Portal:Current events/2023 May 31

May 31, 2023 (Wednesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Southern Ukraine campaign
  - Russia says that it destroyed the Ukrainian Navy warship Yuri Olefirenko at the Port of Odesa in a missile strike on May 29. (Reuters)
- 2022–2023 Western Russia attacks
  - Russian authorities say that a Ukrainian drone strike has caused a fire at an oil refinery in Krasnodar Krai, and also caused damage in Shebekino, Belgorod Oblast. (Reuters)
- Battle of Donbas
  - According to Russian authorities, five people are killed and 19 others are injured by Ukrainian shelling in Karpaty, in Russian-occupied Luhansk Oblast. (US News)
Jihadist insurgency in Burkina Faso
- About 100 gunmen ambush a military escort of a food convoy in Tibou, killing two civilians. At least 50 of the attackers are killed in the ensuing gunfight with soldiers. (Africa News)
Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- Five members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command are killed and ten others are injured in an explosion at a base in Qusaya, Beqaa Governorate, Lebanon. The PFLP accuses the Israel Defense Forces of responsibility. (Al Jazeera)
2022–2023 North Kosovo crisis
- NATO deploys a further 700 troops to North Kosovo to reinforce its KFOR peacekeeping mission amid clashes with Kosovo Serb protesters over the election and installation of ethnic Albanian mayors in several Serb-majority towns following a Serbian election boycott. (Reuters)

Arts and culture

The tapes for a long lost, unreleased John Coltrane live album with Eric Dolphy are found at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. (The Guardian)
Tito Sotto, Vic Sotto, and Joey de Leon announces their departure from Eat Bulaga! and TAPE Inc. that produced for nearly 44 years in the Philippines. (ABS-CBN News)

Disasters and accidents

Cannich wildfire
- A wildfire which had been burning for four days in the Scottish Highlands is brought under control after affecting about 30 sq mi (78 km²) of land, making it the largest ever recorded in the United Kingdom. (BBC News)
A magnitude 5.9 earthquake strikes Kachin State, Myanmar, with damage reported. (Fresherslive)

International relations

Law and crime

2023 Bournemouth beach incident
- Two people die and eight others are injured during an incident at a beach in Bournemouth, Dorset, United Kingdom. A man has been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter, according to Dorset Police. (BBC News)
The Kyrgyzstan Prosecutor-General's Office calls for lawmakers to allow the prosecution of United Kyrgyzstan opposition leader Adakhan Madumarov for alleged attempts to seize power. (RFE/RL)

Politics and elections

Science and technology

Discoveries of exoplanets
- In a news release published by NASA, it is revealed that the James Webb Space Telescope has discovered traces of water on the exoplanet WASP-18b, which has a mass equal to 10 Jupiters. (CBS News)
The launch of the North Korean spy satellite Malligyong-1 ends in failure due to a malfunction of the second stage of the rocket, causing the satellite to crash into the sea. An emergency evacuation alert was erroneously sent to residents of Seoul, South Korea, after the rocket launch, which also triggered air raid sirens in the city. (AP) (Financial Times)

Sports