On Saturday, Russia carried out a wave of large-scale attacks on the territory of Ukraine, hitting energy infrastructure and destroying a nine-story apartment building in Dnipro, Ukrainian officials said.

The latest on the war in Ukraine, day 326:

A brief summary of recent events:

• The Ukrainian army noticed a new offensive tactic of the Russians near Soledar. According to the Ukrainian military, Russian mercenaries from Wagner’s group, who significantly participated in the Battle of Soledar, are now attacking Ukrainian positions in small groups in successive waves.
• Ukrainian troops are fighting for control of Soledar, the regional governor said, denying Russia’s claim that Moscow forces had captured the small town.
• Volodymyr Zelenskyi in his address on Saturday evening: “We must do everything to stop Russism, as the free world stopped Nazism”
• The death toll in an apartment building in Dnipro, east-central Ukraine, has risen to 14 as emergency services searched through the night for survivors, with 38 people rescued from an attack that left at least 64 injured, the region’s governor said. on sunday morning
• Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of Wagner’s Russian mercenary group, boasted of the effectiveness of his forces amid a bitter rivalry with the Defense Ministry over who should be given command of the Russian assault on Soledar.
• Moldovan President Maia Sandu, who condemned “Russia’s brutal war”, said that in her country, near the western border of Ukraine, the remains of missiles were found after the latest wave of Russian attacks.
• Britain will send 14 of its Challenger 2 main battle tanks and auxiliary artillery to Ukraine, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s office announced, ignoring criticism from the Russian embassy.
• Russia canceled the planned exchange of prisoners at the last minute, the Ukrainian Department of Prisoners reported.
• Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said the G7 summit he will hold in May must demonstrate a strong will to uphold international order and the rule of law following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
• Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev accused Kisida of shameful sycophancy before the United States and suggested that he commit seppuku.
• VIDEO “HIMARS or RSZV?” — asks a Ukrainian military officer / The building in which more than 20 Wagner soldiers are located immediately explodes. A video from the eastern Ukrainian city of Soledar on Friday shows a powerful explosion in a building
• Ukraine’s Energy Minister Herman Galushchenko said the next few days will be “difficult” on the energy front after a Russian missile strike hit critical infrastructure in several regions on Saturday.
• Why the Battle of Bakhmut is remarkably similar to the Battle of Verdun. What is happening now in Bakhmut is nothing new. The motivation of both sides to fight a battle without much strategic advantage once formed the basis of a famous battle in history, referring here to the German attack at Verdun in 1916 during the First World War.
• The world’s political and economic elite will gather next week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, where they will discuss, among other things, the war launched by Russia in Ukraine.
• Turkey is “not in a position” to ratify Sweden’s NATO membership in its current form, Ibrahim Kalin, a close adviser to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, said on Saturday after a new incident this week.
• Turkey says it wants a “localized end” to the war: neither Russia nor Ukraine “is capable of winning militarily.”
• Ten Russian ships and submarines suddenly left the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk. Possible explanations for this extremely unusual activity.

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• Saturday’s events related to Russia’s aggression were broadcast LIVE on HotNews.ro