“Latest Updates on War in Ukraine: Deminers Killed, Attacks on Writers and Missile Shoot-Downs”

2023-05-06 19:28:00

Like every day, Midi Libre takes stock of the news of the war in Ukraine this Saturday, May 6.

Six Ukrainian deminers killed

According to AFP, quoted by Pointsix Ukrainian deminers were killed on Saturday.

They were “victims of fire while carrying out demining operations in the Kherson region”, said the relief.

Nationalist writer Zakhar Prilepin injured in attack

Russian nationalist writer Zakhar Prilepin was injured in a car bomb attack in the Nizhny Novgorod region on Saturday and one person was killed, an attack Russia immediately blamed on Ukraine and the West.

An emergency service source, quoted by the TASS news agency, said the writer’s car exploded, adding: “He survived, but was injured and is conscious.”

The Russian Interior Ministry announced that one person died in the explosion that occurred in the Nizhny Novgorod region, 400 km east of Moscow.

A Russian hypersonic missile shot down…

Ukraine’s air force said on Saturday it shot down a Russian hypersonic missile using a US Patriot air defense system for the first time in an attack this week, a potentially major setback for the campaign. long-range Kremlin airstrikes.

The “Kinjal” which means “dagger” in Russian, is one of six “new generation” weapons unveiled in 2018 by President Vladimir Putin, who then boasted that he might not be stopped by any of the defense systems airline in the world.

The Kh-47 Kinjal missile was shot down Thursday night over the region outside Kiev, Ukrainian Air Force Commander Mikola Olechchuk said.

… same fate for a Ukrainian ballistic missile

According to Sergei Aksionov, the head of Crimea installed by Moscow, a ballistic missile “taken from a Ukrainian Grom-2 system” was also shot down on Saturday.

There would be “no destruction, no victims”, he added as the relay France Info.

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