A Russian missile hit a cafe and grocery store in a village in northeastern Ukraine on Thursday, killing 51 people during a memorial service for a Ukrainian soldier killed in the line of duty. Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that the incident was a deliberate attack on civilians, and “not a blind strike.” At the front, Ukrainian troops have advanced in the eastern theater of the counteroffensive, but are under pressure further north, Ukrainian officials said Thursday.

A Ukrainian soldier in a Humvee in the Orichova districtPhoto: Andriy Andrienko/SOPA Images / Shutterstock Editorial / Profimedia

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07:01 The family of a Ukrainian soldier killed in the line of duty, killed by a Russian attack on a soldier’s barracks. As a result of the attack, the soldier’s son, wife and mother were killed, Dmytro Chubenko, the spokesman of the prosecutor’s office of the Kharkiv region, said.

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A quick summary of the latest information:

  • According to the president, Bratislava decided to freeze the decision on military support to Kyiv until the formation of a new government after the success in the elections of parties opposed to aid to neighboring Ukraine.
  • Zelenskyi said on Thursday that 47 people were killed as a result of the Russian attack on a village in the Kharkiv region. The President of Ukraine stated that the rocket hit a grocery store.
  • The High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, emphasized on Thursday that Europe cannot replace American support for Ukraine.
  • Vladimir Putin said that Russia had tested a nuclear-powered Petrel missile, and the Russian president refused to rule out possible tests using nuclear explosions.
  • Germany announced on Wednesday that it plans to send more air defense systems to Ukraine to help protect grain shipments from Russian bombing, according to a report cited by Bloomberg.
  • Russia’s national currency broke through the psychological threshold of 100 rubles to buy the dollar again on Thursday, just as President Vladimir Putin delivered a speech in which he said the West had “lost touch with reality.”
  • President Klaus Iohannis says he received “very specific” answers during a teleconference with US President Joe Biden and EU and NATO leaders on drones that recently went down in Romania following Russian strikes.
  • Since the beginning of the Russian Federation’s large-scale invasion of Ukraine, 26,000 people have been declared missing, of which 15,000 are military personnel, according to the Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, Leonid Timchenko.
  • German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is currently opposed to the delivery of Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine, despite repeated requests from leaders in Kyiv, government sources confirmed to dpa on Thursday.
  • The former president of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, declares that Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova cannot be quickly accepted into the European Union, declaring about Ukraine that it is a “corrupt country at all levels of society.”
  • Putin said on Thursday that “grenade fragments” were found in the bodies of the victims of the August plane crash of the head of the “Wagner” PMK Yevgeny Prigozhin, which “were not exposed to external influence.”
  • Kay Bailey Hutchison, the former US ambassador to NATO for four years, has warned that a clash between the United States of America and Russia becomes much more likely if the US leaves Ukraine.
  • Russia plans to build a naval base on the Black Sea coast in the separatist Georgian region of Abkhazia, the leader of the region told Izvestia.
  • “Recapturing the Crimean peninsula will be difficult, it will require a lot of time, people and materials. We cannot have any illusions about this, at least at the moment. The plan is being implemented, and it must be carried out discreetly, intelligently and without haste,” he said. – sources in the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense explained to La Razon.

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  • Thursday’s events related to Russian aggression were broadcast LIVE on HotNews.ro