Latvian authorities explain this by the fact that Russia has closed the Latvian consulate in Pskov. It was the only diplomatic mission that issued permits to Russians to cross the border. The agreement on local border traffic has been in force since 2010, he says Radio Svoboda.
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Earlier, Latvia stopped issuing visas to citizens of the Russian Federation and announced the recall of its Russian ambassador. It was a response to the Russian military invasion of Ukraine.
On Sunday, the Latvian state security service announced that it perceived the dangers of the massive relocation of Russian journalists to their country. Since the end of February, more than 200 media professionals from the Russian Federation have traveled to border areas.
The war in Ukraine. The situation at the front
The heaviest combat operations are conducted near Bakhmut in Donbass. At the same time, the Russians regroup and reinforce their forces in the southern part of the front.
According to the morning report of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Russians are regrouping their forces towards crooked corner South. President Volodymyr Zelensky also informed about Russian activity in the southern part of the front.
As he noted, the Russian army is currently trying to reinforce its positions in the occupied southern regions. He pointed out that part of the eastern forces had been transferred by the Russians to Kherson and Zaporizhia oblasts.
According to the morning report of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Russians fired at Ukrainian positions almost all along the front line. On the other hand, they conducted ground assault operations in the Donbass – towards the city of Bakhmut.
There is also fighting in the vicinity of Bakhmut. Ukrainian forces repelled Russian attacks towards Soledar and Versailles. The next episode of Russian assault operations in the Donbass is the direction of Avdiyevka. There the Russians conducted an unsuccessful assault near the village of Pisky.
The Russians are attacking civilian objects. The cities of Donbass were under fire. A massive attack on Mykolaiv in the south of the country was also carried out at night