Russia sees Ukraine as responsible after drone attacks on Moscow. Kiev rejects this. The news ticker on the Ukraine war.
- U.S. speaks out against attacks on Russia: Response to drone strikes in Moscow
- Moscow becomes the target of drone strikes: damage to buildings
- Heavy losses for Russia: Kiev publishes current figures
- Here you can read about the latest developments in the Ukraine conflict. Some of the information processed, in particular on losses of the armies involved in the Ukraine war, comes from the warring parties from Russia or Ukraine. In some cases, they cannot be independently verified.
Update from May 31, 5:15 a.m.: After the drone strikes in Moscow, Russia has threatened Ukraine with retaliatory strikes. In addition to Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin, who accused Kiev of terror and announced a reaction, his close confidant Ramzan Kadyrov swore revenge: The leader of the Russian republic of Chechnya in the North Caucasus called for the imposition of martial law in Russia in order to take tougher action against Ukraine. Ukraine, which has repeatedly been attacked by Russia, had denied direct responsibility for the attacks against Moscow.
"We will soon show in the zone of the special military operation what revenge is in the whole sense of the word," Kadyrov wrote in his blog on the Telegram news channel. Once again, he also threatened Western Europe with Russian attacks, Russia could knock on the doors of Germany or Poland, for example, he said.
Ramzan Kadyrov vows revenge: The leader of the Russian republic of Chechnya calls for the imposition of martial law in Russia. © Dpa
Ukraine war: US speaks out against attacks on Russia
Update from May 31, 4:45 a.m.: The U.S. government has reiterated that it does not support attacks inside Russia after the drone strikes on Moscow. "We have clearly expressed ourselves to the Ukrainians, not only publicly, but also privately, but we do not want to get involved in hypotheses," White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre said in Washington on Tuesday. Information is currently being collected to find out exactly what happened. At the same time, she made it clear: "We do not support attacks inside Russia. Period." She once again called on Russia to end the war in Ukraine and condemned the "brutal" Russian airstrikes on the neighboring country.
According to Russian information, eight combat drones had fallen on the approach to Moscow on Tuesday night. Three of them were brought down by electronic means, five were shot down. Where the drones came from remained unclear. The Kremlin blamed Kiev for the drone strikes. The Ukrainian government rejected this.
Ukraine war: Russia attacks hospitals
Update from May 30, 22:30 p.m.: Hospitals and other health facilities in Ukraine are said to have already been attacked by Russia more than 1000 times since the war of aggression escalated in February 2023. The World Health Organization (WHO) reported this in an email on Tuesday evening, according to Reuters. "At least 1004 people were killed in the 15 attacks confirmed by the WHO in the last 101 months of the full-blown war," it said. Among them are health workers and patients.
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Russia accuses Ukraine of killing a security guard near Belgorod
Update from May 30, 21:46 p.m.: On Tuesday, one person was killed in a Ukrainian attack on a displaced persons center in Russia's Belgorod border region, according to Russian sources. Two other people were seriously injured by the Ukrainian artillery shelling on Tuesday, the governor of the region, Vyacheslav Gladkov, said on the Telegram online service.
According to him, there were elderly civilians and children in the facility. The dead man was a security guard. The information cannot be independently verified.
USA: Sweden's NATO accession to be completed soon
Update from May 30, 20:02 p.m.: "From the point of view of the United States, now is the time to complete Sweden's accession [to NATO]," US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Tuesday evening. They continue to work to complete the admission of the Scandinavian country by the NATO summit in Vilnius in July. There is no reason not to move forward on the matter. Sweden has accommodated Turkey's legitimate concerns, as has Finland.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg also expressed his hopes for Sweden's early accession in the evening. "We are working on the matter with the aim of having a decision by the summit in Vilnius," Stoltenberg said at a press conference with Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre in Oslo. There are no guarantees, but it is "absolutely possible" that a solution will be found by then.
Great Britain: Ukraine has the right to self-defense even within Russia
Update from May 30, 19:21 p.m.: Unlike the United States, Great Britain sees Ukraine as having the right to attack targets within Russia: For the purpose of self-defense, Ukraine could also attack targets on Russian territory. British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said on Tuesday. "Legitimate military targets outside its own border are part of Ukraine's right to self-defense," Cleverly said.
However, Cleverly did not want to comment on the drones that fell on Moscow. "I don't have any details and I'm not going to speculate about the nature of the drone strikes on Moscow," he said.
Ukraine war: Zelensky calls Putin's goal "restoration of the Soviet Union"
Update from May 30, 16:30 p.m.: In an interview with the South Korean medium chosun, Zelensky commented on Putin's goals. "The restoration of the Soviet Union. This is his goal in life," Zelenskyy said. When his intended attempts failed, "he decided to become an aggressor." Putin wants nothing more than to seize Ukraine by force, destroy Ukrainian identity and destroy Ukrainianness through war. "Putin's next target is Belarus," Zelenskyy said.
Zelensky also appealed to the South Korean people to support Ukraine. According to him, Ukraine and South Korea can cooperate in the field of security and defense industry, in the field of high technologies and cyberspace, as well as in post-war reconstruction.
Ukraine war: Russia attacks command centers
Update from May 30, 14:53 p.m.: According to its own statements, Russia has deliberately attacked command centers. Decision-making centers in Ukraine were attacked, according to the Ministry of Defense in Moscow, according to a report by the Interfax news agency.
Ukraine war: Kyiv rejects complicity in drone attack and mocks
Update from May 30, 12:10 p.m.: Ukraine has once again denied involvement in the drone attack on Russia's capital Moscow and reacted with ridicule. Mykhailo Podolyak, adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, mocked that Russian drones may have returned to their senders. "You know that we are approaching the era of artificial intelligence. Maybe not all drones are ready to attack Ukraine and they want to go back to their creators and ask: Why are you sending us against the children of Ukraine? On Kyiv?", Podolyak said.
Heavy losses for Russia: Kiev publishes current figures
Update from May 30, 10:00 a.m.: The Ukrainian General Staff has published current figures on Russian losses in the Ukraine war. According to the report, Russia has lost more than 207,000 soldiers since the beginning of the invasion. In the fighting in the past 24 hours alone, around 410 Russian soldiers have been killed or injured. Actual figures on troop strengths or casualties are not published by the warring parties. The information cannot be independently verified. The data at a glance:
- Soldiers: 207,440 (+410)
- Tanks: 3802 (+1)
- Armored fighting vehicles: 7469 (+2)
- Artillery systems: 3445 (+10)
- Multirocket launcher: 575 (0)
- Unmanned aerial vehicles / drones: 3092 (+38)
- Vehicles and fuel tanks: 6219 (+12)
- Source: General Staff of Ukraine on Facebook of 30 May 2023
Ukraine war: Moscow blames Kyiv for drone strikes
Update from May 30, 9:10 a.m.: Russia has blamed Ukraine for the drone attacks on Moscow – and spoke of an "act of terrorism". "This morning, the Kyiv regime inflicted an act of terrorism with unmanned aerial vehicles on objects belonging to the city of Moscow," the Russian Defense Ministry said on Tuesday. A total of eight drones were used, all of which have now been destroyed. Three were deviated from their original trajectory, the remaining five were shot down by Russian anti-aircraft defenses, it said.
Moscow did not provide any evidence for the accusations. There was initially no reaction from Ukraine, against which Russia has been waging a war of aggression for more than 15 months.
Ukraine war: Moscow becomes target of drone strikes
Update from May 30, 7:25 a.m.: The Russian capital Moscow became the target of a drone attack on Tuesday morning, according to Russian sources. "This morning, at dawn, a drone strike caused minor damage to several buildings," Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said on Telegram. "So far, no one has been seriously injured." The city's emergency services are on site. Photos shared on online networks show traces of smoke in the sky.
Ukraine war: "Massive" drone attacks on Kyiv
Update from May 30, 5:30 a.m.: At least one person was killed in a "massive" Russian drone attack on Kyiv on Tuesday night. Rescue workers have recovered three injured and 20 other people from a multi-storey building in the south of the capital, where a fire broke out due to falling debris, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on Telegram.
"One person is dead, three were injured. The two upper floors were destroyed, there could be people under the rubble," Klitschko explained. Earlier, he said that a 27-year-old woman in the same area of Holosiivskyi had been hospitalized with "minor" injuries. "Massive attack! Stay indoors!" appealed Klitschko. Bomb alarms sounded during the night in Kyiv, in the central Ukrainian regions of Cherkasy, Kirovohrad and Mykolaiv, as well as in the southern Ukrainian region of Kherson. After numerous night air strikes, Russia had also attacked Kyiv with missiles during the day on Monday, whereupon residents fled to the shelters and the metro.
Ukraine war: Zelensky praises anti-aircraft defense
Kyiv – After the massive Russian attacks with drones, cruise missiles and missiles, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has thanked the country's air defense system for saving hundreds of lives. There have been some impacts, but most of the drones and missiles have been shot down, Zelensky said in his video message distributed in Kyiv on Monday evening. "The world needs to see terror lose," he said. At least several hundred lives had been saved by the air defense in one day, he praised.
The U.S.-type Patriot anti-aircraft systems have helped to destroy evil, said Zelensky, who also called for further help to perfect the country's defense. "And, of course, there is no greater humiliation for a terrorist state than the success of our warriors," he said. "There is no alternative but the complete liberation of our country." Zelensky also reported that he had met with the military leadership in Kyiv to discuss the steps of the large-scale offensive against the Russian invasion. The timetable is the most important thing. "The timetable of how we are going to advance. We will. The decisions have been made."
Ukrainian Defense Minister hopes for German Eurofighter
Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov, in his own words, sees the possibility of supplying Eurofighters from Germany. "If Great Britain and Germany were to combine their capacities for the Eurofighter, that would be an important step," he told the newspapers of the Funke media group and the French newspaper "Ouest France" (Tuesday). There is already an international coalition of main battle tanks with the core model of the German Leopard 2 as well as American Abrams and British Challengers. In the same way, a fighter jet coalition could be formed with the core F-16 model as well as Eurofighters and Swedish Gripen jets, Reznikov explained. In the middle of the month, Germany and Great Britain ruled out supplying fighter jets to Ukraine in the foreseeable future.
Ukraine decides on Iran sanctions
Meanwhile, the Ukrainian parliament approved the sanctions against Iran demanded by Zelensky for a period of 50 years. For example, trade in military equipment and so-called dual-use goods that can be used for civilian and military purposes is to be banned.
Ukraine wants to end its economic and financial obligations to Iran and stop the export of capital to the Islamic Republic. Zelensky had also spoken out in favour of a ban on technology transfer and investment in Iran. Previously, the National Security Council had also approved the decision.
The background to the tensions between Kyiv and Tehran is the ongoing Russian drone attacks on Ukraine. According to Ukrainian information, Moscow mainly uses so-called kamikaze drones of the Iranian type Shahed-136/131. Iran denies this. It was only on Sunday that it became known that Iran increased its exports to Russia in the past Persian calendar year (until the end of March) by 30 percent compared to the same period last year to around 744 million US dollars (around 693 million euros). (with agency material)
