LIVE – War in Ukraine: Pope Francis calls for “the courage to raise the white flag and negotiate”.

The Ukrainian Air Force said on Sunday it had shot down 35 Iranian-made Shahed drones out of a total of 39 launched by Russia overnight. She said on the social network that “thirty-five martyrs were shot” in 10 regions of central and southern Ukraine, including the Kyiv region.

A woman was killed this Sunday in a Ukrainian bombing that targeted a Russian border village, the Russian governor announced. “Kulbaki village bombed from Ukraine today”suggested the Russian governor of the Kursk region, Roman Starovoyton. “A Woman Was Murdered”He clarified.

In addition, three Russian S-300 missiles struck the eastern Ukrainian city of Mirnograd, injuring nine people, including a teenager, according to Vadym Filashkin, the Ukrainian head of the Donetsk region. Nine apartment buildings were damaged, he said.

Pope Francis addressed Russia and Ukraine in an interview with Swiss public television RTS that aired Saturday “Negotiate”. Shortly after the broadcast of this interview, the director of the Vatican press office clarified to the Italian press agency ANSA that the Pope was not asking Ukraine to surrender.

“The Pope uses the term ‘white flag’ and responds using the image suggested by the interviewer, ending hostilities, ending the ceasefire with the courage to negotiate”., says Matteo Bruni, director of the Vatican Press Office. It adds: “In interviews elsewhere, speaking of other conflict situations, but referring to any war situation, the Pope clearly stated: ‘Negotiation is never surrender.’

Russian news agency Ria-Novosti reported on Saturday that a Moscow court sentenced a student to 10 days in prison for naming his WiFi network “Slava Ukraine,” a cry for Kiev’s forces.

By changing the pre-installed name of his WiFi router to “Slava Ukraine!”, the Moscow State University student “promoted the slogans of Ukrainian nationalists,” the court assured in its decision, cited by RIA-News.

Russia claimed on Saturday that 47 Ukrainian drones were destroyed overnight, mainly in the Rostov-on-Don region bordering Ukraine, in an attack that could have targeted, among other things, an aviation factory.

“Air defense systems intercepted and destroyed one drone on the territory of the Belgorod region, two in the Kursk region, three in the Volgograd region and 41 in the Rostov region,” the Russian army announced.