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KYIV, Ukraine — A regional Ukrainian governor on Tuesday mentioned the Russian bombardment has brought on a leak of toxic nitric acid from an industrial facility.

Luhansk Gov. Serhiy Haidai mentioned a Russian air strike on Sievierodonetsk hit a tank with nitric acid at a chemical manufacturing unit, inflicting a large leak of its fumes.

He posted an image of an enormous rose cloud hanging over town and urged residents to not go away their houses and put on fuel masks or make improvised masks from cloth soaked in soda answer.

Sievierodonetsk has been the main target of Russia’s offensive in Ukraine’s jap industrial heartland of Donbas.

It has come underneath intensive artillery barrage and airstrikes because the Russian forces fought Ukrainian troops for management of town in violent avenue battles.

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KEY DEVELOPMENTS IN THE RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR:

— Sievierodonetsk mayor says Russian forces seize half of metropolis

— In massive bid to punish Moscow, EU bans most Russia oil imports

— A ‘horrible nightmare’: Treating Ukraine’s wounded civilians

— War crimes assembly held at Hague over Russia-Ukraine warfare

— Hungary’s Orban wins exemption in EU Russian oil embargo

— Turkish chief writes on ‘dangers’ of Sweden, Finland in NATO

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OTHER DEVELOPMENTS:

WARSAW, Poland — Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki on Tuesday mentioned the nation is on a “good path” to obtain new financing from the European Union to help Ukrainian refugees and compensate for weapons Poland gave to Ukraine.

More than 3 million refugees have entered Poland from Ukraine. While some handed by way of and others returned dwelling, most are nonetheless in Poland and receiving authorities help.

Poland has additionally been supplying varied weapons to Ukraine.

“Albeit slowly, but this (EU) support for Poland is coming … and we are on the good path to receive new means for the help for the refugees as well as linked to the weapons that we have handed to Ukraine,” Morawiecki mentioned.

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BRUSSELS — Italian Premier Mario Draghi mentioned Tuesday that Italian vitality firm ENI is ready to pay Russia for fuel with out violating sanctions as a result of Russia considers the fee accomplished as quickly because the euro fee goes by way of.

“Then it is converted to rubles on the market by an agent of Gazprom, not through the Russian central bank,’’ Draghi said.

He said it appears that Russia has imposed different conditions on different countries, and “in some cases where there were suspensions they asked payments in rubles, period.”

ENI additionally intends to go to a tribunal in Sweden and ask if this way of fee violates the contract. So far the court docket has not made a ruling, as this simply modified final week, Draghi mentioned.

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BRUSSELS — The European Union urged its worldwide companions to keep away from inserting commerce boundaries on farm merchandise as Russia’s warfare on Ukraine dangers additional fueling a attainable international meals disaster.

“We call on all partners not to restrict trade on agricultural products,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen mentioned after an EU summit Tuesday in Brussels.

Ukraine has mentioned Russia is obstructing the export of 22 million tons of its grain, some of it destined for Africa. African nations imported 44% of their wheat from Russia and Ukraine between 2018 and 2020, in accordance with the U.N.

Von der Leyen mentioned the EU is making an attempt to assist get meals out by street and rail, however land transport help would possibly solely present for a fifth of Ukraine’s ordinary month-to-month exports.

“It is of course more tedious and expensive, but it is necessary to get this wheat out,” she mentioned.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has mentioned the EU’s sanctions are making issues worse. Putin mentioned he’s prepared to assist ease issues if the restrictive measures are lifted.

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KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine has welcomed the European Union’s determination to dam most imports of Russian oil.

“The oil embargo will speed up the countdown to the collapse of the Russian economy and war machine,” Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba mentioned in a press release.

The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry estimated the ban might price Russia “tens of billions of dollars” and praised the European Union for “not only making it harder for the Kremlin to finance the (Russian Federation’s) aggression but also shoring up its own energy security.”

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BRUSSELS — French President Emmanuel Macron vowed France will proceed to “fight against impunity” after a French journalist was killed by shell shrapnel whereas protecting a Ukrainian evacuation operation.

The French nationwide anti-terrorism prosecutor’s workplace opened an investigation for warfare crimes.

Frédéric Leclerc-Imhoff, 32, was killed Monday as he was protecting a humanitarian operation close to Sievierodonetsk, a key metropolis within the Donbas area that’s being hotly contested by Russian and Ukrainian forces, in accordance with his employer, French information broadcaster BFM TV.

Macron, talking after a European summit in Brussels, mentioned “journalists, humanitarian workers must be protected in war zones. Civilians must be protected.”

Russia “is breaching all international laws,” he mentioned.

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BRUSSELS — Chancellor Olaf Scholz says Germany is engaged on a take care of Greece that will see Athens ship outdated navy gear to Ukraine and get armored personnel carriers from Germany to fill the hole.

Germany has confronted criticism for a perceived reluctance to ship heavy weapons to Ukraine, which the federal government rejects. It factors amongst different issues to preparations for NATO allies to ship older gear — notably of Soviet design — to Kyiv after which have fashionable materials provided by Germany.

Scholz pointed Tuesday to an association already made with the Czech Republic. He mentioned he had agreed with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis to attract up an analogous deal after a European Union summit. He didn’t give particulars, however mentioned will probably be finalized by the nations’ protection ministries and may be applied shortly.

Scholz mentioned he additionally spoke to his Polish counterpart about such preparations.

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BRUSSELS — The chair of the African Union, Senegal’s President Macky Sall, has advised European Union leaders that Russia’s blockade of Ukraine’s ports is paving the best way for a “catastrophic scenario” of widespread shortages and worth hikes throughout his continent.

In an tackle to leaders gathered in Brussels Tuesday for a summit targeted on serving to Ukraine, Sall mentioned {that a} halt to grain and fertilizer exports by way of the Black Sea could be very worrying for a continent internet hosting 282 million undernourished individuals. He mentioned that the worth of fertilizer throughout Africa has already tripled in comparison with 2021.

“According to some estimates, cereal yields in Africa will fall by 20 to 50 percent this year,” Sall mentioned. “We would like to see everything possible done to free up available grain stocks and ensure transportation and market access.”

Charles Michel, the EU Council president, mentioned that “the EU is sparing no efforts to free Ukraine’s exports over land and exploring alternative sea routes.”

African nations imported 44% of their wheat from Russia and Ukraine between 2018 and 2020, in accordance with U.N. figures. The African Development Bank is already reporting a forty five% improve in wheat costs on the continent.

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Russia’s high diplomat has once more blamed the hampering of exports of Ukrainian grain and a world meals disaster on Kyiv and the West.

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov mentioned Tuesday that Russia ensures “free export of Ukrainian grain by ships that are now locked in Ukrainian ports,” however first Ukraine must “de-mine the coastal waters that are in the territorial sea of Ukraine.”

Lavrov advised a information convention after assembly together with his Bahraini counterpart Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani that if that’s accomplished, “in the open sea … Russia’s naval forces will ensure the unimpeded passage of these ships to the Mediterranean Sea and further to their destinations,”

He also blamed Western nations for creating “a flurry of artificial problems with closing their ports for Russian vessels, with cutting logistical and financial chains.” He added that they must “seriously think what is more important for them — to do PR on the issue of the food security or solve the problem with concrete steps.”

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MOSCOW — The deputy head of Russia’s Security Council is alleging that sanctions against the country, including new measures targeting oil exports, are aimed at hurting ordinary Russians and motivated by hatred.

Dmitry Medvedev, who is also a former president and prime minister, wrote on Telegram Tuesday that sanctions don’t affect the Russian political elite and won’t be “fatal” for big business, but are “directed precisely against the people of Russia.”

He claimed that measures affecting oil and gas are aimed at forcing the government to introduce budget cuts.

“An embargo on buying oil and gas from Russia? The same thing: to reduce the budget incomes and force the state to abandon its social obligations” such as raising payments in line with inflation, he wrote.

The European Union has agreed on a ban affecting all Russian exports of oil by sea to the EU, but not by a key pipeline to some Central and Eastern European countries including Hungary. The EU hasn’t introduced an embargo on Russian gas.

After listing sanctions in various sectors, Medvedev wrote, “They hate us all! The basis for these decisions is hatred for Russia, for Russians and for all its inhabitants.”

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COPENHAGEN, Denmark — The Norwegian Refugee Council says thousands of civilians caught in Sievierodonetsk are “in dire need of aid.” It is calling for humanitarian organizations to be allowed to access the eastern Ukrainian city “with lifesaving assistance and to enable safe evacuations of civilians who wish to leave.”

The council’s secretary-general, Jan Egeland, mentioned Tuesday: “We fear that up to 12,000 civilians remain caught in crossfire in the city, without sufficient access to water, food, medicine or electricity.” He added that “the near-constant bombardment is forcing civilians to seek refuge in bomb shelters and basements,” with “only few precious opportunities” to flee.

He added that the organization “cannot save lives under the hail of grenades.”

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KYIV, Ukraine — The mayor of Sievierodonetsk says Russian forces have taken around half of the city in eastern Ukraine.

Oleksandr Striuk told The Associated Press in a phone interview Tuesday that heavy fighting is ongoing and artillery bombardments threaten the lives of the thousands of civilians still sheltering in the ruined city.

“Half of the city has been captured by the Russians and fierce street fighting is under way,” Striuk said. “The situation is very serious and the city is essentially being destroyed ruthlessly block by block.”

He added that “the Ukrainian military continues to resist this frenzied push and aggression by Russian forces.”

He said that “civilians are dying from direct strikes, from fragmentation wounds and under the rubble of destroyed buildings, since most of the inhabitants are hiding in basements and shelters.”

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ISTANBUL – Turkey’s foreign minister says Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will visit Turkey on June 8 for talks that will address among other things opening a Black Sea corridor for Ukrainian grain exports.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu also said in a video interview Tuesday with the state-run Anadolu news agency that the French and German ambassadors had been summoned to the Foreign Ministry over demonstrations in their countries by groups considered to be terrorist by Ankara.

Turkey has said activities of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, are one of its objections to Sweden and Finland joining NATO. The PKK is designated a terrorist organization by the European Union and U.S.

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KYIV, Ukraine — A court in Ukraine has convicted two Russian soldiers of war crimes for the shelling of civilian buildings and sentenced both to 11 1/2 years in prison. Tuesday’s verdict concluded the country’s second war crimes trial since the Russian invasion started.

Russian servicemen Alexander Bobykin and Alexander Ivanov were charged with violating the laws and customs of war over the shelling of civilian infrastructure in the Kharkiv region on the first day of the Russian attack on Ukraine. They both stood trial in a court in Ukraine’s Poltava region and pleaded guilty to the charges.

Earlier this month, a court in Kyiv sentenced a 21-year-old Russian soldier to life in prison for fatally shooting a Ukrainian civilian in the first war crimes trial since Russia invaded.

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COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Denmark says its embassy in Moscow will no longer accept applications for visas or residence permits. It’s citing a staff shortage after Russia expelled four diplomats and three other employees earlier this month.

The Foreign Ministry said Tuesday that “it is not possible to maintain the usual level of activity.” It said it wants to prioritize giving assistance to Danish citizens. It said that the move was temporary, but didn’t specify how long it will last.

Moscow’s tit-for-tat move came after Denmark in April expelled 15 Russian embassy employees, identified as intelligence officers, from the diplomatic mission in Copenhagen in line with similar steps taken by other European Union countries.

The Netherlands also shut down its visa department in Moscow because staff were expelled.

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The leader of Russia-backed separatists who control part of Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region says his administration will nationalize some of the ships in the port of Mariupol.

Denis Pushilin was quoted by Russian state news agency RIA Novosti on Tuesday as saying that “some of the vessels will come under the jurisdiction of the Donetsk People’s Republic. The relevant decisions have been made.” It wasn’t immediately clear whether he was referring to Ukrainian vessels or ships from other countries.

Kyiv has accused Russia of blocking its sea ports and hindering grain exports, fueling a global food crisis. Moscow has sought to pin the blame on the West and the sanctions it imposed on Russia.

Russian forces encircled Mariupol, a strategic port city on the Azov Sea, early in the war. They took full control of it this month after capturing nearly 2,500 Ukrainian fighters who had been holed up in the sprawling Azovstal steel mill, the last remaining pocket of Ukrainian resistance.

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BRUSSELS — After securing a compromise overnight to slap an embargo on most Russian oil imports, European Union leaders will focus Tuesday on how to help Ukraine export millions of tons of grain blocked by the war.

The leaders will call on Russia to halt its attacks on transport infrastructure in Ukraine and lift its blockade of Black Sea ports so that food can be shipped out, notably from Odesa.

Ukraine says Russia has prevented the export of 22 million tons of its grain and is fueling a global food crisis. The U.N. says African countries imported 44% of their wheat from Russia and Ukraine between 2018 and 2020.

Russian President Vladimir Putin says the EU’s sanctions are making things worse. Putin says he’s willing to help ease concerns if the restrictive measures are lifted.

The EU leaders are likely to call for a speedier effort to set up “solidarity lanes” and to help Ukraine get its grain out through European land routes and sea ports.

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KYIV, Ukraine — A Ukrainian regional governor says an overnight missile strike on the city of Sloviansk in the eastern Donetsk region killed at least three people and wounded six more.

Donetsk governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said in a Facebook post on Tuesday morning that a school and at least seven multi-story buildings were damaged.

In the neighboring Luhansk region, where Russian forces are attempting to take the city of Sievierodonetsk, two people were killed and four wounded by shelling, Luhansk governor Serhiy Haidai said on Telegram on Tuesday. He didn’t say when the shelling occurred.

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