A summary of today's developments
A Russian missile strike on Ukraine’s northern city of Chernihiv killed seven people, including a six-year-old child, and left more than 120 injured on Saturday, authorities said. Denise Brown, the UN’s humanitarian coordinator for Ukraine, condemned it as a “heinous” attack.
Russia’s defence ministry reported a flurry of Ukrainian drone attacks on Saturday targeting the regions of Moscow, Novgorod to the northwest of the Russian capital, and Belgorod, that borders Ukraine. It said nobody was hurt in the attacks, Reuters reports.
The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, visited Sweden on Saturday, his first visit to the country since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year. At a joint news conference, Zelenskyy and Swedish prime minister Ulf Kristersson announced that the two countries agreed to strengthen cooperation on production, training and servicing of the Swedish CV-90 infantry fighting vehicles.
Overnight into Saturday, Ukraine’s air force said it shot down 15 out of 17 Russian drones targeting northern, central and western regions.
In Russia, Vladimir Putin visited top military officials in the city of Rostov-on-Don near the Ukrainian border. The Kremlin said the Russian president listened to reports from Valery Gerasimov, the commander in charge of Moscow’s operations in Ukraine, and other top military figures at the headquarters of Russia’s southern military district.
The number of injured has risen to 129 after a Russian missile struck a central square in the historic northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv, the interior ministry said on Saturday.
