Russia Ukraine latest news today: Six killed and several trapped after Russia strikes Donetsk apartment block

Volodymyr Zelensky has dismissed a number of of Kyiv’s senior envoys overseas, together with the nation’s outspoken ambassador to Germany.

The Ukrainian president introduced the sacking of Ukraine’s ambassadors to Germany, India, the Czech Republic, Norway and Hungary and stated new candidates have been being readied for the positions.

“This rotation is a standard a part of diplomatic follow,” he stated in a press release.

It was not clear if the envoys can be assigned new positions.

Bernie Ecclestone has lastly apologised for saying Vladimir Putin was a “firstclass individual” and that he would “take a bullet” for him.

The previous System One boss confronted a backlash after additionally claiming Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was “not intentional” and implying the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, might have finished extra to keep away from the struggle.

Boris Johnson is now the pinnacle of a Potemkin authorities – a false and hole construction – that leaves it susceptible in unsure occasions, world affairs editor Kim Sengupta writes.

In Ukraine, the present state of the British authorities places the British nationals captured within the battle, and being held within the separatist “Donetsk Folks’s Republic”, at much more danger.

Russia has been accused of elevating “true hell” in Ukraine’s jap industrial heartlands this weekend, as an onslaught of shelling and quite a few civilian deaths have been reported within the south and east of the nation.

Regardless of assessments that Vladimir Putin’s forces have been taking an operational pause after seizing town of Lysychansk, the final main stronghold of Ukrainian resistance within the Luhansk area, this was dismissed by the area’s governor Serhyi Haidai on Saturday.

Andy Gregory has extra particulars:

Ukrainian defenders battled on Saturday to include Russian forces alongside a number of fronts, officers stated, as the USA urged China to align itself with the West in opposing the invasion following an ill-tempered G20 assembly.

A missile strike on the northeastern metropolis of Kharkiv wounded three civilians, its governor stated, although Russia’s foremost assaults appeared centered southeast of there in Luhansk and Donetsk.

These two provinces, components of which have been held by pro-Russian separatists earlier than the battle started in February, comprise the jap industrial area of the Donbas.

Ukrainian officers reported strikes in each on Saturday, whereas Britain’s Ministry of Defence stated Moscow was assembling reserve forces from throughout Russia close to Ukraine.

Donetsk regional Governor Pavlo Kyrylenko stated on the Telegram messaging service {that a} Russian missile had struck Druzhkivka, a city behind the entrance line, and reported shelling of different inhabitants centres.

Luhansk Governor Serhiy Gaidai stated on Telegram that Russian forces have been “firing alongside your complete entrance line”, although a subsequent Ukrainian counter-attack had pressured Moscow to halt its offensive.

Public help for Ukrainian refugees is already waning in Britain, polling suggests because the struggle continues to rage.

Polling by YouGov exhibits that in March, three quarters of individuals supported resettling Ukrainians within the UK and 42 per cent thought the determine must be within the tens of hundreds “no less than”.

However the figures have now dropped to 71 per cent of individuals supporting resettlement, with 29 per cent desirous to see tens of hundreds of refugees welcomed.

Our residence affairs editor Lizzie Dearden has this unique report:

At the very least six individuals have been killed and greater than 30 are feared trapped after Russian Uragan rockets hit a five-storey condominium block in Ukraine’s Donetsk area, collapsing the constructing, the area’s governor stated.

Governor Pavlo Kyrylenko stated on Telegram that the strike befell on Saturday night within the city of Chasiv Yar.

He stated six individuals had been confirmed killed and 5 wounded, and that in response to info from residents, no less than 34 individuals have been probably trapped within the ruins.

Russia has probably made some additional small territorial advances round Popasna, Sievierodonetsk Raion, Luhansk Oblast, the British ministry of defence stated in its intelligence on Sunday.

Russian artillery continues to strike the Sloviansk space of the Donbas from round Izium to the north and close to Lysychansk to the east.

It added that strikes from Izium proceed to focus alongside the axis of the E40 foremost highway, which hyperlinks Donetsk to Kharkiv.

It stated the management of the E40, which hyperlinks is more likely to be an necessary goal for Russia because it makes an attempt to advance by way of Donetsk Oblast.

Ukraine’s protection minister Oleksiy Reznikov stated Ukraine has to strengthen its air protection system regardless of Ukrainian forces’ success when downing Russian missiles and plane.

He stated an “Iron Dome” can be ineffective in Kyiv because it doesn’t present safety once more cruise and ballistic missiles that are being fired by Russia.

He stated US-sent HIMARS, gentle a number of rocket launcher, has made an enormous distinction on the battlefield.

“Extra of them in addition to ammo & tools will improve our power and assist to demilitarize the terrorist state. I extremely respect the efforts of the @POTUS & @SecDef to help Ukraine’s battle for freedom!”

Russia has struck an condominium block in Chasiv Yar city of Donestsk area, killing six and wounding one other fivem regional governor stated.

Extra persons are feared trapped underneath the rubble after rocket strike on the constructing.