Russian air attacks on Ukraine rose sharply in May from previous months and have continued into June. A two-year-old girl was killed and at least 22 people, including five children, injured after a missile strike late Saturday on residential housing in the town of Pidhorodne, north of Dnipro in east-central Ukraine. Air defenses downed a series of Russian drones and cruise missiles aimed at Kyiv overnight as Kremlin forces keep up a near-daily assault on the capital.
(Bloomberg) — Russian air attacks on Ukraine rose sharply in May from previous months and have continued into June. A two-year-old girl was killed and at least 22 people, including five children, injured after a missile strike late Saturday on residential housing in the town of Pidhorodne, north of Dnipro in east-central Ukraine. Air defenses downed a series of Russian drones and cruise missiles aimed at Kyiv overnight as Kremlin forces keep up a near-daily assault on the capital.
Volodymyr Zelenskiy, in a Wall Street Journal interview published on Saturday, said Ukraine is ready for its counteroffensive and warned of likely casualties. In Saturday’s nightly video address the president urged Ukrainians: “please don’t forget to thank our warriors in person.” A top Zelenskiy aide, Ihor Zhovkva, told the Sunday Times that Kyiv is still short of weapons and ammunition. “If you want to start a successful counteroffensive you need everything at your disposal, including artillery, armored vehicles and tanks, so probably we don’t have enough,” he said.
Russia’s invasion was a major focus of the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore. China reasserted its interest in a peace process for Ukraine, with its defense minister saying it’s “best to mediate” the conflict. Li Shangfu said Beijing has “taken an objective and impartial stance” on the war, pushing back on Western claims that China is merely aligned with Russia, and met on Saturday with his Ukrainian counterpart. Indonesia put forward a peace proposal that involved freezing current troop positions that was quickly rejected by Kyiv.
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