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Last night, the Russian cruiser Moskva, damaged a few hours earlier, sank, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced.
The Pentagon said the news was a "crushing blow" to Russia's Black Sea fleet.
Russia on Thursday accused Ukraine of bombing two Russian border villages, including one with helicopters, and injuring eight people.
Ukraine denied.
The French Embassy in Ukraine, which had been transferred to Lviv in early March after the outbreak of the Russian offensive, will return to kyiv, French diplomacy announced Thursday evening.
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7:40 am: The Russian cruiser Moskva sank
The Moskva, Russian flagship in the Black Sea, sank Thursday after being hit by a Ukrainian missile according to kyiv, due to an accidental fire according to Moscow, a major setback raising fears of an escalation of the conflict while Russia accuses the Ukraine to bomb villages on its soil.
“During the towing of the cruiser Moskva to the port of destination, the ship lost its stability due to hull damage sustained during the fire following the detonation of ammunition.
In rough sea conditions, the ship sank,” the Russian Defense Ministry said Thursday evening.
The loss of this command ship is "a severe blow" to the Russian fleet in the region, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said Thursday, with "consequences on their combat capabilities", the ship being a " key element in their efforts to establish naval dominance in the Black Sea".
7:31 am: For Emmanuel Macron, using the word genocide is "not helping Ukraine"
Emmanuel Macron on Thursday justified his decision not to use the word genocide against Vladimir Putin by believing that "verbal escalation" would not "help Ukraine" and could lead Westerners to intervene.
The French president clarified on France Bleu radio that he had spoken in the morning with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky, who on Wednesday had considered "very hurtful" his refusal to denounce "genocide" in his country.
The two heads of state were to speak again at the end of the day, he said.
“The word genocide has a meaning” and “must be qualified by jurists, not by politicians”, declared Emmanuel Macron, traveling to Le Havre as part of his campaign for the presidential election in France.
According to him, “the States which consider that it is a genocide must by international conventions to intervene.
Is this what people want?
I don't think so”, because that would be “becoming co-belligerent” of the conflict.
7:23 am: Anne Hidalgo in kyiv to support Ukraine
Anne Hidalgo traveled to Ukraine on Thursday at the invitation of the mayor of kyiv, Vitali Klitschko, to whom she presented the honorary citizenship granted by the Council of Paris and spoke of "a plan to support" the mayors of Ukraine "in rebuilding".
7:15 am: 503 civilians killed in the Kharkiv region since the start of the Russian invasion
"Since the beginning of the Russian invasion, 503 civilians including 24 children have been killed," said in a video posted on his Telegram channel the governor of this region, whose capital Kharkiv was heavily bombarded by the Russian army.
In the past 24 hours, the region has suffered 34 strikes which left one dead and eight injured, he said on Telegram.
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A new day is dawning on Ukraine, and with it a little hope. Russia announced that its cruiser Moskva was sunk on Thursday evening after being hit by Ukrainian missiles. kyiv also announces that it has resumed evacuations of civilians from Mariupol, and the release of thirty Ukrainians during an exchange of prisoners. But after the atrocities uncovered in the Kyiv region, the Kharkiv governor said 503 civilians had been killed in his region since the conflict began.
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