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...“The morning begins with an explosion in the city,” Ihor Terekhov, mayor of Kharkiv, wrote in a post on social media....
...About 15 explosions were heard in eastern Kharkiv, the country’s second-largest city, with missiles striking power facilities and causing a widespread blackout, its mayor Ihor Terekhov said....
...Instead, there were 30 civilians, eleven of whom were wounded by Russian missiles,” Kharkiv mayor Ihor Terekhov said in a statement. “Turkish journalists are among the victims,” he added....
...Ihor Klymenko, Ukraine’s minister for internal affairs, said a journalist from the UK was among those injured in the attack....
...Many analysts and Ukrainian soldiers say his tactical approach draws on his Soviet military training and believe his appointment is unlikely to bring the new approach that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has...
...Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s video address on Monday night was blunt. “We need to pull ourselves together,” the Ukrainian president said....
...Ihor Kopytin, a member of the parliament’s defence committee, said the economic reserve system would be decided by the government, which may or may not bring forward more legislation....
...Ukraine’s interior minister, Ihor Klymenko, said a missile strike in central Cherkasy damaged a hotel and engulfed it in flames, wounding seven people....
...A Russian missile hit a grocery store and an adjacent café in the village of Hroza, where locals had gathered after a funeral, said Ukraine’s interior affairs minister Ihor Klymenko....
...Almost every family in the village of 330 people had at least one relative at the gathering, said Ukraine’s interior affairs minister Ihor Klymenko, underscoring the devastating impact the attack has had...
...It quoted Kharkiv region’s chief of police Volodymyr Tymoshko as saying at least one person had been injured....
...Kharkiv’s mayor, Ihor Terekhov, posted a photo of himself standing outside a bombed-out historic building previously used by a local college....
...Interior minister Ihor Klymenko said some of the rescuers were hit by a second round of missiles as they arrived at the scene to help extract victims from the debris....
...Finally, a few days ago the same agency froze the assets of oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky as part of an embezzlement investigation....
...“The enemy continues to bombard the Kherson region,” Andriy Yermak, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s chief of staff, said in a statement....
...Kharkiv mayor Ihor Terekhov said three drones, which were probably launched from Russia’s neighbouring Belgorod region, targeted “the middle of the city, in densely populated areas”....
...But on Saturday, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that “the counter-offensive and respective defensive actions are under way”....
...“Open oceans favour big warships, while closed seas such as the Black Sea favour small, fast and highly manoeuvrable boats, special forces operations and drones,” said Ihor Kabanenko, a former Ukrainian...
...Ihor Zhovkva, Zelenskyy’s deputy head of administration, was optimistic that Ukraine would be able to convince developing countries to sign up to Kyiv’s peace plan, which will demand a Russian withdrawal...
...Ihor Kolomoisky is reportedly still in Ukraine though wanted in the US for money laundering....
...Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, said during a press conference with president Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Thursday that she was “comforted” by signs that the country’s anti-corruption...
...Zelenskyy cracks down Over the past two months, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has intensified efforts to clamp down on corruption....
...Arakhamia said legislators would promote the stand-in head of the interior ministry, Ihor Klymenko....
...A video shared online by Andriy Yermak, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s chief of staff, showed thousands of fish flopping around on a dry riverbed on the banks of Maryanske village, Dnipropetrovsk region...
...The talk at my table was the staple of Kyiv: the front, the mindset of Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the state of the backbone of the west....
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