Ukrainian forces attack a hotel where members of Russia's private Wagner military group are based, killing many of them, says senior official in eastern Ukraine Follow our live coverage:👇
Wagner group is a private military contractor with close ties to the Kremlin. Its forces are known to be fighting in parts of Ukraine and have also been deployed in a number of African countries. A senior official in eastern Ukraine said that Ukrainian forces had attacked a hotel where members of Russia's private Wagner military group were based, killing many of them.
Gaidai, interviewed by Ukrainian television, said forces launched a strike on a hotel in the town of Kadiivka, west of the region's main centre of Luhansk. Photos posted on Telegram channels showed a building largely reduced to rubble. Ukraine's top security officials have ordered punitive measures against seven senior clerics, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, part of a crackdown on a branch of the Orthodox Church with longstanding ties to Moscow.
"We are doing everything to ensure that no strings are available to be pulled by the aggressor state that could make Ukrainian society suffer," Zelenskyy said in announcing the measure in his nightly video address.European Union foreign ministers will meet today to try to agree on further sanctions on Russia and Iran and an additional 2 billion euros for arms deliveries to Ukraine.
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