On Sunday, Ukraine announced the opening of an investigation into the death of a group of soldiers as a result of a missile attack by Russian troops during an awards ceremony near the front line.

Highlights of the war in Ukraine, day 621, LIVETEXT:

08:08The incumbent mayor of Chisinau, former socialist Ion Ceban, won the first round of local elections in the capital of the Republic of Moldova, according to partial results announced Monday morning at 7:30 a.m. by the Central Election Commission. , after the centralization of votes in 304 out of 305 polling stations in the city, according to Agerpres.

07:53 In Odesa, five people were injured and one of the city’s main art galleries was damaged during Russian attacks on Sunday evening, Ukrainian officials in the Black Sea port said, Reuters reports.

“On November 6, the Odesa National Art Museum turns 124,” Oleg Kiper, governor of the Odesa region, said in Telegram.

“On the eve of November 6, the Russians “congratulated” our architectural monument with a rocket that fell nearby.” He added that the walls of the building were damaged, the windows were broken.

The museum, located in one of the oldest palaces of Odessa, housed more than 10,000 works of art before the war, including paintings by the most famous Russian and Ukrainian artists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

The city council released a video showing broken windows and debris inside the Odessa National Art Museum.

07:28Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has invited Donald Trump to visit Ukraine after the former US president promised that he could end the war between Russia and Ukraine within 24 hours if he is re-elected in 2024, nbcnews.com reports.

A brief summary of recent events:

• In his speech on Sunday evening, the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi spoke about the death of Ukrainian soldiers as a result of the Russian attack during the award ceremony, noting that it was “a tragedy that could have been avoided.”
• Zelensky does not want to talk to Russia: “He must leave our territory, only then the world can start diplomacy”
• VIDEO “I hope another ship followed in the footsteps of Moscow!” / What is known about the attack on the port of Kerch and which Russian ship was allegedly damaged
• The Russians fired a rocket at the awards ceremony in Zaporizhzhia / More than 20 Ukrainian soldiers were killed, an investigation has been opened
• Russian troops fighting in the Tavria direction (operational and strategic zone in the southeast of Ukraine) are using wave strikes with “cannon fodder”, said the spokesman of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Colonel Oleksandr Stupun, Ukrinform reports.
• Volodymyr Zelenskyi rejects the suggestion of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Valery Zaluzhny, that the war with Russia has reached a stalemate, after an adviser in his administration reprimanded the general a day ago, accusing him of exposure. information from the battlefield, it “facilitates the work of the aggressor.”
• Kremlin spokesman Dmytro Peskov said in an interview on Sunday that relations with the United States are “below zero.”
• Satellite images released by Planet Labs on Sunday show that Ukrainian strikes have damaged the Kerch shipyard and a warship that also appears to have sustained damage.
• Russian troops launched a “massive” rocket-artillery attack on the city of Avdiyivka in the Donetsk region on Sunday morning, Acting Governor Ihor Moroz said, Kyiv Independent reports.
• Russia claims that the new Bora-class submarine successfully launched the Bulava ICBM / Ukrainians say the test was a failure

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