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Tuesday, May 31. Day 97. By Daryna Antoniuk
The new U. S. ambassador to Ukraine, Bridget A. Brink visited the Hostomel airfield near Kyiv on Tuesday. Ukrainian infantrymen won one of the first major battles at Hostomel at the beginning of the war.
A Russian attack hit a nitric acid tank at a chemical plant in Sievierodonetsk, causing a leak. The head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration, Serhiy Haidai, suggested to others that they stay in the shelters and wear a protective mask soaked in a soda solution.
Russian troops occupy about 70% of Sievierodonetsk, but the Ukrainian army remains in the city. Sievierodonetsk’s critical infrastructure is almost completely destroyed, with 90 percent of residential buildings damaged, according to Haidai.
Russian troops killed at least 3 civilians and wounded six others in a rocket attack on the city of Sloviansk in the Donetsk region. The attack destroyed a school and at least seven apartment buildings.
The Ukrainian military has killed about 30,500 Russians since Feb. 24, according to the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Russian troops on Tuesday shelled border villages in the Chernihiv and Sumy regions from Russian territory. No casualties were reported.
A 12-year-old boy and a woman were killed in the Russian bombing of Kharkiv on the morning of May 31. In the last 24 hours, another 3 people were killed and 14 injured in the area.
Two Russian servicemen were sentenced to 11 years in prison for bombing the Kharkiv region with Grad rocket launchers. The Russians, Aleksandr Bobykin and Aleksandr Ivanov, attacked Kharkiv from Russian territory on February 24, destroying critical infrastructure and residential buildings.
Russia commits between two and three hundred war crimes in Ukraine every day, according to Ukraine’s Attorney General Iryna Venediktova. “This is a brutal war,” he said. But I hope we can do justice. “
Russia could lose as much as $25 billion from the sixth package of European sanctions, according to Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal. The new European sanctions opposing Russia come with a partial oil embargo.
Russia is intentionally targeting Ukrainian cultural heritage sites (museums and universities) based on U. S. State Department satellite imagery, said Oksana Markarova, Ukraine’s ambassador to the United States.
Over the past three months, Ukraine has earned more than $7 billion in monetary aid from its allies, according to Shmyhal. This money will help the Ukrainian economy in the Russian war, Shmyhal said.
The European Council requested Ukraine for the EU club in June, according to its statement.
Ukraine’s parliament on Tuesday modified the state budget, expanding spending on national security and defense by $8. 3 billion, to Yaroslav Zheleznyak, first deputy chairman of the parliamentary finance committee.
More than 1,000 have left Russia since Feb. 24, according to the Kyiv School of Economics. More than 50% of foreigners have already announced their withdrawal from the Russian market and 21% have reduced their existing operations in the region.