Russian hypersonic missiles struck the area of Ukraine's main Starokostianchiniv air base on Monday morning, Kiev said.. The latest attack on Starokostyantiniv, west of Khmelnytsky, came a day after the Dutch defense minister said he would supply more F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine in the coming months. Khmelnytsky Oblast Governor Serhii Tyurin said there were no civilian casualties or damage to critical infrastructure.
The Air Force announced that two Kinzhal missiles were shot down overnight on Monday in the Kiev region.. Debris fell in three districts of Kiev, but no major damage or casualties were reported after air defense forces attacked incoming targets, city officials said. Ukrainian Air Force Spokesman Yury Ifnat said: [Russia’s] With improvements and the use of new tactics, there were two shootouts today… They are learning from their mistakes and ours. They are improving their technology, so we can shoot down fewer of them. ” Ukraine's air defenses also shot down 32 Russian drones, and 37 more appeared on military radar, suggesting they were neutralized by electronic warfare, the air force said.
Kiev said Russian attacks killed three civilians overnight into Monday. Two of them were brothers, aged 35 and 38, from the eastern Sum region, and a 61-year-old woman from the southern Kherson region.. In the city of Kherson, Russian airstrikes injured 19 people and damaged educational facilities and various residential buildings, the governor said. Ukraine also announced that one person was killed and seven others were injured, including a two-year-old and a 13-year-old child, in a Russian attack in the city of Slovyansk in the Donetsk region.
Russian ballistic missile One person was killed in the attack on a Palauan-flagged civilian cargo ship in the port of Odesa on Monday, the second such attack in recent days, Odesa region chief Oleg Kipel said.. “A 60-year-old Ukrainian, an employee of a private cargo handling company, was killed. Five other foreigners were injured.'' According to the Ministry of Reconstruction of Ukraine, a Russian missile attack hit Ukraine's Pyvdeny port on Sunday. A St. Kitts and Nevis-registered civilian vessel carrying corn was also damaged.
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has warned that the war will continue as Ukrainian forces work hard to hold off large Russian forces in the east and hold ground in Russia's Kursk border region, which they captured two months ago. He said it was at a “very important stage”. Ukraine's president said that Ukraine needs to “pressure Russia in any way necessary to make it understand that this war brings no benefits to Russia.” “We will continue to apply even greater pressure on Russia, because only through force can we bring peace closer.”
Russia's Ministry of Defense claimed it had captured Grodyvka, a settlement in the Donetsk region near the strategically important city of Pokrovsk. There was no independent confirmation. Last week, Ukrainian forces announced they had withdrawn from the mining town of Vledar, also in the Donetsk region, in one of Russia's most significant territorial advances in recent weeks.
A Russian court has sentenced Stephen James Hubbard, a 72-year-old American who was found guilty in a closed trial of fighting as a mercenary for Ukraine, to six years and 10 months in prison.. Investigators said Hubbard, a Michigan native, worked for the Ukrainian Territorial Defense Forces in the eastern city of Izium and had lived in the city since 2014. The suspect was captured by Russian soldiers on April 2, 2022, and pleaded guilty, Lear news agency reported. The story was reported by Russian prosecutors.
in last month's interviewMr. Hubbard's sister, Patricia Hubbard Fox, cast doubt on the reported confession, telling Reuters that Mr. Hubbard had pro-Russian views and was unlikely to have taken up arms at his age.. He immigrated to Ukraine in 2014 and lived for a time with a Ukrainian woman, living on a small pension of about $300 a month. He said he never learned Russian or Ukrainian and had few connections with the locals. The U.S. Embassy in Moscow said Monday it was aware that an American national had been detained, but declined to comment further.
Further details emerged as Ukraine confirmed it attacked the Feodosia oil terminal in occupied Crimea on Sunday night, setting it on fire until Monday. The Russian Ministry of Defense said 12 Ukrainian attack drones, including six over the Kursk region and others over Belgorod, Bryansk and Voronezh, of a total of 21 that Kiev deployed to Russian targets, were sent to the peninsula overnight. He claimed to have been shot down in the sky.
Ukraine's military intelligence agency GUR announced on Monday that a Russian minesweeper was damaged and disabled by Ukrainian sabotage in Russia's Kaliningrad region.. Water entered the engine of the Alexander Obukhov Alexandrit-class minesweeper through a “mysterious hole” in the gas pipe, GUR announced. “The ship, which was based in the city of Baltiysk and was supposed to be on a combat mission, sustained serious damage.” Russia did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Earlier this year, the GUR and a pro-Kiev Russian military group claimed responsibility for an arson attack on a Russian warship in the Baltic Sea in April.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Denis Shmyhal informed pro-Russian Slovakian Prime Minister Roberto Fico during talks in Ukraine that Ukraine will not extend a gas transportation agreement with Russia that expires at the end of 2024.. Shmyhal said Kiev understands that some regions, including Slovakia, are “seriously dependent” on Russian gas supplies, but that “Ukraine's strategic objectives are not likely to be used by the invaders to finance their wars.” “The aim is to deprive the Kremlin of the profits it makes from the sale of hydrocarbons.” Shmyhal said that Ukraine and Slovakia have agreed to create an Eastern European energy hub to take advantage of Ukraine's large gas storage facilities. Fico said the Ukrainian government has confirmed that it remains interested in using the country's gas and oil transportation system even after the agreement with Russia expires. Fico opposes Ukraine's membership in NATO, but says he supports EU membership.
Russian state media company VGTRK, which owns and operates Russia's main state television station, suffered a cyber attack on Monday. Ukrainian government officials said hackers in Kiev caused the attack to coincide with President Vladimir Putin's 72nd birthday.. The website of VGTRK, the all-Russian state television and radio broadcasting company, did not load early on Monday, and the Russia 24 news channel was also not available online. A Ukrainian government official said, “Ukrainian hackers 'celebrated' President Putin's birthday by carrying out a large-scale attack on all Russian state television and radio broadcasting companies.” The Kremlin confirmed the attack.
