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10:39 p.m.: Russia claims it has sent fighter-bombers for the second time this week to prevent two American strategic bombers from “violating the state border” over the Baltic Sea. Russia’s Defense Ministry said it deployed fighter jets and “identified the air targets as two US Air Force B-1B strategic bombers.”
5:45 p.m .: The death of journalist Arman Soldin “upsets us all”. In a letter, Emmanuel Macron addressed his “sincere condolences” to the staff of Agence France-Presse after the death of their colleague on May 9 in eastern Ukraine, who was “the face” of a “passion”, “the duty to inform”.
(YASUYOSHI CHIBA / AFP)
17:38: This Wagner troop withdrawal operation comes at a time when the Russian army is in a delicate situation on the flanks at Bachmout. According to the Ukrainians, Russian forces lost 20 square kilometers north and south of the city.
5:36 p.m.: Kyiv confirms Wagner’s partial withdrawal from Bakhmout announced earlier in the day by the Russian paramilitary group. A Deputy Defense Minister of Ukraine, Ganna Maliar, said Wagner’s men surrendered their positions “on the outskirts” of this eastern Ukrainian city to regular Russian troops.
11:55 a.m.: “We retire, we rest, we prepare, then we get new assignments.”
When visiting his troops, the chief of Wagner assures that the “most part” of his units in Bakhmout “will move to the rear bases by June 1st”.
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11:50 am: After claiming responsibility for taking Bakhmout this weekend, the Wagner paramilitary group announces that it has begun transferring its positions in this devastated city to the regular Russian army. “We hand over the positions, the ammunition and everything that is there to the soldiers,” explains the head of the militia, Evguéni Prigojine.
08:57: Russia “continues to terrorize Ukraine” with its night attacks, accuses Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and announces the destruction of 36 Russian drones during the night. “None of them achieved their goal,” he said.
08:21: Russian security services announce the arrest of two members of a “sabotage group of the Ukrainian foreign intelligence service” accused of “attempting to blow up” power lines to two Russian nuclear power plants in early May.
8:14 am: Six drones were shot down in Crimea last night, the governor of this Russian-annexed peninsula announced. The incident “resulted in no casualties or casualties,” he said.
8:13 am: Kiev’s air defenses completely repelled a new “massive” attack by Russian drones on the capital yesterday, the local military administration said. According to the authorities, this is the “twelfth” attack of this type in May, the previous one taking place on Monday.
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