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Dmitri Mouratov, editor-in-chief of the independent investigative newspaper Novaïa Gazeta, has auctioned off the medal he received for winning the Nobel Peace Prize for children displaced by the conflict in Ukraine.

The auction took place in the early hours of this Tuesday in New York and the medal was sold for 103.5 million dollars, the equivalent of 98 million euros, and the proceeds will go to the UNICEF humanitarian program for Ukrainian children. displaced by war.

Ukraine. Nobel-winning journalist auctions medal for displaced children

Dmitri Mouratov is part of the group of journalists who founded Novaïa Gazeta in 1993, after the fall of the Soviet Union. Before suspending activity, the newspaper was the last to express criticism of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

This is a state of the most relevant information of the last hours of the war in Ukraine.

Movements of military forces on the ground on June 20.

Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov managed to auction the Nobel Peace Prize medal for 103.5 million dollars (equivalent to almost 98 million euros). The prize was won in 2021. The money will be invested in UNICEF’s humanitarian response for Ukrainian refugee children.

A food warehouse was destroyed by a missile in the city of Odessa on Monday, Ukrainian military sources confirmed overnight. The city was subjected to 14 airstrikes in the course of three hours. There were no deaths or injuries.

Ukrainian forces announced that managed for the first time to carry out a successful attack with Harpoon anti-ship missiles, donated by the West, against Russia. The Defense Ministry explained that the target of the attack was the Russian naval tug Spasatel Vasily Bekh, which was leaving weapons and soldiers on Snake Island in the northwestern Black Sea.

All all seven TV towers in the Kherson region have already been reconfigured to broadcast Russian TV. Kremlin forces on the ground this morning completed the reconfiguration of the last remaining tower to ensure transmission.

EITHER The Russian Foreign Ministry will summon Markus Ederer, Ambassador of the European Union in Moscow for a meeting on Lithuania’s ban on the transit of goods through Kaliningrad due to European sanctions.

At least Three people died and two others were injured. following the air strikes that hit the Kharkiv region.

The two Americans who were fighting in Ukraine and were captured by Russian forces are in the Donetsk regionInterfax advances, citing an anonymous source.

The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, will participate by videoconference in the NATO summit, which will take place in Madrid on June 29 and 30, said the deputy director of the presidential office.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will participate by videoconference in the NATO summit, which will take place in Madrid on June 29-30, the deputy director of the presidential office said.

Volodymyr Zelensky “was invited to speak at the first session of this summit, that is, at the opening session, which will be attended by all 30 leaders, NATO allies,” revealed Ihor Zhovkva, deputy chief of staff of President Volodymyr Zelensky. ., quoted by the Ukrainian news agency Ukrinform.

The two Americans who were fighting in Ukraine and who were captured by Russian forces are in the Donetsk region, Interfax advances, citing an anonymous source.

Andy Huynh and Alexander Drueke were captured at an unknown location, allegedly as mercenaries threatening the lives of Russian soldiers, the Kremlin argued. None would be covered by the Geneva Convention.

The President of Kazakhstan did not consider the independence of Donetsk and Luhansk, contrary to the Russian position. Putin replied that the country was “fraternal” and Ukraine could be too, but he did not want to join.

Putin threatens Kazakhstan? “What is the Soviet Union? It is historical Russia.”

Russian television is now broadcasting to the Kherson region in southern Ukraine, the Russian military said today, quoted by the news agency. AFP.

#RIP Russian television now broadcasts in the south of Ukraine: the Russian army pic.twitter.com/OZdeCY56hv

— AFP News Agency (@AFP) June 21, 2022

In this area, dominated by Moscow since March, the ruble has already been introduced and Moscow has already started issuing Russian passports.

Kherson was the first Ukrainian city to be taken by Russian forces.

“The last of seven television transmitters in the Kherson region has been reconfigured to broadcast Russian channels” free of charge to one million residents, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement.

One of the pro-Russian officials in the Kherson region also said today that the territory could join Russia “before the end of the year.”

Russia plans to create the Republic of Kherson and then hold referendums to annex breakaway regions.

“We will have a referendum this year. And at the end of this referendum, we will turn to the leaders of the Russian Federation to accept us inside Russia,” Kiril Stremousov, deputy head of the Kherson civil and military administration, was quoted as saying by the Russian news agency TASS.

At least three people were killed and two others wounded in the airstrikes that hit the Kharkiv region.

The fatalities are a 61-year-old woman and a 49-year-old man, both shot in Balakliya. The two injured were registered in the Industrial District of the city of Kharkiv.

The Russian Foreign Ministry will summon Markus Ederer, European Union ambassador in Moscow, to a meeting on Lithuania’s ban on the transit of goods through Kaliningrad due to European sanctions.

Lithuania partially blocks the transit of goods to the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad. Kremlin vows retaliation

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