On Wednesday, May 28, 2018, this is the current situation:
Fighting
- As the two nations continue to trade drone attacks, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported in a post on Telegram that the Russian air defenses destroyed or intercepted 112 Ukrainian drones over a three-hour period, the majority of which were over central or southern regions of the nation.
- Six Ukrainian drones were repelled as they approached the Russian capital, according to Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin. He claimed that recovery teams were examining the ground’s fragments.
- 10 people were hurt when Russia deployed 60 drones nightly across various areas of Ukraine, according to Ukrainian Air Force officials.
- After three Russian airstrikes hit the Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk late on Monday night, over 850 residents were left without power in the area.
- More than 20 warships, boats, support vessels, 25 aircraft, and helicopters, according to a post from Russia’s military on Telegram, along with 3, 000 service members, have begun naval drills in the Baltic Sea.
Politics
- Donald Trump, the president of the United States, claimed that he had “protected Russia from really bad things.” He stated in a post on TruthSocial: “Which Vladimir Putin doesn’t realize is that, if it weren’t for me, there would have been a lot of really bad things happening to Russia already, and I mean REALLY bad things.”
- Russian security official Dmitry Medvedev said in a post on X: “I only know of one REALLY bad thing: WWIII. I hope Trump comprehends this.”
- Trump made his remarks after the Kremlin reported that the US president may be experiencing “emotional overload” as a result of Trump’s earlier assertions that Putin was “absolutely crazy” about the scale of Russian airstrikes against Ukrainian cities.
- After Trump “given some guidelines to Putin a week ago,” the US special envoy for Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, told Al Jazeera, the US is awaiting a response from Russia.
- After Merz claimed that France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the US had lifted the range restrictions on weapons supplied to Ukraine, Russian Foreign Affairs Minister Sergey Lavrov accused German Chancellor Friedrich Merz of “pretentiousness.”
Energy
- According to The New York Times, satellite images show that Russia is installing new electricity lines in the southeast of Ukraine, connecting the grid to the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, which the New York Times reported.
- The Trans-Balkan pipeline from Greece to Ukraine will be supplied through a gas import mechanism, according to a post from Ukraine’s energy regulator on Facebook.
- German Galushchenko, the energy minister of Ukraine, expressed hope that all participating nations would concur that the Trans-Balkan Route’s “common strategic goals” would be met as Ukraine continues to look for non-Russian gas supply routes.
Source: Aljazeera
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