Global Courant 2023-05-29 07:04:57
This is the state of affairs on Monday, May 29, 2023.
To fight
Moscow unleashed a wave of airstrikes on Kiev in what officials said appeared to be the largest drone strike on the city since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion. Kiev said fighting around the besieged city of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine, the site of the war’s longest and bloodiest battle, had eased. Ukrainian military intelligence claimed, without providing evidence, that Russia was plotting a “massive provocation” at a nuclear power plant it occupies in the southeast of the country, with the aim of disrupting an imminent Ukrainian counter-offensive. Ukrainian authorities reported artillery fire in the Sumy region on the border with Russia and the city of Nikopol in the Dnipropetrovsk region. Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of the powerful Russian mercenary force the Wagner Group, said he is convinced senior Kremlin officials have banned reports about him in the state media.
Diplomacy
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov warned that the West was “playing with fire” by agreeing to supply Ukraine with F-16 fighter jets. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa appointed a panel to investigate US allegations that a Russian ship collected weapons at a naval base near Cape Town last year, the presidency said in a statement. U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham visited Kyiv and told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, “Russians are dying… Best money we’ve spent.” (TagsToTranslate)News
