Ukraine claims to have shot down 16 of 17 drones launched by the Russian Federation overnight. Suspilne writes that air defenses are deployed in the Odessa, Mykolaiv and Dnepropetrovsk regions. According to the report, one person was injured and nearby buildings damaged when a drone hit a utility company Kryvyi Rih in the Dnepropetrovsk region.
Russia is blocking talks to renew an agreement that allowed Ukraine to export grain through the Black Sea, Britain’s UN envoy has warned. Barbara Woodward accused Moscow of “cynical risk-taking” that made it increasingly unlikely that the deal would be extended before Tuesday’s deadline.
Wagner mercenaries are no longer “significantly involved” in combat operations in Ukraine, the Pentagon said on Thursday, more than two weeks after the group’s aborted mutiny in Russia. “At this time we do not see any significant involvement of Wagner forces in support of combat operations in Ukraine,” Pentagon spokesman Pat Ryder said at a news conference
Three Ukrainian drones were intercepted Voronezh Region. governor Alexander Gusev Post on Telegram: “Yesterday air defense systems detected and destroyed three UAVs a few kilometers from Voronezh. There were no casualties, no injuries, no damage.”
Roman Starovoithead of Kursk Region in Russia, reported that a Ukrainian drone fell on the city Kurchatov. He stated that there were no injuries.
Three people were injured in a car explosion in a residential area of the Russian city Belgorod.
A public poll is to be held to decide what to do with the Soviet Union’s metal insignia, which are to be removed KyivMonument to the Motherland.
France posthumously honored the AFP video journalist Arman Soldinwho was killed while working in Ukraine, the Legion d’Honneur (Legion of Honour).
Poland will reply in kind if Russia is closing its diplomatic missions, the Polish prime minister said on Friday in response to reports that Moscow had decided to close the Polish consulate Smolensk.
Finland‘s Secretary of State Elina Valtonen has said in an interview with the FT: “We in the West must understand that this is obviously not about charity because Ukraine is fighting for us. They are fighting for our freedom and the European security architecture.” She said the West remains committed to supporting Ukraine, adding: “I wouldn’t say there is fatigue and I hope there never will be.”