Live Ukraine: Russia puts former top Ukrainian security official on the wanted list

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Russia puts former top Ukrainian security official on its wanted list

Russia has arrested the former secretary of the Ukrainian National Council for Security and Defense, Oleksey Danilov, added to the wanted list. The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs reported this on Sunday.

It was not disclosed why Danilov is wanted. The ministry only reported that “Alexey Myacheslavovich Danilov, born on September 7, 1962 in the city of Krasny Luch, Luhansk region, is wanted under an article of the Russian Criminal Code.”

On Saturday, Russia also put Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on the wanted list, Russian media reported. It was also not disclosed what he is wanted for.

Russia previously also put the Prime Minister of Estonia, Kaja Kallas, on the wanted list. A Lithuanian minister is also wanted by Moscow. (Belga/Editorial)

11:55 PM, Yesterday

Welcome to the live blog of Monday, May 6

This was the most important news about the war in Ukraine on Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 May:

• Russian authorities have put Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky on the list of wanted criminals. It is not clear what Zelensky is suspected of. The investigation report speaks of an ‘article of criminal law’, Russian media report.

• Russia says it has thwarted a missile attack on the illegally annexed Crimean peninsula. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, Ukraine fired four American Atacms missiles, but air defenses shot down the missiles.

• Russian troops have captured another village in eastern Ukraine. It concerns Otsjeretyne, a village that had about three thousand inhabitants before the war. Since the fall of Avdiivka in February, the Russians have been steadily making small successes in eastern Ukraine.

Read the full live blog from last weekend here.