the Russian cruiser “Moskva” was sunk by two Ukrainian missiles, according to the Pentagon

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  • The Russia threatens to intensify strikes on kyiv. While Moscow said it was concentrating its offensive on the Donbass and eastern Ukraine, the Russian Defense Ministry announced on Friday that it had bombed an arms factory near kyiv.
  • the cruiser Moskvaflagship of the Russian fleet in the Black Sea, damaged during the offensive against Ukraine, sank, announced Thursday evening, the Russian Ministry of Defense.
  • More than five hundred civiliansincluding twenty-four children, have been killed in the Kharkiv region of eastern Ukraine since the beginning of the Russian invasion (February 24), said Thursday in a video posted on its Telegram channel, Oleh Synehoubov, the governor of the region, whose capital, Kharkiv, was heavily bombarded by the Russian army.
  • A resumption of evacuations of civilians, using nine humanitarian corridorsincluding from the besieged city of Mariupol, was announced by Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk on Telegram on Thursday.
  • While she had been moved to Lviv in early March following Russia’s military offensive, French Embassy in Ukraine reopened in Kyiv on Friday.
  • The head of Irish diplomacy, Simon Coveney, travels to Kyiv on Thursdayannounced his services, to discuss “how Ireland can continue to provide political, security and humanitarian support to Ukraine”.

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