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According to the Minister of Health of Ukraine Viktor Liashko, 1218 Ukrainian medical institutions were damaged, including 540 hospitals, 173 of which were completely destroyed. The leader of the Russian paramilitary group Wagner said on Sunday that his forces had captured an eastern Ukrainian village a few kilometers from the key city of Bakhmut, which Moscow had been trying to capture for months. Read our live blog to see how the day’s events unfolded. All times are Paris time (GMT+1).
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04:15: Russia says its troops on the front line in Ukraine have advanced 2 km west in four days
Russian troops managed to advance 2 km (1.24 miles) to the west along the front line in Ukraine in four days, the Interfax news agency reported on Monday, citing a statement from the Russian Ministry of Defense.
“The Russian military broke the enemy’s resistance and advanced several kilometers deep into its staggered defense,” the agency quoted the report as saying.
“For four days, the front moved 2 kilometers to the west.”
Details on which part of the large front line, which covers several Ukrainian regions in the south and east of the country, were not reported.
Reuters could not independently verify reports from the scene of the battle.
16:33: More than 1,200 medical institutions have been damaged since the beginning of the war, Kyiv reports
Since the beginning of the conflict, 1,218 medical institutions have been damaged, the Minister of Health of Ukraine Viktor Liashko said in an interview with the information publication Ukrinform. A total of 540 hospitals were damaged, 173 of which were completely destroyed, he said, adding that almost one billion euros would be needed for their reconstruction.
14:28: One civilian died as a result of Russian shelling in the southeastern city
A 53-year-old woman was killed on Sunday morning after Russian forces shelled a residential building in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Nikopol, the region’s governor said. He added that an 87-year-old woman was also wounded in the attack, which he described as an artillery strike.
Nikopol is on the other side of the Dnieper River from the Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant, which was occupied by Russian troops shortly after they invaded Ukraine on February 24.
Galina Danilchenko, the Russian-appointed mayor of the Ukrainian city of Melitopol in the south-eastern Zaporozhye region, said that on Saturday one civilian was killed and two people were wounded as a result of night shelling by Ukrainian forces.
11:29am: Russia continues shelling Ukraine amid heavy push in east
Russian troops continued to shell Ukrainian cities over the weekend amid a fierce bid to seize more land in the country’s east, and Ukrainian officials say Moscow is having trouble launching a long-awaited full-scale offensive there.
One person was killed and another was wounded on Sunday morning as a result of shelling in the city of Nikopol in the south-east of the Dnipropetrovsk region, Governor Siarhei Lysak said. As a result of shelling, four residential buildings, a sewage system and a water treatment plant were damaged.
In Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, one person was injured as a result of three Russian S-300 missiles hitting infrastructure facilities at night, regional governor Oleg Sinegubav said.
11:29 am: Head of the Olympic Games Bach shared the “grief, human suffering” of Ukrainian athletes
The chairman of the Olympic Games, Thomas Bach, said on Saturday that he shares the “grief and human suffering” of Ukrainian athletes, stressing that if individual governments did not decide who would take part in international sports competitions.
This statement came after Ukraine’s threat to boycott the Olympic Games in Paris if Russian and Belarusian athletes are allowed to compete and unite like-minded countries in their cause. The President of Ukraine said that the IOC is on the “wrong side of history” and is afraid of Russia’s reaction.
Ukrainian athletes, Bach said on the sidelines of the World Ski Championships, “know how much we share their grief, their human suffering and all the efforts we make to help them.”
Bach added: “It is not up to governments to decide who can take part in which sporting events, because that would be the end of international sporting events, world championships and the Olympics as we know them.”
9:45 am: NATO chief Stoltenberg plans to leave his post in October
Long-serving NATO the leader Jens Stoltenberg The military alliance said on Sunday it did not plan to extend its mandate for a fourth term and expected to be replaced in October.
“Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg’s mandate was extended three times, and he served a total of almost nine years,” said press secretary Oana Lungescu.
“The term of office of the Secretary-General expires in October this year and he does not intend to seek another extension of his mandate.”
9:35am: Neutral Austria comes under fire for issuing visas to sanctioned Russian lawmakers
Austria is being heavily criticized for issuing visas that will allow sanctioned Russian lawmakers to attend the Vienna meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
The issue highlights the delicate balancing act the European country has been involved in trying to maintain its longstanding position of military neutrality during the war in Ukraine. The Austrian government condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine almost a year ago, but also stressed the need to maintain diplomatic relations with Moscow.
Austria hosts several UN agencies and international organizations such as the OSCE, which was created during the Cold War as a forum for dialogue between East and West. Russia is one of the 57 countries of North America, Europe and Asia that are part of the Vienna organization.
9:20 a.m.: Ukrainian and US defense chiefs discuss “priorities” ahead of allies’ meeting
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov discussed “priorities,” including air defense and artillery, for an upcoming meeting of Kiev’s allies in Brussels, both sides said late Saturday.
After securing the promise of dozens of modern battle tanks, including American M1 Abrams, German Leopard 2 and British Challenger 2, President Vladimir Zelensky and other Kiev officials are urging allies to send fighter jets.
09:11: The leader of the Russian PMK “Wagner” announces the capture of the territory near Bakhmut
The leader of the Russian paramilitary group Wagner said on Sunday that his forces had captured a town in eastern Ukraine, a few kilometers from the key city of Bakhmut, which Moscow had been trying to capture for months.
“Today, the airborne assault units of the “Wagner” military command center took the town of Krasnaya Gora,” says the message of the commander of the Wagner military command command Yevgeny Prigozhin.
(FRANCE 24 with AFP, AP and Reuters)