
Harsh attack by the US president against Zelensky after the diesel pact with Putin. Russian raids in the Dnipropetrovsk region and damage to a Yandex data center
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Diplomatic tensions are intensifying alongside ongoing military raids between Russia and Ukraine.
Harsh attack from the US president after criticism from Kiev for the lifting of sanctions on Russian diesel. 'The time has come for Ukraine to find a new president capable of reaching an agreement, Zelensky only wants to create problems for the world, to stop hitting Russian refineries", attacks the US leader who yesterday signed the diesel pact with Putin. Moscow applauds: "Historical words". But Europe also accuses the tycoon: "This is how he finances the tsar's war".
Russian tech giant Yandex's data center in the Vladimir region was damaged by a drone attack and its operations were suspended, Russian state news agency Tass reported, citing the company. “Following a drone attack, the infrastructure of Yandex's data center in Vladimir was damaged. Data center operations were completely suspended. There are no casualties", reads the statement. It is specified that the emergency services are already on site. "We consider the configuration of the remaining resources to be unstable. The platform's operating mode is emergency," the company adds.
A child died and five other people, including two children, were injured in Russian drone and missile attacks in the Dnipropetrovsk region last night, regional authorities reported. The attack was launched on the town of Pokrovske in the Nikopol district, Ukrainian media reported, citing regional officials. A 10-year-old girl and a 12-year-old boy are among the injured and have been hospitalized along with a 47-year-old man and two women, aged 49 and 61. Russian forces attacked the Dnipropetrovsk region more than 30 times yesterday with drones and artillery, governor Oleksandr Hanzha said. In the Nikopol district, the attacks damaged residential buildings, a gas station and an ambulance. The Russian raids also hit the community of Zelenodolsk, in the Kryvyi Rih district, damaging private homes and infrastructure. In the community of Mykolaiv, Dnipro district, agricultural vehicles and machinery were damaged.
To ensure the nuclear safety of the Zaporizhzhia power plant, a reliable external power supply, reserves of diesel fuel for emergency generators and, above all, the cessation of Ukrainian attacks against the plant's structures and personnel are needed: the communications director, Yevgenia Yashina, told Tass. “Reliable external power supply, guaranteed emergency fuel reserves and, above all, an end to attacks,” Yashina said.

Yemen's Houthis advise against the use of Saudi airports and airspace after the attack on Riyadh that left 12 dead and hundreds injured, excluding only sites in Mecca and Medina.

An Indian court has ordered the release of the leaders of the "cockroaches" party arrested in New Delhi during a protest against the revision of the electoral lists. The organizers have announced new demonstrations.

The US embassy in Saudi Arabia raises the alert and limits access to airports for personnel after a Houthi attack in Riyadh that left 12 dead, including one American, and more than 300 injured.

Unicef Italy reports that approximately one in five girls in the world is married off before the age of 18, with over 650 million women and girls alive today who have suffered early marriages. Every year more than 12 million girls are married off before the age of majority, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. The organization relaunches the 'Don't stay silent' campaign to prevent stereotypes and promote girls' education, social protection and leadership, underlining that over the last 25 years approximately 68 million child marriages have been avoided thanks to investments in education and legislative reforms.

The Day of Wonder, created by the clown-volunteer Marco Rodari, reaches its sixth edition and obtains the recognition of the Italian parliament. The initiative involves one hundred Italian squares with games, workshops and shows to raise awareness of the conditions of children living in conflict zones, where over 520 million minors are currently affected by war according to Save the Children and PRIO.

Relations between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky begin in 2019 with a controversial phone call about Joe Biden's pressure on Kiev regarding Burisma and Hunter Biden, leading to Trump's first impeachment. After Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Trump criticizes Zelensky and blocks US aid. In 2025, after a meeting in the Vatican and a deal on minerals, tensions reignite with the Trump-Putin diesel deal in October 2026, leading Trump to call for a new leader for Ukraine.