Ukraine war live updates: Russia says drone attacks won’t go unpunished; Kremlin won’t rule out Prigozhin’s death was ‘deliberate’
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Russia and Ukraine accused each other of launching multiple drone attacks against each other’s territory overnight Wednesday.
Russian officials accused Ukraine of launching several drone attacks against six regions in central and northwestern Russia, while Kyiv said it had repelled more than 20 drone and missile attacks on the capital. Russia later said the attacks would “not go unpunished.”
One alleged Ukrainian drone attack caused a fire at an airfield in Pskov in the northwest of the country, setting two Ilyushin Il-76 military transport aircraft on fire and damaging several other aircraft, Russian news agency Tass reported.
In other news, the Kremlin said an investigation into mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin’s death in a plane crash last week would not rule out the possibility that it was a “deliberate atrocity.”
Ukraine’s Kharkiv builds classrooms underground to protect students from missiles
Forced to shield its school-children from the threat of supersonic Russian missiles fired at short range, Ukraine’s eastern metropolis of Kharkiv has built dozens of classrooms in metro stations to allow some pupils to return to in-person teaching.
Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city, had a population of more than 1.4 million before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022. Parts of the city lie less than 20 miles from the Russian border. Its northern suburbs were scarred by fighting.
Kharkiv’s schools have been forced to teach online throughout the war as some Russian missiles can reach the city in under a minute - not enough time to get from many classrooms to a shelter.
Mayor Ihor Terekhov said on Tuesday that 60 schoolrooms been created in Kharkiv’s metro stations ahead of the new school year in September, creating space for more than 1,000 children to study in-person.
“The children will be able to socialise with each other, find a common language, communicate. I absolutely support this,” said Iryna Loboda, the mother of a schoolboy outside a metro station in the city center where classrooms have been built.
— Reuters
Kremlin does not rule out possibility that Prigozhin’s death was premeditated
The Kremlin said Wednesday it did not rule out that the death of mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin was premeditated.
Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin’s press secretary, said Russia’s Investigative Committee would look into the causes of the plane crash last week that killed Prigozhin, the head of the mercenary private military company the Wagner Group, but ruled out outside involvement in the inquiry.
“It is obvious that different versions are being considered, including the version - you know what we are talking about – let’s say, a deliberate atrocity,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters, according to comments translated by Reuters.
“Let’s wait for the results of our Russian investigation,” he added.
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