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In Sievjerodonetsk in the east of the country, the situation for Ukrainian troops remains tense. “We’re holding the situation, just holding the situation,” said Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday. The Russian troops are superior. “Nevertheless, we have every chance of continuing to fight in this direction,” emphasized the 44-year-old. In the neighboring Kharkiv region, there are “gradual” successes, but the situation is most “threatening” in the Zaporizhia region, according to Zelenskiy.

According to the Interfax-Ukraine agency, the Ukrainian president said during a visit to the front that the Russian army was pressuring the regional capital. Army spokesman Olexander Motusianyk reported intense fighting “almost along the entire front line in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions.” The Russian Air Force has also flown 39 air missions outside of eastern Ukraine, he added.

Fleet pushed back

The Ukrainian army, meanwhile, managed to push back the Russian fleet more than 100 kilometers from the country’s Black Sea coast. The Ministry of Defense in Kyiv announced on the online service Telegram that the Russian fleet had been “deprived of total control over the north-west of the Black Sea”. However, Russia is trying to regain control of the sea area, and the cities on the coast are still threatened by Russian missile attacks.

In addition, the Russian fleet continues to block civilian shipping, the ministry said. In response to Ukraine’s successes in the Black Sea, Russian forces should have deployed coastal defense systems to the Crimean peninsula and the Russian-held area around the city of Kherson.

Nicolás Maduro accused the United States of “stabbing” the next Summit of the Americas to be held in Los Angeles for its intention to exclude Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba.

“The United States government itself took it upon itself to stab the possibility of success at this summit,” he declared in an interview with southern radio.

Also, Maduro He expressed his gratitude and highlighted the “courage” of more than 25 countries that have expressed their solidarity and their rejection of the exclusionary policies of the US government.

«It is intended to hold a summit, but that is not a summit and less of the Americas. Almost 90% of the governments of the continent have had the courage, in different ways, to express their protest once morest exclusion », he pointed out.

“The meeting in Los Angeles where they intend to hold a Summit of the Americas is a contradiction. That is not a Summit, it is a meeting!” Maduro said.

The summit will be held from June 6 to 10 in the city of Los Angeles and for now it has not invited Cuba, Nicaragua or Venezuela in retaliation for human rights violations. The countries of the Community of Caribbean States have already warned that they will not attend the meeting.

In particular, Maduro has mentioned the Argentine president, Alberto Fernández, who will attend the meeting. “I think it’s very good that he brings the voice of Latin America and the Caribbean to the meeting of the Americas,” he said.

Fernández is “a colleague who wants to help Venezuela and the region.” “In all his trips he talks regarding the need to lift the sanctions on Venezuela and Cuba,” he recalled..