The death of Russian dissident Oleksii Navalny increased Western sanctions against Russia and Western support for Ukraine. On the front, the night from Thursday to Friday brought explosions in Nipra and the suburbs, and Kherson was under fire from the Russians, the population was urged to stay in shelters.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called on the US Congress to approve additional aid to Kyiv, saying in an interview broadcast on Thursday that failure to do so would cost Ukrainians their lives. Republican lawmakers in the House of Representatives have blocked approval of $60 billion in new aid to Ukraine, and Zelensky called for action during an interview with Fox News, the favorite channel of American conservatives. “Will Ukrainians survive without the support of Congress? Of course. But not all,” he said. The Ukrainian leader also warned that the price of helping Kyiv now is much lower than the potential price of a future confrontation with Putin.

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06:22On Friday, Minister of Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba will pay a working visit to the UN headquarters in New York. where he will take part in the UN General Assembly debate on the situation in Ukraine and the UN Security Council ministerial meeting on Russian aggression. The minister will also speak at another event about the deportation of Ukrainian children.

06:00Since the beginning of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, more than 164,000 children have been resettled from the Donetsk region to safer regions, writes Ukrinform with reference to the head of the Donetsk regional military administration, Vadym Filashkin.

“The authorities, together with volunteer groups, successfully evacuated more than 1.3 million civilians, including 164,000 children and 42,000 people with disabilities,” the regional governor said.

01:14Russian propaganda is trying to discredit the Ukrainian special unit “Kraken”.

Kremlin propagandists are spreading false information about the alleged involvement of the Ukrainian special unit “Kraken” in the murder of local residents of the village of Petropavlivka, Kharkiv region, the Center for Countering Disinformation of the NSDC of Ukraine reports.

Russian Telegram channels spread false information. Propagandists are trying to convince the public that the civilians were not killed by the soldiers of the Russian army, but by the fighters of the special unit “Kraken” of the Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) of the Ministry of Defense in Kyiv, and the reason for the killing is the refusal of the relevant citizens to respond to the “nationalist salute”.