“30 people in the rubble” in Chassiv Iar
Ukrainian rescuers are today continuing to search for survivors in the rubble of an apartment building gutted by a Russian strike. The death toll rises to 30.
Former Governor Bill Richardson soon in Moscow to try to free Brittney Griner
Former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson plans to travel to Russia in the near future for talks aimed at reaching a deal to release famed American basketball player, Brittney Griner, ABC News reports. The basketball player is being held in Russia for possession of drugs. She was arrested on February 17 at the airport with cannabis oil, which is illegal in the country.
Ukrainian authorities ask civilians in southern Kherson to urgently evacuate
Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk is urging civilians in the temporarily occupied Kherson Oblast to evacuate as the Ukrainian military plans a counteroffensive in southern Ukraine.
Donestk counts its dead
At least 591 civilians have been killed and 1,548 others injured so far in the Donetsk region since the start of the Russian invasion on February 24, according to Pavlo Kyrylenko, governor of the Donetsk region which the Russian army is seeking to conquer. . On Friday, he said that Moscow was preparing “new actions” in the East.
Deliberately targeted “civilian objectives”
“The brutal Russian artillery strikes do not stop for a day, Sloviansk, Bakhmout, Avdiivka…” condemned Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday, again calling for “modern and powerful” weapons to defend themselves.
Zelensky accuses Moscow of hitting “deliberately, intentionally, simple houses, civilian objects, people. There are victims, dead, injured.
At least 15 dead in a strike on a building in the East
The strike occurred at night in this small town of some 12,000 inhabitants. According to the rescue, 24 people are still under the rubble, including a child, while five others were saved from the rubble.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said yesterday that there were “15 names in the list of dead and, unfortunately, this is not the final number”.