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Pro-Russian separatist troops in the

have consolidated their positions in the southern and southeastern suburbs of

in the

, the last city in the eastern region of

controlled by

, and where the militias claim to have taken control 30% of the territory.

According to the representative in

of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's

, Rodion Miroshnik,

and there is fighting in the Shakhtar stadium area of ​​the city.

The governor of Luhansk indicated that Russian forces are storming Lisichansk from the south and southwest.

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07.28.

Two killed by the Russian attack on a residential building in Mykolaiv

Two people have been killed and three injured by a Russian attack on a residential building

in the southern

on Wednesday morning, regional governor Vitaly Kim said.

He did not say whether it was a bomb or missile attack, artillery or mortar bombardment.

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07.03.

Zelensky will be the voice of a Ukraine at war at the NATO Summit

The president of

,

, will speak today at

in Madrid, in a meeting dominated by the

of his country and from which the Alliance will emerge with two new members, Finland and Sweden.

Ukraine is suffering "a brutality unseen in Europe since World War II,"

Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on the first day of activity around the summit, which officially opens on Wednesday.

For this reason, "it is very important that we continue to be willing to provide aid," said Stoltenberg, assuring that the summit will agree on "a new complete assistance package" for the former Soviet republic.

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06.37.

Kyiv mayor calls for more weapons at NATO Summit

The mayor of

and former world heavyweight boxing champion, Vitali Klitschko, present in Madrid for

, asked the allies to "accelerate" arms deliveries to Ukraine to confront

.

summit

will allow "accelerating" arms deliveries, Klitschko told reporters.

"We need anti-rocket systems. We see that every day Russian rockets destroy our cities, kill civilians, destroy infrastructure," explained the former boxer, along with his twin brother

, also a former world champion boxer.

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06.13.

2,811 missiles have hit Ukraine since the start of the war

"As of tonight, the total number of Russian missiles that have hit our cities is already 2,811. How many more aerial bombs, how many artillery shells? Today, the UN Security Council stood up and honored the memory of all the murdered Ukrainians. The members of the Russian delegation looked at everyone present in the council chamber and even decided to stand up so as not to look like real murderers. But everyone knows that it is Russian terror that is killing Ukrainians. innocent people in this war against the Ukrainian people

, "

President

said in a new video .

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6.00

Russian security forces arrest the mayor of the Ukrainian city of Kherson for refusing to cooperate

- installed officials

in Ukraine's

region say their security forces have detained

city mayor Ihor Kolykhayev after he refused to follow orders from

, while a local Kherson official said the mayor was kidnapped.

Kherson

, a port city on the Black Sea, is located just northwest of the Russian-annexed Crimean peninsula.

It was an occupant during the first week of the

of

, which began in February, and a large part of the local population has left the region.

"I can confirm that Kolykhayev was detained by the military police," Ekaterina Gubareva, the Moscow-appointed deputy head of the

region , said on the Telegram messaging app.

Halyna Lyashevska, an adviser to Kolykhayev, said the mayor was kidnapped after refusing to cooperate with the Russian occupiers of Ukraine.

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05.52

"A tornado of fire" kills at least 20 people in the Russian attack on Kremenchuk

As rescue teams continue to search for victims and air-raid alarms sound from time to time in

, new information emerges about the Russian missile attack that killed at least 20 people in a shopping mall.

"The instant spread of the fire in the center due to the shock wave made it look like a fire tornado that devoured everything in its path," Olexandr Lysenko, the second-in-command in the emergency operation to control the situation, explained to Efe.

Lysenko indicated that the power of the fire from the detonation of a missile is very different from that of a conventional fire, with temperatures so high that they can melt everything, even metal.

About a thousand people, including emergency services, firefighters and police, are working to find the 21 still missing in an attack in a city in the Poltava region that has drawn unanimous condemnation from the European Union (EU) and from USA.

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