Vladimir Putin will not attend Mikhail Gorbachev’s funeral
The Russian president visited a Moscow hospital where the former Soviet leader’s body was being kept before Saturday’s funeral.
The Russian president visited a Moscow hospital where the former Soviet leader’s body was being kept before Saturday’s funeral.
The former Soviet leader died at the age of 91.
The Tass, RIA Novosti and Interfax agencies cited the Central Clinical Hospital.
Russian forces have controlled the plant, the biggest in Europe, since soon after the war began.
Fears persist that fighting in the vicinity of the Zaporizhzhia facility could damage it and cause a radiation leak.
Fire damage to a transmission line at Europe’s largest nuclear plant caused a blackout across the region and heightened fears of a catastrophe.
O’Connell Street was awash with the blue and yellow of the Ukrainian flag.
Vital medical supplies, such as ambulances and ventilators, were also delivered abroad by Ukrainian doctors working in Ireland.
Geneneral Valerii Zaluzhnyi said Ukraine’s children need to be taken care of because ‘their father went to the front line’.
The Russian military also kept up its strikes in Ukraine’s north and south.
Shelling early on Saturday collapsed balconies and blew out windows in Mykolayiv.
The Russian defence ministry claimed Saturday its forces had taken control of Pisky, a village on the outskirts of the city of Donetsk.
Prime minister Dritan Abazovic wrote on his Telegram channel that the incident was ‘an unprecedented tragedy’.
It is Europe’s largest nuclear plant.
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