The Russian invasion of Ukraine has been going on for 490 days. There are 126 Ukrainian women in Russian captivity, 46 of them military, the rest are civilians, the Ukrainian authorities informed. The Russians attacked a residential area and a restaurant, killing four people. Vladimir Putin admitted that the Wagner Group was financed by the state. Here are the highlights of the last hours.
> Russians attacked Kramatorsk with rockets, hitting a pizzeria and a residential area. – Every manifestation of terror proves that Russia deserves defeat and a tribunal,” the president said Volodymyr Zelenskycommenting on another Russian missile attack. Four people were killed in the shelling of Kramatorsk, at least 43 were injured.
> The leader of Russia Vladimir Putin he stated that finances of the head of the Wagner Group Yevgeny Prigozhin will be investigated after his rebellion. At the same time, he said that the founder of the organization and his mercenaries received 166 billion rubles (about eight billion zlotys) from Russia over the past year. Previously, the Russian authorities have repeatedly stated that the Wagner Group is in no way connected with the state.
Rocket attack on a pizzeria in KramatorskNational police of Ukraine/PAP/EPA
> Yevgeny Prigozhin is staying at Belarus Belarusian state news agency BELTA reported on Tuesday, quoting Alyaksandr Lukashenko. Earlier, the chairman of the U.S. Senate intelligence committee, Mark Warner, told NBC News that the head of the mercenary Wagner Group may be staying “in a hotel without an eye” in Minsk.
> There are 126 Ukrainian women in Russian captivity, 46 of them military, the rest are civilians, the Ukrainian Ministry for the Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories informed. 23 of the women held captive have children, the ministry added.
> The revolt of the Wagner Group and the reaction of Vladimir Putin caused in Russia a stir among the Moscow elite. Officials interviewed by the Washington Post speak of a “partial loss of control” over the country by the president. Some in the Kremlin are already looking for someone to replace the Russian president, a Russian official “close to the highest diplomatic circles” assessed.
> Ukraine is no longer a sovereign state, said the Hungarian Prime Minister in an interview Viktor Orbán. He also added that he does not consider Vladimir Putin a war criminal. “I wonder who, or rather what, inspires such statements by this politician,” Anton Herashchenko, an adviser to the head of the Interior Ministry of Ukraine, wrote on Twitter. – I do not recognize the young, liberal anti-communist with whom I used to be friends – said the former head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of National Defense in “Fakty po Faktach” Radoslaw Sikorski.
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