LIVE – War in Ukraine: Russia says it destroyed 47 Ukrainian drones in southern regions overnight

At least three civilians were killed and three others wounded in Russian shelling in Dnipropetrovsk, Kherson and Donetsk regions located in east-central, southern and eastern Ukraine, officials said on Saturday. A 7-year-old boy was among the injured, while a 16-year-old boy died, they said.

Earlier in the day, the governor of Donetsk region said nearly 200 people had been evacuated from villages near the front.

“If some of you are thinking of removing the head of the Kiev regime in this way, I will disappoint you: this is not part of our plans,” the UN's deputy ambassador to Russia, Dmitry Polyansky, said before the defence. Council, Russian news agency reported Toss. “Do you really think we can't if we want to attack Zelensky's motorcade?” He continued, referring to Wednesday's Russian strike against a hangar in Odessa, not far from visiting Volodymyr Zelensky. With Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.

In an interview with the Italian channel Rai, Volodymyr Zelensky said that he had been the target of about ten assassination attempts by Vladimir Putin. Information given to him by Ukrainian intelligence reveals that they are not keeping up-to-date with the number of Russian companies.

In the mines of Ukraine, women help after the war. An LCI team went to meet its underground miners, who were replacing those who had gone to the front.

Russia said on Saturday it had destroyed 47 Ukrainian drones overnight, mainly in the Rostov region bordering Ukraine. “Air defense systems intercepted and destroyed one drone in the Belgorod region, two in the Kursk region, three in the Volgograd region and 41 in the Rostov region,” the Russian military announced in a statement on social networks.

• Turkey ready to host Russia-Ukraine peace conference Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he was ready to host a Russia-Ukraine peace summit, but reiterated his support for Kiev's territorial integrity. “While continuing our solidarity with Ukraine, we will continue to work to end the war and support a just and negotiated peace,” he stressed.
• “We want a just peace,” repeats Volodymyr Zelensky. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky expressed his “thanks” to his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who “from the very beginning (…) recognized our territorial integrity and sovereignty, including the Ukrainian Crimean Peninsula.” Incorporated in 2014. “Because the solution to this war must start from a formula proposed by a country that defends its territory and its people,” he added. “We want a just peace.” Kyiv has made the withdrawal of Russian troops a precondition.
• kyiv worries about “a trickle-down aid”. The head of Ukrainian diplomacy, Dmytro Kouleba, warned the West on Friday against “trickle-down aid” to Ukraine, saying that only providing conventional military equipment could avoid a protracted war. “This strategy doesn't work anymore. It's over, and if things continue the way they are now, it won't end well for all of us,” he said after a meeting with several of his colleagues. He called for “an unrestricted and timely supply of arms and ammunition to ensure Ukraine's defeat of Russia.”
• Torture is a “deliberate Russian policy in Ukraine.” Russian armed forces and their proxies routinely carry out torture in the occupied territories of Ukraine, which has become a “deliberate policy,” according to a UN report on torture. said Special Rapporteur Alice Jill Edwards. “Number of credible allegations of torture and other forms of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment” “Torture is an element of Russia's policy of war,” he assured the United Nations Human Rights Council. “These serious crimes did not appear as a result of chance or accident.”

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