Russian Foreign Minister Serghei Lavrov had the expected meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken . During the phone call, the head of diplomacy in Moscow reiterated that "the objectives of the Russian special military operation in Ukraine will be achieved".

For his part, Blinken pressured Lavrov to accept Washington's advances on US citizens detained in Russia and to comply with the Ukrainian wheat agreement.

Meanwhile, the bombing of Russian troops on Ukrainian territories does not stop. In the last few hours, the center of Kharkiv was targeted where a two-story building and a school were hit: the emergency service has started the search for any people trapped under the rubble.

While the toll of the attack in the southern Kherson oblast is 7 dead and 6 wounded, according to local police quoted by the Kyiv Independent. Several houses in four settlements were destroyed or damaged. The Russian military also stole civilian vehicles and a passenger ship that they allegedly used to cross the Dnipro River in the area of the damaged Antonivsky bridge.

Meanwhile, the number of people killed and 75 wounded in the bombing of the detention center of Ukrainian soldiers in Olenivka , in the pro-Russian republic of Donetsk , rose to 53.

The Russians and the Ukrainians accuse each other of having carried out the bombing of the center, where Ukrainian soldiers taken prisoner are being held.

ZELENSKY - "Olenivka is a classic, cynical and elaborate operation under a false flag." Thus Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on twitter, speaking of the attack on a prison, which cost the lives of 53 people: the "planned raid was carried out by Russian forces to blame Ukraine". "We know that Moscow troops transferred part of the Ukrainian defenders to this place a few days before the Russian raids were carried out." "The aim is to discredit Ukraine in front of our partners and stop the supply of weapons - he added - It is a mass murder

deliberate that requires rigorous investigation. We ask for a reaction from the UN and international organizations ".

WHEAT - Zelensky himself visited a Ukrainian port on the Black Sea to attend the loading operations of the first ship to export Ukrainian wheat. "We are ready to export Ukrainian wheat, we are waiting for signals from our partners to start transport", confirmed the president on Facebook.

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