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5:07 p.m.: A senior Russian official assures social network Telegram that a Ukrainian ballistic missile has been launched over annexed Crimea, a rare occurrence at a time when an imminent offensive by Ukrainian forces looms. According to Sergei Aksionov, the Moscow-installed head of Crimea, there is “neither casualties nor destruction.”
4:49 p.m.: Russian investigators claim that the man suspected of attacking famous nationalist writer Zakhar Prilepin is Ukrainian, official agency RIA Novosti said on Telegram (content in Russian), citing an anonymous source. His car exploded this morning in the Nizhny Novgorod region.
4:59 p.m.: The Wagner chief, who is asking the Russian army for permission to cede his positions in the Ukrainian city of Bachmout to the troops of Chechen dictator Ramzan Kadyrov, specifies that he is making this request “due to a long period of lack of ammunition”. For months, Yevgeny Prigoyine has accused the Russian general staff of not providing his men with enough ammunition to deny them a victory at Bakhmout that would eclipse the regular army.
3:08 p.m.: “I request that you issue a battle order for the transfer of positions from the Wagner group to the units of the Akhmat battalion in the village of Bakhmout and the surrounding area before midnight on May 10.” Evguéni Prigoyine said in a letter to Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu published by his press service.
3:08 p.m.: The leader of the Wagner paramilitary group is asking the Russian army for permission to hand over its positions in the Ukrainian town of Bakhmout to the troops of Chechen dictator Ramzan Kadyrov in protest at the lack of ammunition.
3:34 p.m.: Russian authorities announced they have launched an investigation into a “terrorist act” and arrested a suspect after the blast that injured a famous nationalist writer in Russia, Zakhar Prilepin, who supports the offensive against Ukraine. Follow our life.
3:35 p.m .: Was the Ukrainian President at the coronation of Charles III. loaded?
1:36 p.m .: The Russian occupation administration of the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine assured today that after the announcement of partial evacuations in the area, no evacuation of employees from the site was planned for the time being, out of fear of a Ukrainian offensive.
3:39 p.m .: “Washington has fed a new cell of international terrorism with NATO, the Kiev regime,” Russian diplomatic spokeswoman Maria Zakharova responded to Telegram. “Direct responsibility of the United States and the United Kingdom. We pray for Zakhar,” she added.
1:19 p.m .: Russia accuses the USA, NATO and Ukraine of initiating a “terrorist” attack on the nationalist writer Zakhar Prilepin, who was injured in the explosion of his car in Russia.
12:24 p.m.: As recalled by France Culture 2018, the French writer Emmanuel Carrère Zakhar Prilepin dedicated several pages in his book about Edouard Limonov, this Russian writer and political dissident, founder of the national-Bolshevik party to which Zakhar Prilepin belonged.
12:21: Here are details of the “incident” involving Russian nationalist writer Zakhar Prilepin, who supported the attack on the Kremlin in Ukraine. He was injured in the “explosion” of a car in Russia and another person was killed, the Interior Ministry said.
12:19 p.m.: Police had both Ukrainian and Russian flags during celebrations that will take place on May 8, the anniversary of Nazi Germany’s 1945 surrender, but also on May 9, the day of the end of the war for the former Soviets banned Union so that “these commemorative and respect ceremonies for these monuments are preserved despite the current war in Ukraine”.
12.20pm: A court has lifted a ban on Berlin police from displaying Ukrainian flags around the city’s three Soviet monuments during celebrations marking the end of World War II.
12:11: “Investigators (…) from the Nizhny Novgorod region arrived at the scene of the incident with a car in which Zakhar Prilepin was found,” said the investigative committee in a press release. On Telegram, the governor of the region, Gleb Nikitin, said the authorities are investigating the causes of the incident.
12:10 p.m.: Russian nationalist writer Zakhar Prilepin, a supporter of Ukraine’s Kremlin attack, was involved in a car “incident” in the Nizhny Novgorod region today, authorities said, with Russian media reporting a possible “explosion” amid a wave spearheaded attacks on Russia.
11:32 a.m .: For the first time since the beginning of the conflict, an American has been buried in Ukraine at his request. Christopher Campbell, 27, a former soldier who served in Iraq, has been in the country since the war began. Here is the account of Camille Magnard who attended his funeral.
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