Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that a Russian drone strike damaged the building of the Ukrainian TV channel “My Ukraine” in Kiev on Tuesday, wounding five people, according to what was reported by the German News Agency.
“In broad daylight, while journalists were live,” Zelensky wrote on social media.
He accused Russia of deliberately targeting the TV channel and called for an international response, saying: “There must be a response to this from Europe and the world.”
“My Ukraine” is a news channel that was launched in 2022 after the comprehensive Russian invasion. It is one of several broadcast stations contributing to "United News", a syndicated 24-hour television news program established at the beginning of the war.
The station's general producer, Yuri Sokhak, said that the building was directly targeted, noting that "the attack targeted the newsroom."
Sokhak added that the building's windows were already damaged by the blast wave resulting from an attack that occurred in mid-August.
The glorification of the late war crimes convict Ratko Mladic during his funeral in the Serbian capital Belgrade sparked sharp criticism from European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President Antonio Costa on Tuesday.
Von der Leyen and Costa said, “Official support elements and the presence of some senior Serb officials at the funeral are very unfortunate.” “It shows a failure to confront a dark chapter in Europe’s modern history, and contradicts the values on which Serbia’s path towards the European Union is based,” according to what was reported by the German News Agency.
It is noteworthy that Serbia has been a candidate country for membership in the European Union since 2012.
A Commission spokesman said that possible next steps were being considered.
Diplomats said it was possible, for example, to prevent Serbia from continuing the process of joining the European Union. They said the financial consequences could also include freezing support payments currently being made to Serbia.
Von der Leyen and Costa said: “The pictures taken at Ratko Mladic’s funeral yesterday in Belgrade were shocking. Ratko Mladic was a convicted war criminal. He was responsible for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. He died while serving a life sentence for the Srebrenica genocide and other crimes.”
They added that they sympathize with all victims of crimes committed in the former Yugoslavia. Serbian media reported that war criminal Mladić was buried in the Topšeder cemetery in the capital, Belgrade, in a full official and military funeral.
Mladic's coffin was accompanied by a military honor guard, and gunshots were fired in salute, while several thousand mourners attended the ceremony.
Mladic died at the age of 84 on August 27 in The Hague, Netherlands, while serving a life sentence for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by his forces during the Bosnian War from 1992 to 1995.
Mladic was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2017 for his role in planning a massacre that killed more than 8,000 Muslims in Srebrenica in 1995, as well as the siege of the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo, which continued for years during the conflict between 1992 and 1995, in addition to other war crimes, including establishing concentration camps for non-Serb civilians and soldiers from enemy forces, according to the German News Agency.
Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel revealed that she browses the Instagram platform from time to time, according to the German News Agency.
During the “Digital
She explained that this allows her to follow reactions to specific topics that concern her in her daily life.
However, Merkel expressed her feeling of surprise because of the algorithms that sometimes operate in the background of digital space. She cited personal experience, saying: “When I search in the winter for ways to avoid slipping on icy roads due to shoes, then I receive recommendations regarding slip-resistant shoes for the elderly.” Merkel described this type of digital tracking as “a little scary.”
