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With the battle of

as the hottest point of the

, this Friday the Ukrainian people paid tribute to

, a volunteer who fell in that bitter battle.

The event was attended by President

and Finnish Prime Minister

.

Meanwhile,

, leader of the Together with Russia movement, assured this Saturday that the Ukrainian army is transferring part of its forces from the Ukrainian region of Zaporizhia in the direction of Bakhmut.

"

" (Russian name for Bakhmut), he told the Russian agency TASS.

In addition, three people have been killed and two injured in a Russian attack on the city of Kherson.

," the head of the regional military administration reported.

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2:35 p.m.

Medvedev responds to Zelensky's proposal to change the name to Russia

The former Russian president, Dmitri Medvedev, has reacted to the proposal of the Ukrainian president, Volodimir Zelensky, to change the name of Russia to Muscovy, and advises changing the name of Ukraine to 'Reich of the pigs' followers of the Ukrainian nationalist and Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera.

"The supreme Nazi in Kiev commissioned to study the issue of changing the name of Russia to Muscovy. Well, what to say... Our answer? Of course not Jojliándia (pejorative nickname for Ukrainians). And much less Malorrossiya. Only Schweinisch Bandera- Reich (Reich of flag-following pigs)".

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13:36

UN experts warn that the Wagner Group recruits prisoners from Russian prisons

UN experts have warned of the "alarming" recruitment of prisoners in Russian jails by the Wagner Group

and endanger their individual liberties, reports Europa Pres.

"We are deeply concerned by reports of visits by members of the so-called Wagner Group to penal institutions in various regions of Russia,

, in addition to making payments monthly payments to their families," the experts explained in a statement.

The Group allegedly recruited both Russian citizens and foreigners serving sentences in Russia,

, for example by preventing prisoners from speaking with their families and lawyers.

"We have information that

," the experts explained.

"These tactics constitute violations of Human Rights and could be war crimes."

They have also reported that the recruited prisoners

, to be trained before being transferred to the front.

In addition, they would have brought them into Ukraine without being in possession of their identification documents and having signed a "contract" with the Group.

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1:18 p.m.

Russia or Muscovy?

Volodimir Zelensky has commissioned to study an electronic petition with more than 25,000 supporting signatures that suggests

and replacing the terms "Russian" with "Muscovite" and "Russian Federation" with "Federation of Moscow".

The author of the petition maintains that "the historical name of Russia is Muscovy", as reported today by the Unian agency.

"This name

," the petition states.

The proposal found a response from former Russian President Dmitri Medvedev, who suggested changing the name of Ukraine to "Reich of Pigs" followers of the Ukrainian nationalist and Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera (considered by Kiev a national hero).

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12:49

At least three dead and two wounded in a Russian attack on Kherson

At least three people have died and two have been injured in a Russian attack in the city of Kherson, in southern Ukraine, as reported by the authorities this Saturday and collected by AFP.

"It has been reported that three people were killed and two wounded at the site of an enemy attack

," Oleksander Prokudin, head of the Kherson regional military administration, said on Telegram.

"Rescue work continues" at the scene, he added.

In an earlier message, the official said that

, initially citing one death and one wounded.

"Russian terrorists are bombing Kherson again. There are wounded and dead,"

the head of the presidential administration, Andriy Yermak, said on Telegram, without giving further details for the moment.

However, he accompanied his message with a photo of a completely burned-out car, with firefighters working around the burned-out corpse.

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12:13

The mission of the Ukrainian helicopters in Bakhmut: low flight and rocket rain

Three MI-8 attack helicopters take off from a secret base in Ukraine

and fly low toward their target near Bakhmut, where fighting against Russian forces has been raging for months.

As they approach the target, one by one, the planes rise suddenly,

, make a quick turn and return to their base, always at a very low altitude.

The target was "in an enemy fortification line, made up of troops on the ground, armored vehicles and an ammunition depot," Petro, one of the pilots, told AFP after his 30-minute mission.

Read the full report

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10:25 a.m.

Ukraine does not give up Crimea: "Russia has made it a great military base"

Despite the fact that many ask them to renounce Crimea for the sake of peace, the Ukrainians insist that they will not accept any solution that does not imply the recovery of this peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014 and that the Kremlin uses to attack the rest more closely. from Ukraine.

"Russia has controlled Crimea for almost nine years, and what has it done with it? Turn it into its great military base,"

Mariia Tomak, leader of the Platform for Crimea, told EFE, recalling that Moscow continues to use its fleet in the peninsula to hit with their missiles Ukrainian regions of the whole country.

The representative of

, in 2021 to work internationally for the return of Crimea to the Ukrainian borders, also recalls that this peninsula was key for Russia to conquer southern territories such as Kherson at the beginning of this war.

"Accepting the occupation of Crimea is condemning the Zaporizhia and Kherson regions," explains Tomak

, who alludes to the logistical difficulties that Russia entails providing supplies to the peninsula without a land corridor connecting it with the Russian Federation or with territories Ukrainians occupied by Russia.

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8:42

Ukraine moves troops from Zaporizhia to Bakhmut, according to Russians

The Ukrainian Army is transferring part of its forces from the Ukrainian region of Zaporizhia in the direction of Bakhmut, where the fiercest fighting is currently taking place,

, leader of the "Together with Russia" movement, reported today.

"The transfer of units of the Ukrainian Army from the Zaporizhia front to Artiomovsk is observed" (Russian name for Bakhmut), he told the Russian agency TASS, according to EFE.

Despite this, he pointed out, "the number of troops of the Ukrainian Army on the Zaporizhia front is not diminishing,

."

According to Rogov, in the Zaporizhia region "70,000 servicemen of the Ukrainian Army have been concentrated."

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8:10

kyiv restores power supply

The Ukrainian capital restored most of its electricity supply on Friday, affected after the latest Russian attacks with missiles and drones.

In what has become a standard tactic since October, Kremlin forces attacked Ukraine from afar on Thursday as ground battles remained stalemate.

The Ukrainian authorities rushed to counter the consequences of the latest bombing.

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7:35

Tribute to 'Da Vinci' in kyiv

Thousands of people paid tribute this Friday in Kiev to Dmytro Kotsiubailo, nicknamed

, a young volunteer who

, the hottest point of the conflict, on the eastern front of the country.

President

also attended the tribute at Independence Square in the center of the capital Kiev.

Kotsiubailo was a 27-year-old volunteer.

He took up arms in 2014 to fight Moscow-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine.

, the country's highest decoration, from the president.

"The path to our victory is very difficult.

, the best Ukrainian citizens who defended the country with arms in hand," said the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, Valery Zaluzhny.

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