STOCKHOLM — Sweden says a Russian army violated Swedish airspace.
The incident occurred Friday night in the Baltic Sea near the island of Bornholm.
On Saturday, the Swedish Armed Forces said a Russian AN-30 propeller plane flew into Swedish airspace and entered briefly before leaving the area.
The Swedish Air Force sent fighter jets that photographed the Russian plane.
Swedish Defense Minister Peter Hultqvist told Swedish public radio that the rape is “unacceptable” and “unprofessional. “
In an incident in early March, 4 Russian fighter jets violated Swedish airspace over the Baltic Sea.
Sweden and neighboring Finland will join NATO after russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Moscow warned that such a move would have consequences, without elaborating.
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KEY DEVELOPMENTS IN THE RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR:
– Ukrainian forces fight Russia’s meteoric advance in the Donbass region
— Wives of Mariupol defenders for evacuation of soldiers
— Some Ukrainians cross the front line to their homes, despite the dangers
— Ukrainian women will be informed about transparent mines at a course in Kosovo
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LONDON – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson discussed the progress of UN efforts to evacuate citizens from the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol and “offered continued economic and humanitarian aid from the UK” at an assembly on Saturday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskky.
“The prime minister reiterated that he is more determined than ever to ukraine and make (Russian President Vladimir) Putin fail, pointing out how much Ukrainians are fighting for their freedom,” Johnson’s Downing Street office said.
“It showed that the UK would continue to provide more military aid to give the Ukrainians the apparatus they needed to protect themselves,” he said.
The United Nations has tried to negotiate an evacuation in the port city where some 100,000 civilians are located. According to Ukrainian officials, up to 1,000 civilians under a Soviet-era metallurgical plant in Mariupol.
Ukraine specified how many fighters are also in the factory, but the Russians estimate their number at about 2,000.
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A Russian rocket attack destroyed an airstrip in Odessa, Ukraine’s third-largest city and a key Black Sea port, the Ukrainian military said Saturday.
In a Telegram article, Ukraine’s Southern Operational Command said there is no way the Odessa airstrip can be used after the rocket attack.
The local government suggested domain citizens take refuge at the site, while Ukraine’s UNIAN news agency, citing army sources, reported that “several” explosions were heard in Odessa.
The regional governor of Odessa said the rocket was fired from Russian-occupied Crimea. Maksym Marchenko said no injuries had been reported.
Russian forces have embarked on a primary military operation on significant portions of southern and eastern Ukraine, the commercial heart of the country, and capture the Black Sea and the shores of the Sea of Azov.
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s national grid operator says it has restored a “reliable” source of strength in the Chernobyl exclusion zone around the 1986 nuclear reactor disaster.
“In the afternoon, the last mandatory 330 kV force transmission line was launched,” the state-owned company Ukrenergo wrote in a Telegram article on Saturday.
According to the same article, Ukrenergo also restored another 330 kV line in the northern region of Kiev last night, helping to stabilize the capital’s power supply. He said the reconstruction of new transmission lines in and around Kiev is still ongoing.
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KYIV – The mayor of the city of Popasna in eastern Ukraine said in a video interview that two buses heading to the city to evacuate citizens had gone off and contact with drivers had been lost.
“Yesterday we evacuated another 31 people from Popasna. Many other people were waiting; that’s why we sent two more buses to the evacuation point,” Mayor Mykola Khanatov said in an interview published on the Telegram channel of Serhiy Haidai, the Ukrainian. governor of the eastern Luhansk region.
“We know that (the buses) arrived in the city and then came here under fire from an enemy sabotage and reconnaissance organization,” Khanatov said. “There is no contact with the other people who were inside the vehicles and organizing the evacuation. “
Russian forces have embarked on a primary military operation in significant portions of southern and eastern Ukraine, the commercial heart of the country.
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Another mass grave has been discovered in the Kiev suburb of Bucha, the scene of alleged mass executions of civilians before Ukrainian forces recaptured it in early March, Kiev’s regional police chief said Saturday.
“On April 29, a grave with the bodies of 3 men was discovered in the Bucha district,” regional police leader Andriy Nebytov wrote on Facebook. “The victims were tortured for a long time. Gunshot wounds were discovered in the extremities. “of their bodies. In the end, each of the men was shot in the ear.
“This is a mass burial carried out by the occupiers in the Bucha district, the long-suffering district where more than a thousand civilians have been killed and tortured,” Nethroughtov added.
According to Nethroughtov’s message, the burial site was discovered in the forest near the village of Myrotske, 10 kilometers (6 miles) northwest of the city of Bucha. Nethroughtov said the 3 bodies were being sent for forensic examination, following an initial inspection through the Kiev Regional Police.
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KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Seven Ukrainians and seven civilians were released Saturday in a prisoner exchange with Russia, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said on social media.
“We took home 14 of our men: seven and seven civilians,” Vereshchuk wrote on Facebook and Telegram. “For me, this exchange is special: one of the women is five months pregnant.
As of Saturday afternoon, the exchange had been shown through official Russian sources.
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NEW YORK — Prices for Russian credit default swaps, insurance contracts that an investor opposed the default, fell sharply overnight after Moscow used its valuable foreign currency reserves to make a last-minute debt payment on Friday.
The charge of a five-year credit default change on Russian debt $5. 84 million to protect a $10 million debt. That was worth roughly a portion of Thursday’s price, which, at about $11 million for $10 million in debt protection, a sign that investors were certain of a Russian default.
Despite the fall in insurance contracts, investors remain largely convinced that Russia will eventually default on its debts for the first time since 1917.
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Ukraine evacuated more people on Saturday to the eastern city of Lyman in the bitterly contested Donetsk region, where at least a portion of citizens have fled Russian shelling since the war began.
A score of people, mostly elderly, boarded a van amid artillery sounds and explosions in the distance. All the department stores in the almost empty city have been closed and those who must remain have the help distributed through teams that add the Ukrainian. Red Cross.
Those who remain say they are too old, don’t know where to go, or don’t need to leave their homes unattended. They seek safe shelter in their basements when the bombing begins.
Meanwhile, in Dobropillya, further west, Russian shelling hit the city on Saturday, damaging buildings and injuring seven other people and three children, according to authorities.
Ukraine’s deputy agriculture minister said Russian forces were seizing gigantic amounts of grain from the territory they controlled, while its president said the war-torn country faces fuel shortages.
“Today, the facts shown imply that several hundred thousand cereals have been extracted in total from the Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, Donetsk and Luhansk regions,” Minister Taras Vysotsky said on Ukrainian television on Saturday.
Ukraine is one of the world’s largest cereal producers and the Russian invasion has reduced exports, boosting world grain and raising concerns about severe cereal shortages in cargo countries.
Ukraine faces fuel shortages as Russia destroys its fuel infrastructure and blocks its ports, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said late Friday.
Fuel shortages have been reported in Kiev, Dnipro and other cities. It can be observed that vehicles queue at gas stations and drivers at maximum locations can purchase 10 liters (2. 6 gallons) of fuel at a time.
Zelenskyy promised that officials would locate a fuel source formula within a week or two to avoid a deficit, but called it a “difficult task” after the Kremenchuk refinery pierced a Russian missile.
But, Zelenskyy said, “there are no solutions. “
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PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron has conveyed to Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky his “desire to work actively to repair Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity in its current mandate,” in coordination with its allies, the Elysee presidential palace said.
Macron confided in Zelenskyy in their hour-long verbal exchange on Saturday that “military equipment” and humanitarian aid would continue to arrive in Ukraine, the Elysee Palace said.
France has sent 615 tons of apparatus and aid, adding turbines for hospitals, ambulances and food. France has been timid about its contribution to defensive weapons, but Macron recently spoke about Milan’s anti-tank missiles and a delivery of Caesar mounted on trucks. firearms among the “substantial apparatus”.
“This will continue to strengthen,” the French president told Zelenskyy, according to Elysee.
Macron was re-elected president of France six days ago. During his first term, Macron has held talks with Zelenskyy and Russian leader Vladimir Putin since the invasion of Russia on Feb. 24.
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LVIV, Ukraine (RUSSIA’S FOREIGN MINISTER SAID Moscow has evacuated more than a million people from Ukraine since the beginning of the war.
Sergey Lavrov’s comments Saturday in an interview with China’s state-run Xinhua news firm came as Ukraine accused Moscow of forcibly expelling Ukrainians from the country. Lavrov said that figure included more than three hundred Chinese civilians.
Lavrov provided no evidence to aid his assertion of the interview.
Lavrov also said negotiations between Russia and Ukraine continue “almost every day. “However, he warned that “progress has not been easy. “
Lavrov partly blamed “the bellicose rhetoric and incendiary moves of Western supporters of the Kiev regime” for disrupting the talks. However, Russian state television has gained visitors every night who recommend that Moscow be a nuclear weapon in the conflict.
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LVIV, Ukraine — The British military believes Russian forces in Ukraine are likely suffering from “weakened morale. “
Britain’s Defense Ministry made the assessment in a tweet Saturday as part of a report it provides on Russia’s war against Kiev.
He says Russia “still faces abundant challenges” in the fight. The British military believes Russian forces “have been forced to merge and redeploy exhausted and disparate following failed advances in northeastern Ukraine. “
He did not provide any information on how he arrived at this assessment. However, analysts claim that Russian forces that failed to take Kiev at the beginning of the war were redeployed without the time needed to rearm and properly equip themselves.
The British that Russia hopes to reorganize their efforts and shorten the lines of origin.
The ministry added: “The lack of skills at the point of unity and the inconsistent air have prevented Russia from taking full credit for its combat mass, despite localized improvements. “
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WASHINGTON – A senior U. S. defense official has been a senior U. S. defense official. The U. S. Military said Friday that the Russian offensive is much slower than expected, in part because of the strength of the Ukrainian resistance.
“We also know that because of this slow and asymmetrical progress, again, without better wisdom from all facets of the Russian plan, we assess that they are falling behind in what they sought to achieve in the Donbass,” the official said. He said, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the U. S. military’s assessment. USA
He said the United States believed the Russians were “at least several days what they wanted to be” as they tried to encircle Ukrainian troops in the east.
As troops attempt to move north out of Mariupol so they can advance on Ukrainian forces from the south, their progress has been “slow and uneven, and not decisive, in any case,” the official said.
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KYIV, Ukraine – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has accused Russia of seeking to destroy Donbass and everyone who lives there.
“The constant brutal bombing, the constant Russian movements in infrastructure and residential spaces show that Russia needs to empty this territory of all peoples. Therefore, the defense of our land, the defense of our people, is literally a fight for life,” he said. he said Friday night in his video of the night in front of the nation.
He said the cities and towns of Donbass would only do so if Ukraine remained standing. Mariupol.
Zelenskyy said Mariupol, once one of the most evolved cities in the region, is now a “Russian concentration camp among the ruins. “
In Kharkiv, a giant city in the north, the scenario is “brutal”, but Ukrainian troops and intelligence agents “had vital tactical successes”, he said without elaborating.
Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov said about 20 percent of the city’s residential buildings are so damaged that they will need to be repaired.
Zelenskyy said rescuers were still wandering through the rubble in Kiev after Thursday’s missile strikes. He expressed his condolences to the circle of relatives of Vira Hyrych, who was killed in the bombing. He said she was the 23rd journalist killed in the war.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov appears to have rejected the need for the United Nations to support safe outdoor humanitarian corridors in besieged Ukrainian cities, taking a hard line a day after the U. N. leader visited war-torn cities. Kiev with that same goal.
When an interviewer for Saudi-based Al-Arabiya TV tried to talk to Lavrov about UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ proposals for humanitarian aid and the evacuation of civilians, Lavrov interrupted him.
“There is no need. I know, I know,” Lavrov said irritatedly. “No one wants to provide aid to open humanitarian corridors. There is a problem. . . humanitarian corridors are ignored by Ukraine’s ultranationals,” he said. .
“We appreciate the Secretary-General’s interest in helping,” he added. “(We have) explained. . . what is the mechanism they have to monitor how humanitarian corridors are advertised.
During the hour-long interview, Lavrov also accused the West of sabotaging Russia’s peace talks with Ukraine. He claimed that thorny negotiations in Istanbul last month had progressed on issues of Russian territorial claims and security promises until Ukrainian diplomats reversed the West’s request.
“We are stuck because of their preference to play games all the time,” Lavrov said. “Because of the orders they are getting from Washington, London and some other capitals, to speed up the negotiations. “
Asked about extending the war to neighboring Moldova after a series of explosions rocked the country’s separatist border region, Lavrov struck a disturbing tone.
“Moldova cares about its own future,” he said. Because they are trained in NATO. “