Ukraine alleges Russian looting in Kherson as battle looms By Reuters

(Reuters) – Ukraine accused Russia on Monday of looting empty houses within the southern metropolis of Kherson and occupying them with troops in civilian garments to arrange for avenue preventing in what each side predict can be one of many conflict’s most vital battles.

DIPLOMACY

* A senior adviser to Ukraine’s president stated Kyiv had by no means refused to barter with Moscow and that it was prepared for talks with Russia’s future chief, however not with Vladimir Putin. The feedback by Mykhailo Podolyak adopted a Washington Publish report saying the Biden administration was privately encouraging Ukraine’s leaders to sign an openness to barter with Moscow.

FIGHTING, CONFLICT

* Ukraine has acquired its first supply of NASAMS and Apside air defence programs, Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov stated.

* Putin stated that fifty,000 Russian troopers known as up as a part of his mobilisation drive had been now preventing with fight models in Ukraine, the Interfax information company reported.

* Russia is struggling heavy losses in “fierce” assaults in Ukraine’s jap Donetsk area and is getting ready new assaults on Ukrainian vitality infrastructure, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy stated.

* Russia’s defence ministry took the uncommon step of denying allegations {that a} naval infantry unit had suffered disastrous losses of males and gear in a futile offensive in jap Ukraine.

ECONOMY

* Three high Ukrainian officers confirmed that the shares of 5 strategic corporations had been taken over by the defence ministry underneath wartime legal guidelines. The choice was taken at a high safety assembly on Saturday and got here into pressure the subsequent day, Safety Council Secretary Oleksiy Danilov informed a briefing.