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In pictures: Anger and despair as Russians bid farewell to Alexei Navalny

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The death toll from an overnight Russian drone strike in Odesa has climbed to ten. A 4-month-old baby and child are among the dead.

Debris from the Iranian-made drone hit an apartment block in the southern Ukrainian port city between Friday and Saturday, according to Ukraine's State Emergency Service.

A further eight people sustained injuries, authorities said.

In the wake of the deadly attack, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy called on Western allies to boost Ukraine's air defences.

Speaking about the casualties, he wrote on X: “Tymofiy was 4 months old. Mark was about to turn 3 years old. My condolences to all of their close ones.”

Ukraine's number one added that a 3-year-old girl was injured in the attack.

“Delays in the delivery of weapons to Ukraine, as well as air defense to protect our people, unfortunately result in such losses. ... Ukraine has never requested anything more than what is necessary to protect lives,” Zelenskyy wrote.

Meanwhile, the Ukrainian Armed Forces reported multiple strikes across the country, shooting down 14 of 17 drones.

Kharkiv regional governor Oleh Syniehubov reported Saturday morning that more than 20 settlements in the eastern Ukrainian province sustained Russian artillery and mortar attacks, while high-rise buildings in the regional capital, also called Kharkiv, were damaged by a drone attack.

He said that there were no casualties, but that three people suffered an “acute stress reaction.”

Russia’s defence ministry reported that 38 Ukrainian drones were intercepted overnight into Sunday over the Crimean peninsula, which Moscow illegally annexed from Kyiv in 2014.

A bridge that connects Crimea to Russian territory was closed to traffic for about two hours in the early hours.

On Saturday, Russian authorities said an "emergency" damaged an apartment building in St Petersburg.

However, local news and social media claimed a Ukrainian drone hit the residential building in Russia's second-largest city.

Euronews could not independently verify either claim.

In Russia, the TASS state news agency said damage to the apartment in St Petersburg's Krasnogvardeisky district was caused by an " explosion".

Residents were evacuated, though there were no casualties, the city's governor Alexander Beglov wrote on Telegram.

A police officer guards an area with the wreckage of a drone near a damaged apartment's building after a reported drone attack in St. Petersburg, Russia, Saturday, 2/03/24. AP Photo

Windows were broken and balconies were damaged.

The Mash news website said the apartment building was hit by a Ukrainian drone.

It published videos appearing to show the moment the apartment building was struck, showing a strong flash of light engulfing one side of the building and fragments of debris flying into the air. Another video showed car alarms going off.

Again the videos could not be immediately verified by Euronews.

Russia’s Defense Ministry has not commented on the incident.

Citing preliminary data, TASS reports that 100 people were taken out of the buildings on the streets and residents of homes affected were temporarily housed in a nearby kindergarten.

The damaged building is a five-story building built in 1979, with 90 apartments in six entrances, the Russian state agency reported.

Thousands gathered in Moscow to say a final farewell to Alexei Navalny on Friday, two weeks after his sudden death in an Arctic prison.

As Navalny's parents sat by the open casket, cradling and kissing their son’s face, many chanted slogans against Russian president Vladimir Putin and the war in Ukraine as they gathered at the church where the opposition figure was laid to rest.

There was a heavy police presence at the funeral, which remained relatively peaceful.

Here are some of the most powerful photos taken on the day.

Workers carry the coffin and a portrait of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny out of the Church of the Icon of the Mother of God Soothe My Sorrows, in Moscow, Russia.AP/Copyright 2024 The AP. All rights reserved

Police, right, observe as people walk towards the Borisovskoye Cemetery for the funeral ceremony of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, in Moscow, Russia.AP/Copyright 2024 The AP. All rights reserved

People throw flowers as a van with the coffin of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny leaves the Church of the Icon of the Mother of God Soothe My Sorrows, in Moscow.AP/Copyright 2024 The AP. All rights reserved

People lay flowers and candles paying the last respect to Alexei Navalny, in a street not far from the Borisovskoye Cemetery in Moscow, Russia, Friday, March 1, 2024.AP/Copyright 2024 The AP. All rights reserved

Israel has agreed to ceasefire framework - US

Israel has essentially endorsed a framework of a proposed Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal, a senior US administration official said Saturday.

It is now up to Hamas to agree.

The Israelis “have more or less accepted” the proposal, which includes the six-week ceasefire in Gaza as well as the release by Hamas of hostages considered to be vulnerable, which includes the sick, the wounded, the elderly and women, said the official.

“The Israelis have basically signed on to the elements of the arrangement,” they added.

“Right now, the ball is in the court of Hamas and we are continuing to push this as hard as we possibly can.”

The official briefed reporters on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to publicly discuss details of the ongoing cease-fire talks.

US airdrops humanitarian aid into Gaza

US military planes dropped thousands of meals into Gaza on Saturday, two days after more than 100 Palestinians were killed after crowds surging for aid were fired on by Israeli troops.

Three planes from Air Forces Central dropped 66 bundles containing about 38,000 meals into the enclave, according to two US officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity.

The airdrop is expected to be the first of many announced by President Joe Biden on Friday. Operations will be coordinated with Jordan, which has also conducted airdrops to deliver food to Gaza.

Gaza's Health Ministry says at least 115 Palestinians were killed on Thursday and more than 750 others were injured after fire from Israeli troops caused a chaotic stampede.

Israel said its troops fired at some in the crowd who were rushing for aid, claiming they moved toward them in a threatening way.

However, international observers have documented many bullet wounds among the injured still in hospital.

The increasing desperation of Gazans, who are on the brink of famine, has led to many aid convoys being mobbed.

'They wanted to humiliate us': Palestinian women allege abuse in Israeli custody

Nabela thought the United Nations school in Gaza City was a safe haven. Then, the Israeli army arrived.

Soldiers stormed the place, ordering men to undress and hauling women to a mosque for strip searches, she said. So began six weeks in Israeli custody that the Palestinian woman says included repeated beatings and interrogations.

“The soldiers were very harsh, they beat us and screamed at us in Hebrew,” said the 39-year-old from Gaza City, who spoke on condition that her last name not be used for fear of arrest. “If we raised our heads or uttered any words, they beat us on the head.”

One woman detained from Gaza, who also spoke on condition of anonymity, told the AP news agency that before she was moved to Israel's Damon Prison, Israeli forces ordered her to kiss an Israeli flag. When she refused, a soldier grabbed her by the hair, smashing her face into a wall, she said.

Another woman, whose name was redacted, said she was urinated on by guards at Ketziot Prison in southern Israel. She also witnessed strip searches where guards forced naked detainees to stand close to each other and inserted search devices into their buttocks.

It's not known how many women or minors have been detained by Israeli forces, though male detainees have also alleged widespread physical abuse.

Rights groups say Israel is “disappearing” Palestinians - detaining them without charge or trial and not disclosing to family or lawyers where they’re held.

Israel’s prison service says all “basic rights required are fully applied by professionally trained prison guards.”

Its military said it makes detainees undress to search for explosives, bringing detainees into Israel before releasing them back into Gaza if they're deemed innocent.

Many gunshot wounds after aid convoy bloodshed - UN

A United Nations team has documented "a large number of gunshot wounds" among those still being treated for injuries following a rush on an aid convoy in Gaza.

At Gaza City's al-Shifa Hospital, the international observers saw some 200 people injured in Thursday’s deadly incident that happened as Palestinians sought aid from a humanitarian convoy.

Hamas says Israeli forces fired upon the crowd. Israel claims they died in a stampede.

On Saturday, the European Union's diplomatic service added that many Palestinians killed or wounded in the chaos were hit by Israeli army fire.

Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024, Palestinians surround aid trucks in northern Gaza in what officials described the day before as the first major delivery in a month. AP/AP

On Friday, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said that Shifa reportedly received more than 700 injured people and more than 70 dead bodies after the bloodshed.

With the famine looming in the Gaza Strip, desperate Palestinians have mobbed and looted aid convoys in recent weeks.

Rights groups and international organisations have accused Israel of using starvation as a weapon of war, obstructing the delivery of essential resources, hindering humanitarian aid and destroying key infrastructure that supplies of food and water depend on.

Residents in northern Gaza say they have taken to searching piles of rubble and garbage for anything to feed their children, who barely eat one meal a day.

Many families have begun mixing animal and bird food with grain to bake bread. International aid officials say they have encountered catastrophic hunger.

“We’re dying from starvation,” said Soad Abu Hussein, a widow and mother of five children who has taken shelter in a school in the Jabaliya refugee camp.

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