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Klitschko honored at gala

23 o’clock: Wladimir Klitschko was honored at the “A Heart for Children” fundraising gala. On Saturday evening in Berlin he accepted the Golden Heart on behalf of all the helpers of the war-affected children in Ukraine. In her laudation, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen recalled the people of the country.

Russia calls new EU sanctions ‘illegitimate’

5:56 p.m.: The Russian government has condemned the European Union’s new Russia sanctions as illegitimate and ineffective. These “restrictive, unilateral and illegitimate measures” would not achieve their goal, the Russian Foreign Ministry said. The ninth package of sanctions was published in the Journal of the EU on Friday and thus came into force.

Ukraine: One dead in Russian shelling in Kherson

11:55 a.m.: According to officials, a man was killed in a Russian shelling of the southern Ukrainian city of Cherson. The 36-year-old died in his car when Russian troops attacked the western part of the city with artillery and rockets, regional governor Yaroslav Yanukovych said on the short message service Telegram. A 70-year-old woman was also injured. The information could not be checked independently.

Ukrainian forces recaptured the city on November 11. However, according to Ukrainian sources, Russian troops continued to fire at them from positions across the Dnipro River. The governor of another Ukrainian region said rescuers recovered the body of a one-year-old boy from the rubble of a home that was hit by a rocket during Friday’s wave of Russian attacks.

Russia: Put up a protective shield over nuclear waste at nuclear power plants

11:51 am: The administration deployed by Russia at the occupied Ukrainian nuclear power plant Zaporizhia announces the construction of a protective screen over a storage site for nuclear waste. Video footage shows workers laying a kind of transparent tarpaulin over dozens of concrete cylinders at a height of about five meters. “First of all, it protects against fragments and improvised explosive devices dropped by drones,” explains a Russian representative. Later the screen will become more substantial. Russia and Ukraine accuse each other of shelling the nuclear power plant.

Ukrainian forces are said to have killed three people in the Luhansk region

11:31 am: According to Russian sources, three people were killed by Ukrainian shelling in a Russian-occupied village in eastern Ukraine. US Himar missiles have landed in Shchastia in the Luhansk region, according to the Russian authorities. Five other people were injured and four houses were destroyed. The Russian information could not initially be checked independently.

Again nationwide air alert in Ukraine

10:53 am: In Ukraine, an air alert is triggered again nationwide, including in the capital Kyiv. Sirens are blaring across the country, officials say. The military administration in Kyiv called on the population via the short message service Telegram to go to shelters.

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