Five people injured by Russian missile debris in kyiv…

The wife of Vladimir Kara-Mourza, a Russian opponent who is serving a 25-year prison sentence, said she was in favor of an exchange of political prisoners when “human lives are at stake”.

The entourage of Alexeï Navalny, with whom Vladimir Kara-Mourza was a long-time friend, had affirmed that an agreement with the Russian authorities to exchange him was “in progress and in its final phase”, before his death mid- February in a Russian prison. Asked about the existence of similar discussions concerning Vladimir Kara-Mourza, another opposition leader, his wife Evguenia, said she did not know if there were “active negotiations”.

“But I know it was a method of freeing some dissidents during the Soviet era. I think that if it was possible in Soviet times during the Cold War (…), it is certainly possible today,” she declared during a press conference organized by the Association of Correspondents at the UN (Acanu).

Vladimir Kara-Mourza is in very poor health, according to his supporters.

This is what the American ambassador in kyiv, Bridget Brink, urged this Monday on X, after the new bombing observed on the Ukrainian capital. The Ukrainian army is having to deal with a shortage of ammunition and recruiting difficulties, while the Russian army is eating away at ground. Important American aid is still blocked in Congress due to opposition between Republicans and Democrats. However, Joe Biden and his administration want to quickly reach a favorable vote.

Among these seven injured, two were transferred to hospital, report the Ukrainian authorities. A teenage girl is among the victims. However, the toll could still rise as searches continue in the debris.

Five people were injured Monday morning in kyiv by debris from Russian missiles shot down by air defense in the skies of the Ukrainian capital, authorities announced. “The enemy launched two ballistic missiles from the territory of temporarily occupied Crimea. The two enemy missiles were destroyed,” said the head of the kyiv military administration, Serguii Popko, on social networks.

This is the third explosive missile or drone attack on the capital in five days, as Russia has recently intensified its strikes on Ukraine, targeting energy infrastructure, following deadly Ukrainian bombings on border regions Russians.

The Kremlin refuses to comment on the claim of the jihadist group Islamic State (IS) concerning the Moscow attack. “The investigation is ongoing and it would be wrong for the presidential administration to comment on the progress of the investigation. We will not do it,” assured Vladimir Putin’s spokesperson, Dmitri Peskov.

He clarified that the Russian president had not planned at this stage to go to Crocus City Hall, the site of the attack. Vladimir Putin, for his part, mentioned the Ukrainian track, which kyiv denies.

At least five explosions were heard this Monday morning, around 9:30 a.m., in the center of kyiv, just after an air alert announcing Russian missiles heading towards the Ukrainian capital, AFP journalists noted.

“According to preliminary information, as a result of a missile attack on kyiv, debris was recorded in the Pechersky district. A residential building was damaged,” said the head of the kyiv military administration, Serguii Popko.

Eleven people were injured during a Russian drone attack in Mykolaiv, in the south of the country, we learned from an official source on Monday. Russia and Ukraine have increased mutual air attacks in recent weeks. “Energy infrastructure has been damaged and there is no electricity in parts of (the city) of Odessa,” regional governor Oleg Kiper said on Telegram early Monday.

Head of the PS list in the European elections, Raphaël Glucksmann denounced on Sunday “the indolence of the elites” towards Vladimir Putin’s Russia until the war in Ukraine, then the spirit of “capitulation”, implicitly targeting the Rebels during of the launch of his campaign.

“We must break with the indolence of the French and European elites. It is their indolence in the face of Putin that has brought us into this calamitous situation: indolence in the face of the massacre of the Chechens, indolence in the face of the invasion of Georgia (…) indolence in the face of the annexation of Crimea (in 2014) and the occupation of Donbass,” he underlined during his meeting in Tournefeuille (Haute-Garonne), near Toulouse. According to him, “this indolence, it is time to put an end to it because every weakness, every hesitation, every procrastination encourages the tyrants and brings the war closer to us.”

Facing a defensive Ukraine and suffering from delays in additional Western aid, Russian forces are seeking to increase their advantage on the battlefield. In recent days, the Russian army has claimed advances in the east in the sectors of Tchassiv Iar, a locality neighboring Bakhmout, and to the west of Avdiïvka, a town destroyed and conquered by the Russians in February.

Hello everyone. Like every day, the editorial staff of 20 minutes is mobilized to give you all the information on the conflict. Fears of repercussions on this war from Friday’s attack near Moscow are strong. The Russian authorities continue to invoke a Ukrainian lead in the investigation into this attack against a concert hall which left at least 137 dead. Vladimir Putin has still not mentioned the claim of the Islamic State jihadists.