Russia steps up battle for city in eastern Ukraine
Shelling early on Saturday collapsed balconies and blew out windows in Mykolayiv.
Shelling early on Saturday collapsed balconies and blew out windows in Mykolayiv.
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida gave his first address at the memorial service.
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.
The cities of Bakhmut and Avdiivka had been considered key targets of Russia’s ongoing offensive across Ukraine’s east.
The small-scale nature of the attack raised the possibility that it was the work of Ukrainian insurgents trying to drive out Russian forces.
Officials from Russia and the separatist authorities in Donetsk said the attack killed 53 Ukrainian POWs and wounded 75.
Fifteen people were wounded in the Russian strikes, five of them civilians.
The Russian strikes hit Ukraine’s Kyiv and Chernihiv regions, areas that have not been targeted in weeks.
Tomohiro Kato was hanged at the Tokyo detention centre.
The suspect, Tetsuya Yamagami, was arrested immediately after he allegedly shot Mr Abe in western Japan on July 8.
Defence chiefs in Moscow said the military is intensifying its campaign.
Mr Abe, one of Japan’s most influential politicians, was assassinated last Friday in western Japan.
They are apparently from the first shot fired from a suspect’s powerful homemade gun that narrowly missed Mr Abe.