Between the two countries, the drone war continues. On the night of Saturday March 9 to Sunday March 10, the Ukrainian Air Force claimed that it had shot down 35 drones out of a total of 39 launched by Russia. The day before, Moscow had announced the destruction of 47 Ukrainian devices, mainly in the Rostov-on-Don region, bordering Ukraine.
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⇒ Woman killed in Kursk Oblast after Ukrainian shelling
⇒ Ukrainian Air Force claims to have shot down 35 Russian drones overnight
⇒ Vatican says pope did not ask Ukraine to capitulate
One dead in Ukrainian bombing of Russian border village
A woman was killed in Kulbaki, in the Kursk oblast, a few kilometers from the border with Ukraine, after Ukrainian shelling against “a residential building”, the governor of the Kursk region wrote this Sunday, March 10. oblast, Roman Starovoit, on his Telegram channel. In addition, three Russian S-300 missiles struck the town of Myrnograd, in eastern Ukraine, wounding nine people, including a teenager, according to the Ukrainian head of the Donetsk region, Vadym Filashkin. Nine buildings were also damaged.
Ukrainian army says it shot down 35 Russian drones
On the night of Saturday March 9 to Sunday March 10, the Ukrainian Air Force claimed that it had shot down 35 Iranian-made Shahed drones, out of a total of 39 launched by Russia. Most of the drones were destroyed over eastern and southern Ukraine, she commented on the social network Telegram, without specifying whether they had caused any damage.
Russia: 10 days in prison for renaming its wifi network with the Ukrainian slogan
A Moscow court sentenced to 10 days in prison a student who had renamed his wifi network “Slava Ukraine”, the rallying cry of the Kiev forces, said this Saturday March 9 Russian news agency Ria-Novosti. In doing so, according to the court decision, this Moscow State University student “propagandated the slogan of Ukrainian nationalists.”
He was thus found guilty of “public demonstration of Nazi symbolism […] or symbols of extremist organizations” and his wifi router was confiscated, specifies the Russian press agency. A police officer had previously reported this network with a name deemed problematic.
Vatican says Pope did not ask Ukraine to capitulate
In an interview with Swiss television RTS, broadcast on Saturday March 9, Pope Francis called for “the courage to raise a white flag and negotiate” to put an end to the war in Ukraine “before things get worse.” aggravate.” And the sovereign pontiff added, obviously addressing Kiev: “Negotiating is a courageous word. When you see that you are defeated, that things are not working out, have the courage to negotiate.”
Following the broadcast of this interview, the director of the press office affirmed, to Italian news agency ANSA, that Pope Francis was not calling on Ukraine to capitulate. “The Pope uses the term white flag, and responds by using the image proposed by the interviewer, to indicate thereby the cessation of hostilities, the truce concluded with the courage of negotiation”, justifies Matteo Bruni. “Elsewhere in the interview, […]the Pope clearly declared: ‘Negotiation is never capitulation.'”