Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced that Security Service of #Ukraine had detained Viktor Medvedchuk, the head of the pro-Russian party.
Viktor Medvedchuk was under house arrest on charges of treason. It was reported that he escaped from custody at the end of February.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy also congratulated everyone on Cosmonautics Day
Peskov said he saw a photo with the detained Medvedchuk, but he cannot confirm this.
“I can’t say how true this photo, a lot of fakes are being generated”
President #Zelenskyy proposes #Russia to exchange #Medvedchuk for #Ukrainian POWs: "I propose to the #Russian Federation: exchange this guy of yours for our guys and girls now held in Russian captivity".
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Vyacheslav #Volodin, chairman of #Russia's #Duma says the blockage of Duma's #YouTube channel is an act of violation of freedom of expression by #Washington.
“The blocking of Duma TV on YouTube gives every reason to apply the most stringent response measures to video hosting”.
This was stated by the Chairman of the Committee of the State Duma of the #Russian Federation on Security Piskarev
Another video from the #Kramatorsk railway station
‼️"A lot of people in serious condition, without arms, legs. They are being operated on by 30-40 surgeons at a time," said #Kramatorsk Mayor Alexander Goncharenko
At the time of the shelling, there were about 4,000 people at the station waiting for evacuation.
‼️ The number of victims in #Kramatorsk reached 39. Among them are 4 children.
#BBC analyzed the information on losses confirmed by #Russia, according to which only 1,083 Russian servicemen died in Ukraine.
Here are the brief conclusions:
📍 Ten colonels (including one captain of the first rank), 20 lieutenant colonels, 31 majors and 155 junior officers (rank from junior lieutenant to captain) died in the war. This is 20% of all servicemen whose deaths have been confirmed in Russian regions.
📍The high number of officers on the lists of confirmed casualties does not mean that every fifth #Russian killed on the battlefield was an officer. Traditionally, the bodies of fallen commanders in the Russian army try to send home as a priority;
"The emergency services went to the place of fire, measures are being taken to eliminate it", said Gladkov, the governor of the region in his Telegram channel.
‼️ Two people were injured in the fire, said governor Gladkov.
The reason for the fire has not yet been named.
UDP: Residents of three nearby streets are getting evacuated.
The fire was given a higher degree of difficulty, according to the regional press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations.
The agency also confirmed that two employees of the company were injured.
#Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich and #Ukrainian peace negotiators suffered symptoms of suspected poisoning after a meeting in #Kyiv earlier this month
They blamed suspected attack on hard-liners in #Moscow who "wanted to sabotage talks to end the war".
❗️Bellingcat confirm that three members of the delegation attending the peace talks between #Ukraine and #Russia experienced symptoms consistent with poisoning with chemical weapons.
The Guardian correspondent Sean Walker, citing his sources, reports that as a result of chemical poisoning, Abramovich lost his sight for several hours and was treated in #Turkey.