"Stories about refugees affect me," he told AFP in a blog interview late last year, conducted by candlelight during a power cut in Kyiv.
Soldin, who was 32 years old and born in Sarajevo, was one of the first Bosnians evacuated to France in early 1992. Russian forces have been trying to capture the city for nine months, making Bakhmut the focus of the war's longest battle. 8:59pm: French journalist killed in rocket attack near Bakhmutįrench international news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP) says its Ukraine video coordinator was killed Tuesday during a rocket attack near the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut.ĪFP said in a tweet that other journalists for the agency were with Arman Soldin at the time of the Grad rocket bombardment.įrench media outlets reported that the late afternoon attack took place in the vicinity of Chasiv Yar, a town near Bakhmut. It would also impose financial sanctions on the group and there would be implications for Wagner's ability to raise money if any funds went through British financial institutions, the newspaper added. This would make it a criminal offence to belong to Wagner, attend its meetings, encourage support for it or carry its logo in public, The Times said.
Wagner mercenaries have spearheaded Russia's months-long assault on Bakhmut in the industrial Donbas region.Īfter two months of building a legal case, proscription or a formal blacklisting of the group was "imminent" and likely to be enacted within weeks, the newspaper reported citing a government source.
12:00am: Britain set to blacklist Russia's Wagner groupīritain is set to formally proscribe Russia's mercenary force Wagner group as a terrorist organization to increase pressure on Russia, the Times newspaper reported on Tuesday. For more of our coverage on the war in Ukraine, please click here. Last week's drone explosion over the Kremlin "was one of several apparent attacks within Russia that have amplified jitters in the country," including a weekend car bombing outside Moscow that "seriously wounded a prominent Russian nationalist and novelist and killed his driver.This live blog is no longer being updated.
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The "mounting anxiety following a series of attacks and over a looming Ukrainian counteroffensive" is also clouding Victory Day celebrations, The New York Times adds. Much of the advanced military equipment usually paraded through Red Square "is either critical to Russian operations in Ukraine or has been destroyed in 14 months of attritional fighting." The Kremlin "likely hopes to limit typical May 9 events to conceal the degradation of the Russian military," the Institute for the Study of War think tank suggests. Russian President Vladimir Putin's reception following the parade (last held in 2019) will not go ahead." "Moscow's Victory Day celebration is likely to go ahead but on a smaller scale. This year, "six Russian regions, occupied Crimea, and 21 cities" have canceled this Victory Day parades citing "security concerns," Britain's Ministry of Defense reports. Victory Day, celebrated May 9 to commemorate the Soviet defeat of Nazi Germany, is Russia's most important military holiday, typically used to showcase the country's military might and hardware. Petersburg Artem Priakhin/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images
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