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The news of Sunday 21 August, live. The investigation into the murder of the daughter of the ideologist considered close to the Kremlin and the fears of Ukrainian President Zelensky for Independence Day: “I fear terrible things from Russia”
• The war in Ukraine has reached the 179th day.
• US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announces new aid worth $ 775 million.
• The errors of the Russian secret services, the “Washington Post” on the errors of evaluation of the Kremlin: underestimation and misleading indications.
• The Ukrainian attack on the Russian Black Sea Fleet base in broad daylight
• The UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, in Istanbul to examine the center set up in the Turkish city for the coordination of grain exports.
21:55 – Ukraine “tried to strike again in the Crimea”
Ukraine would have managed to stop the targets «arriving at the Sevastopol International Airport».
This was said on Sunday evening by the Russian governor of Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvozhaev.
According to the Russian news agency Ria Novosti, the official also asked not to shoot or operate the air defense systems and not to report the location of the shooting.
Previously, local media had reported several explosions felt in Yevpatoria and Saky, in the two coastal cities of Crimea.
21:45 – New Russian attacks on Kharkiv
The mayor of Kharkiv, Ihor Terekhov, recently wrote on Telegram that the Russian army has launched new missile attacks on the city.
“Missile attack on the Kyivskyi neighborhood,” he wrote. «The first reports that he has been shot three times. They also say that fires have broken out in a non-residential building and in a private house ».
21:31 – “It was the anti-Putin Russian partisans who killed Darya Dugina”
There would be the hand of a group of anti-Putin Russian partisans behind the assassination of Darya Dugina, daughter of Alexander Dugin, an ideologue considered close to the Russian president.
To support him – abandoning the Russian narrative that identifies Ukraine as responsible for the attack – is Ilya Ponomarev, a former member of the Russian Duma, expelled for anti-Kremlin activities.
Speaking from Kiev, where he resides, Ponomarev claimed that the attack was the work of «the National Republican Army (NRA). This attack opens a new page in the Russian resistance to Putinism. New, but not the last ».
During a TV program, Ponomarev also read the alleged NRA manifesto, in which Putin is described as “a usurper of power and a war criminal who amended the Constitution, unleashed a fratricidal war between the Slavic peoples and sent Russian soldiers. to a certain and senseless death. And that he will be deposed ».
In the document, his daughter Dugin is represented as “the target of being faithful companion of his father, who supported the genocide in Ukraine”.
The former MP, the only one to vote against the annexation of Crimea in 2014 and banned from Moscow, became a citizen of Ukraine in 2019.
7:43 pm – In Kiev, ban on any public gathering for three days
The Kiev authorities have decided to ban any public gathering for three days, starting tomorrow and running until 25 August. The alarm is high for the celebrations of the Independence Day, after President Volodymyr Zelensky warned against the risk that Russia could carry out “terrible” in those days.
6:59 pm – Biden’s telephone conversation with Macron, Scholz and Johnson
Telephone conversation between the President of the States, Joe Biden and the French President Emmanuel Macron, the German canceller Olaf Scholz and the Prime Minister Boris Johnson of the United Kingdom. This was announced by the White House. The leaders, the note reads, “reiterated their continued support for Ukraine’s efforts to defend itself from Russian aggression. The Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant has also discussed the pressure of the situation, including the need to avoid military operations near the plant and the importance of an IAEA visit as soon as possible to ascertain the state of the security systems “. In addition, the White House notes, “they discussed the ongoing negotiations on the Iranian program, the need to strengthen support for partners in the Middle East region and joint efforts to discourage and limit Iran’s destabilizing regional activities”.
13:27 – Kiev: “Russia is transferring air defense to Belarus”
Russia is relocating its air defense systems to Belarus. This was reported by the general staff of the Ukrainian armed forces in a post on Facebook, as reported by the Ukrainian media. According to the Ukrainian general staff there is still a threat of air and missile attacks from Belarus. News in this sense has often been disseminated and confirmed by the network of Belarusian dissidents, which monitors the movements of the Moscow army on the territory of Belarus.
12:23 pm – Kiev: “We are unrelated to the death of Darya Dugina”
Ukraine has nothing to do with the murder of Dugin’s daughter ”: this clear statement by Mykhailo Podolyak, chief advisor to the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, in reference to which attack in Darya Dugina was killed in Moscow. Independent Kiev reports. “We are not a criminal state, unlike Russia, and definitely not a terrorist state,” Podolyak told national TV.
11:37 am – Maria Zakharova: the attack on Dugina could be “state terrorism”
“If the Ukrainian lead” behind the murder of the Russian journalist Daria Dugina “is confirmed by the investigators, then it will be state terrorism by Kiev.” The spokesperson for the Moscow Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, wrote on her Telegram channel, inviting her to “await the results of the investigation”.
11:35 am – 1,036 Ukrainian civilians evacuated from Zaporizhzhia
Yesterday alone 1,036 people, including 324 children, were evacuated from the territories of the Ukrainian region of Zaporizhzhia occupied by Russian troops. “In the last day, 1,036 civilians, including 324 children, were evacuated from the temporarily occupied territory,” the press service of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration reported on Telegram, reported by Ukrinform. The military situation in the Zaporizhzhia region has not undergone significant changes in the last day. On the last day, Russian forces attacked Ukrainian positions, using tanks, rockets and artillery pieces along the entire line of contact.
10:49 am – The pro-Russian head of Donetsk accuses Kiev of the death of Daria Dugina
Several pro-Kremlin Russian leaders are accusing Kiev of commissioning the murder of Darya Dugina, daughter of Putin’s ideologist Aleksandr Dugin, who was blown up in her father’s car last night in Moscow. The Guardian writes it. The leader of the self-proclaimed pro-Russian Republic of Donetsk, in Donbass, Denis Pushilin, on his account on Telegram, openly accused Ukraine: «You infamous cowards! The terrorists of the Ukrainian regime blew up her daughter in an attempt to eliminate Al daughtereksandr Dugin. She was a real Russian girl! ”He wrote.
08:50 – The point: the attack in the night of Daria Dugina
Daria Dugina, daughter of Alexander Dugin, a Russian philosopher and political analyst, died in the explosion of her car in the Odintsovsky district of the Moscow region. This was reported by Russian investigators who announce the opening of an investigation “for murder”, specifying that the explosion was caused by an order placed on the car, a Toyota Land Cruiser. According to various Russian media, Dugin himself, ideologue of Russkij Mir (Russian World), a retainer of the policy of Russian President Vladimir Putin, should also have been in the car. The Russky Mir is the idea behind the war in Ukraine, because it presupposes the defense of the Russians wherever they are.
08:18 – «Espionage» in an arms factory in Albania: three Russian-Ukrainians stopped
Three people with Russian and Ukrainian passports were arrested on suspicion of espionage after attempting to enter a military base and weapons factory in central Albania, the Albanian defense ministry said yesterday. Two Albanian soldiers were wounded in the crash at the Gramsh base, the ministry said, adding that the soldiers’ conditions were stable. Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama said the three individuals are “suspected of espionage”.
06:40 – Zelensky: for the Independence Day I fear terrible things from Russia
“We must be aware that this (next week Russia could try to do something particularly terrible, particularly violent,” said the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, in his video message reported by the Ukrainska Pravda newspaper. Zelensky spent the day. next week, on August 24, Ukraine will celebrate its Independence Day and National Flag Day. Also the Summit of the Crimean Platform – the Kiev initiative to identify roads for the liberation of the peninsula, also with international support – should take place next week.
9:56 pm – New explosions in Kherson
Three explosions were reported not far from the village of Chornobaivka, in the Kherson region. Serhii Khlan, a member of the Kherson regional council, wrote on Facebook. Local authorities are sharing photos and videos emanating from the smoke from the explosions on social networks. On August 5, the Ukrainian armed forces hit two command posts of the 76th air assault division and the 49th Russian army in Chornobaivka.
20:29 – Austria summons the Russian ambassador of the UN headquarters in Vienna
The Austrian government will summon the Russian ambassador to Vienna, Mijail Ulianov, who wrote on Twitter “without mercy for the Ukrainian people”. The Russian diplomat then deleted the tweet. Ulianov is also a representative from Russia to international organizations based in Vienna. “We are outraged by the inhumane statements of the permanent representative of Russia and his attempts to contextualize what cannot be contextualized,” said the spokesman for the Austrian foreign ministry.
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