A missile strike injured 9 individuals, together with two youngsters, within the Ukrainian metropolis of Dnipro on Friday night, the regional governor Serhiy Lysa. Hek stated stated the Russian assault hit a high-rise and a constructing belonging to the Safety Service of Ukraine, also referred to as SBU.
In Brazil, justice officers have rejected a U.S. request to extradite Sergey Cherkasov, who’s accused of being a Russian spy, as a result of Brazil has already been processing Moscow’s personal request for him.
Right here’s the most recent on the battle and its ripple results throughout the globe.
Excessive-precision missiles had been used within the strike on Dnipro’s metropolis heart, which destroyed the buildings and brought about no deaths, the mayor stated on Telegram. It’s the first such missile assault on the middle of Ukraine’s fourth-largest metropolis in months.
Russia’s request for Cherkasov’s extradition was conditionally authorized by the highest courtroom in Brazil earlier this yr, the nation’s Justice Ministry stated. The 37-year-old, who’s serving time in Brazil on expenses of utilizing fraudulent paperwork, was charged by the U.S. Justice Division in March with performing as an unlawful agent of a Russian intelligence service whereas attending Johns Hopkins College’s College of Superior Worldwide Research in Washington as a grasp’s pupil.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a regulation transferring the date of Christmas from Jan. 7 to Dec. 25, as a part of an effort to “surrender Russian heritage.” The federal government stated that Christmas is a Christian vacation, integral to Ukraine and that observing the Julian calendar, which celebrates Christmas on Jan. 7, had lengthy been imposed on Ukrainian individuals.
Russia claimed it intercepted two Ukrainian missiles in Russian territory, together with one which native officers stated landed within the city of Taganrog within the Rostov area on Friday, injuring 9 individuals. Russia’s Protection Ministry stated earlier that air defenses thwarted a Ukrainian drone assault on Moscow, with no casualties or harm. The Washington Submit couldn’t independently confirm the claims.
The Worldwide Olympic Committee invited Ukrainian fencer Olga Kharlan to compete at subsequent yr’s Paris Video games after she was disqualified from the Fencing World Championships in Milan for refusing a compulsory handshake with Russian opponent Anna Smirnova. She will probably be granted “a further quota place” if she didn’t qualify, the President of the Committee, Thomas Bach, wrote in a letter to Kharlan, which she shared on Instagram. “As a fellow fencer, it’s unattainable for me to think about how you’re feeling at this second,” Bach wrote.
Because of the strikes, “Odessa’s grain trade suffered tens of tens of millions of {dollars} in harm,” they write. “The assaults destroyed at the very least 60,000 tons of grain, sufficient to feed greater than 270,000 individuals for a yr, in keeping with the U.N. World Meals Program.”
