Ukrainian army says it has surrounded Russian soldiers holding Lyman, a strategic town in the east of the country

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3:23 p.m. : Ukrainian soldiers are “entered” in the town of Lyman, an important railway junction in eastern Ukraine under the control of troops from Moscow, says the Ukrainian Defense.

2:57 p.m. : Ukraine condemns the “unlawful detention” of the general manager of the Zaporijjia nuclear power plant (south), Igor Murachov, arrested yesterday by Russia, which controls the site for a reason still unknown.

2:28 p.m. : The only Ukrainian designer to go to Paris Fashion Week in March, Lilia Litkovskaya fled kyiv on February 24, the day of the Russian invasion. Unable to present her fall-winter 2022-23 collection during fashion week, she then proposed an installation at the Tranoï fashion show. Refugee in Paris, she is, in April, at the initiative of an ephemeral charity pop-up store bringing together Ukrainian fashion designers.

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2:19 p.m. : The number of Russian citizens entering Finland has dropped after the entry into force of new Finnish restrictions, announce the border guards, confronted in recent days with an influx after an order for military mobilization in Russia.

1:54 p.m. : According to the regional governor, “the (Russian) occupiers attacked these civilians who were trying to escape the shelling”.

1:55 p.m. : At least 20 people have been found shot dead in their cars in northeastern Ukraine, near Kupiansk, regional governor Oleg Synegoubov announced.

1:15 p.m. : After having formalized the annexation of four Ukrainian territories by Russia, Vladimir Putin spoke yesterday at a ceremony in Red Square in Moscow in front of several thousand people. A speech synonymous with“explosion of nationalist delirium”, considers Jean-Louis Bourlanges, MoDem deputy for Hauts-de-Seine and chairman of the National Assembly’s Foreign Affairs Commission, on franceinfo.

12:42 p.m. : The Ukrainian army claimed to have “encircled” several thousand Russian soldiers in the town of Lyman, an important railway junction in eastern Ukraine, under the control of troops from Moscow #AFP https://t.co/BevA47ybrZ

12:44 p.m. : “Russian forces are surrounded at Lyman”, announced on Ukrainian television a spokesman for the Ukrainian army, Serguiï Tcherevatiï, quoted by the Interfax-Ukraine agency. According to him, “about 5,000-5,500 Russians” had been entrenched in and around Lyman for the past few days.

12:43 p.m. : The Ukrainian army says it has “surrounded” several thousand Russian soldiers at Lyman in the east of the country.

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11:31 a.m. : Energoatom, the company that manages the Zaporijjia plant in Ukraine, states in particular on Facebookthat the general director of the plant, Ihor Murashov, was kidnapped by Russians yesterday afternoon. “The General Manager’s car was stopped, he was taken out of the vehicle, his eyes were blindfolded and he was driven to an unknown destination. At this time, we have no information on the fate that reserved for him”, can we read. The company calls for his immediate release.

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