Russia has announced that it is expelling more than 20 German diplomats in response to a similar decision by Germany. Berlin has not yet confirmed the expulsion of the diplomats, but said that the arrival of the Russian government plane in Berlin was connected with it. As RIA Novosti reports, Germany has decided to deport more than 20 Russians.

Russian military in the east of the occupied Kherson regionPhoto: Yevhen Biyatov / Sputnik / Profimedia

Main information about the war in Ukraine, day 424, TEXT:

09:10G7 countries condemn Russia for using food as an “instrument of destabilization and geopolitical coercion”

07:56 France claims that it is “alarmed” by the statement of the Chinese ambassador regarding Crimea

00:30 VIDEO Zelensky: Russia is using the Zaporizhzhya NPP to blackmail the world with a catastrophe

A brief summary of recent events:

  • As local authorities reported, at least five Russian missiles hit the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv and nearby areas on Saturday evening, causing some damage to civilian buildings.
  • The Russian Ministry of Defense announced that its troops captured three more neighborhoods in the western part of the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut.
  • The Ministry of Defense of Belarus reported that Belarusian units returned home from Russia on Saturday after training in the use of the Iskander tactical missile system to launch nuclear weapons.
  • Russia is advising its citizens to avoid travel to Canada, citing what it calls numerous cases of discrimination against Russians, including physical violence, its foreign ministry said on Saturday.
  • Ukraine plans to deploy software from US analytics provider Palantir Technologies to help it prosecute war crimes committed by Russia.
  • The Big Seven economic powers (G7) called for the “extension, full implementation and expansion” of the key agreement on the export of Ukrainian grain through the Black Sea. Russia has made it clear that it will not allow the agreement to be extended after May 18.
  • A fifth of Wagner’s fighters, recruited from prisons, are HIV carriers. According to estimates, 20% of mercenaries recruited from Russian prisoners are HIV-positive.
  • ​Lula da Silva returns with a proposal for a negotiated solution between Ukraine and Russia. “Brazil does not want to participate in war, but wants to build peace.”
  • The invasion of Ukraine led to a doubling of Romanian-Ukrainian trade. In 2022, the export leaders will be helicopters, airplanes and fuel.
  • Thousands of people have been evacuated in the Russian city of Belgorod, near the border with Ukraine, two days after a Russian warplane accidentally dropped a bomb on the city.
  • Russia advocates mutually beneficial and good-neighborly relations with the Republic of Moldova, but Chisinau has not yet shown signs that it is ready to return to dialogue with Moscow, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mykhailo Galuzin said.
  • Bakhmut is “hell on earth”, “a city where there is no living space”, – say Ukrainian soldiers who experienced the horror of confrontations in the city, where the fiercest battles with the Russian invaders are taking place.

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  • Saturday’s events were broadcast LIVE on HotNews.ro