INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Russian troops pursued their "relentless" shelling of Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region on Saturday, as the United States promised new
throughout the country's east and south.Residents in the small town of Druzhkivka, south of the eastern Ukrainian industrial city of
Kramatorsk, woke up to a suspected missile attack on Saturday which ripped apart a supermarket's shop front and left a massive crater in
front of the store."The entire frontline is under relentless shelling," the head of the Donetsk military administration, Pavlo Kyrylenko,
"shelled day and night."He also accused Russian forces of setting agricultural fields on fire, saying they were "trying to destroy the
harvest by all means."In a message on Saturday, he said five civilians had been killed the day before.The governor of the Luhansk region,
Sergiy Gaiday, said on Saturday the Russians were attacking Donetsk from their bases in Luhansk."We are trying to contain their armed
formations along the entire frontline..
Where it is inconvenient for them to go forward, they create real hell, shelling the territories on the horizon," he said.Kyrylenko warned
President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his nightly address he had spent the day on the frontlines in the eastern Dnipropetrovsk region, where
military administration warned Russia had "intentionally shelled residential areas," and had not stopped "terrorizing" the cities and
villages.In the country's south, the mayor of Mykolaiv begged citizens not to leave shelters, as he said explosions were heard throughout
$400 million of further military aid, including a type of artillery ammunition with "greater precision" that has previously not been
condemned Russia's assault ahead of the gathering before Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov faced what U.S
Secretary of State Antony Blinken called a barrage of Western criticism at the closed-door talks.Lavrov stormed out of a morning session as
German counterpart Annalena Baerbock criticized Moscow over the invasion, diplomats said.He also left an afternoon session before Ukrainian
Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba addressed the ministers virtually, and was not present as Blinken condemned Russia.'Strong chorus'"What we've
heard today already is a strong chorus from around the world..
about the need for the aggression to end," Blinken said on Friday from the meeting on the resort island of Bali.Speaking outside the Mulia
hotel, Lavrov remained defiant and accused Western nations of avoiding "talking about global economic issues" instead of the war.One
official told AFP even Moscow's ally China had not offered "any full-throated endorsement" of the Russian position.Blinken shunned a
bilateral meeting with Lavrov and instead accused Russia of triggering a global food crisis, demanding Moscow allow grain shipments out of
war-battered Ukraine."To our Russian colleagues: Ukraine is not your country
Its grain is not your grain
Why are you blocking the ports? You should let the grain out," Blinken said in the closed-door talks, according to a Western official
