War in Ukraine, live: Odessa airport runway destroyed after Russian attack, fighting concentrated in south and east

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• Russian forces keep up their pressure on eastern and southern regions of Ukraine, especially around Kharkov, to the northeast. In the country’s second largest city, which was shelled by Russian artillery for weeks, violent explosions were heard on Friday night into Saturday.
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that although the situation in this north-eastern region was “difficult”, ” [les] military [ukrainiens] achieve tactical success. This applies in particular to Rouska Losova, a village north of Kharkiv conquered by the Ukrainians, from where Russian troops say they were shelling the city. The village was liberated after intense fighting and more than 600 residents were evacuated, according to Ukraine’s Defense Ministry.
• HAS Mariupolthe major southeast port city essentially fell into Russian hands, where on Friday the evacuation of civilians trapped with Ukrainian soldiers at the Azovstal steel plant was scheduled to be evacuated, a team from Agence France-Presse heard heavy bombing of the steel complex, which appeared to be such not allow surgery.
• Russia confirmed on Friday that it had bombed Kyiv the day before, claiming to have pursued military and strategic objectives, amid a visit by United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. A strike that caused the death of a Ukrainian journalist from Radio Liberty, an emblematic medium funded by the United States.
• During Vladimir Poutine when Volodymyr Zelenskyy was invited to the G20 summit scheduled for November in Indonesia, the United States said it refused to negotiate with the Russian president “as if nothing had happened”.
• That Norway will follow in the footsteps of the European Union, of which it is not a member, by closing its ports to Russian ships, except trawlers.
• A former US Marine The 22-year-old was killed in Ukraine, where he left in mid-March to fight Russian forces, family members said. The Pentagon has asked Americans “not to travel to the country.”
• More than 5.4 million Ukrainians have fled their country since the start of the Russian invasion, including 57,000 in the last 24 hours, the United Nations found.

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