Far-right counterdemonstrators and neo-Nazis arrived in Leipzig with plans to disrupt a Pride event, which was part of Christopher Street Day.
However, when the several hundred protesters arrived at Leipzig Central Station they were stopped immediately inside the station by German police.
Up to a thousand people had registered for the counter-rally to the Pride event, according to Leipzig authorities.
ADVERTISEMENT Ukrainian forces have destroyed a bridge over Seim River in Russia’s Kursk region, Russian state-run TASS news agency reported on Friday citing a regional representative of one of the law enforcement agencies.
Ukrainian troops have been trying to divert the Kremlin’s military focus away from the front line in Ukraine by launching a bold cross-border incursion into Russia’s Kursk region.
Before it even started on Saturday, a far-right demonstration against a Pride parade in Germany was called off.
Neo-Nazis and far-right counterdemonstrators traveled to Leipzig with the intention of sabotaging a Pride celebration that was a part of Christopher Street Day.
However, German police promptly stopped the several hundred demonstrators inside Leipzig Central Station as soon as they arrived.
The demonstrations were allegedly using symbols that were illegal, according to the police.
Authorities in Leipzig said that up to a thousand people had signed up for the counter-rally to the Pride event.
Numerous counterprotesters gathered both inside and outside the station to demonstrate their support for the marchers participating in Christopher Street Day.
Saturday saw heightened security and a significant police presence as the event got underway.
Saxony and other German states sent hundreds of police officers to the scene.
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According to a regional law enforcement agency representative cited by the Russian state-run TASS news agency on Friday, Ukrainian forces have destroyed a bridge across the Seim River in Russia’s Kursk region.
The Russian military’s logistics and the locals’ evacuation depended on the bridge, according to news reports.
Friday night, Mykola Oleshchuk, the commander of the Ukrainian Air Force, uploaded a video of a bridge being struck to his Telegram channel. He wrote the following in the description of the video: “Air Force aviation is actively participating in the fighting in the Kursk sector.”. Attackers’ equipment concentrations, strongholds, logistics hubs, and supply lines are all targets of precision strikes by Ukrainian pilots. “.”.
Russia now alleges that Ukraine’s Kursk campaign is using US missiles.
According to officials in Washington, the US views the surprise invasion as a defensive action that warrants the use of US weapons. The US has stated that it cannot allow Russian President Vladimir Putin to win the war he started in February 2022.
A Russian Iskander-K missile struck a residential and commercial area in Sumy, northeastern Ukraine, early on Saturday morning, injuring two people, according to Ukrainian authorities.
Over ten cars were completely destroyed, a shopping mall sustained damage, and numerous homes’ windows were blown out as a result of the strike.
To put out fires brought on by the missile strike, firefighters arrived on the scene.
Oleksandr Khartsys, 37, slept that night in his tattoo parlor close to the missile’s point of impact.
Here, I passed the night. I was startled awake by the loud explosion that destroyed the windows and doors. He told the Associated Press, “I jumped up and saw the cars were burning and blowing up.”.
Through a daring cross-border incursion into Russia’s Kursk region, Ukrainian troops have been attempting to deflect the Kremlin’s military attention from the front lines in their own country.
Pokrovsk and other surrounding towns in the Donetsk region, however, were still under heavy Russian attack, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy cautioned on Thursday.
