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The 19-year-old man who shot dead ten people in Buffalo, USA, last year is sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

One of the crimes the man has pleaded guilty to is a racially motivated act of terrorism, writes TT.

– I did something terrible that day. I shot and killed people because they were black, says the man before the verdict, according to Reuters.

– I hope they keep you alive so you have to suffer with the thought of what you did for the rest of your life, said a relative of one of the victims at the trial.

A man has been found with stab wounds at a grocery store in Uppsala.

– Some form of knife or sharp object has been used. There were quite serious injuries and he was bleeding profusely when the ambulance got there, says Magnus Jansson Klarin, press spokesperson at police region Mitt.

The man was awake and talking when he was taken to hospital. According to him, there were several perpetrators behind the attack.

– We are trying to locate the crime scene. It is a student area so we hope there have been sightings.

A police operation is underway in the area with regular and canine patrols.

– The man has moved over a large area after the attack. We have quite a lot of blood trails to search for.

The incident is being investigated as attempted murder.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg will visit Turkey on Wednesday and Thursday, the defense alliance announced in a press release.

During his stay, he will meet Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Foreign Minister Mevlüt Cavusoglu.

Apart from the capital Ankara, Stoltenberg will also go to areas affected by the earthquakes in the country.

There are major problems with car traffic on road 75 next to the Nackatunneln in Stockholm.

According to Aftonbladet’s readers, the queues are long at the site.

The Swedish Transport Administration states that there are “dangers on the road” and that there is a very large impact on traffic.

Neither the emergency services nor the police are aware of the incident or have been called to the scene.

Air raids sounded over Kiev during Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson’s visit.

Ukraine stated in the afternoon that it shot down six enemy balloons.

Now Kristersson talks about the experience.

– It wasn’t particularly loud. We got digital signals and I acted like the president. We were sufficiently protected, he says to Aftonbladet’s reporter Cecilia Vaccari.

He met Volodymyr Zelenskyj, talked about the EU – but also drove a truck.

Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson’s visit to Ukraine’s capital was full of momentum.

He also inaugurated Scania’s new shelter located next to the plant in Kiev.

– It is a rather peculiar situation for those who work in Ukraine with dramatic and difficult circumstances. The prime minister was there to inaugurate the new shelter together with our national leader, says press manager Erik Bratthall.

97 percent of the Russian army is now in Ukraine. This is what British Defense Minister Ben Walles says in an interview with BBC ahead of a NATO meeting in Brussels to discuss more aid efforts to Ukraine.

– It has been at enormous cost to the Russian army. We now estimate that 97% of the Russian army – of the entire Russian army – is in Ukraine, says Ben Walles.

Despite that, Russia has not managed to “break through” the Ukrainian defenses, Wallace believes.

But Ukraine no longer has the upper hand in terms of the number of soldiers.

It worries the EU, which the Union’s head of foreign affairs Josep Borrell raised during a meeting in the EU Parliamentt on Wednesday when he also called on the Union to continue sending weapons to Ukraine.

Even NATO’s secretary general is concerned about the new Russian offensive, Danish reports Tv2.

– What Russia lacks in quality, they try to compensate for in quantity. Their training and equipment are not at the same level as Ukraine’s. But they have several strengths. And Russia is ready to send in troops, and they are ready to suffer great losses, says Jens Stoltenberg, according to Tv2.

There will be no flights from Munich on Friday, the airport states on its website.

The reason is that German airport staff are going on strike after a pay dispute.

Frankfurt, Hamburg, Stuttgart, Dortmund, Hannover and Bremen will also be affected, reports TV2.

The Social Democrats react strongly to the information about suspected vote fraud in Botkyrka.

Now the party is launching an oversight case to investigate the information, reports Today’s ETC.

The suspected vote fiddling must have occurred in connection with S’s annual meeting in Botkyrka in March.

In a chain letter that was spread via SMS and on Snapchat, people are said to have been offered to have their membership paid if they supported local politicians Ebba Östlin and Robert Aslan, ETC reports.

Two injured people entered the hospital in Norrköping on Wednesday.

The police state that they have been chased by one or more masked people.

According to Aftonbladet’s information, one of them must have been stabbed in the back.

The police have opened a preliminary investigation into attempted murder.

Later in the evening, the police were able to arrest two suspected perpetrators.

Almost 40 percent of the Russian army’s tanks, which it possessed before the outbreak of war, are estimated to have been destroyed in the first nine months of the war. It reports The Guardianreferring to a report by the think tank International Institute of Strategic Studies, IISS.

The number of “combat-significant” tanks destroyed is said to be around 50 percent, which, according to the IISS, means that Russia may now be forced to use older tanks in the war in Ukraine, which Russia still has in stock since the Cold War.

The think tank’s figures are based largely on open-source imagery from drones, satellites and from the battlefield during the period from February 24 to the end of November 2022, and should be seen as an estimate only.