2023-05-01 20:10:08
Cover image: The smoking ruins of a collapsed building in Bakhmout, April 26, 2023. Libkos / AP
- Sirens sounded in Kyiv and across the country due to Russian shelling on Monday 1is May in the morning. Ukrainian authorities said the air defense systems were working. Local media reported that explosions were heard in kyiv and Dnipro (center), which has around one million inhabitants.
- Counter-attacks led by the Ukrainian army made it possible to push back the Russian troops on certain positions in the city of Bakhmout (east), but the situation on the ground remains « difficile »the Ukrainian army reported on Monday.
- Several Ukrainian missiles hit the Russian village of Souzemka on Saturday, located about ten kilometers from the Russian-Ukrainian border, announced Alexander Bogomaz, the governor of the oblast of Briansk. Four civilians were killed, he said on Sunday.
- Nine localities in Donetsk Oblast were bombed. Shells were fired at the towns of Avdiivka, Bakhmut, Kostiantynivka, Kramatorsk, Sviatohirsk, Velyka Novossilka and Malotaranivka, as well as the villages of Karpivka and Zoriane, the Ukrainian national police announced on Sunday on Telegram.
- According to the head of the Russian private military group Wagner, Yevgeny Prigojine, a Ukrainian counter-offensive could represent ” a tragedy “ for Russia. His men, many of whom are fighting in Bakhmout, are low on ammunition, he said.
- The Russian army announced on Sunday the appointment of a new head of its military logistics, General Alexei Kuzmenkovin place of General Mikhail Mizintsev, appointed in September 2022. Former head of the National Defense Control Center, Mr. Mizintsev is targeted by Western sanctions for his role in the siege of Mariupol.
- French President Emmanuel Macronrenewed during a telephone conversation on Sunday with his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, his commitment to bring “all necessary assistance to Ukraine in order to restore its sovereignty and territorial integrity”announced the Elysée.
- The Vatican is leading a « mission » to end the conflict, said Pope Francis Sunday evening on the plane returning from a three-day visit to Hungary. “I am ready to do whatever needs to be done. A mission is in progress, but it is not yet public. When it is, I will reveal it”did he declare.
- At least 477 children have been killed and 955 injured since the start of the war in Ukraineannounced the office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, Sunday on Telegram. The death toll rose after news broke that two more children died in Uman following the bombing of a building on 28 April.
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