The pilot of an enemy Tu-95 bomber was shot down on the territory of Russia, Ukrainian military intelligence reports. The police detained dozens of journalists during an anti-war protest in Moscow. Russia accuses Ukraine of bombing a bakery and killing civilians.

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08:56The death toll has risen to 28, including one child, as a result of what Russia says is a Ukrainian attack on Lysychansk, a city in the Moscow-controlled Luhansk region of Ukraine, to 28, including one child, the Russian Emergencies Ministry said. Sunday, Reuters reports.

The ministry reported that 10 people were rescued from the rubble after, according to them, the Ukrainian attack on the building where the bread factory was located in Lysychansk.

“The search and rescue operation is ongoing,” the department reported in the Telegram messenger.

The Russian-controlled Luhansk Intelligence Center reported on Telegram that the fire from US-supplied High Mobility Missile Artillery Systems (HIMARS) occurred on Saturday afternoon.

Reuters was able to confirm the location in a video released by the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations based on the design and color of the building and the sign, which matched archival footage from the area. This corresponds to the location on Google Maps identified as the restaurant “Adriatyk” on Moskovska Street in Lysychansk.

However, Reuters said it could not independently verify the date the footage was taken or the information provided from the territory, which Russia annexed in 2022.

Ukrainian officials have not made any statements regarding this incident.

Russia took control of Lysychansk in July 2022 after months of heavy fighting. According to Ukrainian officials, only about a tenth of Lysychansk’s pre-war population of 110,000 people remains in the city.

A brief summary of recent events:

• In the city of Engels in southwestern Russia, where the air base is also located, the commander of the Russian Tu-95 strategic bomber, Major Oleh Stegachev, was shot dead, the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine (GUR) reported. based on the materials of the Kyiv Independent.
• Ukrainian drones attacked the Lukoil refinery. The Volgograd Refinery, located on the Volga River, has the capacity to process 14.8 million metric tons (nearly 300,000 barrels per day) of crude oil per year.
• Russia announced the death of dozens of civilians as a result of shelling of the Russian-occupied city of Lysychansk in eastern Ukraine. Ukrainian officials have not commented on the incident, but Ukraine has previously said it was only deliberately targeting military targets, as opposed to Russia’s indiscriminate bombing of civilians.
• The sanctions packages against Russia are working, although there are still difficulties, Foreign Minister Luminica Odobescu, who took part in the informal meeting of EU foreign ministers (Gymnich) in Brussels, told Agerpres on Saturday.
• Estonia delivered Javelin anti-tank missiles, ammunition and other military aid to Kyiv as part of the latest aid package to Ukraine, the Ministry of Defense in Tallinn reported.
• After the visit of US Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland to Ukraine, the Kremlin accused Washington of “provoking” Kyiv to continue the war.
• Russian police detained at least 20 journalists on Saturday during a rally in Red Square organized by wives of soldiers fighting in Ukraine, who are demanding the return of their husbands from the front.
• The American company HBO has terminated the contract with Serbian actor Miloš Biković, after only a few weeks ago he got a role in the third season of the popular TV series “White Lotus”. The actor, awarded by Vladimir Putin, says it “could set a disturbing precedent that would obscure the essence of artistic freedom.”
• The prosecutor’s office in Chisinau sent four women to court who are suspected of involvement in a criminal network that tried to sell a Ukrainian child born in Chisinau to a family in Romania.
• Three weeks into the war’s third year, the number of Russians who believe the conflict was a mistake has risen, according to a new poll cited by The Moscow Times, an independent Russian publication branded a “foreign agent” by Moscow.
• Polish President Andrzej Duda has said he is not sure Ukraine can regain control of the Crimean peninsula but believes Donetsk and Luhansk regions can be returned, comments that drew criticism from some politicians in the ruling coalition.

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