Russia's war on Ukraine latest: Russia's Wagner chief warns on ammunition

* The death toll from a Russian missile strike that hit an apartment block in the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia rose to 11 on Saturday after a woman's body was found in the debris, the state emergency service said. * Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu has visited Mariupol, the defence ministry said, the city in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region captured by Russian forces last year after a months-long siege.


Reuters | Kyiv | Updated: 06-03-2023 12:58 IST | Created: 06-03-2023 12:57 IST
Russia's war on Ukraine latest: Russia's Wagner chief warns on ammunition
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The head of Russia's Wagner mercenary force warned that Russia's position around the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut was in peril unless his troops got ammunition, the latest sign of tension between the Kremlin and the private militia chief. FIGHTING

* At least one person was wounded in the southern Russian region of Belgorod on Monday after Russian forces shot down three missiles, the governor of the region bordering Ukraine said. * A woman and two children were killed in Russian mortar shelling of a village in the southern Ukrainian region of Kherson, the head of Ukraine's presidential office said.

* The Russian army hit a command centre of the Ukrainian forces' Azov Regiment in southeastern Zaporizhzhia region, the Russian Defence Ministry said. The ministry did not elaborate on the attack. Reuters could not independently verify the account. * The death toll from a Russian missile strike that hit an apartment block in the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia rose to 11 on Saturday after a woman's body was found in the debris, the state emergency service said.

* Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu has visited Mariupol, the defence ministry said, the city in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region captured by Russian forces last year after a months-long siege. DIPLOMACY, WEAPONS

* Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said that Ankara is working hard to extend a U.N.-backed initiative that has enabled Ukraine to export grain from ports blockaded by Russia. * Two Ukrainian pilots are in Arizona to fly flight simulators and be evaluated by the U.S. military, two U.S. officials said, as Washington remains mute on whether it will send fighter jets or sophisticated remotely piloted drones to Kyiv.

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