A Russian ballistic missile attack hit civilian infrastructure in the Ukrainian Black Sea city of Odesa on Friday, killing at least 20 people, including rescue workers, and wounding more than 75 in Moscow’s worst attack in weeks, Ukrainian officials said. Announced. The region’s governor, Oleh Kipel, said on state television that two Russian ballistic missiles were fired from Moscow-occupied Crimea and landed in a residential area of Odessa. It added that medics and rescue workers were killed by the second missile after rushing to the scene to treat those injured in the first attack. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy condemned the attack as “despicable”. The attack destroyed a three-story recreational facility and at least 10 civilian homes, according to the Southern Command. Saturday was declared a local day of mourning.
The German Chancellor, the French President and the Polish Prime Minister met in Berlin and told a public conference that Europe is united and determined to support Ukraine.. Olaf Scholz, Emmanuel Macron and Donald Tusk also said they would use frozen Russian assets to buy more weapons for Ukraine on the world market. The talks follow tensions between France and Germany over Russia.
One person killed in Ukrainian military shelling in Greyvoron city, Belgorod region, Russiathe governor said on Telegram. Earlier, Russia claimed to have thwarted Ukrainian attempts to launch cross-border raids on its territory, but provided no evidence to support this claim, while a senior Ukrainian intelligence official said the Kursk and Belgorod oblasts It was claimed to be an active war zone.
Two people were reported killed and five injured in Russian artillery fire in the Sumy region of northern Ukraine. Homes and cars were damaged overnight and into Friday. There were also missile attacks in the Kharkov, Poltava and Donetsk regions.
G7 countries have warned Iran that they will impose “significant” new sanctions if it transfers ballistic missiles to Russia. For use in Ukraine. The group, which includes the United States, Japan, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Italy and Canada, also reiterated that it “calls on third parties to immediately cease providing material support” to Russia’s war efforts, or else. “We will face grave sacrifices.”
Ukraine claimed to have attacked and damaged an oil refinery in the Kaluga region with a drone. As is customary, Russian authorities claimed that their air defense forces shot down the drone and that there was “no damage to infrastructure or casualties.”
Russian federal security services announced that a Russian national was detained in Moscow He was charged with treason and confessed to building and launching drones for Ukraine.
European Union plans to agree on sanctions against several people believed to have been involved in the abuse and death of Kremlin critics alexei navalny Three diplomats said it happened last month in an Arctic penal colony.
Russia’s presidential election will be counted on Friday, with 114 million Russians eligible to vote, and will almost inevitably end in victory for Vladimir Putin on Sunday. The president is running against communist Nikolai Kharitonov, nationalist Liberal Democratic Party leader Leonid Slutsky, and New People’s Party’s Vladislav Davankov. Two anti-war candidates, Boris Nadezhdin and Ekaterina Duntsova, were banned from running by the electoral commission.
Voting is also taking place in four occupied regions of Ukraine that Russia claims to have annexed, although Russian forces only partially control the territory. Kiev insists the election there was illegal, and on Friday UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres also condemned it, with a spokesman saying Russia’s annexation was invalid under international law. Speaking at a meeting of Russia’s Security Council, President Putin accused Ukraine of trying to disrupt the voting process and people in border areas with “many criminal acts of force.” He insisted that no attempt to infiltrate Russia would be successful and would not go unpunished.
