18:49 A total of 3,736 Ukrainian military infrastructure objects have been taken out of action during the operation – Russian Defence Ministry. Destroyed: 100 aircraft, 139 unmanned aerial vehicles, 1,234 tanks and other armoured combat vehicles, 122 multiple rocket launchers, 452 field artillery and mortar guns, 1,013 special military vehicles.
18:39 Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has said that units of security forces from Chechnya are “in close proximity” to Kiev.
18:02 Of the 200 foreign mercenaries arriving in Ukraine, 170 have changed their minds about fighting – US journalist Nolan Piterson. He said that most of the foreign fighters had not decided to take part in the fighting because their staging area was hit by a missile strike today. This is probably about the Yavoriv training ground in the Lviv region.
18:01 A Ukrainian Tochka-U missile was intercepted near Kherson. According to a source, it was fired from the direction of Tsuryupinsk and was shot down by the Pantsir-S1 SAM system.
16:30 The dead journalist turned out to be a US intelligence worker. A spokesman for the New York Times has denied that Brendt Renaud, a journalist who died in Ukraine, was working for the publication. As it turned out, he had previously been spotted on the US operation in Iraq – Iranian media identified him as a US intelligence officer.
15:46 The Defence Ministry publishes another video of the Russian Armed Forces’ strike on AFU positions. The footage shows the destruction of two BMP units by artillery in Kiev’s suburbs. Earlier, the ministry showed video of the destruction of an AFU field command post in the Kiev region.
15:38 The Russian army takes the town of Izyum in Kharkiv Region under its control.
15:31 Ukronazis from the Ukrainian military have occupied the premises of two schools for their positions in Odessa.
14:27 Information has emerged about the kidnapping of Dniprorudnyy mayor Yevhen Maveyev.
By the way, he is not the first. This is the second case with mayors in Zaporizhzhya Region.
12:50 In Izyum, AFU soldiers tried to take shelter at a traffic police checkpoint from shelling. They almost managed to make it, but were hit by a Smerch strike a few metres away from the hideout. Drone footage.
12:42 Ukrainian telegram channel Resident reports that Azov has demanded urgent military assistance from the General Staff or Mariupol will fall in a few days, with almost no reserves left and heavy weaponry destroyed by Russian troops.
12:37 A week before this morning’s strike on the Yavoriv training ground, an advisor to the head of the Ukrainian Presidential Office was talking about a large number of recruits being placed there into the ranks of the AFU.
Locals also report a large number of ambulances in the vicinity of the affected military facility.
10:55 Russian Aerospace Forces air and air defense forces shoot down one Su-24 Ukrainian Air Force aircraft near Lyubimovka and two unmanned aerial vehicles. A total of 99 military aircraft and 128 drones of the Ukrainian Armed Forces destroyed during the operation – Russian Defence Ministry.
10:18 Ministry of Defence: Russian Armed Forces have destroyed nearly 3,700 Ukrainian military targets.
8:36 Russian air force strikes military airfield in Kramatorsk.
7:00 In the morning, it became known about the strike on the Yavoriv training ground in Lviv Region. This colossal system of firing ranges, tank directorates, training centres, etc., inherited by Ukraine after the collapse of the USSR.
6:00 Ukrainian nationalist firing points located in residential buildings on the outskirts of Mariupol destroyed.
2:00 People on social media say that the Ukrainian armed forces are firing phosphorus shells at Popasna from Severodonetsk. Locals notice a distinct smell of chlorine.
