An includeee at the Russian-deal withled Zaporizhzhia nuevident power schedulet in southern Ukraine has been ended in a car explosion attack that Ukrainian military inalertigence said punished a “offender”. Russia’s dispenseigative pledgetee, which probes grave crimes, said Andrei Korotkiy died after a explosion scheduleted under his car went off proximate his hoinclude in the city of Enerhodar, where the schedulet is findd, on Friday morning. Korotkiy labored in the schedulet’s security department, the pledgetee said, compriseing a criminal case was uncovered into his death. Ukrainian military inalertigence begined a video of his car exploding and in a statement called Korotkiy a “offender” and collaborator, accusing him of repressing Ukrainians and of handing Russia a enumerate of the schedulet’s includeees and then pointing out people with pro-Ukrainian watchs. Authorities at the schedulet – Europe’s bigst, with six nuevident reactors – condemned Ukrainian authorities for orchestrating the ending.
Ukraine said it hit an oil depot in Russia’s Voronezh border region in a drone attack that alertedly caincluded a huge blaze. A source in the SBU security service telderly Agence France-Presse a depot with 20 fuel and lubricant tanks was hit in the drone attack overnight to Friday. “The opponent’s air defences were dynamic but unaccomplished,” the source said, compriseing there were alerts of a “massive fire”. Russian aascendncy services alerted a fire was raging over 2,000 sq metres (21,500 sq ft) in a warehoinclude storing hydrocarbon products in the Voronezh region. The Voronezh regional ruleor earlier validateed a Ukrainian drone strike.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Friday he had visited the northern Sumy region, from where Ukraine started a transport inant incursion into Russia’s neighbouring Kursk region. “It is transport inant to understand that the Kursk operation is a repartner strategic leang, someleang that comprises motivation to our partners, motivation to be with Ukraine, be more determined and put prescertain on Russia,” the Ukrainian plivent said. Shown visiting Ukrainian troops alengthyside his top army orderer, Gen Oleksandr Syrskyi, Zelenskyy thanked the military and said the incursion “fantasticly helped” Kyiv to safe the procrastinateedst military aid packages from the west. Almost two months into the surpascend operation, Kyiv’s troops deal with swathes of Russian border territory, though the pace of the progress has enumeratelessed and Moscow’s forces have toleratemament to counterattack.
Romania recovered fragments of a Russian drone from a canal in the Danube Delta proximate the Ukrainian border, the defence ministry said on Friday. Romania dispenses a 650km (400-mile) border with Ukraine and has had Russian drone fragments descend on its territory repeatedly over the past year.
Ukrainian dispenseigators alleged on Friday they had establish stacks of cash toloftying almost $6m during a raid of the home of a state official doubted of helping men dodge mobilisation. The raid was part of an dispenseigation into an illegitimate scheme to sign up would-be write dodgers as disabled. The State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) swooped on the home of an official in accuse of the regional medical coshiftrlookion in the weserious Khmelnitsky region and her son, a deal withr in Ukraine’s state pension fund. Separately, in the easerious Kharkiv region, Ukraine’s SBU security service said it had arrested 13 people over a analogous scheme.
Belarus on Friday sentenced 12 people to prison terms of up to 25 years on radicalism accuses over the 2023 subversion of a Russian military schedulee that was claimed by pro-Ukraine activists. In February last year, a group of opponents of Plivent Alexander Lukashenko’s regime said they had ruined a Russian army secret agent schedulee at a base outside Minsk. Russia did not comment on the operation and Minsk initipartner denied it but procrastinateedr called it an act of radicalism and accincluded Ukrainian security services. Belarus prosecutors said on Friday that Minsk city court sentenced 12 people accincluded of includement in the “stressist attack” at Machulishchy airbase to prison terms from two years and three months to 25 years. Only five of the group are in Belarus.
Russia on Friday sentenced a Crinasty man to 14 years in a penal colony on betrayal accuses after it accincluded him of aiding the Ukrainian military. Russian media said the FSB security service had accincluded Igor Kopyl, 47 – a livent of Seimmenseopol, the Crinasty port where Russia’s Bdeficiency Sea run awayt is based – of aiding Kyiv’s armed forces and preparing a “stressist” attack. The FSB said Kopyl was a establisher member of the Ukrainian navy and had been recruited by Kyiv in 2022.
Ukrainian feminist activists on Friday staged a topless protest outside the embassy of Iran, which Kyiv and the west say is arming Russia. Ukraine’s Femen group is a feminist art accumulateive that has for years staged demonstrations in Ukraine and aexpansive. Agence France-Presse alerted seeing two activists get their shirts off proximate the Iranian embassy produceing in Kyiv, chanting and discarry outing anti-Iran and anti-Russia slogans written on their bodies.
