10:03 More than 80 artillery shells were registered in Kharkiv during the night. This was announced by the head of the regional military administration, Oleg Sinegubov, quoted by UNIAN. “We registered 84, Saltivka, Danylivka, Kholodna Hora, Htz districts were affected,” Sinegubov said. According to the head of Ova, more than 600 houses in Kharkiv were destroyed in the bombings. A Russian reconnaissance drone was shot down towards Chuguiv this morning.
09:10 US President Joe Biden’s allegations that Moscow is considering using chemical and biological weapons are “malicious allegations”. This is the answer of Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov, who, according to the Interfax agency, adds: “We don’t have such weapons”.
08:38 Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been found guilty of new allegations of embezzlement, a Russian court has announced.
7 o’clock The excise duty on fuel and thus its selling price will be reduced. In fact, the Ministerial Decree and Legislative Decree “Urgent Measures to Combat the Economic and Humanitarian Impact of the Crisis in Ukraine were published overnight in the Official Gazette, with the rules for reducing the price, which will come into force from today.
06:40 In its latest operational report, the Kiev army states that “according to available information, the Russian occupying forces operating in Ukraine have ammunition and food supplies for no more than three days”. Officials said the situation was similar with fuel, citing Russia’s inability to organize a pipeline to meet the troops’ needs as an example of their logistical failure.
06:22 According to reports from the Kyiv Independent, antiaircraft alarms are ringing in almost all regions of Ukraine. Sirens were activated in Sumy, Mykolaiv, Ternopil, Poltava, Kirovohrad, Kharkiv, Zaporizhia, Lviv, IvanoFrankivsk, Zakarpattia, Chernivtsi, Dnepropetrovsk, Rivne, Volinie, Cherkasy, Khmelnytskyi and Odessa oblasts.
05:09 The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that “the Ukrainian flag was raised over the city of Makariv” and Russian forces were pushed back. This is reported by The Kyiv Independent. Makariv is an urban settlement in Kyiv Oblast, 60 kilometers west of the Ukrainian capital. The village had counted several civilian casualties in the past few days.
03:34 The number of civilians killed in Ukraine since the start of the Russian invasion rises to at least 925, according to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCR).
01:31 Russian claims that Kyiv has biological and chemical weapons are “false” and a “clear signal” that Vladimir Putin is “considering using both” in the war in Ukraine. This was reiterated by American President Joe Biden. Putin, Biden stressed, “is cornered and is now talking about the new false flag operations he is preparing.
00:16 US President Joe Biden confirmed that Russia also used hypersonic missiles in the bombing of Ukraine. “With the same warheads used on the other missiles, they don’t make much of a difference other than being almost impossible to intercept,” Biden said, quoted by CNN.
00:05 All technicians at Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear power plant, who have been stuck at the plant since Russian troops invaded on February 24 and have had to continue working without interruption, have been given permission to leave the premises.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (Aiea) issued a statement saying it had been informed by the Kiev authorities. Half of the technicians were able to leave two days ago, the other half yesterday, except for 13 who didn’t want to leave. Those who were dismounted were replaced by Ukrainian counterparts, and Ukrainian guards remained on duty at the plant. Damage to roads and bridges had previously hampered the arrival of workers who had to replace their colleagues.