WAR IN UKRAINE: June 7, 2022
Thirty-two media workers have been killed in Ukraine since the start of the Russian invasion. Photo: Pavel Dorogoy
NEWEST DEVELOPMENTS: Day 103
Yesterday marked the ‘Day of the Journalist’ in Ukraine. According to the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine, 32 media workers have been killed since the start of the Russian invasion.
Ukrainian forces came under fresh pressure from Russian troops amid fierce fighting for control of the eastern city of Syevyerodonetsk. Ukrainian forces still holding out in the eastern city of Severodonetsk are outnumbered by Russian forces, President Volodymyr Zelensky has said. Russian troops are now targeting Slovyansk, in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine - RFE/RL & BBC
Russian state media said on Sunday that one of the army's top officials, Maj Gen Roman Kutuzov, had been killed while leading an offensive on an unspecified Ukrainian town in the region. He is one of several senior Russian military officials to have been killed in Ukraine, raising speculation about disarray in the Kremlin’s war machine.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says there may be more than 2,500 prisoners from the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol now detained in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions in eastern Ukraine - CNN
Russia's Black Sea blockade is preventing most exports from Ukraine and exacerbating a food crisis in the developing world, particularly in Africa. African countries are now facing "a witches brew of financial, fuel and food crises" due to drought, the pandemic, and now the war in Ukraine, says Gyude Moore, a fellow at the Center for Global Development and former government minister for Liberia…Since it appears like stifling global grain supplies is a part of Russia's response to the sanctions, it isn't clear that the Africans have enough leverage to sway the Russians from the path they're on," Moore says - Axios
A Russian missile in a Kyiv suburb