Violent Russian missile attack in the night on Zaporizhzhia , in southern Ukraine. The toll, still provisional, speaks of 17 deaths , as communicated on Telegram by Anatoly Kurtev, secretary of the city council.

"According to preliminary data - he writes - five private houses have been destroyed and about 40 have been damaged. At this moment, 17 people are known to have died".

According to local media reports there are also 44 injured , many concentrated in the rubble of a skyscraper hit in the city center and destroyed.
"Rescuers, doctors and all relevant services are working on the spot. People are already provided with all the necessary assistance," said the governor of Zaporizhzhzia Oblast, Oleksandr Starukh.

Also yesterday the city had suffered an attack that had caused another 17 deaths .

Meanwhile, while the accusations between Moscow and Kiev continue, a lane of the bridge over the Kerch Strait , which connects Russia to annexed Crimea in 2014, hit yesterday morning in an attack, has been reopened for vehicle transit. Tomorrow Putin will chair the Moscow Security Council, meeting to discuss the bridge.

According to the New York Times , quoting a Kiev official, Ukrainian intelligence services are behind the explosion.

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Moscow: Russians and foreigners involved in the attack on the bridge

"Russian and foreign citizens are involved in the terrorist attack on the Crimean bridge and have witnessed the preparation of the terrorist attack". This was stated by the president of the investigative committee, Alexander Bastrykin, who met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the evening.

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Aiea, power line restored to Zaporizhzhia power plant

The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency Rafael Grossi announced on Twitter that the off-site power line that was blown up yesterday at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant has been restored. "Our team in Zaporizhzhya confirms that the power line lost yesterday has been restored and the power plant has been reconnected to the grid: a temporary relief in a still unsustainable situation. A protection zone is now needed. I will travel to Ukraine and see Zelensky for establish the area ".

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Moscow, over 100 Ukrainian raids in Russia in one week

The Moscow secret services (FSB) denounce that in a week over 100 Ukrainian bombings were recorded in the Russian border regions of Bryansk, Kursk and Belgorod. Tass reports it.

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Trump calls for an end to the war

Donald Trump calls for "immediate negotiations for a peaceful end to the war in Ukraine" to avoid a third world war that "would leave nothing on the planet". During a rally in Nevada, Trump then criticized Joe Biden. "If I had been president, Russia would never have invaded," he said, accusing the United States of having "almost forced" Putin to invade Ukraine. The American "rhetoric" that preceded the war - Trump points out - contributed to Putin's decision to act.

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Zelensky: Those responsible for the raids in Zaporizhzhia will answer for their actions

Those responsible for the bombing of the city of Zaporizhzhia will have to answer for their actions: the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky wrote on his Facebook page, as reported by Ukrinform.

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Kiev, 700,000 without energy and 621,000 without gas

Over 700,000 Ukrainians are without electricity due to Russia's war. Most of them in the Donetsk, Kharkiv, Luhansk and Mykolaiv regions. This was announced by the Ukrainian Ministry of Energy, adding that 621,500 Ukrainians were left without gas.

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