Other photographs are emerging of the city of Bakhmut, which has suffered heavy Russian bombardment in recent weeks.
The city is one of the last Ukrainian strongholds in eastern Ukraine and its downfall would bring Russia closer to construction throughout the Donbass region.
Speaking about the attack, Galeotti said the killings “hard to explain” were a hallmark of the era when Russia or the Russian elite were “divided and in crisis. “
He said: “I think this is a testament to the development of instability within Russia itself. “
When asked what was known about Ms Dugina, she said she had become a prominent journalist in the country and worked for a media outlet that was allegedly run by a guy under sanctions in the UK for spreading disinformation.
“He is the one who, again, has all sorts of close ties to other people around the Kremlin and also takes the same kind of excessive nationalist stance as Dugin himself,” he said.
“Therefore, she may have become a target, but given the situation, it is most likely her father. “
Speaking about the likelihood that Ukraine carried out the attack, Galeotti said: “I mean, on some level, one might think that Ukrainians have the ultimate explanation as to why they don’t like and despise Dugin, who was an animator of this war and frankly wanted. “let this happen sooner.
“But on the other hand, it’s not a simple task. Setting up an assassination operation in central Russia, which is, after all, a security state, and then exfiltrating those who were involved, to get them out. “of the country without any trace.
“It’s hard to see that they would have any idea that if they were users in Moscow, Dugin would be the guy they would choose.
“That’s why we have so many other theories about whether the state sought to turn Dugin into a martyr or whatever. “
According to hospital officials, the number of untimely or confusing births has roughly doubled this year compared to previous periods in Ukraine.
The accumulation of preterm births is attributed to the tension and immediate deterioration of living standards, which weigh heavily on pregnant women.
As Russian forces continue their offensive along Ukraine’s eastern flank, a Ukrainian doctor described how she now lives in the remaining maternity ward in the war-torn Donetsk region to care for premature babies.
Before the Russian invasion of the country, 3 hospitals in government-controlled spaces in the Donetsk region had facilities to treat young children born prematurely.
However, one was hit by a Russian airstrike and the other had to close as a result of the fighting, leaving only the maternity ward of the mining town of Pokrovsk still in operation.
Tetiana Myroshnychenko, the neonatologist left at the site, described how she now lives in the hospital and that her three-year-old son stores the week between his stay at the center and his father at home.
The doctor explained that young children in the hatchery on the hospital floor may simply not disconnect from their rescue machines and that it would be necessary to leave the hospital, even if an air raid siren sounded.
Among Dr. Myroshnychenko’s patients is Veronica, two months old, born and weighing 3 pounds and four ounces.
“If I take Veronika to the shelter, it would take five minutes. But for her, those five minutes can be critical,” Dr. Myroshnychenko said.
Dr. Myroshnychenko went on to say that the maternity wards of the hospital, talking about war is discouraged.
“Everything that happens outdoors in this construction scares us, of course, but we don’t communicate it. His main fear right now is the baby,” he added.
Russia deployed Kinzhal (Dagger) hypersonic missiles 3 times during the war in Ukraine, Kremlin Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said.
The Kinzhal missiles are part of a variety of new hypersonic weapons that President Vladimir Putin brought in 2018 that he said can hit almost anywhere in the world and escape a U. S. -built missile shield.
Speaking on state television, Shoigu said the missiles have proven effective at hitting high-value targets 3 times, calling them incomparable and almost shooting them down in flight.
“We deployed him 3 times in the army’s special operation,” Mr. Shoigu said in an interview broadcast by Rossiya 1.
“And 3 times it showed features. “
British troops will have to be “prepared for the new realities” and prepare those they enjoy for “potential long-term deployment” amid the war in Ukraine, a senior army official said.
In an article for Soldier magazine, Petty Officer Paul Carney said the attack on Ukraine had provoked a united reaction and that British troops were “ready to counter any aggression” and were “preparing to face Russia’s risk. “
He also warned of being disconnected from his relatives due to the security that enemy forces intercept and eavesdrop on cell phones.
He wrote: “I want all of us to verify that, as far as possible, we have physical compatibility for operations. And it’s also vital that we prepare our loved ones and families, who sometimes have the most complicated role in our absence. “.
“My request is that you have your conversations about a possible long-term deployment with them now.
“Find the contact numbers of the networks and the other people involved who can help them, such as the welfare officer and the unit chaplain.
“This is because we may be out of touch for long periods of time on an excursion due to the security threat related to cellular communications. “
General Sir Richard Dannatt, the former head of the army, told the Mirror: “This is a cautious recommendation from the army’s most sensible soldier. This means that the army is about to be deployed in Ukraine, but it is the duty of any peacetime army to arrive. “ready for war, in all facets of life.
“That said, with the war in Europe, competitive Russia, and worried countries on Russia’s borders, it makes sense for British infantrymen to be realistic about what will happen. “
Residents of the Czech Republic have sent 1,968 kroner (£67. 83) to Ukraine to commemorate the invasion of Czechoslovakia by Soviet troops in 1968, the Ukrainian embassy announced today.
Czech citizens use a special payment code to move the budget to an already existing account created through the Embassy of Ukraine in the Czech Republic to budget.
“Even on weekends, dozens and dozens of 1,968 kroner bills come to our account. Thank you very much Czech friends,” the embassy said in a statement.
In August 1968, the armies of the Soviet Union and its allies crossed the borders of Czechoslovakia, a member of the Eastern Bloc, to weigh a reform motion tabled that same year, known as the “Prague Spring. “
The troops killed dozens of civilians and the resulting profession drove tens of thousands more into exile.
The troops nevertheless left after the fall of the communist regime in 1989.
The footage shows barricades of Ukrainian troops in the eastern city of Bakhmut.
The area, which is part of the Donetsk region, has been a key target of Moscow’s eastern offensive in recent weeks, as the Russian military attempts to carry out a months-long crusade across the Donbass.
The Kremlin Defense Ministry said it destroyed an ammunition depot containing missiles for US-made HIMARS rocket systems and other Western-made anti-aircraft systems in the southern Ukrainian port city of Odessa.
The ministry also said it destroyed two M777 howitzers in a combat position in the Kherson region and a fuel depot in the Zaporizhzhia region that it claimed to store more than a hundred tons of diesel fuel.
Sky News has not been to check the report.
In weeks, Crimea, which Russia annexed to Ukraine in 2014, has witnessed a series of attacks on key military installations.
Yesterday, the Russian government claimed that air defenses shot down a Ukrainian drone over the headquarters of the Russian Black Sea fleet in Sevastopol.
It’s the time of the drone incident at headquarters in 3 weeks and followed explosions at a Russian airfield and ammunition depot on the peninsula this month.
Here, Sky’s Alistair Bunkall explains the importance of attacks in the region.
Residents of the Mykolaiv region of southern Ukraine are being asked to take refuge after reported explosions in the area.
On a Telegram messaging app, Mykolaiv Mayor Oleksandr Sienkevych said Russian forces began firing on the city with S-300 missiles around 1 a. m.
“Broken construction machinery there. Other blows on the outskirts of the city. There are no victims,” he added.
In recent months, Mykolaiv, which lies just north of the Russian-occupied city of Kherson, has been attacked by heavy shelling as Russian forces continue their offensive to the east.
Yesterday, a Russian missile strike injured 12 people, added 4 children and destroyed houses and a building in the city of Voznesensk in the Mykolaiv region, the Ukrainian prosecutor said.