Russia-Ukraine conflict – stay: Putin inflicts ‘terrible’ shelling as Kyiv warn of file drone assaults

Russia’s barrage of airstrikes and shelling led to a ‘terrible night’ within the southern Ukrainian area Kherson, stated the area’s governor on Sunday morning.

A dozen individuals have been wounded within the attack, together with a 27-year-old lady and her 9-month-old child.

“The Kherson region experienced another terrible night,” Governor Oleksandr Prokudin wrote on the Telegram messaging app.

Over the previous 24 hours, Russian forces carried out 59 assaults on Kherson, the area’s administration stated on Telegram, together with 19 situations of shelling of Kherson metropolis, the area’s administrative centre.

Reuters couldn’t independently confirm the experiences. There was no instant remark from Russia.

Two Ukrainian girls have been amongst these killed in Israel after Hamas invaded the nation on Saturday, the Ukrainian embassy has informed information company Interfax-Ukraine.

The identities of the 2 girls haven’t been confirmed, however officers stated the ladies had lived in Israel for a very long time.

“The Embassy of Ukraine received confirmation from the Israeli police regarding the death of two Ukrainian citizens”, stated the embassy in an announcement on Sunday.

“Measures are being taken to organise the repatriation of the bodies of the deceased. There is currently no information on the presence of Ukrainian citizens among the wounded or missing.”

The expat neighborhood of Ukrainians in Israe is estimated to face at round 500,000 individuals, in keeping with the Ukrainian international ministry.

Russia will exploit the Hamas assaults in Israel to unfold propaganda supporting its invasion of Ukraine, in keeping with the American suppose tank The Study of War.

The Kremlin has already blamed the West for “neglecting conflicts” within the Middle East by concentrating efforts in Ukraine, in keeping with the group.

Now Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chair of the Russian Security Council claims the Us and its allies ought to have been engaged on the Palestinian and Israeli difficulty, slightly than “intefering” with Russia.

The group added: “These Kremiline narratives target Western audiences to drive a wedge in military support for Ukraine, seek to demoralize Ukrainian socity by claiming Ukraine will lose international support, and intend to reassure Russian domestic audiences that the international society will ignore Ukraine’s war effort.”

The fall-out from Uefa’s plans to reinstate Russian underage groups to European competitors is inflicting an enormous cut up throughout the governing physique, placing president Aleksander Ceferin below immense strain to “revisit” the problem at this week’s Executive Committee assembly.

The controversy has already induced the confederation vice-president Karl-Erik Nilsson to resign as boss of the Swedish Sports Confederation and led Denmark to develop into the latest affiliation to say they won’t play Russian sides to go along with England, Ireland and Ukraine.

The Independent has been informed that there’s pressure inside some nationwide associations that didn’t instantly reject the thought out of hand.

The UK’s new ambassador for Ukraine wore a kilt for his first assembly with President Vlodymyr Zelensky.

Father-of-three Martin Harris, 54, beforehand served from 2003 to 2008 in Kyiv as deputy head of mission and consul common, and raised his kids in Ukraine.

Mr Harris, who grew up in Scotland, wore his household’s Ferguson tartan for his initiation into the position, which was admired by President Zelensky.

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy stated on Sunday that two Ukrainian nationals had died in unrest in Israel and that greater than 100 residents had contacted the nation’s embassy.

“Unfortunately, the deaths of two Ukrainian citizens have been confirmed,” Zelenskiy stated in his nightly video tackle.

Zelenskiy stated he spoke on Sunday to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and expressed “solidarity with Israel, which is enduring a brazen, large-scale attack”.

The UK’s new ambassador for Ukraine wore a kilt for his first assembly with President Vlodymyr Zelensky – and obtained “solidarity” tartan created after the outbreak of conflict.

Father-of-three Martin Harris, 54, beforehand served from 2003 to 2008 in Kyiv as deputy head of mission and consul common, and raised his kids in Ukraine.

Mr Harris, who grew up in Scotland, wore his household’s Ferguson tartan for his initiation into the position, which was admired by President Zelensky.

After the conflict broke out in February 2022, in a gesture of solidarity with the stricken nation, Mr Harris obtained a brand new tartan created, named “Ukraine Forever”, and has a tie created from it.

Earlier this 12 months, Mr Harris spent a month in Lviv to refresh his fluent Ukrainian. He went on vacation to Scotland not too long ago and was moved to see the Ukrainian flag flying in rural Shetland.

Mr Harris stated: “The Ukrainians express their national identity strongly through traditional clothing, so I wanted to wear my national dress as the UK’s new ambassador. President Zelensky noted my kilt and many Ukrainians have complimented me.”

Mr Harris will lead the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) on the British Embassy in Kyiv, after taking on from Dame Melinda Simmons.

The neighborhood of Hroza within the Kharkiv area pay tribute to those that misplaced their lives when a missile hit a restaurant on Friday.

Volodymyr Zelensky described the attack as “a demonstrably brutal Russian crime – a rocket attack on an ordinary grocery store, a completely deliberate act of terrorism. My condolences to all those who have lost loved ones.”

Ukraine’s minister of inside affairs, Ihor Klymenko, stated the dying toll stood at 51 and that “debris analysis is ongoing”. The village has a inhabitants of 330.

The head of the Centre for Civil Liberties in Ukraine, Oleksandra Matviichuk, has made a heartfelt speech calling for the documentation of Russian conflict crimes on Sunday.

Speaking on the Lviv Book Forum, which was streamed on-line by the UK’s Hay Festival, Matviichuk stated: “Every survivor, every affected person has to get a shot at justice because if we say that every life matters, then we have to turn it into our practice.”

She added that she had been creating methods to make sure “every person in Ukraine who has suffered from Russian aggression gets a shot at justice, regardless of who the person is, their social standing, the type of crime they were a victim of, what type of violence they experienced, whether international organisations care about their fate or not, or international media care about their fate or not.”