Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said President Vladimir Putin and others are trying to shift the blame for the Moscow concert hall massacre onto Ukraine.. The Russian president has claimed, without evidence, that Ukraine was cooperating with the terrorist suspects who massacred at least 133 people on Friday night and that the four arrested gunmen were planning to flee to Ukraine. Zelenskiy said Saturday that Putin’s 24-hour silence before trying to link the riots to Ukraine was “absolutely predictable.” Kiev denies involvement in the attack, which Islamic State claimed responsibility for.
Moscow claimed new territorial victory over Ukrainian forces in the country’s east During that time, both countries carried out deadly air attacks on each other.. Russian troops said Saturday they had captured the Ukrainian village of Ivaniuske, just west of the devastated city of Bakhmut, which was captured 10 months ago. Russian forces have seized a series of frontline settlements in recent weeks as the Ukrainian army struggles with shortages of troops and ammunition.
Two people were killed and at least seven others injured in multiple air strikes by the Ukrainian military on the Russian border region of Belgorod, which borders Ukraine., the local governor said. Further east, a drone attack in the Samara region caused a fire at a major oil refinery, the latest in a series of attacks on Russia’s energy industry. Belgorod Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said that not only the city of Belgorod but also two regional districts were affected by drone and air strikes.
Russia said Saturday it had repelled a barrage of Ukrainian missiles fired toward the annexed city of Sevastopol. in crimea. However, Sevastopol Governor Mikhail Razvodzhaev later said a 65-year-old resident was killed and four others injured by rocket fragments, calling it “the biggest attack in recent times.”
Ukrainian energy workers are still restoring power to some consumers, authorities said Saturday, a day after what Kiev said was Moscow’s biggest attack of the war on Ukraine’s power grid.. Prime Minister Zelenskiy said on Telegram that the “technical possibility of power supply” had been restored in most of the affected areas, but the situation in eastern Kharkiv remained difficult.
