Ukraine war: Explosions rock Kyiv overnight as Ukrainian forces counter attack in Severodonetsk - Sky News

Kyiv was rocked by multiple explosions overnight after Russian warplanes fired missiles from the Caspian Sea, as Vladimir Putin issued a warning to the West over supplying long-range missiles to Ukraine.

The Russian President said Moscow would strike new targets if the United States started supplying Ukraine with longer-range missiles, the Russian TASS news agency reported.

At least one person was taken to hospital following the explosions but no deaths had been reported as of early Sunday, Vitali Klitschko said.

Ukrainian officials said Russia was targeting Kyiv's railway infrastructure, but Moscow has claimed it destroyed T-72 tanks supplied to Ukraine from eastern Europe.

In eastern Ukraine where the bulk of the fighting has been focused in recent weeks, Luhansk Governor Serhiy Haidai said Russian forces have been pushed back in Severodonetsk.

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Control of the contested factory city was now "more or less, divided in half", he said.

Meanwhile, Spain is preparing to send heavy weapons to Ukraine, including anti-aircraft missiles and Leopard battle tanks, El Pais reports.

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Explosions heard in Kyiv

Dark smoke rose into the sky as the sun dawned on Kyiv on Sunday morning after the Darnytskyi and
Dniprovskyi districts were hit by explosions, the city's mayor Vitaly Klitschko said.

"According to preliminary data, the (Russians) launched missiles from Tu-95 aircraft from the Caspian Sea", the Ukrainian air forces said in a statement.

The missiles were the first to hit the capital since late April when a Radio Liberty producer was killed when a Russian missile hit the building she lived in.

Posting on Telegram, Mr Klitschko said the blasts were heard in the districts of Darnytsky and Dniprovsky.

"There are currently no casualties from missile strikes on infrastructure," he wrote.

"One injured person was hospitalised. The services are still working in the affected areas."

Ukrainian presidential advisor Mykhailo Podolyak said the bombardment was Russia resorting to "new insidious attacks" and hit out at French President Emmanuel Macron's statement that Moscow should not be humiliated.

Image: Smoke rises after Russian missile strikes in Kyiv, Ukraine. Pic: AP

Moscow claims strike destroyed tanks provided by Ukraine's allies

The Russian Defense Ministry said high-precision, long-range air-launched missiles were used and the strikes destroyed T-72 tanks supplied by Eastern European countries located in buildings of a train car repair business.

The head of Ukraine's railway system rejected the claim that tanks were inside.

President Putin, in excerpts of an upcoming interview quoted by Russian news agencies, said that if the West supplies
longer-range missiles to Ukraine "we will strike at those targets which we have not yet been hitting".

His threat of a military escalation did not specify what the new targets might be, but it comes days after the United States announced plans to deliver $700 million of security assistance for Ukraine.

Those weapons include four precision-guided, medium-range rocket systems, helicopters, Javelin anti-tank weapon systems, radars, tactical vehicles and more.

Image: A man looks at the smoke after explosions were heard in Kyiv

Fierce fighting continues in Donbas region

Meanwhile, fighting continues in the southeastern areas of Donetsk and Luhansk, the focus of the Russian army since it withdrew from Ukraine's capital Kyiv.

Ukrainian forces have counterattacked in the factory city of Severodonetsk and claim to have retaken territory from Russian troops.

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Ukrainian police shared a video showing the aftermath of Russian shelling in the city of Lysychansk in the Luhansk region.

Serhiy Haidai, Governor of Luhansk province, said on Sunday Ukrainian forces controlled about half the city after recapturing a large portion from Russian troops.

"It had been a difficult situation, the Russians controlled 70% of the city, but over the past two days they have been
pushed back," he said on Ukrainian television.

UK MoD: Russia using proxy troops in Severodonetsk to limit military losses

Britain's Ministry of Defence (MoD) said Ukraine's counterattack was "likely blunting the operational momentum Russian forces previously gained through concentrating combat units and firepower".

They added that Kremlin forces in the area include "poorly equipped and trained" separatist troops lacking in heavy equipment, likely part of a desire to limit casualties suffered by the regular Russian military.

If Russia was to take Severodonetsk and Lysychansk, the province of Luhansk would be under Moscow's control, and the entire Donbas region - which includes Luhansk and Donetsk - would be within its grasp.

Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Saturday night: "The situation remains very difficult in Severodonetsk, where street fighting is ongoing."

Image: Members of the foreign volunteers unit which fights in the Ukrainian in Severodonetsk, Luhansk region

'We must stop Russia'

Speaking at an international security forum last week, defence minister Oleksiy Reznikov said: "Russia continues to make efforts to occupy our entire state.

"It is currently impossible to predict when the war will end, but my optimistic predictions are that it will be possible to do it this year."

Mr Reznikov warned that, until the Russians are forced out of Ukraine, other countries are also at risk, saying: "Next will be Poland, the Baltic countries, Slovakia, and others.

"That is why we must stop Russia and restrain (them) in the future."

His warning over Russia's ambitions came after President Macron was criticised for saying that Moscow must not be "humiliated" over the invasion of its neighbour.

In an interview with a regional newspaper, Mr Macron said: "We must not humiliate Russia so that the day when the fighting stops we can build an exit ramp through diplomatic means."

In response, Ukraine's foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba tweeted: "Calls to avoid humiliation of Russia can only humiliate France and every other country that would call for it."

He added: "We all better focus on how to put Russia in its place."

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'Victory will be ours'

Elsewhere this weekend, Russian shelling killed at least three civilians in the Black Sea port city of Mykolaiv, mayor Oleksandr Senkevich said.

Russian shelling and a fire contributed to the destruction of a 16th century timber Orthodox Christian monastery in eastern Ukraine, killing two monks and a nun.

And the number of bodies of civilians that have been exhumed in the Kyiv region since Russia's military retreat now stands at more than 1,300, according to Ukraine's interior ministry.

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Bangladesh: At least 38 dead and more than 100 injured after huge fire causes multiple blasts at container depot - Sky News

At least 38 people have died and more than 100 are injured after a huge fire swept through a container depot in Bangladesh.

The blaze triggered multiple explosions when it broke out on Saturday night in the southeastern town of Sitakunda, ear country's main Chittagong Seaport.

Firefighters have been struggling to get the flames under control after blasts went off in a container full of chemicals.

The explosions shook the neighbourhood, shattering the windows of houses more than two miles away.

Image: An injured victim is brought to a hospital after the blast

At least five firefighters are among the dead, while another 15 were being treated for burns, the fire service said.

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The cause of the fire has not yet been determined and emergency services were still trying to put it out on Sunday morning.

By Sunday afternoon local time the death toll had risen to 38, according to Ekattor TV station, and the area's civil surgeon warned that the number could still rise.

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Mohammed Elias appealed to all local doctors to help tackle the situation, and has also called for emergency blood donations.

Image: The cause of the fire has not yet been determined. Pic: AP

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina expressed her shock at the accident and ordered adequate arrangements for the medical treatment of the injured.

Bangladesh has a history of industrial disasters, including factories catching fire with workers trapped inside. Monitoring groups have blamed corruption and lax enforcement.

In 2012, about 117 workers died when they were trapped behind locked exits in a garment factory in Dhaka.

The country's worst industrial disaster occurred the following year, when the Rana Plaza garment factory outside Dhaka collapsed, killing more than 1,100 people.

Image: Smoke rises from the spot after a massive fire broke out in an inland container depot at Sitakunda

In 2019, a blaze tore through a 400-year-old area cramped with apartments, shops and warehouses in the oldest part of Dhaka and killed at least 67 people. Another fire in Old Dhaka in a house illegally storing chemicals killed at least 123 people in 2010.

In 2021, a fire at a food and beverage factory outside Dhaka killed at least 52 people, many of whom were trapped inside by an illegally locked door.

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2022-06-05 09:45:00Z
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Hungary boo boys soiled the occasion - it's a sad situation if this is what's being taught - Express

Hungary’s blackshirt racists were banned from the Puskas Arena so instead, it was the schoolchildren invited along in their place who let themselves down against England. The high-pitched booing which greeted the England players taking the knee before kick-off in Budapest on Sunday represented the dispiriting sound of innocence lost.

Maybe they were just copying the example of their elders but it was a depressing repeat of the ignorance which landed Hungary the behind-closed-doors sanction in the first place. If this is what they are being taught is the correct response to a gesture aimed at promoting equality, it is a sad situation.

At least there was no abuse of England’s black players - or Hungary’s Loic Nego - at the Nations League game but that was a pretty low bar to clear. The Hungarian FA’s sleight of hand in exploiting a loophole in the UEFA regulations following the punishment imposed for racist behaviour to half-fill their national stadium with children was well-intended.

Never has a behind-closed-doors match been so well attended; never has one been so noisy as the 30,000 children inside the Puskas Arena let rip with their red, white and green vuvuzelas. But in one moment what should have been an occasion that pointed to a more wholesome future for Hungarian football was soiled.

Football never stands alone from the society it exists in. Earlier in the day, Budapest had seen a far-right march protesting against the Hungarian government’s support for Ukraine. Gareth Southgate had expressed his surprise at the numbers allowed in ahead of the game but UEFA themselves had no issue with how Hungary chose to interpret it.

“This rule was introduced back in 2019 and has been applied to other matches in the past with similar sanctions relating to matches played behind closed doors. There is no restriction regarding the number of children present in the stadium,” said a UEFA spokesman. The punishment on Hungary was the absence of any gate receipts from the game with the tickets being distributed to the children - and 3,000 adult supervisors - free. That and the shame of the sanction.

“Please remember that in football there is no place for racism,” the stadium announcer had earnestly reminded everyone ahead of kick-off - in English as well as Hungarian which seemed a little pointless with no away fans in the ground.

England have their own version of this embarrassment to come on Saturday when they are required to stage a behind-closed-doors game against Italy at Molineux, a punishment imposed after the chaos at the Euros final. The current plan is to have 3,000 children present.

There is one thing the English kids could take on board from their Hungarian counterparts next weekend - how to respond to the opposition anthem. God Save The Queen was respected as it was played and applauded at the end.

If only everything else had gone so well.

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2022-06-04 18:01:32Z
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Hong Kong authorities snuff out Tiananmen Square commemorations - Financial Times

Commemorations in Hong Kong of the Tiananmen Square massacre have largely been snuffed out, as authorities seek to crush observance of the crackdown on student protesters in a city that has typically held the biggest annual vigil on Chinese soil.

The anniversary is one of the most sensitive events for Chinese authorities, with discussion of the demonstrations censored on the mainland and survivors or victims’ families routinely detained or interrogated.

Hong Kong hosted the world’s largest yearly commemoration every June 4 until it was banned in 2020, a year after pro-democracy protests engulfed the Chinese territory. Authorities subsequently suppressed opposition and Beijing extended its control of the quasi-autonomous city.

Officials said the ban two years ago was to control the coronavirus pandemic but critics accused the government of using the health crisis as a pretext for stifling dissent.

Leaders of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, the group which traditionally organised the vigil, have been arrested and many are in jail. Chow Hang-tung, one of the jailed organisers, often uses her court appearances to evoke memories of the massacre.

Authorities have closed Victoria Park this year, where tens of thousands of residents typically light candles to commemorate the event, from Friday night until early Sunday morning.

Some residents found subtle ways to commemorate the massacre.

The Catholic church has marked the event in special masses for more than three decades but has been stung by the arrest of Cardinal Zen, its former top cleric, last month. He was accused of failing to register a fund set up to help pay the legal and medical fees of participants in the 2019 protests. Cardinal Zen has denied the charges.

Tens of thousands of Hong Kong residents gathered in 2014 to light candles in the largest annual commemoration of the Tiananmen Square massacre on Chinese soil © AP

At a morning mass in Kowloon on Saturday, about 30 people prayed for those “who died for justice” despite the Catholic diocese cancelling services to mark the massacre.

“Public memorials may be gone this year, but what I remember in my heart, you cannot make it disappear,” said one congregant.

A small number of individuals also tried to commemorate the massacre at the cordoned-off Victoria Park, despite the heavy police presence. Some held up electronic candles and mobile phone lights saying they wanted to “keep the memory alive”.

Hong Kong students have also been trying to commemorate the protests. Universities have been a focal point of Beijing’s attempts to destroy support for the 2019 pro-democracy protests and longstanding memorials to the Tiananmen Square massacre on campuses have been removed.

The “Pillar of Shame”, an eight-metre sculpture by Danish artist Jens Galschiøt that was on display at the University of Hong Kong since 1997, was dismantled last December.

The “Goddess of Democracy” statue at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, a replica of a monument erected by the student protesters in Tiananmen Square, was removed that month.

CUHK students this week created tiny replicas of the missing artwork and hid them around the campus for others to find before the event was ended due to “increasing risks”, the organisers said.

In Macau, one of the only other parts of China where memorial events were held until they were banned from 2020, no public commemorations will take place after authorities said last year’s events could constitute “subversion”.

Tiananmen Square vigils were planned overseas, including in London and Taiwan, this weekend.

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2022-06-04 13:57:18Z
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Liverpool CEO “incredibly disturbed” by Paris stories – “many thousands” contact club - This Is Anfield

Liverpool chief executive Billy Hogan has been at the forefront of the response to the treatment of “many thousands” of fans at the Stade de France in Paris.

In the aftermath of the horrific events in France on May 28, the club have made a staunch response.

Thousands of supporters of both Liverpool and Real Madrid were denied entry despite arriving hours prior to kickoff, with many tear-gassed, pepper-sprayed and attacked by locals before and after the game.

While those in charge in France have maintained their stance that up to 40,000 fake tickets were the cause, specifically blaming Liverpool fans, the truth has been laid clear by those who were in attendance.

The club have remained vocal in their support of those affected, and earlier this week asked those fans to contact them with feedback on their treatment as part of a formal investigation into the situation.

On Thursday, it was revealed that “many thousands” – more than 6,500 to be exact – had already submitted forms detailing their experience in Saint-Denis.

Read or watch the latest update from our CEO Billy Hogan on the club’s ongoing reaction to the events at the Champions League final and the support being offered to fans.

— Liverpool FC (@LFC) June 2, 2022

And in an interview with LFCTV, Hogan rejected claims from the French minister Gerald Darmanin and sports minister Amelie Oudea-Castera and asserted that fans of both clubs were impacted.

“Both accessing the stadium as well as leaving the stadium, it was an absolute disgrace,” he said.

“The pain, the grief, the harm, the hurt that they suffered on Saturday, and now to be told by a French minister that only Liverpool fans have been a problem, it’s just disgraceful.

“Real Madrid have made it clear their fans suffered as well.

“So all I can say is I have a tremendous amount of empathy for our fans, I don’t think it’s fair what’s being said and we’re just in disbelief.”

Along with their campaign for the independent investigation into the events at the Stade de France, Liverpool have offered mental health support to those affected.

“One of the most important things probably over the course of the last couple of days is just seeing, I think as we all have, the incredibly disturbing imagery in terms of the experience that fans had attending the match,” Hogan continued.

“I really think it’s important people keep talking to friends, family, loved ones on what you experienced.

“Our hearts are with you, everybody here at the club is with you.”

Liverpool have requested that further submissions be made before a deadline of Sunday, June 5, with the feedback form accessible here.

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2022-06-03 09:25:04Z
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Turkey makes formal request to UN to change name to Turkiye - Sky News

Turkey has made a formal request to the United Nations for its name to be changed to Turkiye.

The move is seen as a push by the government in Ankara to disassociate its name from the bird turkey and some negative connotations associated with it.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu sent a letter to the United Nations to formally request the name change, a state-run news agency has reported.

The Anadolu Agency said Stephane Dujarric, spokesman to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, confirmed receipt of the letter late on Wednesday.

The agency quoted Mr Dujarric as saying that the name change had become effective "from the moment" the letter was received.

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The government have been pushing for the country to be recognised as Turkiye (pronounced tur-key-YAY) as it is spelt and pronounced in Turkish since December. It is the name the country called itself when it gained independence in 1923.

They say the new name better represents Turkish culture and values, allowing them to determine how the country is seen.

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Turkish ministers started using it in official documents last year and "Made in Turkey" on exported products has also been ordered to change to "Made in Türkiye".

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TRT World, a Turkish news channel, explained in an article earlier this year that googling "turkey" shows a "muddled set of images, articles and dictionary definitions" that confuses the country with the "bird native to North America".

It added, the Cambridge dictionary defines Turkey as "something that fails badly" or "stupid or silly person".

Earlier this year the Turkish government released a promotional video showing tourists from around the world saying "Hello Turkiye" at famous destinations.

The Turkish presidency's directorate of communications said it launched the campaign "to promote more effectively the use of 'Turkiye' as the country's national and international name on international platforms".

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2022-06-02 16:33:08Z
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Ukraine's troops retreat from besieged city of Sievierodonetsk - Financial Times

Ukraine is evacuating its troops from Sievierodonetsk, the besieged eastern city that is now 70 per cent controlled by Russian forces, after suffering heavy losses.

Serhiy Haidai, governor of the eastern Luhansk region, on Wednesday said Ukrainian forces had partly retreated from the provincial capital amid heavy shelling and fierce street battles.

“This is not a betrayal,” he wrote in a post on Telegram, but part of a retreat “to more advantageous, pre-prepared positions” while awaiting “western weapons and preparing for de-occupation”.

Russian forces entered the largely evacuated and bombed out Sievierodonetsk earlier this week after being held back for about two months by Ukrainian fighters.

President Volodymyr Zelensky has said Ukraine could lose up to 100 soldiers a day defending the country’s eastern region, just over three month’s into Russia’s full-scale invasion.

Analysts at the Institute for the Study of War, a US think-tank, called the decision to retreat “strategically sound, however painful”.

They said “Ukraine must husband its more limited resources and focus on regaining critical terrain”, such as by “continuing successful Ukrainian counteroffensives in Kherson”, a Russian-occupied city in the south of the country.

Haidai said an undisclosed number of Ukrainian troops had retreated westwards across the Siverskyi Donetsk river to Sievierodonetsk’s sister city, Lysychansk. For weeks they had been the last two remaining Ukrainian-held strongholds in the Luhansk region, which along with Donetsk makes up the far eastern Donbas.

A Ukrainian soldier attempts to salvage weaponry from a Russian tank in the Siverskyi Donetsk river © Ivor Prickett/New York Times/Redux/eyevine

News of the Sievierodonetsk retreat came hours after the US announced that it would supply Ukraine with long-range rocket systems, part of its recently approved $40bn assistance package.

Ukraine has long pleaded for such systems, arguing that they are necessary to hold ground and launch counter offensives. The newly supplied US rockets are longer range and more powerful than the howitzers, lethal drones and handheld anti-tank and anti-air missiles western countries have supplied so far.

“Our president has said many times, had we received these weapons before the situation would be different with less occupied regions in the hands of Russia today,” Yuriy Sak, an adviser to Ukraine’s defence minister, told the Financial Times.

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told journalists on Wednesday the US decision to send more weapons to Kyiv amounted to “pouring oil on the fire”. But he declined to say how Russia would respond should Ukraine fire US rockets into Russian territory.

A senior EU official said the US long-range missiles could be deployed against Russian warships in the Black Sea as they threaten the ports of Odesa and Mykolayiv, which are in range of sea-launched Russian missiles.

US officials said Kyiv had pledged not to use long-range rockets supplied by Washington for strikes on Russian soil.

Germany’s chancellor Olaf Scholz on Wednesday said Berlin would supply Ukraine with IRIS-T air defence systems, which are more powerful equipment than he has previously pledged.

Speaking on Tuesday, Zelensky said: “If our steps or operations to de-occupy this or that region cost tens of thousands of our dead people, we will wait for appropriate weapons to save as many of our people as possible.”

After pulling back from its attempt to capture Ukraine’s capital Kyiv and north-eastern regions at the start of the war, Russia has in the past two months concentrated most of its forces on the Donbas and on holding occupied southern coastal regions, which together account for about 20 per cent of Ukrainian territory.

Ukrainian forces still control parts of Donetsk to the west of Sievierodonetsk, but Russian forces are closing in on key cities and Kyiv’s army last month retreated from some previously held towns such as Svitlodarsk.

Additional reporting by Valentina Pop in Brussels and John Paul Rathbone in London

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2022-06-01 12:48:10Z
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