2023-07-30 07:10:38
Vnukovo International Airport briefly closed. The airport, located in southwest Moscow, was briefly closed to traffic and flights were redirected to other airports, Russian news agency TASS reported, citing the “services d’aviation”. Traffic quickly picked up.
Three dead in strikes in Ukraine. The town of Sumy, near the border, was hit on Saturday evening by a Russian missile. At least one civilian died and five people were injured, according to the police, who explained that the attack hit an educational establishment. Earlier Saturday, a man and a woman were also killed in a Russian strike in Zaporizhia, southern Ukraine, local authorities reported.
Vladimir Putin defends the arrest of critical voices. The Russian president spoke on Saturday regarding the growing crackdown on civil society and protest voices in the country. “The Russian Federation is engaged in an armed conflict with a neighbour. And I think we need to adopt a certain attitude towards people who cause us damage inside the country”, he said at a press conference. He was questioned regarding the recent arrests of a political scientist and a director, Boris Kagarlitsky and Evguénia Berkovitch.
Volodymyr Zelensky visiting near the front line. The Ukrainian president announced on Saturday that he visited the positions of the Ukrainian special forces in the Bakhmout region, one of the high places of the Ukrainian counter-offensive. “Today I am here to congratulate our soldiers on their professional day and pay tribute to their strength”did he declare.
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