At night, an air alert sounded in Ukraine, and several Russian drones were shot down, including one over Kyiv. The Russians said the Ukrainians also launched at least ten drones over the Crimean peninsula, all of which were shot down. Fierce fighting continues in Bakhmut, Ukrainians consider Yevgeny Prigozhin’s statements about the lack of ammunition to be a complete bluff. Regarding the explosion that injured Russian nationalist Prilepin, Moscow blames the Ukrainians and threatens that the attack “will not go unpunished.”

Basic information about the war in Ukraine, day 438, TEXT:

09:17 Russia has begun the forced evacuation of residents of occupied Energodar, the Ukrainian military reported, citing the Kyiv Independent.

Russia is forcibly evacuating residents of the city of Energodar, located near the Zaporizhzhya NPP, to the Russian-occupied cities of Primorsk and Berdyansk, it was reported at a morning meeting at the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

08:09Warning from the air at night in most of the territory of Ukraine. Several drones were shot down, including over Kyiv

A brief summary of recent events:

• In Nizhny Novgorod, unknown persons blew up the car of Russian nationalist Zakhar Prilepin. He received only physical injuries, and the driver of the car died.
• Russian investigators said Saturday that the suspect arrested after an explosion that wounded Russian nationalist writer Zakhar Prilepin and killed his driver was “acting on the instructions” of Ukrainian agents. Dmitry Medvedev sent a message to Prilepin and said that the attack “will not go unpunished.” “.
• Heavy fighting continued in the besieged eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut on Saturday, and a Ukrainian military spokesman said Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin’s tirade about an acute ammunition shortage was “a complete bluff.”
• Prigozhin announced that he would hand over the positions of “Wagner” in Bakhmut to the “Kadyrovs” – the troops of the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov.
• The Air Force of Ukraine admitted on Saturday that it had shot down a Russian Kinzhal hypersonic missile using the Patriot system on Thursday morning.
• A Polish Border Police plane was intercepted over the Black Sea, 60 km from Romanian airspace, by a Russian fighter jet, and the Polish crew managed to right the plane and land safely at Mykhailo Kogelnicianu Airport.
• A senior Russian official said on Saturday that a Ukrainian ballistic missile had been shot down over the annexed Crimean peninsula.
• About 13,000 Polish troops are expected to take part in joint exercises between Poland and its NATO allies in southeastern Poland, which will begin on Friday.
• Six Ukrainians were killed by Russian shelling on Saturday during a demining operation in the Kherson region in southern Ukraine.
• The head of Zelenskyi’s administration, Andriy Yermak, said on Saturday that 45 Ukrainian prisoners returned home from Russian captivity as a result of a prisoner exchange.

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