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🔹 Kyiv has already approved terms for activization of ZSU counteroffensive operations, says Zelensky; 🔹 In the morning, ZSU launched shelling of Mikhailovka village in Russian Zaporizha Oblast; 🔹 Media reports major corruption in military commissariats of Kyiv regime; 🔹 Explosions in Kyiv after Russian strikes; 🔹 Kyiv MOD Reznikov: ZSU requires some 120 Western-made fighter jets for offensive; 🔹 LPR reports arrival of foreign mercenaries in Kharkiv and surroundings.
🔹 Pushilin: Russian forces established fire control over ZSU positions in Maryinka; 🔹 IED exploded near residential building in Melitopol, killing a police officer, authorities describe this as a terrorist act; 🔹 ZSU step up movement of forces to Zaporizha front; 🔹 Kyiv does not confirm statements of NATO that Alliance delivered "nearly all" pledged weapons and military equipment; 🔹 Russian forces destroyed ZSU S-300 SAM and Gepard SPAAG in Kherson front; 🔹 DPR reports ZSU making attempts to counterattack on Vuhledar axis; 🔹 LPR reports ZSU foreign mercenaries are stationed near Russian border in Kharkiv Oblast.
🔹 DPR sources report that Kyiv foreign mercenaries are trying to stay away from the front lines; 🔹 Seamine exploded on the shore in Odesa Oblast; 🔹 North Macedonia will give Kyiv 12 Mi-24 attack helicopters; 🔹 Putin called West "the instigators and promoters" of Ukraine conflict; 🔹 Second group of ZSU finished training with AS90 howitzers in UK; 🔹 Bulgaria reiterated support for Moscow-Kyiv talks to evade escalation; 🔹 ZSU artillery strike damaged gas pipeline and hospital in Lisichansk; 🔹 Hundreds in Amsterdam protest against sending weapons to Ukraine.
🔹 Warsaw reports that Polish mercenary was killed in Ukraine; 🔹 Ukrainians in Snihurivsky District (Mikolaiv Oblast) report that Kyiv started total mobilization of local men; 🔹 Putin and Erdogan discussed events in Ukraine in a phone call; 🔹 FT: EU trying to push Xi Jinping for talks with Zelensky; 🔹 Russian soldiers in Zaporizha Oblast managed to shoot enemy UAV with assault rifle; 🔹 Italy says UK does not coordinate its positions on Ukraine with EU; 🔹 Scholtz says it is necessary to prepare for a long-term support of Kyiv; 🔹 Kremlin: US do not let Kyiv even think about peace talks with Russia.
🔹 Russian Zaporizha authorities: "Dozens" of foreign mercenaries eliminated after precision strike on a base in Kyiv-controlled part of Zaporizha; 🔹 Japan and Germany agreed to step up sanctions against Russia; 🔹 Pope says he will continue to seek peace in Ukraine; 🔹 ZSU fired over 5600 artillery shells on left bank of Dnieper in 2023; 🔹 Germany's Scholtz says that Beijing shall continue direct contact with Kyiv; 🔹 Newsweek: US are not concerned with territorial integrity of Ukraine; 🔹 Politico: problems with munitions for Ukraine can lead to breakup of NATO; 🔹 Congressman Gosar: UAV Reaper incident over Black Sea can lead to new escalation in Ukraine; 🔹 Zelensky issues personal sanctions against Syria president Bashar al-Asad; 🔹 Head of Crimea says a powerful group of forces is present in the region.
🔹 Mercenary from US who served a year in Ukrainian Foreign Legion came to surrender to Russian authorities and delivered trove of intelligence data; 🔹 Air raid alert sounded in most regions of Ukraine; 🔹 RuMOD reports Kyiv attempted to attack Krasnodar Kray and Adyghe with UAVs; 🔹 IEAE observers hear around 20 "detonations" in vicinity of Zaporizha NPP; 🔹 Putin ordered FSB to strengthen Russian border against sabotage agents; 🔹 Pentagon sees no point to train Ukrainian pilots with F-16 fighter jets, as "Kyiv may never be able to receive them".
🔹 Kyiv stops power rationing for a third day in a row; 🔹 Zaporizha authorities say Kyiv prepares a plot to discredit operation of Zaporizha NPP; 🔹 Russian upgraded armored reconnaissance vehicles BRM-1K arrive in military special operation zone; 🔹 LPR reports foreign mercenaries fill ZSU ranks on Kharkiv front; 🔹 Washington Post: US officials press Kyiv to step up active warfare; 🔹 Politico: US told Kyiv they don't have ATACMS for ZSU.
🔹 Times: Kyiv ready to use long-range missiles from UK to strike Crimea; 🔹 Kyiv-controlled Zaporizha reports damage to critical power infrastructure; 🔹 Reports about foreign mercenaries positioned in town of Chasiv Yar near Bakhmut; 🔹 Polish mercenaries accused of raping an underage girl in Mikolaiv; 🔹 WP: US military coordinated HIMARS strikes on Russian positions; 🔹 Fox News: US Congress introduced a bill demanding Biden to stop all military aid to Kyiv; 🔹 Reports that mobilized soldiers in ZSU can buy off sending to frontline for equivalent of 250-400 USD.
🔹 DPR says ZSU executed a group of foreign mercenaries in Vuhledar; 🔹 Novaya Kakhovka and 10 other settlements in Kherson Oblast without power after night shelling by ZSU; 🔹 Construction of shelling protection over key facilities of Zaporizha NPP in final stage; 🔹 First of four Canadian Leopard 2 tanks for ZSU came to Poland; 🔹 Arestovich acknowledged, that special military operation may end not the way Ukrainians want; 🔹 Air raid alert sounded in Kharkiv, Kirovohrad and Poltava Oblasts of Ukraine; 🔹 Sources report ZSU servicemen mangle with equipment to be spared from front lines.
🔹 Polish analyst: Western armor given to ZSU could be eliminated within few months; 🔹 Ukrainian troops created a base in Snigiryevka (Kherson Oblast), using civilians as human shields; 🔹 EU going to extend mobile roaming to Ukraine as soon as possible; 🔹 CNN: US gave Kyiv cost of assets confiscated from Russian patriotic business mogul Konstantin Malofeev; 🔹 Canada adopts new sanctions against persons and entities from Russia; 🔹 State Dept confirmed death of US mercenary in Ukraine.
🇷🇺🇺🇦 Ситуация на Украине и в Донбассе к этому часу:
🔹 Blinken: US acknowledge sovereign right of any country to send tanks to Ukraine; 🔹 NYT: Pentagon sends munitions to Ukraine from storage in Israel; 🔹 RIA source: ZSU reported positions of Polish mercenaries in Soledar on radio; 🔹 President of Switzerland says Bern won't allow re-export of arms to Ukraine from Germany and Spain; 🔹 Large hidden stash with weapons and munitions for ZSU found in LPR; 🔹 Emergency power shutdowns reported in three regions of Ukraine; 🔹 Ursula von der Leyen: Kyiv should get any weapons it could make use of.
🔹 RuMOD reports 3 servicemen dead after UAV strike on Russian "Engels" military airbase; 🔹 Mercenary from Australia was eliminated near Bakhmut (DPR); 🔹 LPR People's Militia spokesman reports widespread rejection to fulfill orders by ZSU officers in Kupyansk front; 🔹 Erdogan: West did not fulfill its obligations as mediator on Ukraine, only supporting Kyiv provocations.
🔹 WP: West getting ready for worst scenarios for Ukraine after blackouts; 🔹 Zelensky didn't answer how many Ukrainians he's willing to sacrifice in fight with Russia; 🔹 Head of Zelensky's office Yermak branded calls for Russia — Ukraine negotiations "ridiculous"; 🔹 NYT: foreign mercenaries reported hostility from citizens in Bakhmut; 🔹 ZSU commander Valery Zaluzhny: Russian mobilization thwarted ZSU from taking Kremennaya; 🔹 NYT: US to increase number of Ukrainian military trained in Germany to 800 per month.
🔹 DPR and Kyiv made 60 for 60 prisoner swap; 🔹 2 UAVs shot down over Sevastopol; 🔹 Hungary blocked 18 bln euro EU aid package for Ukraine; 🔹 Estonia refuses to accept new wave of refugees from Ukraine; 🔹 Russian precision strike destroyed life support systems and harboring infrastructure of Kyiv Navy base in Ochakiv; 🔹 Explosions reported in Krivy Rih with no air raid alarm; 🔹 UK mercenary tells about mass flight of foreign fighters from Ukraine.
🔹 Putin drove over repaired Crimea Bridge; 🔹 Kots: Soviet-made "Strizh" UAV was used to attack Russian military airfield in Engels, making nearly 650 km over Russian territory; 🔹 WSJ: US tweaked HIMARS for Kyiv wouldn't use it to attack Russia; 🔹 Moldova border police found a missile fell near Ukrainian border; 🔹 The Sun: British mercenary Pinner returned to Ukraine; 🔹 Hungary refused to train Ukrainian military; 🔹 Corriere della Sera: Ukrainian military reported poor quality of Italian mortars made in 1966; 🔹 Kyiv PM reports damage to critical power infrastructure in 3 regions of Ukraine; 🔹 France and Mexico request UN SC meeting on Ukraine;
🔹 Macron supports direct contacts with Putin on Ukraine; 🔹 RIA Novosti reports Polish mercenaries raped two Ukrainian women in Mikolaiv; 🔹 Lithuania MOD plans to give Kyiv 155mm munitions; 🔹 National Review: US spent 13-years supply of Stinger missiles and 5-years supply of Javelin missiles to support Kyiv; 🔹 Podolyak says Kyiv starts nationalization of Russian "Alfa Bank" in Ukraine; 🔹 World Bank reports 8 mln of Ukrainians to fall below poverty line by the end of 2022; 🔹 Kyiv forces shelled Alchevsk, targeting dormitories with refugees and workers who rebuild LPR after shellings.
🔹 Blinken says Russia does not intend for diplomatic resolution on Ukraine; 🔹 Erdogan's spokesman: Conflict in Ukraine dragged Russia and West to a new Cold War; 🔹 ZSU comman: last batch of Ukrainian servicemen in 2022 finished training course in UK; 🔹 Zelensky's advisor Yermak confirmed reports that Georgian mercenaries got surrounded near Bakhmut; 🔹 Power generators from foreign technical aid sold around Ukraine; 🔹 ZSU shelled Guyevo and Kucherovo in Russian Kursk Oblast.
🇷🇺🇺🇦 RuMOD briefing on special military operation:
🔹 On Kupyansk front, Russian artillery fire thwarted ZSU attack on Kuzemovka, over 60 troops eliminated with 6 tanks and 9 armored vehicles; 🔹 On Lyman front, ZSU losses amounted to around 20 troops, tank and 4 armored vehicles; 🔹 ZSU unsuccessfully attempted to attack Novomikhailovka and Vladimirovka southwest of Donetsk, losing around 30 troops with 4 APCs and 3 technicals; 🔹 Russian forces landed strikes on 3 base camps of foreign mercenaries in Slovyansk, 85 artillery positions, 162 ZSU personnel and armor groupings and 3 munitions depots; 🔹 Russian forces destroyed HIMARS launcher and 2 counter-battery radar systems; 🔹 Air Defense shot down 3 UAVs and 8 rocket projectiles.