Russia Ukraine War News Live Updates: Moscow says Western weapons will pour ‘fuel on the fire’; 2 journalists injured in Ukraine

Russia War Ukraine Live, Mariapol Falls to Russia: Moscow said Western weapons will pour “fuel on fire,” but will not change the course of what he calls special military operations” to disarm Ukraine and get rid of it from dangerous nationalists. Russia still controls about one fifth of the country, around half of them confiscated in 2014 and half were arrested since launching the invasion on February 24.

Meanwhile, Ukraine said they clawed most of the Sievierodonetsk industrial center in battles that appeared on Saturday to block Russia’s journey to capture the destroyed city, Moscow’s offensive focus to take the East Donbas region. (This is how the war has changed in the last 100 days) Sergiy Gaidai, the Governor of Luhanansk Province, told national television that Ukraine forces had reclaimed 20% of the territory they eliminated in Sievierodonetsk.

In other news, 2 Reuters journalists were injured and a driver who was traveling with them was killed near Sieverseodonetsk in Ukraine. The news agency reported that photographer Alexander Ermochenko and the cameraman of the Klimov paave were slightly injured after the vehicle where they were under fire while on his way to Sievierodonetsk.

Russian President Vladimir Putin denied on Friday that Moscow prevented the Port of Ukraine from exporting seeds, blaming the increase in global food prices in the West.

We are now looking at efforts to divert responsibilities to what is happening in the world food market, problems that arise in this market to Russia, “he said on national television.

He said the best solution was Western sanctions against Russian Allies Belarus to be revoked and Ukraine to export seeds through the country.

Ukraine officials rely on the sophisticated missile system that the United States and Britain have only promised to swing the war that benefits them, and Ukraine forces have started training about them.

While the resistance of Ukraine has forced Putin to narrow his direct goals to conquer the entire Donbas region, Ukraine officials said he still intended to subdue the entire country. “Putin’s main purpose is the destruction of Ukraine. He did not withdraw from his goal, regardless of the fact that Ukraine won the first stage of this full scale war,” Deputy Minister of Defense Ukraine, Hanna Malyar, told national television on Friday.

Moscow has poured troops and materials into battles for Sievierodonetsk, which must be flooded with Russia to take all Luhansk, one of the two provinces consisting of the East Donbas region that has been declared Kremlin who intends to be captured.