WAR IN UKRAINE: June 14, 2022
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS: Day 110
This is coming from Putin’s war in Ukraine…we have to understand where this is coming from” - White House press secretary on CNN Speaking about the two dollar hike in petrol prices in the U.S.
Vulnerable Ukrainians rely on a ragtag network of helpers to escape danger in the Donbas region. The Ukrainian NGO East-SOS helps extricate people from conflict zones. Read the full CBC News story here
The Ukrainian government says between 100 and 200 troops are being killed in battle every day. And what of the handful of advanced long range rocket systems promised by Britain and the United States? They may be too little too late. "If the weapons had arrived sooner, we would have stopped the Russians much earlier," says Serhiy Haidai, the governor of Luhansk. “Moreover, we would have been able to launch a counterattack” - BBC
All bridges to the embattled Ukrainian city of Severodonetsk have now been destroyed, the local governor says.
The European Union risks creating ‘false expectations’ with Ukraine’s EU candidacy, Portugal’s Prime Minister tell the Financial Times. The bloc should instead focus on practical support to Kyiv in its war with Russia. EU leaders are due to decide on the matter at a summit in Brussels on June 23-24. “My focus is to obtain in the next European Council a clear commitment on the urgent support and to build a long term platform to support the recovery of Ukraine. This is my main priority. The most important are not legal debates about Ukraine but practical deliveries. For this clear and immediate support we don’t need to open at this moment a negotiation or procedure that will take a lot of years — [French president Emmanuel] Macron says decades, I don’t say decades — but certainly a long long time. The great risk is to create false expectations that become bitter disappointment. Less legal debates, more practical solutions.”
The Taliban terrorist movement that has seized power in Afghanistan will send a representative to the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), TASS reported citing a source in diplomatic circles. Also expected is the head of the Russian-backed combatants occupying Donetsk, Dennis Pushilin. SPIEF, which is often called the “Russian Davos,” has been held since 1997. Since 2005, the president of Russia began to participate in the forum annually.