‘JDN News’ lays out for you the events of the past day, the 158th day of the Russia-Ukraine war – as it happened minute by minute.
00:50 – Russia invited experts from the United Nations and the Red Cross to investigate the death of 53 Ukrainian prisoners in Moscow – this is what the country’s Ministry of Defense said. Russia accuses Ukraine of having attacked the prison with missiles, but on the other hand, Ukraine claims that it was Russia that attacked it.
01:56 – The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, said tonight that “the hundreds of thousands of people who are still in the fighting zones in the Donbas region should leave immediately.”
09:04 – British intelligence: Belarus continues to play an important role in the Russian war effort, and at the weekend at least 20 missiles were fired from its range towards northern Ukraine. At the end of last week, Belarusian President Lukashenko repeated the Russian narrative – and called on Kiev to agree to Moscow’s demands to stop the fighting
09:34 – The governor of the Sevastopol region on the Crimean peninsula annexed by Russia accused Ukraine of a drone attack on the Russian naval headquarters. According to the governor, the attack caused the injury of five employees of the headquarters and the cancellation of the Russian “Navy Day” celebrations, during which the naval forces are supposed to hold parades. The governor claimed Because “Ukraine decided to spoil ‘Navy Day’ for us”.
10:38 – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the world’s grain supply could be cut in half following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Also, Zelensky added that his goal is to prevent the global food crisis caused by the invasion.
11:35 – Russian President Vladimir Putin in his speech to mark Navy Day: “Russia will protect its maritime borders by all possible means.”
11:42 – Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the Russian Navy will receive hypersonic cruise missiles in the coming months and that their deployment will depend on Russian interests.
12:31 – The spokesman of Turkish President Erdogan stated that the possibility that a ship exporting grain will leave the ports of Ukraine in the next day is high.
15:32 – In Ukraine they claim that the founder and owner of the grain company Nibulon, Oleksiy Vedtorsky, was killed alongside his wife in a Russian bombing of their home. According to the Ukrainians, the house was shelled and completely destroyed.
19:29 – The International Committee of the Red Cross condemned the attacks in which dozens of Ukrainian prisoners of war were killed at the Olnivka facility in eastern Ukraine. The committee has not yet received permission to visit the place.
20:04 – Ukraine: severe Russian attacks hit the port city of Mykolaiv in the south of the country and killed the owner of one of the largest grain exporters in the country, according to the local governor.
Photo: Ukrainian army