Russian-Ukraine newest information at the moment: Missile explodes close to Zelensky’s motorcade | EUROtoday

President Zelensky has frequently visited cities and navy models on the entrance line through the warfare, all the time in secrecy till after he has left.

Foreign leaders have made quite a few journeys to Ukraine, and so they often have needed to take refuge in shelters when air raid sirens sound.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen condemned on X, previously Twitter, what she known as the “vile attack” through the Greek go to. She known as it a “new attempt at terror” by Russia.

Mr Zelensky confirmed Mitsotakis across the destruction in Odesa, the place in the latest main Russian assault 12 individuals — together with 5 kids — had been killed when particles from a Russian drone hit an condominium block on March 2.

Mr Mitsotakis mentioned Odesa held a particular place in Greek historical past because the place the place the Filiki Etairia group was based that fought for Greek independence from Ottoman rule within the nineteenth century.

A Russian drone strike in Ukraine’s northeastern metropolis of Sumy injured 4 individuals and broken a number of buildings, together with medical centres.

The Sumy administration mentioned almost 235 buildings had been left broken in Wednesday’s assault.

The Shahed drones additionally broken a medical school, a kindergarten, a faculty and two different medical amenities, it added.

A Russian missile strike on a village in Ukraine’s northern Kharkiv area killed a 70-year-old man and injured seven different individuals, together with 4 youngsters, native officers mentioned on Wednesday.

In a separate incident within the Russian-occupied a part of Ukraine, the highest Moscow-installed official within the Luhansk area mentioned 5 individuals had been killed and three injured when a bus on its approach to a cemetery was blown up by a mine.

It was not clear who was answerable for inserting the mine. The official, Leonid Pasechnik, known as it a tragedy and mentioned an investigation was below means.

The United Nations mentioned final month that its human rights monitoring mission in Ukraine had verified greater than 10,000 civilian deaths and almost 20,000 accidents within the two years since Russia’s full-scale invasion. It mentioned the precise numbers had been more likely to be considerably larger.

At least 5 individuals had been killed within the Russian missile strike in Odesa throughout Greek prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and president Volodymyr Zelensky’s go to to the port metropolis.

Mr Zelensky was with Mr Mitsotakis when the missile hit infrastructure shut sufficient for the leaders to see the strike, with sources estimating the assault occurred a mere 500 to 800-metre distance from the delegations.

“You see who we’re dealing with, they don’t care where to hit,” Mr Zelensky instructed reporters within the wake of the incident

.Navy spokesperson Dmytro Pletenchuk confirmed that the assault focused Odesa’s port infrastructure, killing 5 individuals.

Russia efficiently attacked a hangar housing Ukrainian naval drones in a strike on the port of Odesa on Wednesday, the Russian Defence Ministry mentioned.

“The goal has been achieved. The target has been hit,” the ministry mentioned in a press release.

Ukraine has made intensive use of naval drones to strike Russian ships within the Black Sea.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky mentioned on Wednesday that individuals had been killed and injured in a Russian assault on Odesa. Later a navy spokesperson instructed the Ukrainska Pravda media outlet that 5 individuals had been killed.

A court docket in Russia has sentenced a journalist to seven years in jail for writing articles about alleged Russian warfare crimes in Ukraine.

Roman Ivanov, 51, was convicted for spreading “false information” in regards to the Russian military below the nation’s wartime censorship legal guidelines.

Ivanov shouted “Peace and freedom” as he left the courtroom after the sentence.

In his remaining assertion earlier than court docket at a earlier listening to, he mentioned: “Journalism no longer exists in Russia.”

“We must ask ourselves why we are sowing suffering and unhappiness all around us, why our country has turned into an avalanche of suffering and unhappiness,” he added, in keeping with AFP.

Ivanov was fired from an area state-run TV channel in 2021 for reporting on alleged corruption and electoral fraud amongst different crucial points concentrating on the administration.

Ukraine has no proof to counsel that the Russian airstrike close to Volodymyr Zelensky’s motorcade in Odesa focused the Ukrainian president, mentioned Natalia Humeniuk, a spokesperson for the operational command south.

The president was in Odesa to fulfill Greek prime minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, when the incident occurred.

“What is happening is that Russia is a terrorist [state]and obviously, it continues its attacks on port infrastructure,” the spokesperson instructed Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

“It in no way relates to any specific visit [by foreign officials] … it’s connected with the enemy’s methodical terror campaign.”

Wednesday’s strike hit one of many port infrastructure buildings in Odesa, she added.

Russia launched over 880 assault drones and over 170 missiles on the Black Sea port infrastructure in Ukraine‘s Odesa region since July last year, a Ukrainian navy commander said on Wednesday.

Moscow has stepped up attacks on port infrastructure since mid-July, when it quit a U.N.-brokered deal that allowed safe passage of Ukrainian grain shipments via the Black Sea.

Volodymyr Zelensky’s motorcade was almost hit by a Russian missile on Wednesday because the Ukrainian President visited the Black Sea port of Odessa.

Zelensky was with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis when the missile hit infrastructure shut sufficient for the leaders to see the strike, with sources estimating the assault occurred a mere 500 to 800 metre distance from the delegations.

“You see who we’re dealing with, they don’t care where to hit,” Zelensky instructed reporters within the wake of the incident, which killed 5 individuals, in keeping with a Ukrainian navy spokesperson.