Here is the key information from the last 24 hours relating to the conflict:
– The Russian army claimed on Saturday the capture of the small town of Nadiïa in the Ukrainian region of Lugansk, which it annexed in 2022 and which it controls almost entirely.
– Russia promised “retaliation” to Ukraine after its shots carried out the day before, according to Moscow, with American ATACMS missiles, a type of attack presented by the Kremlin as a red line in the conflict.
– Near the border with Ukraine, two people were injured in a Ukrainian drone attack in the town of Chebekino, according to the governor of Russia’s Belgorod region, Vyacheslav Gladkov.
– A Russian journalist was killed by a Ukrainian “kamikaze” drone while traveling on a road in eastern Ukraine occupied by Russia, the Russian newspaper Izvestia, for which he worked, reported on Saturday.
– In Russia, the Russian security services (FSB) said they had arrested four minors suspected of wanting to carry out a bomb attack “in busy places” in Yekaterinburg, in the Urals.