EXTRAORDINARY ONLINE The number of victims of the attack on an apartment building in the town of Časiv Jar rose to 48: the DPRK recognized the independence of the republics in Donbas – Topky.sk

Live from Ukraine Unique combat footage from Ukrainian border guards, they tried to get Russian army units further from Kharkov ONLINE Load new news 9:00 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in his regular nightly address that the clearing of rubble continued in the city of Chasiv Yar after the attack. “It was one of the most brutal Russian attacks of the entire war – so many victims… I express my sincere condolences to the relatives and friends of the victims,” ​​he added. Photo gallery (4) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi visited frontline positions in the Kharkiv region in northeastern Ukraine.
Source: SITA/Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP 8:40 a.m. The number of victims of Saturday’s rocket attack on an apartment building in the city of Chasiv Yar in eastern Ukraine rose to 48 on Thursday night. This was announced by the State Service of Ukraine for Emergency Situations (DSNS). TASR took the report from The Guardian. “(During the rescue operation) the body of a dead person was found in a five-story residential building in the town of Časiv Jar. So far, 48 bodies of dead people, including one child, have been found,” DSNS said, adding that nine people were rescued from the rubble. Photo gallery (4) Source: SITA/AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty 7:15 58 percent of Czechs support Ukraine’s entry into the European Union (EU), more than a quarter are against it. This follows from a survey conducted by the Center for Public Opinion Research (CVVM) from the end of March to the beginning of May. However, Czech society is considerably divided on the issue of Ukraine’s involvement in the North Atlantic Alliance (NATO). 41 percent of the citizens of the Czech Republic are in favor of Kyiv joining NATO, the same percentage disagree, the news website iDNES.cz reported on Wednesday. 6:40 Turkey expects to be able to conclude an agreement on the maritime transport of Ukrainian grain next week. Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar stated this after today’s negotiations in Istanbul between the delegations of Russia, Ukraine, Turkey and the UN. UN Secretary General António Guterres also called the outcome of the negotiations in Istanbul a significant step forward. 6:00 a.m. A 37-year-old man from the village of Gorki-10 near Moscow wrote a complaint against his wife to the police. The reason was the differences between the spouses regarding the special military operation, as the Russian authorities call the war against Ukraine, unleashed on the orders of President Vladimir Putin. The Moskovskii Komsomolets newspaper reported on the case today on its website, and the news caught the attention of the media in Russia and around the world. The DPRK recognized the independence of the republics in Donbas North Korea confirmed today that it recognized the independence of the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics (DPR and LPR). It wants to develop state-level relations with pro-Russian separatist units, North Korea’s official KCNA agency said. After Russia and Syria, the DPRK is the third country in the world to recognize both republics as independent states, AFP wrote. Ukraine announced on Wednesday that it was severing diplomatic relations with Pyongyang because of this. The KCNA agency stated that it has sent official letters to the leadership of the pro-Russian republics announcing its decision to recognize the independence of both entities. In the letters, the DPRK “expressed the will to develop relations at the state level” with the DNR and the LNR. Representatives of both pro-Russian groups informed about the North Korean decision on Wednesday. The Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced the severance of diplomatic relations with the DPRK. Pyongyang’s decision is perceived by Kyiv as an attempt to subvert the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, a gross violation of the UN Charter and the norms and principles of international law. According to the Ukrainian diplomacy, the recognition of the regimes in Donetsk and Luhansk, installed by the Russian occupiers, will not have legal consequences and will not change the internationally recognized borders of Ukraine, the daily Ukrainska pravda added. Apart from the DPRK, only two other countries – Russia and Syria – recognize the independence of both separatist republics. Moscow did so in February shortly before the start of the attack against Ukraine, Damascus announced the move at the end of June. Almost two million Ukrainians have already been deported to Russia, according to Zelenskyi Almost two million people, including hundreds of thousands of children, have been forcibly deported by Russia from Ukraine since the Kremlin launched a large-scale military offensive in the country in February. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced this on Wednesday, The Guardian writes. “Just imagine this number – two million people. So many of them have already been deported to Russia,” Ukrinform agency quoted Zelensky as saying. In a video speech at an international conference in Seoul, Zelensky stated that in the so-called Tens of thousands of Ukrainians, including young women, are detained in filter camps on the territories temporarily occupied by Russia. “I am convinced that you all know what they are exposed to there,” he added. “At the moment, no one will be able to name the exact numbers – all these deported people are deprived of the opportunity to communicate, their identity cards are taken away, they are intimidated and transported to remote regions of Russia to make it as difficult as possible for them to return to their homeland,” said Zelensky. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday accused Russia of forcibly deporting 1.6 million Ukrainians to its territory. According to him, Moscow wants to depopulate some areas of Ukraine with this deliberate illegal “filtering” operation. Blinken claims that people from the occupied areas in the south and east of Ukraine are being moved far into the interior of the Russian Federation. Among the deported Ukrainians are also 260,000 children, some of whom were forcibly taken from their parents and will be destined for adoption in Russia, added the head of American diplomacy. EXTRAORDINARY ONLINE The number of victims of the attack on an apartment building in the city of Časiv Jar rose to 48: the DPRK recognized the independence of the republics in Donbass