LIVE UPDATES: Moscow Warns OPCW of Possible Provocations by Kiev With Chemical Weapons in DPR

He added that since the start of Russia's special military operation, more than 2.35 million people, including over 371,000 children, have been evacuated to Russia..

The Nekislitsa village in Russia's Bryansk region was shelled from the Ukrainian side on Wednesday, Governor Alexander Bogomaz said.

"This evening, Ukraine fired artillery at the border village of Nekislitsa, Sevsky district," Bogomaz wrote on his Telegram channel, adding that the incident did not lead to any casualties.

The EU has disbursed 6.2 billion euros ($6.5 billion) in financial assistance to Ukraine and is committed to helping Ukraine in the medium and long term, according to the leaders present at the Ukraine reconstruction conference in Switzerland. Shmyhal said it would cost an estimated $750 billion to rebuild his country.

"Dmytro Kuleba, foreign minister of Ukraine, will take part in the second part of the ministerial meeting in Bali virtually. He will address the participants with a virtual speech that will not be recorded in advance, it will be delivered live," the ambassador told reporters, as quoted by Indonesian broadcaster SCTV.

In April, the Ukrainian state nuclear energy generating enterprise Energoatom stated that the country has completely abandoned Russian nuclear fuel.

The two-day dialogue, which starts on Thursday, will be co-chaired by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, the spokesman added. The participants will discuss boosting multilateral cooperation, security, climate, human rights, among other issues, Dujarric said.

Spartz was born and raised in Ukraine and lived nearly 22 years in the country. She immigrated to the United States in 2000 and now serves as a representative of the state of Indiana’s 5th congressional district since 2021.

Moscow has sent a note verbale to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) saying that Kiev is preparing a staged provocation with the use of chemical weapons at Slavyanskaya thermal power plant in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), also warning about other possible provocations in Nikolaev and Kharkov, the Russian permanent representative to the organization, Alexander Shulgin, said on Wednesday.

"We have already sent a corresponding note to the technical [OPCW] secretariat, informed about the upcoming provocations in Nikolaevka, also notified that Ukrainian nationalists are going to organize provocations in other places such as in Nikolaev and Kharkov. In total, over two dozen notes have already been sent to the technical secretariat," Shulgin told the Russian Rossiya 24 broadcaster.

The official also said that the OPCW confirmed the receipt of the data, and that the organization has been distributing it among the participating countries.

On Tuesday, the head of the Russian National Defense Control Center, Col. Gen. Mikhail Mizintsev, said that Kiev was preparing a staged provocation in the DPR with a use of chlorine to accuse Moscow of alleged indiscriminate attacks targeting chemically hazardous objects.

Stockholm has not yet received any clear information on the detention and indictment of a Swedish citizen in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), who participated in the conflict in Ukraine, the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs told Sputnik on Wednesday.

"The foreign ministry is aware of media reports about the detention and filed charges against the Swedish citizen over participation in hostilities in Ukraine. To date, we have no information on whether these reports are precise," the ministry said.

Earlier this week, the DPR pressed charges against the Swedish national who surrendered at the Azovstal plant in Mariupol over participation in the hostilities as a mercenary on the Ukrainian side.

The Russian aerospace forces have destroyed the HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems, which the United States has supplied to Ukraine, in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), the Russian Defense Ministry said on Wednesday.

"High-precision air-launched missiles have destroyed two US-made HIMARS multiple rocket launchers and two ammunition depots for them in the area of ​​the village of Malotaranivka in the Donetsk People's Republic," the ministry told reporters.

Ukraine has initiated the denunciation of an agreement on the recognition of educational documents with Russia, while other countries have not followed the suit, the Russian Ministry of Education and Science told Sputnik.

"The Ukrainian side has initiated the denunciation of the agreement between the Russian government and the Ukrainian cabinet of ministers on mutual recognition and equivalence of documents on education and academic titles dated May 26, 2000," a statement read.

In accordance with the agreement, the document is terminated after 6 months from the date when one of the parties receives a written notification of such intention from the other party.

"Until now, the Russian Foreign Ministry has not received a corresponding written notification," the statement added.

Moreover, the Russian ministry of education and science said it had not received information about the intention of other countries to denounce their agreements on the recognition of educational documents with Russia.