Current events: 2023-05-29

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • 2022–2023 Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
    • Russian forces strike Kyiv using Iskander ballistic and cruise missiles, with debris injuring one civilian and damaging infrastructure. Ukraine claims to have shot down all the missiles. (AP via Los Angeles Times)
  • Battle of Donbas
    • Russian airstrikes on Toretsk, Donetsk Oblast, target a petrol station and a multi-storey building, killing two people and injuring eight others. (Reuters)
• Syrian civil war
  • Northwestern Syria clashes
    • Commander-in-chief of the Russian special forces in Syria, Colonel Oleg Pechevisty, is killed by an HTS artillery strike on a military post in the Latakia Province. (SOHR) (Enab Baladi)
• 2022–2023 North Kosovo crisis
  • Twenty-five peacekeepers of the NATO-led KFOR are injured after clashes with ethnic Serbs in North Kosovo over the installation of ethnic Albanian mayors. Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić places the Serbian Armed Forces on the highest level of combat alert in response. (BBC News) (AP) Disasters and accidents
• One person is killed and four others are missing after a charter boat sinks near Sitka, Alaska, United States. (AP) International relations
• United States and the Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Russia–United States relations
    • The Russian Interior Ministry issues an arrest warrant against United States Senator Lindsey Graham over comments Graham made about the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Capital punishment for homosexuality, Anti-Homosexuality Bill, 2023
  • Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni signs the Anti-Homosexuality Bill into law, introducing the death penalty for "aggravated homosexuality" and 20 years in prison for the "promotion of homosexuality". (Reuters)

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