Russian troops are preparing a large-scale attack on the city of Slavyansk, the most important stronghold of Ukrainian forces in Donbass.

The offensive towards the center of Severodonetsk in the Luhansk region continues, BNR reports.

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Luhansk Oblast Governor Serhiy Haidai described the fighting for Severodonetsk as "very fierce", and a Defense Ministry spokesman said Ukrainian forces were doing everything possible to thwart the siege of the city.

Haidai said a French journalist had died after an armored evacuation vehicle was hit by shrapnel from a Russian projectile.

A French journalist was killed in a shelling in eastern Ukraine

Russian troops attacked a shipyard in Nikolaev, destroying Ukrainian military equipment.

Several people were injured in a bomb blast in the Russian-controlled town of Melitopol.

According to a representative of the Russian military administration, this is a terrorist act.

An explosion shook a Russian-occupied Ukrainian city

The grain from the Kherson region is being sent to Russia, said Kiril Stremusov of the military-civil administration of the occupied region in Ukraine.

He did not rule out the possibility of sending the sunflower seeds from the district to Russian oil plants.

The Ukrainian band Kalush Orchestra, which won the Eurovision Song Contest, has sold its crystal microphone at auction.

The $ 900,000 raised will be used to buy military drones for Ukrainian forces.

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