when some ammunition detonated, while six people were injured in Ukrainian shelling of the southern Russian region, Belgorod’s governor said on Sunday.
Igor Nechiporenko, deputy head of Korochansky district administration in Belgorod, was killed as a result of ammunition detonating, Belgorod governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said on Telegram.
“I offer my most sincere and deepest condolences to the family and loved ones,” Mr Gladkov said.
He also said that six civilians received shrapnel injuries during Ukraine’s shelling of the town of Shebekino and were taken to hospital.
09:07 AM BST
Zelensky accuses China of undermining Ukraine summit
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has accused Beijing of working with Moscow to undermine a summit to discuss his country’s peace blueprint.
Russia is doing “everything” to disrupt the summit set for mid-June by using Chinese influence and its diplomats, Mr Zelensky told reporters at the sidelines of the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore. Earlier, the Ukrainian president gave a keynote speech, appealing for Asian leaders to join the summit to help forge a path to end Russia’s war.
“We want Asia to know what’s going on in Ukraine,” Mr Zelensky said on Sunday. “We need the support of Asian countries. It is much needed.”
China has not immediately responded to the comments.
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