DThe Ukrainian capital Kyiv was shaken by several explosions on Sunday. “Several explosions in the Darnytsky and Dniprovsky districts,” Kiev Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on Telegram. “The emergency services are about to extinguish.” The Russian army invaded Ukraine on February 24. After being unable to take Kyiv, she increasingly moved her troops to the east of the country.
Kyiv reacted with sharp criticism of Macron
Ukrainian diplomats and politicians have sharply criticized French President Emmanuel Macron’s warning not to humiliate Russia. “Because Russia is humiliating itself,” Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba wrote on Twitter. “We’d all better focus on how to put Russia in its place.” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in his evening video address that there is one person in Moscow who can stop the terrible consequences of the war with a short order.”But the fact that the order still does not exist is obviously a humiliation for the whole world.”
Zelenskyj wants Russia’s expulsion from UNESCO
In view of the massive destruction of cultural heritage by Russia’s war of aggression, President Zelenskyj emphatically demanded that Moscow be excluded from UNESCO. “Unesco is no place for barbarians,” Zelenskyy said in his video address in Kyiv on Saturday. Russian troops would destroy cultural monuments, churches and other religious sites en masse. That’s reason enough to exclude the country from the United Nations cultural and educational organization, he said.
113 churches have already been destroyed or damaged. Russia is a “terror state” that is destroying historical heritage with its artillery. At the end of May he had already demanded that Russia be excluded from UNESCO.
Ukrainians hold the fort
Since the war began on February 24, Russia has already fired more than 2,500 rockets at Ukraine, Zelenskyy complained. “Our heroes are holding the fort and doing everything to inflict maximum casualties on the enemy.” Referring to the focus of the fighting in Donbass in eastern Ukraine, the head of state said the day will come when Russia will leave the area alone . Only the command of one person is decisive for this, he said, without naming Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin in Moscow.
Selenskyj and the Ukrainian general staff reported heavy fighting, especially in eastern Ukraine. There is a focus in the Luhansk region with the heavily contested administrative center Sievjerodonetsk. Bloody street fighting continued, Zelenskyy said. The Ukrainian armed forces want to continue to prevent Russian troops from taking complete control there. If the city falls, Russia would have achieved an important war goal: complete control of the Luhansk region. Russian airstrikes in the region were also reported.
First report of Germans killed on the Ukrainian side
For the first time, Ukraine officially informed about the death of a German volunteer fighter in the fighting. The International Legion for the Defense of Ukraine announced on Saturday in Kyiv that three volunteers from France, Australia and the Netherlands were among the “fallen brothers in arms”. The names of the four men were also included in the statement, but not the time or place of their deaths. From the Foreign Office in Berlin it was heard that the embassy in Kyiv was trying to clarify and was “in contact with the Ukrainian authorities who have spread the relevant news”.
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