Three pro-Ukrainian battalions made up of Russian recruits launch a new invasion into southern Russia The cross-border attack was intended to sow chaos ahead of President Vladimir Putin’s widely expected re-election this weekend. Three armed groups of exiled Russian fighters closely aligned with the Ukrainian military said they had crossed the border into the southern Kursk and Belgorod regions. Russia’s National Guard said Thursday it was repelling attacks from pro-Ukrainian groups.
Russia is believed to have jammed the satellite signal of the plane British Defense Secretary Grant Shapps used to fly back to the UK from Poland.This was announced by government officials and accompanying reporters on Thursday. The plane was flying near Russia’s Baltic Sea enclave of Kaliningrad when its GPS signal was disrupted for about 30 minutes. British defense sources said Mr Shapps, who was on board the plane during the trip, was not in any danger.
ukraine At least eight missiles were fired into Russia’s Belgorod border region, killing two people and injuring 12 others. local officials said.
Russian Ministry of Defense claimed Russian troops killed 195 Ukrainian soldiers Two days after it announced it had killed 234 Ukrainian soldiers in another border attack, it also destroyed five tanks and four armored infantry vehicles. Claims have not been independently verified.
Ukrainian drones attacked several oil refineries hundreds of kilometers from the front lines in Russian regions such as Ryazan, Nizhny Novgorod and Leningrad. Continued strikes are part of a strategy to cause economic damage.
The European Union and NATO said Russia’s elections were neither free nor fair because the Kremlin suppressed all opposition. Both organizations also condemned Russia’s decision to hold the vote in Russian-occupied territory in Ukraine, which Russia claims as its own territory. Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry says voting in occupied territories is illegal and invalid It called on international partners not to recognize the results.
Foreign affairs committee chairs from 23 parliaments, from the Baltic states to the United States and Israel, signed a statement denying the legitimacy of the Russian election. In the occupied territory of Ukraine.
A total of 535 children were killed and 1,255 injured in Russia’s war in Ukraine.The Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine stated: Ukrinform reported.
President Vladimir Putin’s comments about nuclear weapons to Russian state media do not constitute a threat to use nuclear weapons, the Kremlin said.and accused the United States of taking the remarks out of context, calling them “reckless and irresponsible.” President Putin has said that Russia is technically ready for nuclear war and that the United States sending troops to Ukraine would be seen as a significant escalation of the conflict.
President Putin says establishing a nuclear force in space is a priority. Russia’s space agency Roscosmos announced last week that Russia and China are considering building a nuclear power plant on the moon between 2033 and 2035.
NATO allies urgently need to ramp up shipments of ammunition and weapons to Ukraine, the NATO Secretary General said. Jens Stoltenberg, presenting the alliance’s annual report at the alliance’s headquarters in Brussels, said Ukrainians were not running out of courage, but rather ammunition. He also said that any attempt by Russia to hold elections in the occupied territories of Ukraine would be illegal.
The Ukrainian military said Russian forces attacked Ukraine with 34 Shahed drones overnight into Friday, and 22 of them were shot down. According to the newspaper, around 150 settlements in the Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipropetrovsk, Kherson and Mykolaiv regions were hit by Russian artillery shelling. Authorities in Kharkiv and Sumy oblasts said infrastructure was targeted.
EU leaders will take a significant step towards confiscating 27 billion euros in profits generated by Russian state assets frozen in Europe to help finance the war in Ukraine. European Commission officials are poised to submit what they believe will be a legally sound proposal for member states to consider, possibly before a meeting of prime ministers in Brussels next Thursday. Meanwhile, Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense expressed its gratitude to the EU for agreeing to provide 5 billion euros in military aid to Kiev.
The Ukrainian military says it has shelled critical infrastructure facilities at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, which it claims is controlled by Russia. He claimed that explosives had been dropped near a fence where diesel fuel tanks were located, and insisted that “an attack like this is unacceptable”.
Germany’s parliament has rejected opposition demands for the government to send Taurus long-range cruise missiles to Ukraine. The day after Prime Minister Olaf Scholz defended the refusal to supply arms.
German weapons manufacturer Rheinmetall has announced plans to open at least four factories in Ukraine. The company is targeting sales of 10 billion euros ($10.9 billion) this year, a record high. The company said the Ukrainian factories, which are suffering from ammunition shortages, are for producing artillery shells, military vehicles, gunpowder and anti-aircraft weapons as Moscow reaps battlefield profits.
