![]() They also include 148 children and 243 elderly people. Russian activists and dissidents from the Anti-War Human Rights Coalition say volunteers are reporting that 1,842 left bank residents including 338 urgent cases around Olekshy, and nearby, are being prevented from leaving by Russian authorities. German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, said on Saturday that he planned to speak to the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, on the phone soon to urge him to withdraw troops from Ukraine. He also announced C$500m ($375m) worth of military aid for Kyiv and said the destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam is a “direct consequence of Russia’s war”. The Russian defence ministry said on Saturday that Ukraine’s forces have continued “unsuccessful” attempts in the past 24 hours to launch attacks south of Donetsk and in Zaporizhzhia regions, as well as in the area of the eastern city of Bakhmut.Ĭanada’s minister, Justin Trudeau, landed in Kyiv on Saturday and said Canada will be part of a multinational effort to train Ukrainian fighter pilots. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday that counteroffensive and defensive operations were taking place in Ukraine, but told reporters that he would not say what stage they were at. The UN’s top aid official Martin Griffiths has warned Ukraine’s humanitarian situation is “hugely worse” after the Kakhova dam rupture. Emergency services said but the fire had been rapidly put out and 12 people were rescued from the building. 17.01 BST A summary of today's developmentsĪ drone attack by Russian forces killed three people and injured 27 people, including three children, in Ukraine’s Odesa oblast region in the early hours of Saturday morning, according to Ukraine’s southern command. The Guardian has not been able to independently verify this. Ukrainian forces, he added, had inflicted heavy Russian troop casualties and destroyed military hardware in the area. Serhiy Cherevaty, the official, said in televised comments that Russian forces were trying to counterattack but that they had not been successful, Reuters reported. We’ve managed to advance up to 1,400 metres on various sections of the front,” the spokesperson for the eastern military command said when asked about fighting near Bakhmut. ![]() “We’re trying … to conduct strikes on the enemy, we’re counterattacking. The advance is the latest in a series of similar gains reported this week by Kyiv near Bakhmut, which Russia said it had fully captured last month after the bloodiest and longest battle since it began its full-scale invasion in February 2022. 12.01 BST Ukrainian forces have made advances on parts of frontline near Bakhmut, official saysĬounterattacking Ukrainian forces have advanced up to 1,400 metres at a number of sections of the front line near the eastern city of Bakhmut in the past day, a military spokesperson said on Saturday.
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