On the 80th day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, this Saturday, May 14, follow live the latest information on the conflict.
► Moscow has blocked the RFI website, which broadcasts information in fifteen languages including Russian. An alternative URL address allows access to the site in French and in Russian. RFI in Russian is also available on Telegram: https://t.me/RFI_Ru via a VPN and in Russia in French via satellite on Hotbird.
► RFI’s Russian editorial site broadcasts Ukrainian public radio (in the Ukrainian language) from home page.
► particularly intense fights are rampant in the Donbass region. “There is heavy fighting on the border with the Donetsk region, near Popasna,” commented Friday evening on Facebook Serguiï Gaïdaï, Ukrainian governor of the Luhansk region.
► The European Union will provide additional military aid of 500 million euros to Ukraine, EU Foreign Minister Josep Borrell said on Friday.
► Turkey is opposed membership of Sweden and Finland in NATO. She has a right of veto within the organization.
► For the first time since mid-February, the defense ministers of the United States and Russia were able to talk. The American request for a ceasefire did not find a favorable echo on the side of Moscow.
► The Foreign Ministers of the G7 member countries met on Friday in Germany. Britain has demanded that ‘more weapons’ to be delivered to Ukraine. France assured kyiv of the support of the G7 “until victory”.
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04:00: Intense fighting in Donbass
Particularly intense fighting is raging in the Donbass region (eastern Ukraine), on which Moscow is concentrating without significant progress, while negotiations “ very difficult unfold on the fate of the last defenders of the strategic port city of Mariupol.
” There is heavy fighting on the border with the Donetsk region, near Popasna “Commented Friday evening on Facebook Serguiï Gaïdaï, Ukrainian governor of the Luhansk region, reporting numerous losses in equipment and personnel on the Russian side. ” It’s a horror but they are still trying to achieve their ends. But from the intercepts (of telephone communications) we understand that an entire battalion refused to attack because they see what is happening “, he noted.
A US defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed that the most significant Russian activity currently was taking place in the Donbass. ” And, basically, we continue to see the Russians not making a significant hold in this region, he said.
” Ukrainian artillery thwarts Russian efforts to gain ground, including their efforts to cross the Donets River (…) which affects their ability to send significant reinforcements to northern Donbass “, Continued this source.
