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- Eighteen people were killed, including two children, before dawn on Friday by missiles fired by a “strategic aircraft” from the Black Sea to a residential area in the Odessa region of southern Ukraine, spokesman for the region’s administration Sergey Bratchuk and rescue workers reported. There would be about thirty wounded.
- This strike comes the day after the withdrawal of the Russian army from Serpents’ Island, a strategic site in the Black Sea for controlling maritime routes. Moscow claimed to withdraw its troops “as a sign of goodwill” to facilitate grain exports from Ukraine, while kyiv congratulated itself on having scared off Russian forces.
- Volodymyr Zelensky admitted that the situation remained “extremely difficult” in Lysychansk, in eastern Ukraine, where most of the fighting is concentrated. Lyssytchansk is the last large city not yet in Russian hands in the Luhansk region.
- In Kherson, in the south, Ukrainian helicopters struck “troops and military equipment of the enemy”, near the town of Bilozirka, the Ukrainian army said on Friday. This attack made “thirty-five dead” among Russian soldiers and destroyed two tanks and several other armored vehicles, according to the same source.
- Several member states of NATO, which ended its summit in Madrid on Thursday, announced new military aid to Ukraine : the British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, has pledged to pay an extension of 1 billion pounds (1.16 billion euros), and the American President, Joe Biden, of 800 million dollars (760 million euros) additional.
- Ukraine has started to export electricity in a way “meaningful” to the European Unionvia Romania, President Volodymyr Zekensky announced on Thursday evening. “We are preparing to increase deliveries”he added, pointing out that “Ukrainian electricity can replace a considerable part of the Russian gas consumed by Europeans”.
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