- the Moskva, flagship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, sank on Thursday. A senior US Department of Defense official said the ship was hit by two Ukrainian missiles, denying Moscow’s version that claims the cruiser was “badly damaged” by a fire. A Ukrainian army official reported that the crew could not be evacuated, a version again opposed to that of Russia. According to Washington, “there have been victims, but it is difficult” to know the exact number.
- The Russia threatens to intensify strikes on kyiv. While Moscow said it was concentrating its offensive on the Donbass and eastern Ukraine, the Russian Defense Ministry announced on Friday that it had bombed an arms factory near kyiv.
- Russia announced on Friday that it had destroyed a arms factory in the suburbs of kyiv and assured that the strikes on the capital would be intensified to meet the “attacks” on Russian territory, of which it accuses Ukraine.
- At least seven people were killed and thirty-four others injured in Russian shelling of a residential area in Kharkovannounced the regional governor on Friday.
- Almost all of the people found dead in Butcha were shot and killed, the kyiv region police chief said.
- The spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry said on Friday that Russian artillery had caused the death of around 30 “Polish mercenaries” in northeastern Ukraine.
- He is ” very probable “ that the Finland is applying to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) as a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Finland’s European Affairs Minister Tytti Tuppurainen said on Friday.
- The EU is preparing to end its oil purchases from Russia to sanction it, but the measure is ” complex “ and take ” several months “European sources told Agence France-Presse on Friday.
- Moscow announced on Friday the expulsion of eighteen diplomats of the representation of the European Union (EU) in Russia.
- While she had been moved to Lviv in early March following Russia’s military offensive, French Embassy in Ukraine reopened in Kyiv on Friday.
- Russia blocked French radio’s website RFIwhich broadcasts information in fifteen languages, including Russian, in the midst of a wave of repression against critics of the offensive in Ukraine.
- More than five million people have fled Ukraine since the Russian invasion began on February 24, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). A resumption of evacuations of civilians, using nine humanitarian corridorsincluding from the besieged city of Mariupol, was announced by Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk on Telegram on Thursday.
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