At least five people were killed as a result of the Russian missile attack on Zaporozhye; The head of the Ministry of Defense presented the first steps to solve the bureaucracy and develop digitalization. Athletistic highlights yesterday’s key events.
Russia fired six missiles at Zaporozhye
The Russians fired six missiles at Zaporozhye, one of the strikes hit a multi-storey building in the central part of the city, there were dead, wounded and missing. Zelensky expressed condolences to the loved ones of those who died as a result of the Russian missile attack on Zaporozhye and emphasized that “Russian terrorism must disappear”.
Russian aggressors attacked the city of Dnepr with missiles
The enemy hit private houses in the Dnieper region. The enemy attacked the village of Obukhovka near the Dnieper. A 31-year-old woman died. Three people were injured.
Umerov presented to Zelensky the new composition of the Ministry of Defense and the program of the department
President Vladimir Zelensky met with Defense Minister Rustem Umerov, where he introduced his team and program. In particular, the head of the Ministry of Defense said that the department has already taken steps to: reduce bureaucracy and simplify document flow; freeing up commanders’ time for combat work instead of paperwork; increasing digitalization and clarity in the supply of troops.
Ukraine bombards Russian camp near Khalino airport with drones
The Ukrainian Security Service attacked a Russian military field camp with a kamikaze drone near the village of Postoyalye Dvory in the Kursk region, not far from the Khalino military airport. The camp, according to intelligence data, contains up to 3,000 military personnel of the occupying country’s army and about 80 units of military equipment. Khalino airport (under the name of the nearby village of the same name) is located 7 km east of the center of Kursk. The 14th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment is based there. Zhdanov, armed with Su-30SM aircraft.
A loud explosion was heard near Sevastopol
An explosion occurred in the area of temporarily occupied Sevastopol at about 17.35, then an air raid alert was declared there. Local and pro-Russian Telegram channels announced a “heavy explosion” in the area of the village of Sugar Head. According to a number of Ukrainian sources, a military unit of the invaders was located in Sugar Head. Not far from Sugar Loaf, in the Kara-Koba valley, there are four warehouses of weapons, ammunition and equipment of the Russians.
US President Joe Biden arrived on a visit to Israel
The American leader was met by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Isaac Herzog. At a joint news conference with Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, Biden said he was “deeply disturbed and outraged by the hospital explosion in Gaza.” At the same time, he noted that the attack on the Al-Ahli hospital in the Gaza Strip was not carried out by Israel, but by “another team.” He promised that the US would make sure Israel had what it needed to defend itself.
In Israel, 23 Ukrainian citizens became victims of attacks by Hamas militants
According to the updated report, 23 Ukrainian citizens were killed as a result of the Hamas attack on Israel. This is the second largest number of foreigners killed in a single attack after the United States.
Boguslaev’s case was brought to court
Law enforcement officials completed the investigation and submitted to the court an indictment against the former president of Motor Sich JSC Vyacheslav Boguslaev and the director of the foreign trade department of this company Oleg Dzyuba, who are suspected of working for the aggressor. In addition, as part of the criminal proceedings, all the assets of the accused were seized for a total amount of more than 12 billion hryvnia equivalents. We are talking about the funds, real estate, corporate rights of both officials, as well as their property, which they obtained through criminal means and registered in the name of their relatives in other country.
The court announced sentences for five Berkut members in the Maidan case
Kyiv’s Svyatoshinsky District Court announced sentences for five former Berkut members in the case of shooting people on Instytutska Street in February 2014, when nearly 50 people died. Among the accused are Pavel Abroskin, Sergei Zinchenko, Alexander Marinchenko, Sergei Tamtura and deputy regiment commander Oleg Yanishevsky. Only Alexander Marinchenko and Sergei Tamtura were in the courtroom. Others are wanted after an exchange in December 2019.
The President of the People’s Republic of China invited Putin to the new world order
Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin, during his visit to China, supported Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s desire to “create a new world order,” and in return he accepted the Kremlin’s desire to establish of “close and effective strategic coordination” with China. Putin was invited to China as a “guest of honor” at the Belt and Road international forum. In a speech at the opening of the forum immediately following Xi Jinping, who opened the event, he expressed support for “leader Xi’s key foreign policy initiative” as “aimed at creating a fairer, multipolar world” and gave emphasized the similarity of the approaches of Moscow and Beijing to “respect the diversity of each other’s civilization in its own development model”.
Ukraine received about 20 ATACMS missiles
The United States has transferred approximately 20 ATACMS tactical surface-to-surface ballistic missiles to the Ukrainian Defense Forces. The transfer of the missile was carried out in secret due to fears that Russia could attack the logistics chain during delivery, and the Ukrainian Armed Forces also wanted to catch the Russians in an unexpected first strike. One of the conditions set to the Ukrainians was that the ATACMS could not be used to attack Russian territory.
The American ATACMS ballistic missiles that have become available in Ukraine pose an additional threat. Russian President Vladimir Putin said this in a briefing in China. At the same time, he said that the Russian Federation will be able to repel their attacks.
British cat sets world record for loudest purr
A 14-year-old pet’s purring was recorded at 54.59 decibels, which is equivalent to the sound of a boiling kettle or the sound of a washing machine.
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