Ukraine Russia battle information: Kyiv warns of elevated Russian assaults round independence day

The European international locations bordering Russia may cease Russian vacationers from getting into their borders if the bloc doesn’t introduce an EU-wide ban, Lithuania has mentioned.

Estonia, Finland Latvia, Lithuania and Poland and Finland all have a border with Russia.

“I’ve talked to ministers from all these international locations… I don’t see many variations politically,” Lithuanian international minister Gabrielius Landsbergis mentioned in Vilnius.

“Russian vacationers shouldn’t be within the European Union…Their nation is endeavor genocide,” he added.

A minimum of 374 kids have been killed in Russian assaults because the battle began 6 months in the past, Ukraine’s prosecutor common’s workplace has mentioned.

One other 723 kids have been injured by the Kremlin’s forces assaults, it mentioned.

The workplace added that the true variety of casualties is more likely to be a lot larger, as the present complete doesn’t embody victims in Russian-held areas.

Russia is constructing a floating bridge over the Dnipro after Ukraine destroyed the river crossing, the British Ministry of Defence (MoD) has mentioned.

In its newest replace, the MoD mentioned Moscow had moved barges into place beside the broken Antonivsky street bridge. The crossing connects the Russian-held metropolis of Kherson to the east.

If profitable, the transfer “will nearly actually improve the capability of the crossing level in comparison with the ferry”, it added.

Polish president Andrzej Duda is in Kyiv to debate army and financial help for Ukraine.

He has already met his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky thrice in Ukraine this yr.

“The go to will embody a gathering with president Zelensky and talks on army help and defence of Ukraine within the financial, humanitarian and political sense,” Mr Duda’s workplace mentioned of the newest journey.

“The presidents will focus on the political help Poland may supply to persuade different international locations to maintain serving to Ukraine,” it added.

Poland has been one in all Kyiv’s closest allies since Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February.

A Russian paratrooper who fought in Ukraine earlier this yr has hit out on the Kremlin, saying the justification for its invasion is a “lie”.

Pavel Filatyev, who served within the 56th air assault regiment, lately revealed a 141-page damning account of his experiences on the frontline.

Talking from an undisclosed location, he instructed CNN: “We had been dragged into this critical battle the place we’re simply destroying cities and never truly liberating anybody. All of that’s a lie. We’re merely destroying peaceable lives.”

The US has mentioned the Kremlin is planning to hold out assaults towards civilian buildings in Ukraine within the coming days.

The alleged menace comes forward of Ukrainian Independence Day on Wednesday.

The US embassy in Kyiv has warned its residents to depart the capital if they will.

“The Division of State has data that Russia is stepping up efforts to launch strikes towards Ukraine’s civilian infrastructure and authorities amenities within the coming days,” it mentioned on its web site.

The specter of a nuclear catastropher is at its “highest level in many years”, UN secretary common Antonio Guterres has mentioned.

With the globe at a “most second of hazard”, international locations ought to chorus from “nuclear sabre-rattling”, he added.

His warning comes as fears stay over shelling near Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear energy plant, which is now in Russian-held territory.

Either side have blamed the opposite for threatening the security of the location.

Alexander Lifirenko, a resident in close by Enerhodar, expressed his neighborhood’s fears.

“In fact, we’re frightened…It’s like sitting on a powder keg,” he instructed Reuters.