At least four people were killed after a Russian military cargo plane crashed in Moscow’s western city Ryazan, reported Interfax news agency.
The plane — II-76 military cargo aircraft — crashed and caught fire while trying to make a landing in the Russian city
Russian-installed Kherson official killed in bomb blast
A senior official in the Russian-installed administration of Ukraine‘s occupied Kherson region was killed in an apparent assassination on Friday, the deputy head of the administration told Reuters.
Dmitry Savluchenko, head of the families, youth, and sports department of the Kherson Military-Civilian Administration, was killed in a bomb blast.
Russia’s TASS news agency said there were two burnt-out cars in a courtyard of Kherson, the regional capital where the blast took place, and that the windows of one four-storey house had been shattered.
Kherson sits just northwest of the Russian-annexed Crimean peninsula and was occupied during the first week of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which began in February. A large part of the local population has left.
In the first weeks of the occupation there were regular civilian protests in the region, which were put down.
Since then, there have been unverified reports of increasing partisan activity against the Russian-backed authorities.
Reuters
Huge 500kg unexploded bomb removed from Kharkiv after it landed on apartment building
A 500kg unexploded bomb has been removed from the top of an apartment building in Kharkiv, Ukraine.
The huge munition was removed by a 10-man specialist crew on Thursday using a forklift and crane to dislodge it from the nine-storey building.
The bomb was deactivated in March but Ukrainian authorities had been unable to remove it until now due to the Russian airstrikes hitting Ukraine’s second-largest city.
Huge 500kg unexploded bomb removed from Kharkiv after it landed on apartment building
The huge munition was removed by a 10-man specialist crew on Thursday
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Moscow blames US for Lithuania goods ban
Moscow’s foreign ministry on Friday blamed the United States for a Lithuanian ban on sanctioned goods crossing from the Russian mainland to the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad.
The foreign ministry also said in a statement that it was “impossible” to hold expert level consultations with Washington on a number of bilateral issues that had been due to take place in the near future.
It did not specify which issues it was referring to, or when talks were supposed to take place.
ICYMI: Liz Truss accuses Vladimir Putin of ‘weaponising hunger’ over grain crisis
Foreign secretary Liz Truss has accused Russia’s Vladimir Putin of “weaponising hunger” and using food security as a “callous tool of war” by blocking millions of tonnes of grain leaving Ukrainian ports.
Ashley Cowburn reports.
Liz Truss accuses Vladimir Putin of ‘weaponising hunger’ over Ukraine grain crisis
Foreign secretary says crisis is ‘urgent’ and could see ‘devastating consequences’