The essentials in brief:
- Killed in Russian attack near Dnipro
- Selenskyj does not currently give negotiations a chance
- Prigozhin accuses Moscow’s Defense Ministry of failure
- Russia’s Belgorod region reports more victims
At a Russian air raid A two-year-old child was killed in a residential area in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro. According to the authorities, at least 22 people were injured in the shelling in the center of the country on Sunday night. According to the authorities, the Ukrainian armed forces in Kiev were able to fend off several missiles and drones.
president Volodymyr Selenskyj declared in Kiev: “Again has Russia shown that it is a terrorist state. Unfortunately, people are under the rubble.” The head of state released a video showing the completely destroyed two-storey building. Emergency services were looking for survivors.
Russian missile and drone strikes hit in the Ukraine civil infrastructure as well. Dnipro is located in southeastern Ukraine.
“No negotiations currently possible”
“The Russians will take responsibility for everything they did to our state and the people,” said Zelenskyy. He had also previously published a video of a conversation with journalists from Latin America. In it he again emphasized that no negotiations on ending the war were possible with the current Russian leadership.
The only chance for Russia is to withdraw its troops from Ukraine, he said. The 45-year-old reiterated that he would otherwise fight until Ukraine wins the war and Russia is defeated.
Wagner boss accuses Russia of failure
The head of the Wagner mercenary force, Yevgeny Prigozhin, accuses the Ministry of Defense in Moscow of failure in view of the current course of the war. “The ministry is not able to do anything. The agency is in chaos,” Prigozhin said in a speech published on the Telegram online service.
Prigozhin has repeatedly clashed with the regular military. Just a day ago he accused Russia of Route of retreat of the Wagner troops from the Ukrainian Bakhmut to have mined.
Governor: More dead in Ukrainian airstrikes in Belgorod
According to the authorities there, at least two people have been killed in new airstrikes in the Russian region of Belgorod on the border with Ukraine. The Schebekino district has been under Ukrainian fire again since Saturday morning, Belgorod governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said via Telegram.
In the village of Novaya Tavolshanka, an elderly woman died as a result, and in the village of Beslyudovka, another woman succumbed to her numerous injuries from shrapnel. At least two other people were injured, according to the governor.
According to Russian information, the city of Schebekino, located in the district of the same name, had been heavily shelled in the past few days, causing hundreds of residents to flee. According to a new report by the governor, five people were killed in the attacks on the Belgorod region on Friday.
British intelligence sees “paranoid” trains
According to British intelligence experts, the suppression of criticism of the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine is taking on absurd proportions in Russia. According to the current issue of the daily, the authorities are “paranoid” and unsure of what is permissible in an “increasingly totalitarian system”. Department of Defense intelligence report in London.
The public display of objects in the colors of the Ukrainian flag, blue and yellow, will probably be prosecuted. For example, a nursing home worker was reportedly arrested for showing up to work in a blue and yellow jacket. Another man was targeted by the security authorities for showing the blue and yellow flag of the Russian Air and Space Forces.
Not only the flag of Ukraine is blue and yellow, but also the logo of the Russian Air and Space Forces
Criticism of the approach has come from the ultra-nationalist Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, which supports the war in Ukraine but also has a blue and yellow logo.
The Ministry of Defense in London has been publishing daily information on the course of the war since the beginning of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, citing intelligence information. Moscow accuses London of a disinformation campaign.
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This article will be continuously updated on the day of its publication. Reports from the combat zones cannot be independently verified.