Russia-Ukraine live news: Russian flags flying over Mariupol

In line with Kremlin-installed authorities, Mariupol’s seaport is getting used to ship items to and from Russia.

A Russian soldier patrols on the entrance to the Ukrainian metropolis of Mariupol the place Russian flags had been flown on June 12, 2022, [Yuri Kadobnov/AFP]

• Russian flags are being flown on a freeway to the strategic port metropolis of Mariupol, with the town’s entrance signal painted within the Russian flag colors.
• The European Union blamed Russia for holding up talks on funding settlement on a plan to launch Ukrainian grain presently blocked from export.
• Professional-Russian separatists in Donetsk have upheld the loss of life sentences of two Britons and one Moroccan for combating with the Ukrainian military.
• Russian forces mentioned they fired Kalibr cruise missiles to destroy a big depot with US and European weapons in Ukraine’s Ternopil area.

(Al Jazeera)

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51 minutes in the past (20:40 GMT)

Russia destroys bridge over Ukrainian river, chopping escape route

Russian forces have blown up a bridge linking the embattled Ukrainian metropolis of Severodonetsk to a different metropolis throughout the river, chopping off a potential evacuation route for civilians,  native officers mentioned.

Russian forces have taken many of the metropolis however Ukrainian troops stay in command of an industrial space and the Azot chemical plant the place a whole lot of civilians are sheltering.

However the Russians had destroyed a bridge over the Siverskyi Donets River linking Severodonetsk with its twin metropolis of Lysychansk, governor of Luhansk Serhiy Gaidai mentioned.

“If after new shelling the bridge collapses, the town will really be lower off. There can be no means of leaving Sievierodonetsk in a automobile,” Gaidai mentioned, noting the shortage of a ceasefire settlement and no agreed evacuation corridors.

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60 minutes in the past (20:31 GMT)

Russian flags seen at entrance to Mariupol

A brand new metropolis signal painted within the colors of the Russian flag was unveiled on the outskirts of Mariupol, changing a monument which had been within the blue and gold of Ukraine.

Russian flags had been additionally being flown on a freeway into the port metropolis, which is now absolutely underneath the management of Moscow-backed forces.

In line with Kremlin-installed authorities, the seaport is now able to function as typical and was getting used to ship items to and from Russia.