• 3:23 a.m .: Germany will donate 37 million euros for the reconstruction of Ukraine

Germany will pay an additional 37 million euros to Ukraine to help with its post-war reconstruction, the German newspaper Augsburger Allgemeine reported on Friday, citing German development ministry sources.

About 22.5 million euros will be spent on rebuilding Ukraine's electricity grid and 14.4 million euros will be earmarked for rebuilding apartments attacked by Russian forces and buying medical equipment, according to the log.

“My ministry has reallocated funds for this through an emergency programme,” Development Minister Svenja Schulze said.

  • 3 a.m.: Ukraine accuses Russia of preparing a fake referendum in Kherson and Zaporizhia

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused Russia of seeking to organize a fake independence referendum in the regions of Kherson and Zaporozhye it occupies in the south of the country.

In a video message on Thursday evening, Volodymyr Zelensky asked residents of the occupied areas not to provide any personal data, such as their passport numbers, that would be required of them by Russian forces.

"It's not just to conduct a census. (...) It's not to give you humanitarian aid of any kind. It's actually to tamper with a so-called referendum on your land , if the order to organize this comedy comes from Moscow", warned the Ukrainian president.

  • 1:11 am: Lives of residents trapped in Mariupol are in Putin's hands, says mayor

"It is important to understand that the lives of the people who are still there are in the hands of one person, Vladimir Putin. He will also have on his hands the blood of all the people who will die from now on." , Mariupol Mayor Vadim Boitchenko said in an interview with Reuters on Thursday.

The Russian president said the port city on the shores of the Sea of ​​Azov had been "liberated", although several hundred Ukrainian fighters remained holed up in the Azovstal steelworks.

"It's not a liberation that was planned, it's a destruction," said Vadim Boïtchenko, estimating that 90% of Mariupol had been damaged or destroyed since the start of the Russian invasion.

  • 12:18 a.m .: bodies exhumed at the “atrocities” investigation center

Makeshift graves discovered near a hospital in the devastated town of Borodianka, near kyiv, have given away their secrets to experts investigating war crimes charges against Russian troops.

Authorities said nine civilian corpses, many of them shot, were exhumed from these graves.

Investigators collected more than 1,000 bodies of civilians from streets, courtyards or makeshift graves around the Ukrainian capital, some of whom had their hands and feet tied or gunshot wounds to the back of their necks, it said on Thursday. officials.

This investigation is part of the documentation of what Oleksandr Pavliuk, head of the Kyiv regional military administration, described as "atrocities" committed following the invasion of Russian troops, who by subsequently were forced to withdraw from the region.

With AFP and Reuters

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