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- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky qualified as “deliberate Russian war crime” the Friday bombardment of a prison in the east of his country which, according to him, “more than 50 dead”. “Today I received information about the attack of the occupiers on Olenivka, in the Donetsk region. This is a deliberate Russian war crimea deliberate mass murder of Ukrainian POWs” he said in his daily message.
- For the first time since February 15 Anthony Blinken and Sergey Lavrovheads of diplomacy of the United States and Russia, had a telephone interview. The US official accused Russia of preparing “rigged referendums” to try to “falsely demonstrate” that people living in these Ukrainian territories “seek to be part of Russia”. Before adding that the world would in any case “never” recognize the annexation by Russia of Ukrainian territories.
- The second largest city in Ukraine, Kharkivwas hit Friday morning by Russian shelling, according to the mayor of the city, Ihor Terekhov.
- A Russian bombardment hit a bus stop in Mykolaiv, and killed at least five people and injured more than ten.announced the mayor of the city, Oleksandr Senkevich, on Telegram.
- At least forty Ukrainian prisoners of warcaptured during the fighting in Mariupol by the Russian army, were killed and 130 injured on Friday by a Ukrainian bombardment on a prison in the town of Olenivka, according to Danil Bezsonov, spokesman for the Russian-backed separatists in the Donetsk region, on Telegram. The army of kyiv, for its part, denied this accusation.
- On a large part of the Ukrainian territory, the shelling of the Russian army did not weaken on Thursday. Thus, at least five people were killed and twenty-five others injured, including twelve soldiers, in a strike on two hangars in Kropyvnytsky, in the Kirovohrad oblast (center of the country), announced the governor of the administrative region, Andriy Raikovych. A total of eight dead and thirty wounded were counted.
- In his intervention video daily Thursday evening, the Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskythanked “the United States senators who unanimously approved the resolution calling on the US State Department to recognize Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism”.
- The Russian journalist Marina Ovsiannikova again denounces the conflict and receives a fine. Famous for having interrupted a television news with a poster against the Russian invasion, she was fined 50,000 rubles (800 euros) for “discredit” of the Russian armed forces.
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