LIVE – War in Ukraine: Zelensky says Russian navy is “gradually withdrawing from Crimea”.

Michael Grigor, a Russian protester against Russia’s attack on Ukraine, has had his seven-year prison sentence upheld on appeal, according to several NGOs, amid the Kremlin’s crackdown on critical voices. According to NGO Memorial, Mr. Shortly before Krieger’s sentencing Russian President Vladimir Putin declared him “the world’s No. 1 terrorist” and shouted “Slava Ukraini!” Or “Glory to Ukraine” started in the room.

The defendant, who was arrested in November 2022, was charged in May with “condoning terrorism”, “public incitement to extremism”, specifically Mr. Putin was sentenced to seven years in prison for messages posted on Facebook before February about wanting to see Putin hanged. 2022 attack. These messages justified the attack against the branch of the Security Services (FSB) in Arkhangelsk (North-West) in 2018 and against the headquarters of the FSB in Moscow in 2019.

In a series of messages posted on social networks, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky confirms that “the Russian Navy can no longer operate in the Western Black Sea and is gradually withdrawing from Crimea,” a region annexed by Moscow since 2014.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz promised this Tuesday that support for Israel would not affect aid to Ukraine. “We support Ukraine economically, financially, with humanitarian aid and with weapons. The chairman explained from Berlin. This support is in no way affected by the fact that since the terrible morning of October 7th, we have looked towards Israel and the Middle East with great compassion and concern.“

The Ukrainian Air Force says it shot down six Shahed-type explosive drones overnight from Monday to Tuesday that were launched from Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014.

Four people, including a 12-year-old child, were injured in the blast.Incendiary Explosives“In the village of Piloserka, east of the city of Kherson, Ukrainian Interior Minister Igor Klymenko said in a telegram.”Twenty houses, gas network and several cars and commercial buildings were damaged” said the official.

Four people were injured and hospitalized during the strike in Borova village in Kharkiv region, the minister said.

On Monday, Vladimir Putin’s adversary Alexei Navalny was absent from a legal hearing in Russia. Questionable as reported by the Associated Press Agency? Although he had to attend many, all his writing materials were confiscated in prison.Investigation procedures” Not mentioned.

The previous week, Alexeï Navalny had already condemned “Defamation and illegal arrest“Many of his lawyers in one case”Terrorism“His other advisers also fled the country fearing legal action.

Russia said on Tuesday it had neutralized three Ukrainian naval drones in the Black Sea that appeared to be targeting Sevastopol Bay in annexed Crimea. “A strike was conducted with anti-deflection missile systems against the detection zone“Of these three devices, the Russian Defense Ministry pointed out in a press release.

Since the incident, anti-diversion and mine detection operations have been underway in Sevastopol Bay, the home port of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in Crimea.

After the Nordstream gas pipeline, another damaged cable in the Baltic Sea? However, this is what the Swedish government said in a press release on Monday, indicating that the communication cable between the country and Estonia had been tampered with.An external force“or a”Handling“.

A few days ago, another gas pipeline, this time Finnish, was damaged. This new Swedish-Estonian incident would have happened “In the same time window“During the decay of this Finnish instrument.

“More than 400,000 Russian soldiers“On Ukrainian territory: This is the new assessment drawn up by Ukrainian intelligence on Monday of the position of Moscow’s troops in the country. The latter are currently focusing their efforts to advance in the east of the country,”In some parts of the front there are sufficient forces to carry out separate operations“, the intelligence spokesman underlined.

Russia is trying to advance in the eastern Ukrainian city of Avdiivka. Scene of many conflicts, Ukrainian positions in the field “Protected“, Volodymyr Zelensky estimated on Sunday. Moreover, the Russian army has so far recaptured only 3 to 4 square kilometers of land.

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