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It follows Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin telling everyone to refrain from travelling around the city and asking people to restrict their movements around the capital as rebels from the mercenary Wagner Group appear to be heading towards the city, the BBC reported. Earlier in the day, life was continuing much as normal, albeit with a heavy security presence, and with roadblocks set up to check vehicles, it added.

Prigozhin unleashed a new tirade against the Russian military on Friday and then marched his troops into the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don. Russian President Vladimir Putin called Wagner's actions "treason" and has vowed to punish those behind the "armed uprising", CNN reported.

In a social media post, the group's chief Yevgeny Prigozhin said that he was in Rostov-on-Don, in southern Russia close to the Ukraine border, and that his forces have control of military facilities and the airfield, reports CNN. He pledged to blockade Rostov and move on to Moscow if Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and top general Valery Gerasimov did not meet him in the city, where Russia's Southern Military District is headquartered.

According to Vladimir Saldo, the Moscow-installed governor in Ukraine's occupied Kherson region, the parallel Chonhar bridges bridges were both damaged in the strike on Thursday using long-range British missiles, reports the BBC. In a video posted on social media, Saldo is seen walking around the wreckage, and says that the attack won't decide any results of the special operation".

Speaking to the BBC, the President said: "Some people believe this is a Hollywood movie and expect results now. It's not. What's at stake is people's lives." According to authorities in Kiev, Ukrainian forces have reclaimed eight villages so far in the southern region of Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk to the east.

Jack Teixeira, 21, of the Massachusetts Air National Guard, was indicted on Thursday in Boston on six counts of willful retention and transmission of classified information relating to the national defense, Xinhua news agency reported, citing a statement issued by the Department of Justice. "As laid out in the indictment, Jack Teixeira was.

In a social media post late Wednesday, Maliar said that Ukrainian troops had advanced around the key city of Bakhmut, which has for months been at the heart of fierce fighting, reports the BBC. She said soldiers advanced by 200m to 500m towards the city, as well as advancing 300m to 500m in the southern Zaporizhzhia province.

"Until the end of the war in the territory of Ukraine, foreign countries will not deploy their troops in the territory of our state," Kuleba said. The Ukrainian side is asking its partners for weapons, not for dispatching their soldiers, Xinhua news agency quoted the Prime Minister as saying. Kuleba further stressed that Ukraine's possible membership in the NATO would not put an end to Russia's full scale invasion of Kiev, but could prevent new wars.

They were all reportedly shot down and there are no reports of casualties, the BBC reported. Flaming debris from the intercepted missiles landed in residential areas in central Kiev. Russia has launched 16 air attacks on the Ukrainian capital this month. The latest, however, was unusual because it took place during the day -- and seemed to be targeted at the city centre, the BBC reported.

"We are not attacking Russian territory," Zelensky said, adding: "We are preparing a counterattack to de-occupy the illegitimately conquered territories." He made the remarks on Sunday after talks in Berlin with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, reports the BBC.