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Destroyed house in Serhiivka near Odessa
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Explosions in Mykolaiv
5:24 a.m .:
Detonations can be heard in the Ukrainian city of Mykolayiv early on Saturday morning.
“There are powerful explosions in the city!
Stay in the shelters!«, Mayor Oleksandr Senkevich writes in the messaging app Telegram.
The cause of the explosions is not yet known.
Network agency fears total failure of Russian gas supplies
5:05 a.m .:
The Federal Network Agency fears a total failure of Russian gas supplies.
During the ten-day maintenance that the Russian state-owned company Gazprom carries out on the Nord Stream 1 pipeline every year, no gas flows to Germany.
»This is exactly what worries us in the Federal Network Agency and is causing thousands of industrial companies to become very nervous.
We are wondering whether this technical maintenance will become a longer-lasting political maintenance, "said network agency boss Klaus Müller of the Funke media group.
He appeals to all house and apartment owners: “Have your gas condensing boiler and radiators checked and adjusted efficiently.
Servicing can reduce gas consumption by 10 to 15 percent.
That has to happen now and not just in the fall.«
Argentina advocates diplomacy
4:53 a.m .:
Argentina is relying on diplomacy to end the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine.
"I had a phone conversation with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, during which I expressed my support for all negotiations to end hostilities and achieve a final peace," Fernández wrote on Twitter.
"Latin America rejects the use of force and promotes dialogue to resolve conflicts." Argentina currently chairs the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac) and was invited as a guest to the G7 summit in Bavaria.
Selenskyj speaks of "Russian terror"
3:00 a.m.:
Ukraine has sharply condemned a Russian rocket attack on a residential building in the southern Ukrainian region of Odessa that killed at least 21 and injured 39.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyj spoke of "deliberate, targeted Russian terror".
Neither weapons nor military equipment were hidden in the house - "as Russian propagandists and officials always tell about such attacks," he said in a video message on Friday.
The impact of the three rockets was not an accident.
Saturday is the 129th day of the war for Ukraine.
Green for further relief
2.55 a.m .: Green leader Omid Nouripour assumes that the federal government has to absorb the rising prices with further relief measures for the citizens.
»Especially in autumn and winter, heating costs are likely to rise sharply.
And then we will also talk about relief,” says Nouripour to the editorial network Germany.
US announces another weapons package
2.33 a.m .:
The US government has promised Ukraine further military aid for defense in the Russian war of aggression.
The US$820 million package will provide the country with additional ammunition for the Himars missile launcher system, two Nasams surface-to-air missile defense systems, artillery ammunition and anti-artillery radars, among others. as the Pentagon announced.
Much of the new aid does not come from US stocks, but from an agreement with industry.
According to its own statements, the United States has promised or already delivered weapons and equipment worth almost seven billion US dollars (6.73 billion euros) to Ukraine since the beginning of the war at the end of February.
Ukrainian positions under heavy fire
1:10 a.m.:
In eastern and southern Ukraine, positions of the Ukrainian army along the entire front line have been shelled by Russian troops with artillery.
Dozens of locations in Kharkiv, Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhia, Mykolayiv and Kherson Oblasts were listed in the Ukrainian General Staff report published on Facebook on Friday.
There were also isolated attacks by airplanes and helicopters, it said.
Ukrainian units repelled a Russian attack on a gelatine plant near the industrial city of Lysychansk in the Luhansk region.
The reports cannot be independently verified.
Gauck: Chancellor Scholz is acting slowly, but he is acting
1:00 a.m .:
Former Federal President Joachim Gauck sees the turning point announced by Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) after Russia’s attack on Ukraine as starting in essential points.
Gauck told the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung: "Chancellor Scholz may be acting slowly, but he is acting." defense readiness«.
The delivery of heavy weapons to Ukraine was "a clear signal that the change is meant seriously and that we are not falling back into a phase of wishful thinking," Gauck judged.
Kyiv accuses Moscow of attacking with phosphorus bombs
12:00 a.m.:
Ukraine has accused Russia of dropping phosphorus bombs on Snake Island in the Black Sea.
Two attacks with phosphorus bombs were flown from the Crimea peninsula, which Russia annexed in 2014, with Su-30 fighter jets, said the supreme commander of the Ukrainian army, Valeriy Zalushnyi.
In addition, the 48-year-old presented a video that is intended to prove the bombing.
The day before, the Russian military had withdrawn from the island.
Moscow had presented this as a "gesture of goodwill."
Kyiv considers the retreat from the island captured by the Russians on the second day of the war as a victory as a result of frequent attacks.
The US government also sees the recapture of Snake Island as a success for the Ukrainian military.
Russia's claim that the withdrawal was a goodwill gesture was not credible,
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