[LIVE] War in Ukraine: Russian forces focus their efforts on Sievierodonetsk, pounded relentlessly

A multiple rocket launcher fires from a position not far from Panteleimonivka, in the Donetsk region, Saturday, May 28, 2022. AP - Alexei Alexandrov

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On the 95th day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Sunday May 29, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz asked Russian President Vladimir Putin to start "serious direct negotiations" with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

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The main points:

► Fighting intensifies in the Donbass region of eastern Ukraine, where Moscow confirmed on Saturday the takeover by pro-Russian separatists of the key locality of Lyman, which opens the way to major cities from Sloviansk and Kramatorsk.

► The Moscow branch of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church has decided to cut ties with Russian spiritual authorities, who support Russian President Vladimir Putin.

A historic decision.

► A first independent report warns of a "serious and imminent risk" of genocide in Ukraine.

Signed by more than thirty leading academics and experts, this report accuses Russia of violating several articles of the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, basing these accusations on several examples of mass killings of civilians. , forced displacement and dehumanization of the Ukrainian people.

► On the diplomatic level, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz spoke at length on the telephone with President Vladimir Putin, whom they asked to start "serious direct negotiations" with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, as well as the release of the 2,500 Ukrainian fighters who had entrenched themselves in the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol.

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