Kyiv (Reuters) A 53-year-old woman was killed Sunday morning after Russian troops shelled an apartment in the southeastern Ukraine city of Nikopol, the regional governor said. He added that an 87-year-old woman was also injured in the attack, which he described as a shelling.
Nikopol is just across the Dnipro River from the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, which was occupied shortly after Russian forces invaded Ukraine on his February 24th.
A civilian was killed and two wounded in nighttime artillery shelling by Ukrainian forces on Saturday, said Galina Danilchenko, mayor of the Ukrainian city of Melitopol in the southeastern Zaporizhia region. rice field. Russian forces continued to bomb Ukrainian cities over the weekend in an effort to seize more land in the eastern part of the country. Ukrainian officials said Moscow was struggling to launch the long-awaited large-scale offensive.
Governor Serhii Lysak said one person was killed and another injured in the shelling Sunday morning in Nikopol, a city southeast of Dnipropetrovsk. One water treatment plant was damaged.
In Kharkov, Ukraine’s second-largest city, three of his S-300 missiles from Russia hit infrastructure overnight, injuring one person, Orevshinievbov said.
Olympic president Thomas Bach said on Saturday that he shared the “sadness and human suffering” of Ukrainian athletes and said it was not the responsibility of individual governments to decide who would participate in international sports competitions. emphasized.
This statement follows Ukraine’s threat to boycott the Paris Olympics if Russian and Belarusian athletes are allowed to compete and rally like-minded countries to its cause. The President of Ukraine said the IOC was on the “wrong side of history” and afraid of Russia’s reaction.
Ukrainian athletes, Bach said on the sidelines of the World Ski Championships, “know how much we share their grief, their human suffering and all the effort we’re taking to help them”.
Bach added:
“It is not up to governments to decide who can take part in which sports competitions because this would be the end of international sport competitions and of world championships and Olympic Games as we know it.”
Long-serving NATO leader Jens Stoltenberg has no plans to extend his mandate for a fourth time and expects to be replaced in October, the military alliance said Sunday.
Austria has come under heavy criticism for granting visas that will allow sanctioned Russian lawmakers to attend a Vienna meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. The issue highlights the delicate balancing act that the European nation has made in an attempt to maintain its longstanding position of military neutrality during the war in Ukraine. condemned the invasion of Ukraine, but also stressed the need to maintain diplomatic relations with Russia.
Austria is home to several UN and international organizations, including the OSCE, which was established during the Cold War as a forum for dialogue between East and West. Russia is one of 57 countries in North America, Europe and Asia participating in the Vienna-based organization.
President Volodymyr Zelensky and other officials after urging allies in Kyiv to supply dozens of modern main battle tanks, including his M1 Abrams from the US, Leopard 2 from Germany and Challenger 2 from Britain urged the allies to send fighter planes. The leader of the Russian paramilitary group Wagner said on Sunday that his troops had captured a town in eastern Ukraine several kilometers from the main city of Bakhmut.
“Today Wagner’s assault troops have captured the city of Krasna Hora,” Wagner chief Evgeny Prigozhin said in a statement.
