Portal:Current events/2022 May 28

May 28, 2022 (2022-05-28) (Saturday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Donbas offensive, Eastern Ukraine offensive
      • Battle of Sievierodonetsk
        • Russian troops enter the strategic city of Sievierodonetsk in Luhansk Oblast with heavy street-to-street fighting underway. Luhansk governor Serhiy Haidai says that Ukrainian forces may have to retreat from the city in order to avoid capture. (Reuters)
    • Foreign aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War
      • Ukraine confirms that it has received shipments of Harpoon anti-ship missiles from Denmark, and self-propelled howitzers from the United States in order to counter the Russian invasion. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2022 Port Harcourt stampede
  • Thirty-one people are killed and seven others are injured in a stampede at a church charity event in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria. (Al Jazeera)
• Indonesian rescuers search for 26 people who went missing after a boat capsized last Thursday in the Makassar Strait with 43 people on board. News of the sinking reached authorities today. (Dawn)
• Fifteen people are killed and three others are missing after heavy rain causes flooding in southern China. (AP)
• 2022 Brazil floods and landslides
  • At least 91 people are killed by mudslides and flooding in the Recife metropolitan area, Pernambuco, Brazil. (AP)

Health and environment

• 2022 monkeypox outbreak
  • The Republic of Ireland, Malta, and Mexico confirm their first cases of monkeypox. (The Guardian) (English News) (El Universal in Spanish)
  • Iran reports its first suspected case of monkeypox. (IFP News)

Politics and elections

• 2023 Nigerian presidential election
  • Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar wins the presidential primary of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party and officially becomes the party's nominee for the February 2023 general election. Abubakar, who served as Vice President from 1999 to 2007 and was the PDP's 2019 presidential nominee, defeated Nyesom Wike, Bukola Saraki, and nine other candidates to win the primary. (Premium Times)
• 2019–2022 Sudanese protests
  • Two protesters are killed by Sudanese security forces in Khartoum. (AP)
• International sanctions during the Russo-Ukrainian War
  • China denies airspace to Boeing and Airbus aircraft that have been reregistered in Russia as a result of sanctions triggered by its invasion. The reregistration is in violation of international law. (Airways Magazine)

Sports

• 2021–22 UEFA Champions League
  • In association football, Real Madrid win a record 14th UEFA Champions League title after defeating Liverpool 1–0 in the 2022 UEFA Champions League Final at the Stade de France near Paris, with Vinícius Júnior scoring the winning goal. Kick-off was delayed by 36 minutes due to ticketed fans being prevented from entering the stadium. French police fire tear gas at Liverpool supporters. UEFA blamed the delay on Liverpool fans trying to enter the stadium with fake tickets and blocking the turnstiles. (The Guardian) (The Telegraph) (AP)

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