Concrete plans for reconstruction of Ukraine +++ Thousands of people evacuated in Kherson region +++ The news about Russia’s war against Ukraine in star-Live blog.
Is Russia’s war in Ukraine threatening to escalate further? In a phone call with Western counterparts, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has claimed that Ukraine wants to drop a nuclear-contaminated conventional bomb in order to blame Russia. British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said it was not credible. The allegation raises suspicions that Moscow itself is up to something dirty, said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Meanwhile, in the occupied southern Ukrainian region of Kherson, Russia has sent more than 20,000 civilians from the city of the same name across the Dnipro River in the face of the advance of Kiev troops. A withdrawal of Russian troops from the region may be imminent.
The reports from the 243rd day of the war in the stern live blog: