Latest Russia news and the war in Ukraine

The loss of life toll from a Russian rocket assault on an condo block in the city of Chasiv Yar in japanese Ukraine over the weekend has risen to 24, Ukraine’s state emergency service mentioned, Reuters reported.

The assault in Ukraine’s Donetsk area occurred on Saturday, inflicting the constructing to break down.

The emergency companies mentioned 55 folks had been serving to the rescue effort, which has seen 9 folks rescued from the ruins of the five-story condo block.

— Sam Meredith

Russia suspended deliveries of gas to Germany through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline for annual summer time upkeep works.

The 10-day upkeep works on Europe’s single largest piece of gasoline import infrastructure are scheduled to run from Monday via to July 21. It has stoked fears that Russia might leverage the deliberate upkeep to delay or solely partially return gasoline provides.

It comes at a time when European governments are scrambling to fill underground storage with gasoline provides to supply households with sufficient gasoline to maintain the lights on and houses heat throughout winter.

“We cannot rule out the possibility that gas transport will not be resumed afterwards for political reasons,” Klaus Mueller, the head of Germany’s vitality regulator, instructed CNBC final week.

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov has beforehand dismissed claims that Russia was utilizing oil and gasoline to exert political stress over Europe, in accordance with Reuters.

— Sam Meredith

Russian troops are shelling the metropolis of Kharkiv with a number of launch rocket methods, with native residents being urged to not go outdoor amid “extremely dangerous” circumstances.

Kharkiv Regional Military Administration’s Head Oleh Synyehubov issued a warning on Telegram in which he mentioned “Russian occupiers have opened fire, reportedly with multiple launch rocket systems.”

“Attention! Residents of Kharkiv and Kharkiv Region, please do not stay outdoors unless absolutely necessary. It is extremely dangerous. All services are responding quickly and working at the scene,” Synyehubov mentioned.

Ukraine’s armed forces have already reported on Monday morning that Russian missile strikes had been focusing on Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest metropolis, with a college amongst the buildings being destroyed.

— Holly Ellyatt

The loss of life toll from a Russian rocket assault that hit a five-storey condo block in the city of Chasiv Yar in Donetsk in japanese Ukraine has risen to 18 on Monday.

Search and rescue groups are nonetheless racing to succeed in survivors in the rubble, the emergency companies mentioned. Images revealed on Sunday confirmed groups utilizing their fingers to attempt to unpick the rubble and attain folks trapped in the ruins of the constructing.

“Rescuers have recovered a body of another victim from under the rubble of a 5-storey apartment block destroyed in the missile strike on the city of Chasiv Yar,” the report on Facebook said Monday.

“A total of 18 civilians were found dead. Six civilians were rescued from under the rubble. A total of 138 tonnes of destroyed structures were dismantled. Rescue works are underway.”

An additional replace said that two extra males had been rescued from the rubble in the ongoing rescue operation.

— Holly Ellyatt

Russian forces have launched a wave of assaults on numerous cities in the east of the nation and appear like they’re getting ready to accentuate their assaults, Ukraine’s common workers mentioned on Monday.

Russian forces have significantly intensified their assaults round Ukraine’s second-largest metropolis Kharkiv with artillery, rocket launchers and tanks deployed in the metropolis and surrounding areas, Oleksandr Shtupun, the spokesman for the common workers of Ukraine’s armed forces, mentioned on Facebook on Monday.

Shtupun mentioned that in the Donetsk path, “there are signs of enemy units preparing to intensify combat operations in the Kramatorsk and Bakhmut directions” and that in the space of Sloviansk — a metropolis of the new frontline in Donetsk — numerous settlements to the north and northwest had been shelled with barrel and jet artillery.

The close by metropolis of Kramatorsk to the south had not seen lively operations, Shtupun mentioned, however cities between Sloviansk and Severodonetsk — the border space between Russian-occupied Luhansk and Donetsk — have been shelled with barrel artillery, Shtupun mentioned.

—Holly Ellyatt

French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire, talking Sunday to CNBC’s Charlotte Reed at the Rencontres Economiques occasion in Aix-en-Provence, discusses the chance of Russia shutting off the gasoline faucets to Europe.

“I think that this is one of the key scenarios and we have to be prepared for all options. That’s the responsibility of all politicians to take into account the geopolitical situation,” he mentioned.

—Matt Clinch

EDITOR’S NOTE: This article incorporates a picture of search and rescue groups eradicating human stays from the Chasiv Yar condo block that was struck by Russian forces.

Search and rescue operations are persevering with in Chasiv Yar to search out victims and survivors of a Russian missile strike on an condo block. The city lies southeast of Kramatorsk in Donetsk, japanese Ukraine.

At least 15 folks died in the assault and the loss of life toll is more likely to rise, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy mentioned on Sunday night time.

Several dozen persons are believed to be trapped beneath the rubble and residents have been displaced after dropping their houses.

Russia has repeatedly mentioned it doesn’t goal civilians regardless of quite a few events the place civilian infrastructure has been hit throughout the war.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has mentioned the loss of life toll is more likely to rise following a Russian assault on an condo block in Donetsk at the weekend. 

“I have been receiving reports all day today from the city of Chasiv Yar in Donetsk region,” Zelenskyy mentioned in his late night time handle final night time. “There are 15 names on the list of the dead and, unfortunately, this is not the final number.”

“It was a missile strike. And everyone who gives orders for such strikes, everyone who carries them out in our ordinary cities, in residential areas, kills absolutely deliberately,” the president added.

Zelenskyy mentioned Ukraine would search to punish these answerable for the assault, and any others concerned in the invasion of Ukraine.
 
“Since the beginning of this invasion, Ukrainian law enforcement officers have been doing everything necessary to record the crimes of the occupiers and to collect evidence,” he mentioned, including that Russia ought to be deemed a terrorist state:

“Russian terror has long crossed the line beyond which it became obvious to many in the civilized world that it is a matter of global security to punish Russia, a terrorist state, for everything it has done against Ukraine and the international legal order.”

Russia has repeatedly mentioned it doesn’t goal civilians regardless of quite a few events the place civilian infrastructure has been hit throughout the war.

— Holly Ellyatt

From Ukraine’s perspective, Russia shouldn’t be taking an “operational pause” from heavy combating in the Donbas in japanese Ukraine, the nation’s president mentioned on Sunday night time.

“In the past week, there was a lot of talk about the alleged ‘operational pause’ in the actions of the occupiers in Donbas and other parts of Ukraine,” Zelenskyy mentioned in his nightly handle. “Thirty-four airstrikes by Russian aircraft in one past day is an answer to all those who invented this ‘pause’.”

Zelenskyy’s feedback come after navy analysts mentioned Russia appeared to have made few advances in the Donbas final week; the seize of the total area is one in every of Russia’s said war goals.

According to analysts, Russian forces are possible regrouping following heavy combating in order to seize Luhansk, a area making up half of the Donbas, together with Donetsk, in which Russian forces at the moment are making an attempt to advance.

But there had been no pause for Ukraine, Zelenskyy mentioned, noting that “the Ukrainian army is holding on, holding firm and repelling assaults in various directions.” 

“But, of course, a lot still needs to be done so that Russian losses become such that there will really be a pause. Moreover, the pause is not before new offensives of the occupiers, but before their escape from our Ukrainian native land. And I am grateful to all our fighters who ensure that this time is approaching.”

— Holly Ellyatt

At least 15 folks have been killed and dozens are nonetheless trapped after Russian rockets hit a five-storey condo block in Ukraine’s Donetsk area on Saturday, inflicting the constructing to break down.

Donetsk area Governor Pavlo Kyrylenko mentioned on Telegram that not less than 34 folks could possibly be trapped beneath the rubble of the high-rise constructing in Chasiv Yar, which was struck by Russian rockets late on Saturday.

He mentioned yesterday that 5 folks had been rescued with emergency companies speaking with others trapped beneath the rubble. According to numerous estimates, there could also be one other 24 folks trapped in the ruins of the constructing, together with a 9-year-old baby, Kyrylenko mentioned.

“Rescuers of the State Emergency Service dismantled about 99 tons of destroyed elements of the building.
The rescue operation is ongoing,” he commented.

Andriy Yermak, chief of workers to Ukraine’s president, mentioned on Twitter that Russia “should be on the list of state sponsors of terrorism” following one other assault on civilian infrastructure.

Russia has repeatedly denied focusing on civilians regardless of mounting proof to the opposite and investigators proceed to assemble proof of war crimes in Ukraine.

— Holly Ellyatt