Russia hits Lvov: massive destruction and many casualties; The Rada dismissed several ministers. Athletistic highlights yesterday’s key events.
On Wednesday night, the Russians struck the central part of Lvov. The impact hit residential apartment buildings, and two schools were also damaged by the blast wave. Seven people died, including two children (7 and 14 years old), 53 people were injured. By nightfall, the State Emergency Service completed the rescue operations. On Thursday, city authorities declared a Day of Mourning in Lviv.
The Verkhovna Rada considered the proposal of the Cabinet of Ministers for the resignation of several ministers. In particular, the representatives supported the dismissal of Deputy Prime Minister for European Integration Olga Stefanishina, Minister for Strategic Industries Alexander Kamyshin, Head of the Ministry of Natural Resources Ruslan Strelets, and Minister of Justice Denis Maluska. At the same time, the dismissal of the Deputy Prime Minister – Minister for Reintegration of TOT Irina Vereshchuk and head of the State Property Fund Vitaly Koval failed. There were not enough votes from people’s representatives to recall Maryana Bezugla from the position of deputy chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Security. Also, Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba wrote a letter of resignation, but consideration of this issue was postponed. It is noteworthy that of all the ministers, only Alexander Kamyshin came to the Rada meeting to give a report on his work.
The Prime Minister and the Servant of the People factions sent a proposal to the Verkhovna Rada to appoint several new ministers. We are talking about possible heads of eight ministries.
Energoatom said no accident occurred at the South Ukrainian Nuclear Power Plant in the Nikolaev region. The company announced this after information appeared in the media that the two nuclear units at the nuclear power plant were not operating at full capacity, and therefore the generation deficit had increased by 625 MW. Energoatom says a problem was discovered with the operation of one of the station’s power units, after which it was reduced to 33% of its rated capacity. They say that “this event is not related to the repair campaign at the station” and appeared as a result of the complicated transfer conditions.
Moscow called on Washington not to joke about “Russian red lines” when considering the issue of providing long-range missiles to Ukraine. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said this. According to Lavrov, “the Americans have crossed the threshold they set for themselves.” Also, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov spoke about changing the nuclear doctrine due to the “current state of affairs.” “This update of the nuclear doctrine is required by the current agenda and required, in fact, by the state of affairs that has arisen, perhaps, as a result of the actions of the collective West,” he said. The US State Department responded that the best way to protect Russian soldiers from JASSM missiles was to remove them from Ukraine.
Germany will strengthen the Ukrainian air defense, as well as its own security and NATO. This is what German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said. According to him, it is planned to transfer an additional eight IRIS-T systems (SLM) and nine IRIS-T complexes (SLS) to Ukraine. Two of them should be delivered this year, the rest – in 2025, which became possible thanks to an increase in the production capacity of the German manufacturer Diehl Defense.
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Source: korrespondent
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