Moscow and Kiev both claim to have killed hundreds of each other's troops in the fight for the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut as heavy battles continue to rage in the city on the 383rd day of the conflict. Follow our live coverage:👇
Russian forces suffered more than 1,100 dead in less than a week of battles near the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, the focal point of fighting in eastern Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said.
Russia has not responded to the Ukrainian claim. However, the Russian Defence Ministry had said earlier that up to 210 Ukrainian soldiers were killed in the broader Donetsk part of the frontline.Georgian's Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili has called on Zelenskyy to not interfere in the political situation in Georgia, after a wave of protests hit the country last week.
The Georgian parliament on Friday dropped the bill, which opponents said was inspired by a 2012 Russian law that has been used extensively to crack down on dissent for the past decade and which had threatened to harm Georgia's bid for closer ties with Europe. Ukraine's punitive actions against a branch of the Orthodox church linked to Russia are part of a drive to achieve "spiritual independence," Zelenskyy has said.
"One more step towards strengthening our spiritual independence was taken this week," Zelenskyy said, without referring directly to the order."We will continue this movement," he said. "We will not allow the terrorist state any opportunity to manipulate the spiritual life of our people, to destroy Ukrainian shrines - our Lavras - or to steal values from them.
Ukraine's military, on its Telegram channel, had earlier confirmed the identity of the soldier as Oleksandr Matsievskiy, a sniper with a unit from the northern region of Chernihiv.
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