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  • Violent explosions were heard overnight in Kharkiv, the country's second largest city and located in the Donbass, which the Russian army is seeking to retake.

    Friday, at least one person died in the bombardments on the city.

  • Indonesia has invited Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky to the next G20 summit.

    But the United States has indicated that it refuses to act "as if nothing had happened" if the presence of the Russian president is confirmed.

  • As kyiv was bombarded on Thursday during the visit of Secretary General Antonio Guterres, Moscow admitted to having carried out a strike with "high precision" weapons on "the workshops of the space company Artyom".

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8:36 am: Ukrainian refugees hosted by a Russian in Prague

We start the weekend slowly with a great story.

Wedged between a seedy supermarket and a casino in northern Prague, a former Vietnamese store slated for demolition has become a house of hope for Ukrainian refugees.

And this at the initiative of a photographer of Russian origin.

The latter, Pavel Oskine, called on a few friends to help him transform this space into a place which now houses 16 Ukrainians and which is capable of accommodating dozens of others.

“As long as (Russian President Vladimir) Putin continues to fight, I will fight him this way (…).

It's my war, ”explains the man who left Russia in 2008.

8:29 a.m .: Will you take a little recap?

And you prefer the short version, it happens here.

Missiles and scuds on the 66th day of the war in Ukraine https://t.co/HC8jcrgEjD

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8:15 am: Explosions in Kharkiv tonight

Violent explosions were heard overnight from Friday to Saturday in Kharkiv, the country's second largest city, pounded for weeks by Russian artillery.

Friday, these bombardments made at least one dead and several wounded, according to the regional military administration of Kharkiv.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky acknowledged that the situation in this northeastern region, where Russian forces have refocused their offensive, was “difficult”.

"But our military is achieving tactical success," he said.

Hello everyone !

Welcome to this new live dedicated to the war in Ukraine, which does not know office hours and holidays.

Last night, the city of Kharkiv was also bombarded.

The diplomatic atmosphere is not the best either, between Russia, which claims to have carried out a strike on kyiv while the UN Secretary General was present, and the United States, which refuses to "act as if nothing is wrong". 'was' if Vladimir Putin comes to the G20 summit in Indonesia.

We will follow the rest of all this together, are you ready?

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