On Saturday, May 24, 2018, this is the situation:
Fighting
- According to Mayor Vitaly Klitschko, witnesses reported a series of explosions and waves of Russian drones roost over the city, and at least eight people were hurt when Kyiv, the country’s capital, was attacked by both a combined drone and missile attack.
- Following the dawn attack, anti-aircraft units were deployed throughout the Ukrainian capital. The capital’s military administration’s head of state, Timur Tkachenko, reported two fires in the city’s Sviatoshynskyi district. In four other districts, drone fragments also hit the ground.
- According to authorities, Russian missile attacks on port infrastructure in Odesa, in southern Ukraine, resulted in at least two fatalities.
- According to authorities, three people died in shelling incidents in the eastern Donetsk region of Ukraine, which is at the heart of the conflict’s front line.
- The Ukrainian military claimed to have struck a battery-making facility in the Lipetsk region of Russia, which it claimed provided Russian missile and bomb manufacturers. The batteries were also used in cruise missiles, Iskander-M ballistic missiles, and aerial bombs, according to the statement.
diplomacy and politics
- Once the prisoner exchange, which is currently taking place, is finished, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has stated that Moscow will be prepared to hand Ukraine a draft document outlining conditions for a long-term peace agreement.
- Lavrov has cast doubts on the Vatican’s potential location for peace talks with Ukraine. After Trump suggested the Vatican as a location, Italy had stated that Pope Leo XIV was willing to host the peace talks. The pope and the US had expressed hope for the city-state to host the talks.
- In accordance with discussions between Russian and Ukrainian officials in Turkiye last week, Russia and Ukraine have each released 390 war prisoners and have committed additional release plans in the upcoming days.
- Putin has stated in televised remarks that Russia needs to strengthen its position on the world’s arms market by boosting its weapons exports.
- In his first phone call with China’s leader since Merz took office this month, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz urged Chinese President Xi Jinping to support Western efforts to end the conflict in the Ukraine.
Economy
Source: Aljazeera
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