12:12 p.m.: 19 years in prison for military anti-mobilization action
A Russian court has sentenced to 19 years in prison a former soldier and a former rescue worker who threw Molotov cocktails at a town hall to protest against the mobilization to fight in Ukraine.
This is the heaviest sentence handed down so far for this type of attack on official buildings, which have multiplied across Russia since the beginning of the offensive against Ukraine.
The two men, Roman Nasryev and Alexey Nuryev, were convicted by a military court in Yekaterinburg (Urals), including for "act of terrorism" in an organized gang, the state news agency Tass reported.
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11:54 a.m.: The head of the Russian occupation of Donetsk visits Bakhmut
The head of the Russian occupation of Ukraine's Donetsk region, Denis Pushilin, visited the center of Bakhmut, the epicenter of months of fighting in Ukraine and where the Russians appear to be advancing, according to a video released Monday.
Denis Pushilin published on Telegram these images in which we see him in combat gear in a square covered with debris which, according to the visible buildings, appears to be Freedom Square, in the center of Bakhmut.
"This is our Artyomovsk (Russian name for Bakhmut) being liberated by (Russian paramilitary group) Wagner. The enemy does not spare the city, nor his own, pushing them into a meat grinder," he says in this short undated video.
With AFP and Reuters
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