The Pentagon is still reporting “bitter” fighting in the Donbass, with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy praising the troops’ “resistance” to Moscow’s advance. More bombs on Nikopol, residential buildings damaged. The US is considering sending Stryker tanks to Kyiv
Ukraine, Russian bombing of Kherson: one dead and one wounded
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Kyiv, killed 710 Russian soldiers in the last 24 hours
710 Russian soldiers have been killed in Ukraine in the last 24 hours. This was claimed in a post on Facebook by the General Staff of the Kyiv Armed Forces, which updated the number of Russian military deaths since the war began to 112,470.
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Tajani about Italian mines, Russians lie and know they are lying
“They lie because they know they are lying.” This is how Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani comments on the Russian allegations about the alleged discovery of Italian mines in Ukraine. “Italy – he explained on radio Anch’io – has not produced these mines since 1997″. «According to the numbers that appear on some of these mines» in the pictures «published on the Russian Embassy website, these are mines made in the Far East. Italy respects international law,” stressed Tajani. “Since 1997, it has not manufactured or sold anti-personnel mines, in full compliance with international law: the information given by Russia is fake news, false news that does not correspond to the truth.”
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The Zaporizhia region has been attacked 600 times since the beginning of the year
Russian forces have attacked the Zaporizhia region of southern Ukraine more than 600 times since the beginning of this year, killing four and wounding seven, the head of the regional military administration, Oleksandr Starukh, told Ukrinform. “Since the beginning of the year there have been more than 600 attacks on peaceful cities and towns: four dead and seven wounded,” Starukh said, adding that the Russians launched 91 attacks in the region yesterday, 70 of which targeted civilian infrastructure 19 villages. Starukh stressed that the pro-Russian government is trying to ban the circulation of Ukrainian currency (hryvnia) in the occupied territories of the region. The Russians also introduced “passports” for residents, without which it is forbidden to move between the occupied villages.