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Russia-Ukraine war: what we know on day 110 of
the invasion
Fierce street fighting continues in Sievierodonetsk,
where Russian forces destroyed a bridge cutting off possible evacuation route
Samantha
Lock
@Samantha__Lock
Mon 13 Jun
2022 01.38 BST
Russian forces have taken most of
Sievierodonetsk, where fierce street fighting continues after a fire broke out
at the Azot chemical plant, where hundreds of civilians are sheltering. “The
key tactical goal of the occupiers has not changed: they are pressing in
Sievierodonetsk, severe fighting is ongoing there – literally for every metre,”
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in his nightly video address,
adding that Russia’s military was trying to deploy reserve forces to the Donbas
region. Ukrainian troops reportedly remain in control of an industrial area.
Russia’s defence ministry said its cruise
missiles destroyed a large depot containing US and European weapons in Ternopil
in western Ukraine on Sunday. The strike destroyed a “large depot of anti-tank
missile systems, portable air defence systems and shells provided to the Kyiv
regime by the US and European countries”, the ministry said, a claim disputed
by Ukrainian officials who said no weapons were stored there. Ternopil’s
regional governor said the attack destroyed a number of residential buildings
and injured 22 people, including seven women and a 12-year-old.
Russian forces destroyed a bridge connecting the
embattled eastern city of Sievierodonetsk to its twin city of Lysychansk,
cutting off a possible evacuation route for civilians, according to local
officials. Serhiy Haidai, the governor of Luhansk province, said on Sunday that
the Russian military had destroyed a bridge over the Siverskyi River that
linked the two cities.
Amnesty International has accused Russia of war
crimes in Ukraine’s second largest city of Kharkiv. Hundreds of civilians have
been killed by indiscriminate Russian shelling using widely banned cluster
munitions and inherently inaccurate rockets, the agency said in a new report
published on Monday. “Russian forces launched a relentless campaign of
indiscriminate bombardments against Kharkiv. They shelled residential
neighbourhoods almost daily, killing and injuring hundreds of civilians and
causing wholesale destruction, often using widely banned cluster munitions.”
Security concerns raised by Turkey in its
opposition to Finland’s and Sweden’s Nato membership applications are
legitimate, Nato secretary general Jens Stoltenberg said. “These are legitimate
concerns. This is about terrorism, it’s about weapons exports,” Stoltenberg
told a news conference in Finland on Sunday.
The bodies of many Ukrainian fighters killed
during the siege of the Azovstal steelworks in the southern city of Mariupol
are still awaiting retrieval, the former commander of Ukraine’s Azov National
Guard regiment said on Sunday.
A former British soldier has died fighting
Russian forces in Sievierodonetsk. The British Foreign Office confirmed Jordan
Gatley was shot and killed in Ukraine. He left the British army in March “to
continue his career as a soldier in other areas” and had been helping Ukrainian
troops defend their country against Russia, his father, Dean, wrote in a
statement posted on Facebook.
Friends and family of Brahim Saadoun – the
21-year-old Moroccan sentenced to death alongside two Britons last week – have
called for his freedom, telling the Guardian he was an active-duty marine and
not a mercenary, as claimed by Russian media and pro-Russia officials in
eastern Ukraine who announced the sentence.
Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced
on Sunday the possibility of new talks with Russian president Vladimir Putin
and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy. “Perhaps in the next week, we will
talk about what steps we will take, by holding talks with both Mr Putin and
Zelenskiy,” he said in regards to solutions for impeded exports as a result of
the war.
The global nuclear arsenal is expected to grow in
the coming years for the first time since the cold war, and the risk of such
weapons being used is the greatest in decades, a leading conflict and armaments
thinktank said. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and western support for Kyiv has
heightened tensions among the world’s nine nuclear-armed states, according to
the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
Ukraine has established two routes through Poland
and Romania to export grain and avert a global food crisis, although
bottlenecks have slowed the supply chain, Kyiv’s deputy foreign minister said
on Sunday.
Global trade ministers gathered to tackle food
security threatened by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine at a World Trade
Organization meeting on Sunday. Ministers are expected to agree on a joint
declaration on strengthening food security in which they will “commit to take
concrete steps to facilitate trade and improve the functioning and longterm
resilience of global markets for food and agriculture”.
European Commission president Ursula von der
Leyen called for the need to strengthen anti-corruption laws in Ukraine. After
meeting with Zelenskiy, von der Leyen said: “There still needs to be reforms
implemented, to fight corruption for example, or to modernise the
administration, which will also help attract investors.”
The British defence company QinetiQ will supply
Ukraine with 10 Talon sapper robots for de-mining purposes, Ukrainian
authorities announced on Sunday. The first deputy head of Ukraine’s patrol
police, Oleksiy Biloshitsky, said: “Talon will be deployed to de-mine Ukraine.
This is a sapper robot that not only locates ‘gifts’ but also neutralises them.
Before the war we had already had more than a dozen of them, now QinetiQ will
deliver 10 more.”
McDonald’s restaurants opened their doors in
Moscow under new Russian ownership and a new name, Vkusno & Tochka, which
translates to “Tasty and that’s it”. The reopenings took place on Russia Day, a
holiday celebrating national pride.
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