Recent Developments in Ukraine: Drone and Missile Attacks, Russian Countermeasures, and Evacuations

2023-08-30 04:49:47

Two people died on Wednesday morning following a “massive” drone and missile attack on kyiv, the largest “since the spring” according to military authorities in the Ukrainian capital. Early on Wednesday, Russia also claimed to have destroyed in the Black Sea four speedboats which carried a total of up to 50 special forces personnel from Ukraine which, according to Russian authorities, carried out a multitude of night attacks in Russian territory. of drones. A drone attack targeted Pskov airport in northwestern Russia overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday, regional governor Mikhail Vedernikov announced.

The farewell ceremony for the boss of the Wagner group, Evguéni Prigojine, killed in a plane crash, was held in private on Tuesday, announced his company, however calling those who wish to join him “to bid farewell” in a cemetery in Saint Petersburg.

A Moscow court has rejected the appeal of Igor Girkin, an influential nationalist turned opponent of power and now accused of“extremism”who asked to be released from his pre-trial detention.

Meanwhile, on the ground, Ukraine will evacuate children from five localities located on the southern front, in the region of Zaporijjia, announced the Ministry of Reintegration, in the face of “a difficult security situation and shelling” Russians, while the Ukrainian army claims to continue its breakthrough on the southern front.

Moreover, Ukraine does not fear a weakening of Western support, said in Paris the head of Ukrainian diplomacy Dmytro Kouleba in Paris, after a meeting with the French Minister of Foreign Affairs.

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