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The Ministry of the Interior of Russia included the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, on the list of people under search and arrest warrants, as compiled by the Europa Press agency.
The Ministry published in its database that Zelensky, born in 1978, a native of the city of Krivoi Rog, Dnipropetrovsk region in Ukraine, is wanted “under an” unspecified “article of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation”, The Russian agency Interfax reported this Saturday.
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The inclusion of Zelensky on the list follows the trend practiced by the Russian authorities against those responsible for the ukrainian government since practically the beginning of the Ukrainian war. The day before, for example, the head of the National Security and Defense Council, Alexander Litvinenko, appeared on the list.
For his part, The Russian Defense Ministry announced that its forces took control of the Ukrainian town of Ocherétine, in the Donetsk region (in the east of the country), after several days of bombing in the area while Ukrainian sources have indicated to ‘The Guardian’ that the fighting continues although the Russians have managed to “get a foothold” in the place.
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“The units of the ‘Center’ troop group, as a result of active actions, completely liberated the Ocheretine settlement of the Donetsk People’s Republic, improved the tactical situation and defeated the formations of the 24th and 115th mechanized brigades of the Donetsk Armed Forces. Ukraine,” the Ministry of Defense indicated in a statement.
Sources from the DPA agency, who also confirmed a significant Russian presence in the town, indicated that The capture of Ocherétine could be the precursor to an advance to Chasiv Yar, considered the gateway to the “backbone” of the Ukrainian defense in Donetsk, which make up Druzhkivka, Kramatorsk and Sloviansk.
Yeah Ukraine confirms the loss of the city will be the third Donetsk town to lose in ten days, after Berdychi, Semenivka and Novobajmutivka within the series of advances on the eastern front following the conquest in February of the strategic town of Avdiivka.
Ukraine intercepted 23 Russian drones
Likewise, this Sunday, the General Staff of the Ukrainian Army stated that Ukrainian forces have intercepted 23 Russian unmanned aircraft over the regions of Kharkiv, Kherson and Dnipropetrovsk, whose remains have caused a still undetermined number of injuries and material damage.
The General Staff identifies that The planes were launched from platforms positioned in Kursk (Russia) and at Cape Chauda, on the Crimean peninsula under Russian rule. The remains of the drones have caused some fires in Dnipropetrovsk and several injuries in the city of Kharkiv, on a Sunday where Russians and Ukrainians, Orthodox Christians, are celebrating Easter.
“It was clear that, during Holy Week, the enemy could not allow this great Christian holiday to pass in peace,” Air Force spokesman Ilya Yevlash has denounced.
“The tactics are the same as always: launches of Shahed-131/136 from temporarily occupied territories,” he added in statements to the Ukrainian media.
