Kiev City Hall deemed it too dangerous on Monday to authorize the LGBT+ community to organize a rally in the city’s metro because it could not do so in the street due to Russian strikes. The Ukrainian capital has not seen a Gay Pride event since Russia launched its armed invasion of the country in February 2022, and the event was hosted last year by the city of Liverpool, United Kingdom, where s The Eurovision contest was held in place of Ukraine.
Ukraine is preparing for new power cuts following a new Russian bombing campaign that caused massive destruction of its electricity infrastructure, the country’s authorities warned on Monday, after drastically increasing electricity prices .
Last weekend, the Russian army targeted energy installations in five regions and damaged two other thermal power plants in strikes against its neighbor involving more than a hundred drones and missiles. According to the Ministry of Energy, work to repair the damage is underway but the electricity network remains in a precarious state and “outage periods could lengthen. In particular, emergency outages were put in place in a number of regions on Sunday.”
Hello everyone. Like every day, the editorial staff of 20 minutes is mobilized to give you all the information on the conflict. On the ground, the situation is still complicated for kyiv. Moscow has in fact continued to claim constant advances in recent weeks in the east and north-east of Ukraine.