The UN Security Council, which includes Russia, expressed its "deep concern about the maintenance of peace and security in Ukraine" on Friday evening.
On the 73rd day of the Russian offensive in Ukraine, the Russian position seems particularly ironic.
Russia says it destroyed Western weapons
The Russian Defense Ministry said on Saturday that a large "concentration of military equipment from the United States and European countries" was destroyed, "near the Bogodukhov railway station", located northwest of the city of Kharkov.
Ukraine has so far not reacted.
Russian forces also claim to have hit an ammunition depot in Bakhmut, in the Donetsk region.
The Ukrainians had reported that early this morning a factory had been damaged by a Russian missile, killing two people, but did not say whether it was an ammunition dump.
No evacuation seems to be preparing in Azovstal
The gigantic metallurgical complex - 11 km2 - is the last pocket of Ukrainian resistance in Mariupol, facing the advance of Russian forces.
After several days of efforts, there will probably be no further evacuations of civilians this Saturday, although Russia and Ukraine have said evacuations should continue.
Friday, under the aegis of the UN and the Red Cross, about fifty civilians were able to leave the factory late in the day.
They were taken in buses escorted by Russian armored vehicles to a reception center in Bezimenne, east of Mariupol, a town now controlled by separatists from the self-proclaimed Russian-backed Donetsk People's Republic.
Ukraine then claimed that they had been allowed to enter territory held by Ukrainian forces.
Poltava region bombed
The large city of Poltava, which is on a major axis leading to Kharkiv, has been widely targeted by Russian forces for the past few days.
On Friday evening, a missile strike damaged economic infrastructure, killed one person and injured several in a nearby village.
“Tonight was restless in the Poltava region.
In the early hours of today, at least 4 rockets hit the city of Poltava.
At present, there are no casualties and deaths.
The rescuers are at work, ”said the head of the regional administration, Dmytro Lunin, this Saturday morning.
A hundred kilometers away, the locality of Kremenchuk suffered, at 6 am, bombardments: at least three planes, according to Lunin, fired missiles on the industrial installations of the city.
Besides the damage, there would be casualties.
The Russians are blowing up bridges
At the start of the conflict, to slow down the Russian columns heading towards kyiv, the Ukrainian forces sacrificed many bridges.
For the first time, the Ukrainian military said Russian forces have begun doing the same, to slow down a Ukrainian counteroffensive in the northeast.
In the area of Tsyrkuny and Rusky Tyshky east of Kharkiv, "the occupiers blew up three road bridges in order to slow down the counter-offensive actions of the defense forces", affirmed in its morning point the state- Ukrainian major general.
Mykolaiv under fire… Ukrainian
The city, located in the south of the country, is close to Kherson, the first Ukrainian city to fall into Russian hands.
The Ukrainian forces continue to want to regain ground from the Russian forces, they claim to have destroyed north of Mykolaiv “a warehouse containing ammunition and up to 20 units of enemy military equipment.
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The Russians waiting?
According to the Ukrainians, Russian forces are currently favoring bombardments and aerial reconnaissance flights to concentrate their forces before a more sustained offensive in the Donbass.
From a British perspective, "the conflict in Ukraine is putting a heavy strain on some of Russia's most capable units and most advanced capabilities."
According to intelligence provided to the British Ministry of Defence, Ukrainian forces even managed to destroy a T-90M, the most sophisticated tank in Russia's arsenal.
