LIVE – War in Ukraine: At least 13 killed in strike in Russian-controlled eastern city of Donetsk
At least 13 people were killed during a Ukrainian strike in Donetsk, a major city in eastern Ukraine under Russian control, the head of the local administration installed by Moscow, Alexei Kulemzin, announced on Sunday.
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A small place taken in eastern Ukraine
The Russian military claimed to have captured a small town in eastern Ukraine’s Kharkiv region on Sunday, marking an increase in pressure on the front by Moscow’s forces in recent weeks.
“The village of Krakhmalnoye, Kharkiv region, was liberated due to the successful active operation of units of the ‘Western’ group of troops in the Kupyansk zone,” the Russian Defense Ministry said in its bulletin Daily Operations in Ukraine.
Thirteen dead in Donetsk
At least 13 people were killed and ten others wounded in a Ukrainian strike on a market in the Moscow-controlled eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk on Sunday, Denis Pushilin, the head of the Russian occupation of the region, announced.
“At least 13 people were killed and ten injured in a horrific bomb blast at a market in Donetsk’s Textilshchik district,” he said on Telegram. An earlier report by pro-Russian authorities had reported 12 deaths, without giving details of the injured.
A Russian gas terminal ravaged by flames
A fire broke out at a gas terminal at the Russian Baltic Sea port of Ust-Luga, the region’s governor said Sunday morning. The site, which is 110 kilometers west of St. Petersburg near the border with Estonia, is operated by Russia’s largest natural gas producer, Novatek.
“There are no injuries as a result of the fire at the Novatek terminal at the port of Ust-Luga. The staff has been evacuated,” the governor of the Leningrad region, Alexander Drozdenko, wrote on Telegram, showing a short video accompanying his message. Huge fire and smoke. “A high level of alert has been declared in Kingisepski district” which includes the port, he added.
Russia’s TASS agency and other state media said the cause of the fire was unknown. Jérôme Garro, LCI correspondent at the site, said two drones were seen heading toward St. Petersburg shortly before the fire, according to Russian media Fontanka 2.
A fire at the terminal of Novatek, Russia’s largest producer of liquefied natural gas, on the Baltic Sea. Leningrad region. The governor did not specify the cause of the fire. According to Russian media Fontanka, 2 drones were spotted in the direction of St. Petersburg some time ago. pic.twitter.com/FvO3OcLPWM — Jérôme Garro (@JeromeGarro) January 21, 2024
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“Ukraine can count on France,” assured Stéphane Sejourn, the new minister of foreign affairs, in the columns of Le Parisien. “France has always helped the Ukrainians with the delivery of broad capabilities useful in Ukraine’s fight for its defense. We will continue,” the head of diplomacy confirmed, estimating that “the consequences of a Ukrainian defeat would be significant”. He also insisted that no French mercenaries were fighting in Ukraine, allegations by Vladimir Putin that he described as “gross manipulations”.
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said on Saturday that “Ukraine is not an independent and sovereign country” but is “under the full control and influence of the United States.” He is due to meet his Ukrainian counterpart Denis Chmygal on Wednesday in a city located on the border of the two countries. “I will tell him that I am against Ukraine’s membership in NATO and I will veto it. It will trigger a third world war, nothing more, nothing less,” he told channel public television RTVS. He added that he wanted to assure Denis Chmigal that the latter “will not receive weapons from the army and the Slovak state”. A NATO member, Slovakia is one of the most pro-Russian countries in the European Union.
North Korea’s top diplomat confirmed his country is “ready to resist” Russian President Vladimir Putin, the official KCNA agency reported Sunday, the latest sign of rapprochement between Pyongyang and Moscow. Vladimir Putin “expressed his desire to visit the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea’s official name, editor’s note) soon”, according to a press release circulated by the agency. According to the same document, Russia expressed deep gratitude (…) to North Korea “for providing full support and solidarity to the position of the Russian government and people on special military operations in Ukraine”, which was named by Russia. That’s offensive.
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“France has always helped the Ukrainians with the delivery of extensive capabilities useful in Ukraine’s fight for its defense. We will continue, Ukraine can count on France,” It was confirmed on Saturday Parisian French Foreign Minister, Stéphane Sejourne. “It is also an important message for the French because the consequences of a Ukrainian defeat would be significant.”
“The aim was to reaffirm our long-term support. This is important as Russia sees the weakness and fatigue of allies,” He said about his visit to Kiev, adding “to work” for “During Emmanuel Macron’s trip in February, there may be a certain number of announcements on the site.”
For its part, Russia will next week examine a bill aimed at confiscating the money, assets and valuables of anyone found guilty of spreading “false information” about its military, an official announced on Saturday. Senior Parliamentary Officer. Moscow outlawed criticism of the military shortly after it launched its attack on Ukraine in February 2022. Thousands of opponents of the conflict have since been jailed.
The bill, which state media say has the support of all major parliamentary groups, will be presented to the Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament, on Monday, said its speaker Vyacheslav Volodin.
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