NEWS.am digest: Pregnant woman dies being hit by Pashinyan’s motorcade, Gazprom halts gas to EU?

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PREGNANT WOMAN

Car from Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan’s convoy hit and killed a pregnant woman.

The Armenian police confirmed the information about the accident involving Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's government motorcade.

The citizen was hit by a car of the Road Police, which was on duty.

The pregnant girl, who was run over by a motorcade, has died, the child also could not be saved.

This 29-year-old pregnant woman was Sona Mnatsakanyan, and she was working at the Support Our Heroes (SOH)-Armenia organization.

Mnatsakanyan was born and raised in Berkanush village of Artashat city. She had gotten married last year and was living in Yerevan.

Earlier it was reported that the government motorcade of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan hit a pedestrian at the intersection of Leo-Paronyan-Proshyan streets in Yerevan.

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CRIMINAL CASE

The Prosecutor General's Office of Armenia on Tuesday received a formal request from a number of parents and relatives of soldiers killed during the war unleashed by Azerbaijan in 2020 in Karabakh to recognize thes-e servicemen as victims in the respective criminal case, and this request was granted.

On the same day, the Prosecutor General's Office received a separate formal request to include Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan as a defendant in the criminal case under investigation into the causes of the catastrophic consequences of the 2020 Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) war.

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MILITARY SITUATION IN UKRAINE

The situation in Ukraine remains highly tense.

Ukraine’s general staff said Wednesday Russian forces were pressing their offensive in the Kharkiv and Donetsk regions and they had captured several settlements.

However, Britain's defense ministry said Ukraine retains control over the majority of its airspace.

Meanwhile, a series of blasts were heard in the early hours of Wednesday in three Russian provinces bordering Ukraine, authorities sai.

According to them, an ammunition depot in the Belgorod province caught fire around the same time.

Ukraine also accused Russia of trying to drag Moldova’s breakaway region of Transnistria into its war after authorities in the Russia-backed region, adjacent to southwest Ukraine, said they had been targeted by a series of attacks.

GAS DELIVERIES

Russia’s Gazprom has suspended gas deliveries to Poland and Bulgaria, citing the two countries’ refusal to pay in Russian rubles.

In turn, the head of the European Commission (EC), Ursula von der Leyen, called Gazprom's statement to stop gas supplies to the EU countries unjustified and unacceptable.

CHERNOBYL ANNIVERSARY

Tuesday marked the 36th anniversary of what is considered the world’s worst ever nuclear disaster in Chernobyl.

And the international media said there is relief that the hulking sarcophagus covering the reactor’s radioactivity has returned to Ukrainian control.

But concerns have far from dissipated for atomic sites in Ukraine, as authorities even said Tuesday that missiles had flown low over a nuclear power station in a close call in the southern city of Zaporizhzhia.

According to the Ukrainian side, the plant suffered a power and communications outage that stirred fears of a possible new calamity at the site.

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