Russia-Ukraine war: Russian forces hit military base in Dnipropetrovsk oblast
Kiev, March 31: Russian forces on Thursday hit a Ukrainian military base in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, killing two people and injuring several.
According to Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Governor Valentyn Reznichenko, two individuals were killed and five injured in the attack. Earlier, the Kharkiv region of north-eastern Ukraine has come under heavy shellfire in the past 24 hours, informed the region's military governor.
The heavy bombardment has prevented the opening of evacuation corridors in the region, said Oleh Synyehubov, the head of the Kharkiv region military administration on Telegram.
A school was damaged in the Ukrainian village in Kyiv Oblast during the heavy shelling.
Meanwhile, UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss announced 14 new sanctions on Russian propagandists and state media who spread lies and deceit about Russia's invasion of Ukraine on Thursday.
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According to the UK Foreign Office, this includes Sergey Brilev, a well-known TV anchor on Russia's state-owned media Rossiya and a propagandist for Russian President Vladimir Putin. Brilev, who previously resided in the United Kingdom, will no longer be able to access any of his assets or conduct business there. The government is also targeting state-owned media companies, including as TV-Novosti, which owns RT (formerly Russia Today), and Rossiya Segodnya, which owns news outlet Sputnik.
Other "propagandists" sanctioned on Thursday include Aleksandr Zharov, Chief Executive Officer of Gazprom-Media and former Head of the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media (Roskomnadzor), Alexey Nikolov, Managing Director of RT and Anton Anisimov, Head of Sputnik International Broadcasting.
Targeting Putin's propaganda machine, the UK government also sanctioned prominent Russian Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev.
"Dubbed 'the butcher of Mariupol', Mizintsev is the Chief of the National Defence Command and Control Centre, where all Russian military operations are planned and controlled worldwide. Mizintsev is known for using reprehensible tactics, including shelling civilian centres in both Aleppo in 2015-16 and now in Mariupol - where atrocities are being perpetrated against Ukrainian people," the Foreign Office stated.
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