A 48-hour curfew has been announced in Kherson for this weekend for “law enforcement” reasons.
Oleksandr Prokudin, Kherson’s head of the regional military administration said on Telegram that it will come in to force at 8pm on Friday and last until 6am on Monday.
He said: “During these 58 hours, it is forbidden to move on the streets of the city. The city will also be closed for entry and exit.”
Prokudin urged residents to stock up in food and water.
He added: “Such temporary restrictions are necessary so that law enforcement officers can do their job and not put you in danger.”
Stringent curfews were regularly in place in cities across Ukraine from the early days of the war, with some remaining in a limited fashion overnight.
Agence France-Presse said that curfews have previously been used for troop and arms movements. The city was only retaken in November during Ukraine’s sweeping counteroffensive.
Germany’s NTV channel is reporting that Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who is in Helsinki today on a rare trip outside Ukraine’s borders, will also visit Berlin next week on 13 May.
Rail deliveries to Russia’s Black Sea port of Taman will be restricted until further notice, Russian Railways said on its website, after Russian officials said a fuel depot had caught fire near a crucial bridge linking mainland Russia to Crimea. Reuters reports the company did not provide the reason for the restrictions.
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Russia launched a third nightly round of attacks on Kyiv in six days, authorities in the Ukrainian capital said on Wednesday, with a drone hitting a building in the Dnipropetrovsk region as Moscow steps up attacks on its neighbour. Ukraine’s air force Command said its forces destroyed 21 of the 26 Iranian-made Shahed drones launched by Russia, while Kyiv officials said air defence systems eliminated those sent over the city, with no initial reports of casualties or destruction.
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At least three people have been killed and five wounded in a Russian strike on a supermarket in Kherson.
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A fuel storage facility near a key bridge in Russia’s southwestern region of Krasnodar was on fire in the early hours of Wednesday, the regional governor said, but there were no initial reports of casualties. Russia’s state-owned Tass news agency has reported that the fire at an oil facility in Volna was caused by “the fall of a drone”. Smoke from the fire can be seen from across the Kerch Strait in occupied Crimea.
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Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy has said the White House did not advise him about the leak of highly classified US intelligence documents that received widespread attention around the world last month. “I did not receive information from the White House or the Pentagon beforehand,” Zelenskiy was quoted as saying in an interview with the Washington Post published on Tuesday. “It is unprofitable for us,” he added. “It is not beneficial to the reputation of the White House, and I believe it is not beneficial to the reputation of the United States.”
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Finnish media is reporting that Zelenskiy has arrived in Helsinki. Ukraine’s president is expected to give a joint press conference with president Sauli Niinistö later today, and also to have meetings with other leaders from the region.
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A 20-year-old man from Mykolaiv has been detained under suspicion of aiding Russian forces by informing them about the bases of the Ukrainian defence forces in the region.
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Russia’s security services claim to have foiled a plot to attack leaders of the Russian-imposed government in Crimea. Tass reports that the FSB named Roman Mashovets, deputy head of the office of the president of Ukraine, as one of the architects of the plot, without providing evidence. The FSB said it had detained six citizens of Russia and Ukraine, as well as a citizen of Ukraine and Bulgaria, involved in the transport of explosives and components of explosive devices.
Here is an image which shows Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s motorcade on the move in Helsinki, a rare visit outside Ukraine’s borders for the president.
Ukraine’s defence forces have issued a video in which a member of Ukrainian service personnel calling himself “Captain Himars” promises Russian soldiers that they avoid striking at barracks in sectors where people are leaking to the Ukrainians the coordinates of armoured vehicles and ammunition stores.
The video also claims that, contrary to what has been stated by Russian’s ministry of defence, no Himars systems on the Ukrainian side have been put out of action. It also shows the weapons being stored in what is described as a Soviet-era bunker built to withstand nuclear attacks.
Pope Francis has greeted the foreign envoy of the Russian Orthodox Church at the Vatican. Associated Press reports the encounter comes just days after Francis revealed a secret “mission” was under way to try to put an end to the war in Ukraine.
Metropolitan Anthony attended Francis’ weekly Wednesday general audience in St Peter’s Square. He greeted Francis at the end and presented the pope with an icon, which Francis blessed. Anthony was later seen being led off the stage by one of Francis’ aides.
Francis devoted his remarks at the audience to a recap of his weekend visit to Hungary, during which he made repeated calls for an end to the war.
We have a piece today on some of the issues facing journalists around the world due to restrictions on press freedom. It includes a contribution from Taisia Bekbulatova from Russia. She writes:
In December 2021, I was declared a “foreign agent” by Russia’s justice ministry. I now have to declare this status on every post, even on Instagram selfies. I refuse to comply. As a result, I could face criminal charges in Russia at any moment.
After the Ukraine war began, I had to evacuate the editorial team of my news website, Holod, from Russia because even writing the word “war” became illegal, and sharing unapproved information risked up to 15 years in prison. It’s difficult for me to count how many laws we have broken in the past year.
Working in exile is challenging. Our correspondents are used to travelling across Russia to cover often dark stories that reveal the true life beyond Moscow. Now, getting such stories is increasingly difficult, but we still manage. Information blockades are like hunger; even if you can no longer prepare gourmet dishes, you must make bread because your audience needs it more than ever.
In April last year, our website, along with all independent media, was blocked by Russian authorities. We counter this by actively working on various platforms, including social media and email. But our audience remains hungry for information they can trust.
You can read more of the stories from journalists around the world here: Blocked, censored, jailed or laid off – why it’s never been harder to be a journalist
Finnish media is reporting that Volodymyr Zelenskiy has arrived in Helsinki. Ukraine’s president is expected to give a joint press conference with president Sauli Niinistö later today, and also to have meetings with other leaders from the region.
Suspilne, Ukraine's state broadcaster, reports that at least three people have been killed and five wounded in a strike on a supermarket in Kherson.
Citing the ministry of internal affairs, it reports on Telegram:
Today, around 11am (9am BST), the Russian army struck a hypermarket in Kherson. Currently, three dead and five wounded are known. These are the employees and visitors of the institution.
The post is accompanied by an image of the aftermath of the strike, which includes what appears to be a dead body lying outside an entrance to the store.
Here are some of the latest images sent to us from Ukraine over the news wires.
Citing security forces, Suspilne reports a 20-year-old man from Mykolaiv has been detained under suspicion of aiding Russian forces by informing them about the bases of the Ukrainian defence forces in the region.
This view from Crimea looking out across the Kerch Strait towards Krasnodar clearly shows the plume of smoke rising from the oil depot fire, which Russian media has reported was started by “the fall of a drone”.
Suspilne, Ukraine’s state broadcaster, offers this round-up of overnight developments on its Telegram channel. It writes:
At night, the Russian Federation attacked Ukraine with 26 ‘Shahed’ drones. Air defence forces shot down 21 of them in the centre, south and east of the country, the air force reported.
In Kropyvnytskyi, an oil depot was attacked at night, in Dnipro they hit an administrative building, and in the Mykolaiv oblast, due to an attack on the Kutsurubsk community, private households were occupied. People were not injured.
In Zaporizhzhia, the private sector was targeted: one house was completely destroyed, two were heavily damaged, and about 40 more houses had broken windows. There are no injured.
Drones also attacked Kostyantynivka in Donetsk region at night: a country house and an infrastructure object were destroyed, five high-rise buildings were damaged.
Russia’s security services claim to have foiled a plot to attack leaders of the Russian-imposed government in Crimea, the peninsula that the Russian Federation claimed to annex in 2014.
Tass reports that the FSB named Roman Mashovets, deputy head of the office of the president of Ukraine, as one of the architects of the plot, without providing evidence.
Tass quotes the FSB statement saying:
Members of an undercover intelligence group operating in Crimea were detained – six citizens of Russia and Ukraine, as well as a citizen of Ukraine and Bulgaria, involved in the transport of explosives and components of explosive devices. The channel for the supply of British explosives and components of explosive devices from Bulgaria through Turkey and Georgia to Russia under the guise of supplying electric stoves has been cut off.
Tass claims that the targets of the plot were the head of the Russian-imposed Republic of Crimea, Sergei Aksyonov, chair of the Crimean parliament Vladimir Konstantinov, and the mayor of Yalta, Yanina Pavlenko.
Russia’s state-owned Tass news agency has reported that the fire at an oil facility in Krasnodar in Russia was caused by “the fall of a drone”. On its Telegram channel it posted:
A tank with oil products in the village of Volna in the Temryuk district of the Krasnodar territory caught fire due to the fall of a drone. This was reported to us by the emergency services.
The post was accompanied by a video of firefighters at the site that had been posted by the regional governor, Veniamin Kondratiev.
Head of the district, Fedor Babenkov, earlier wrote on Telegram:
I went to the place of emergency in the village of Volna. Special services are working on the territory of the JSC Tamanneftegaz enterprise. The fire area is 1,200 sq metres. There were no victims.
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