Summary
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The mother and mother-in-law of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny were among mourners who brought flowers to his grave in Moscow on Saturday. It comes a day after thousands turned his funeral into one of the largest recent displays of dissent.
Three people were killed, eight wounded and six still missing after a Russian drone crashed into an apartment block in Ukraine’s southern port city of Odesa on Saturday, authorities said. Ukraine’s Armed Forces reported that the Odesa region was attacked by eight drones, of which seven were shot down by air defenses.
Russia’s state news agency says a drone crashed into an apartment building in St Petersburg. The Associated Press cited a report by RIA Novosti, which said six people received medical help after an explosion on Saturday morning, citing the press service of the city’s health care committee.
Volodymyr Zelenskiy has said a child was injured in the reported strike on the Odesa apartments. Posting on X, the Ukraine president made a further plea for military support to “effectively protect our people from Russian terror”. He said the search and rescue operation in the area continues.
More than 20 settlements in the eastern Ukrainian province of Kharkiv have reportedly sustained Russian artillery and mortar attacks. Kharkiv regional governor Oleh Syniehubov is reported to have said this morning that the eastern Ukrainian province had sustained Russian artillery and mortar attacks, while high-rise buildings in the regional capital, also called Kharkiv, were damaged by a drone attack.
The German defence ministry is checking whether a confidential videoconference on the Ukraine war had been wiretapped after a recording was posted on Russian social media, in a potentially huge embarrassment for Berlin. The head of Russia’s state-backed RT channel, Margarita Simonyan, on Friday posted a 38-minute audio recording of what she claimed were German army officers discussing striking Crimea.
The German defence ministry is checking whether a confidential videoconference on the Ukraine war had been wiretapped after a recording was posted on Russian social media, in a potentially huge embarrassment for Berlin.
The head of Russia’s state-backed RT channel, Margarita Simonyan, on Friday posted a 38-minute audio recording of what she claimed were German army officers discussing striking Crimea.
“We are investigating whether communications in the air force sector were intercepted,” a spokeswoman for the German defence ministry told AFP.
