DONETSK REGION, Ukraine — Russian authorities in St. Petersburg detained a girl on Monday as a part of their investigation of a restaurant explosion Sunday that killed distinguished Kremlin-aligned navy blogger Vladlen Tatarsky. Russia’s Investigative Committee recognized the detained girl as Darya Trepova and accused her of involvement within the assault.
Finland is about to affix NATO as its thirty first member on Tuesday, the navy alliance’s secretary basic, Jens Stoltenberg, introduced. A flag-raising ceremony in Brussels will mark the fruits of Helsinki’s repeatedly delayed path to membership, which was lastly accepted final week when Turkey’s parliament voted to assist its bid. Sweden — which utilized to affix on the identical time — has not but secured the approval of Hungary and Turkey, two holdouts which have blocked the required unanimity for admitting new alliance members.
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“I didn’t do something, I used to be by no means on the aspect of aggression and by no means can be,” Metropolitan Pavlo, head of the Lavra monastery, mentioned as he denied the costs earlier than a choose.
Ukraine has lengthy alleged that the native department of the Orthodox Church has ties to Moscow, however the escalation with Pavlo was a show of how non secular tensions have been exacerbated by the struggle.
Khurshudyan reported from Kyiv, Ukraine, Pietsch from Seoul, Sands from London and Rauhala from Brussels. Robyn Dixon and Natalia Abbakumova in Riga, Latvia, and Karen DeYoung in Washington contributed to this report.