Ukraine Update…466 days into the Russian move on Ukraine…Russia uses Ukraine Streaming video for targets

Ukrainean’s are told to stop streaming street scene’s…..

One’s that show normal daily actions and other things have become targets….

Zelensky KNOWS NATO membership is out of the question until there is a settlement of the current conflict….

US Sec State says the US has worked to maintain good relations WITH Russia….

Several deaths haunt the country becasue a shelter door was locked for those who needed it and lost their lives….

The Ukraine military keep shooting down Russian rockets….

Spring is gonna be over in a few weeks….

Getting ready to kick things off …..The Ukraine must clear mines left by BOTH sides….

Ukaraine troops beging training on US Abrams tanks……..

And F-16 Fighter Jet training plans are being drawn up…..

Russian move people from some border places shelled from the Ukraine…..

Outside the children’s clinic-turned-bomb-shelter, residents asked the question haunting Ukraine’s capital: Who was responsible for the locked door that left women and children seeking safety exposed to a missile strike?

Here’s what we’re covering:

After deaths outside a bomb shelter, a question haunts Kyiv: Who locked the door?
Blinken finishes his Nordic trip with a focus on the war.
Ukraine’s counteroffensive promises to be deadly. These recruits signed up anyway.
Belarusian tennis star avoids the press after pointed questions from a Ukrainian journalist.
Turn off public webcams, Ukraine’s intelligence agency pleads.
A Russian official says Ukrainian shelling has forced the evacuation of 2,500 people from his border region.
Here is what it takes to protect Kyiv from Russian bombardment….

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Here is the latest on the war and its ripple effects across the globe.

Key developments

Blinken said Washington has worked to pursue stable relations with Moscow for decades, “because we believed that a peaceful, secure and prosperous Russia was in America’s interest.” He added that proposals to impose cease-fires or territorial concessions to end the war in Ukraine would only encourage future assaults. Helsinki is his last stop on a trip that included a NATO foreign ministers meeting in Norway.
U.S. officials say they expect Sweden to join NATO soon, after the admission of Finland into the military alliance in April. President Biden, speaking at the Air Force Academy, said he expects Sweden to become the newest member “as soon as possible,” while Blinken told reporters in Norway that Washington anticipates Sweden’s accession will happen by next month. Turkey and Hungary have held up Sweden’s bid to join NATO.
U.S.-led training for Ukrainians on the operation of U.S. Abrams tanks began in Germany last weekend, Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, told journalists at the start of a trip to France on Friday, the AP reported. Some 200 Ukrainian soldiers are taking the 12-week training course designed to teach them how to maneuver, fire and carry out combined arms operations with the tanks. The first 31 of the 70 Abrams tanks the Biden administration pledged to Ukraine are scheduled to arrive by the fall. Milley also said the United States was in talks with allies about plans for training Ukrainians on F-16 fighter jets.

Battlefield updates:

Air raid warnings were activated early Friday, including in Kyiv, Odessa and the southern Kherson region. No casualties were immediately reported in Kyiv, and the mayor warnedresidents about debris on the roads. Russia has launched at least six attacks on the Ukrainian capital in the past six days, the city’s administration said. Russia and Ukraine gave conflicting accounts of the damage caused by the latest salvo: Russia’s defense ministry claimed it struck air defense systems “protecting key elements of Ukrainian critical military infrastructure” early Friday, while Ukraine’s army chief said air defenses destroyed all 15 cruise missiles and 21 attack drones.
The governor of Russia’s Belgorod said two women were killed in shelling on the region, which borders Ukraine. Gov. Vyacheslav Gladkov accused Ukrainian forces of shelling districts in Belgorod on Friday; he also said six people were injured in the attack. The Washington Post could not independently verify the claim. Border towns in western Russia have reported coming under shelling and rocket fire in recent days.
Two drones attacked fuel and energy facilities inside Russia’s Smolensk region, southwest of Moscow, the Smolensk governor, Vasily Anokhin, claimed early Friday. He said that long-range drones were used in the attack but did not cause casualties or large-scale damage.
Ukraine shelled Berdyansk, a city in the Russian-occupied part of Zaporizhzhia, on Friday, Russian-backed official Vladimir Rogov said Friday. Three explosions were heard, Rogov said on Russian radio, and nine people were reported injured in the attack. Rogov said the shelling was “presumably carried out by British Storm Shadow missiles,” without providing evidence. The Post could not independently verify the claim. The long-range cruise missiles, which Britain delivered to Ukraine last month, are capable of striking deep into Russian-held territory in Ukraine. Russia said last month that Ukraine had used the missiles to strike two industrial sites in Russian-held Luhansk, and Ukraine’s Defense Ministry saidSunday on Twitter that the Storm Shadow missiles “have hit 100% of the targets” identified so far.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner mercenary group, said Friday “almost 99%” of Wagner units have left Bakhmut. Members of the mercenary group played a major role in Russia’s fight for the city in eastern Ukraine. Continuing a streak of wild, unsubstantiated claims about the Russian military’s handling of Wagner’s role, Prigozhin suggested in a Telegram post Friday that Russian soldiers had mined Wagner’s path out of the city. The allegation of sabotage is one of the most inflammatory Prigozhin has made in his public feud with Russian defense ministry officials.

Global impact:

A senior Chinese diplomat called for an end to the provision of weapons for the war in Ukraine to prevent the conflict from escalating, after concluding a tour of European capitals intended to position China as a potential mediator. Li Hui, China’s special representative for Eurasian affairs, acknowledged a “stalemated battlefield rife with uncertainty” while underscoring China’s position that a political settlement can be reached. Beijing, one of Moscow’s closest diplomatic partners, initially kept a distance from the war, but Chinese diplomats have recently shifted into promoting a vision for a negotiated cease-fire.
British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace told The Post that NATO member nations must increase their military spending if the alliance is to deter Russia effectively beyond the war in Ukraine and manage other security threats. Amid questions about who will become the next NATO secretary general this year, officials in the alliance have suggested Wallace as a possible contender.
The Biden administration wants to talk to Moscow about a future framework for nuclear arms control, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said at the Arms Control Association’s annual meeting on Friday, the Associated Press reported. “It is in neither of our countries’ interest to embark on opening the competition in the strategic nuclear forces,” Sullivan said. Putin announced in February he was suspending Russia’s participation in New START, the only remaining nuclear arms control treaty between the United States and Russia, which is set to expire in 2026. The United States has called the suspension “legally invalid” — and on Thursday, the State Department announced new countermeasures in response. In a Telegram post Friday, Russia’s foreign ministry said the countermeasures “will not affect the Russian position in any way.”
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov spent Friday shoring up relations with counterparts in the BRICS alliance and “friends of BRICS” countries. Ministers for the bloc — which includes Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa and has sought to position itself as a counterweight to Western dominance — met in Cape Town, South Africa, this week ahead of a summit planned for August. On the sidelines Friday, Lavrov held bilateral talks with foreign ministers from Brazil, Iran and the United Arab Emirates, according to Russia’s Foreign Ministry, which said in a Telegram post that “significant attention was paid to Brazilian efforts to find ways to resolve the situation in Ukraine.”

From our correspondents

As Ukraine prepares to launch a long-trumpeted counterattack, the first obstacle isn’t Russia’s defenses but Ukraine’s. Like Russia, Ukraine has laid thousands of mines along the front line, Post journalists report from Zaporizhzhia. To advance, Ukrainian troops must now push through these lines without tipping off Russian forces — by sending sappers out to the fields to quietly clear paths through the mines……

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