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Lula says Washington and EU should ‘start talking about peace’; death toll of Russian strike on Sloviansk apartment blocks rises to nine
Hello and welcome back to our live coverage of Russia’s war in Ukraine. This is Adam Fulton with the latest developments to bring you up to speed.
Brazil’s president has accused the United States of “encouraging war” in Ukraine and says Washington and the European Union should “start talking about peace”.
At least nine people were killed, including a two-year-old child, and 21 wounded on Friday when a Russian missile strike hit residential buildings in the eastern Ukrainian city of Sloviansk, emergency services in the Donetsk region said. The regional governor, Pavlo Kyrylenko, told national TV earlier that seven Russian S-300 missiles had been fired and there were “no fewer than seven spots hit” in the city, west of Bakhmut. Rescue teams searching for victims sifted through rubble through the night using cranes, ladders and other heavy equipment.
Alexei Navalny, Russia’s most prominent opposition politician, has been grappling with severe stomach pain in jail that could be the result of slow-acting poison, a close ally said on Friday. “His situation is critical. We are all very concerned,” Ruslan Shaveddinov said in a phone interview.
Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, has signed a bill allowing authorities to issue electronic notices to draftees and reservists amid the fighting in Ukraine, sparking fears of a new wave of mobilisation. The bill signed into law was published Friday on the official register of government documents. Russia’s military service rules previously required the in-person delivery of notices to conscripts and reservists who are called up for duty.
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