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17h07 : A senior Russian official assures on the social network Telegram that a Ukrainian ballistic missile was shot down over annexed Crimea, a rare event at a time when an upcoming offensive by Ukrainian forces is looming. According to Sergei Aksionov, head of Crimea installed by Moscow, there is no “neither victims nor destruction”.
16h49 : Russian investigators claim that the man suspected of the attack on the famous nationalist writer Zakhar Prilepin is Ukrainian, according to the official agency RIA Novosti on Telegram (content in Russian) citing an anonymous source. His car exploded in the Nizhny Novgorod region this morning.
16h59 : The leader of Wagner, who asks the Russian army for permission to cede his positions in the Ukrainian city of Bakhmout to the troops of the Chechen dictator Ramzan Kadyrov, specifies making this request “due to a long shortage of ammunition”. Yevgeny Prigojine has been accusing the Russian general staff for months of not providing enough ammunition to his men to deprive them of a victory at Bakhmout, which would overshadow the regular army.
15h08 : “I ask you to issue an order of battle on the transfer, before midnight on May 10, of the positions of the Wagner group to the units of the Akhmat battalion in the locality of Bakhmout and its surroundings”said Yevgeny Prigojine, in a letter published by his press service addressed to the Russian Minister of Defense, Sergei Shoigu.
15h08 : The leader of the paramilitary group Wagner asks the Russian army for permission to hand over its positions in the Ukrainian city of Bakhmout to the troops of the Chechen dictator Ramzan Kadyrov, in protest against a lack of ammunition.
3:34 p.m. : The Russian authorities have announced that they have opened an investigation for “terrorist act” and arrested a suspect after the explosion which injured in Russia a famous nationalist writer, Zakhar Prilepin, support of the offensive against Ukraine. Follow our live.
3:35 p.m. : Was the Ukrainian president invited to the coronation of Charles III?
13h36 : The Russian occupation administration of the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine assured today that no evacuation of employees from the site was planned for the time being after the announcement of partial evacuations in the area, in full fear of a Ukrainian offensive.
15h39 : “Washington, together with NATO, has fed a new cell of international terrorism, the kyiv regime”, reacted the spokeswoman for Russian diplomacy, Maria Zakharova, on Telegram. “Direct responsibility of the United States and the United Kingdom. We pray for Zakhar”she added.
13h19 : Russia accuses the United States, NATO and Ukraine of having fomented an attack “terrorist” against the nationalist writer Zakhar Prilepin, injured in Russia in the explosion of his car.
12h24 : As France Culture reminded us in 2018the French writer Emmanuel Carrère devoted several pages to Zakhar Prilepin in his book devoted to Edouard Limonov, this Russian writer and political dissident, founder of the national-Bolshevik party to which Zakhar Prilepin belonged.
12h21 : Here are details on “l’incident” which implicated Russian nationalist writer Zakhar Prilepin, backer of the Kremlin attack in Ukraine. He was hurt in the“explosion” of a car in Russia and another person was killed, says the Interior Ministry.
12h19 : The police had banned both Ukrainian and Russian flags during the celebrations, which will take place on May 8, the anniversary of the capitulation of Nazi Germany in 1945, but also on May 9, the day of the end of the war for the former Soviet Union, in order to allow “these ceremonies of remembrance and respect for these monuments are preserved despite the current war in Ukraine”.
12h20 : A court has overturned a Berlin police ban on displaying Ukrainian flags around the city’s three Soviet monuments during celebrations to mark the end of World War II.
12h11 : “Investigators (…) from the Nizhny Novgorod region arrived at the scene of the incident involving a car in which Zakhar Prilepin was riding”, the Investigation Committee said in a statement. On Telegram, the region’s governor, Gleb Nikitin, said authorities were in the process of establishing the causes of the incident.
12h10 : Russian nationalist writer Zakhar Prilepin, backer of the Kremlin attack on Ukraine, was today implicated in a “incident” car in the Nizhny Novgorod region, authorities said, with Russian media citing a possible “explosion” in the midst of a wave of attacks affecting Russia.
11h32 : For the first time since the beginning of the conflict, an American was buried in Ukraine, at his request. Christopher Campbell, 27, a former soldier who served in Iraq, had been in the country since the start of the war. Here is the report of Camille Magnard, present at his funeral.
