Russia launch strikes and attacks across Ukraine, causing death and injury - Ukrainian military. As part of their regular Saturday update on the conflict, Ukraine has claimed that, over the course of the last day, Russia has launched 39 airstrikes, 4 missile strikes and 42 attacks from multiple rocket launchers.
Further north, a year-old police investigator was killed and two other people were wounded when shells hit the town of Seredyna-Buda in the Sumy region. Elsewhere, in Kryvyi Rih, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's hometown, Mayor Oleksandr Vilkul said the anti-aircraft defence had successfully thwarted a strike, without specifying the nature of the attack. Maritime officials say a pair of cargo vessels departed Ukraine on Saturday despite Russian warnings - and are now in the Black Sea.
Ukrainian Infrastructure Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov says the Anna-Theresa, a Liberian-flagged bulk carrier carrying 56, tons of pig iron, left the Ukrainian port of Yuzhny on Friday and is now close to Bulgarian territorial waters. A second vessel, the Ocean Courtesy, which is travelling under a Marshall Islands flag, is said to have left the same port on Friday with , tons of iron ore concentrate.
That ship arrived at the Romanian Black Sea port of Constanta shortly before noon on Saturday, according to the global ship tracking website MarineTraffic. The corridor goes along the western shores of that ocean, avoiding international waters and instead using those controlled by NATO members Romania and Bulgaria. Authorities at the Bulgarian port of Varna have not confirmed whether the Anna-Theresa will enter the port or will continue onto the Bosporus Strait.
Their departure has coincided with the official announcement of an upcoming meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. One civilian killed and others wounded during Ukrainian shelling attacks - Moscow. On Saturday, Belgorod Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov confirmed two civilians had been wounded and another killed following an attack by two Ukrainian drones on the region's Valuysky district. Drone strikes and shelling on the Russian border regions are a regular occurrence.
