On Monday morning, two explosions rang out on the Crimean peninsula. The Russian authorities say that this is an “emergency situation”, and the Ukrainian media talk about an attack on the Kerch bridge. Russian officials say two people were killed, a little girl was injured and the roadway was damaged.

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08:07The Russian army fired four S-300 missiles in the direction of Kharkiv at night, the regional military administration reported, The Kyiv Post reports.

Two rockets exploded in the air, two more hit the stadium and the road. No loss was recorded.

07:41Traffic on the Crimean Bridge was suspended due to an “emergency situation,” Russian-appointed officials said Monday, while Ukrainian media reported explosions on the bridge, Reuters reported. Russian-appointed governor Serhiy Aksyonov said the emergency occurred at Pier 145. bridge connecting the Crimean Peninsula with the Krasnodar region of Russia. He did not provide further details.

A brief summary of recent events:

• The Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine, Hanna Malyar, said that the hostilities in the east of Ukraine “have intensified somewhat”, as Ukrainian and Russian troops have clashed in at least three areas. She specified that Russian troops attacked in the direction of Kupyansk in Kharkiv for two days in a row. are on the defensive,” Malyar wrote. “Heavy battles are going on.” Malyar also said that the two armies are clashing around the town of Bakhmut, but Ukrainian forces are “gradually advancing” along its southern flank.
• Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the failure of the Ukrainian counteroffensive in a television interview. “All the enemy’s attempts to break through our defenses… have failed since the beginning of the offensive. The enemy did not succeed,” Putin said.
• The president also said that Russia has an “adequate stockpile” of cluster bombs and that Moscow reserves the right to use them if such munitions are used against Russian forces in Ukraine. He added that Russia has not yet used weapons. , although Russia is accused of using cluster munitions during last year’s attack on Kramatorsk train station.
• According to the decree signed by Putin, the Russian state took control of the Russian branch of French yogurt maker Danone, as well as beer company Carlsberg’s stake in a local brewery. Danone said it was investigating the situation, while Carlsberg said it had not been formally informed of the decision.
• A UN-brokered deal under which Moscow allowed Ukraine to transport grain across the Black Sea expires at the end of Monday. The Kremlin threatened to pull out of the deal and said over the weekend it was still concerned that commitments to remove “obstacles to Russian food and fertilizer exports remain unfulfilled.”
• Two people were killed on Sunday when Russia launched a series of rocket and shelling attacks on the city and district of Kharkiv that began early in the morning and continued into the evening.
• On Sunday, Ukrainian forces shelled the Russian city of Shebekino near the Ukrainian border with Grad missiles, killing a woman who was riding a bicycle, the governor of Russia’s Belgorod region said. Vyacheslav Gladkov reported that rockets hit the market, damaging the building and two cars.
• Only “several hundred” fighters of the Russian PMK “Wagner” were redeployed to Belarus, a Ukrainian official said. There are several groups of mercenaries on Belarusian soil, but we are not talking about a massive or large-scale deployment… We are talking about several hundred,” Andriy Demchenko, spokesman for the Border Police of Ukraine, told Ukrainian Television.

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