A Russian hypersonic missile struck the realm of Ukraine’s main Starokostiantyniv airbase on Monday morning, Kyiv stated. The newest strike on Starokostiantyniv within the western Khmelnytskyi area got here a day after the Dutch defence minister stated the Netherlands would provide Ukraine with extra F-16 jets within the coming months. There have been no civilian casualties and no harm to important infrastructure, stated Serhiy Tyurin, governor of Khmelnytskyi.
Two Kinzhal missiles had been shot down within the Kyiv area in a single day into Monday, the air power stated. Particles got here down in three Kyiv districts, however no main harm or casualties had been reported after air defences engaged incoming targets, metropolis authorities stated. Yurii Ihnat, a Ukrainian air power spokesperson, stated: “Even supposing it’s getting tougher, regardless of [Russia’s] enhancements and using new ways, at the moment we’ve two shoot-downs … They’re studying from their errors and from our errors. They’re enhancing their know-how in order that we’re capable of shoot down fewer of them.” Ukrainian air defences additionally shot down 32 Russian drones and an extra 37 had been misplaced on navy radars, suggesting they’d been disabled by digital warfare, the air power stated.
Kyiv stated Russian assaults had killed three civilians in a single day into Monday: two brothers aged 35 and 38 within the japanese area of Sumy and a 61-year-old lady within the southern Kherson area. Within the metropolis of Kherson, the governor stated a Russian strike had wounded 19 folks and broken an academic facility and numerous residential buildings. Ukraine additionally stated a Russian assault had killed one particular person and wounded seven – together with kids aged two and 13 – within the metropolis of Sloviansk in Donetsk oblast.
A Russian ballistic missile hit a Palauan-flagged civilian cargo ship within the port of Odesa on Monday, killing one particular person, stated Oleg Kiper, the pinnacle of the Odesa area, within the second such assault in current days. “A 60-year-old Ukrainian, an worker of a personal cargo dealing with firm, was killed. 5 different overseas nationals had been injured.” A Russian missile strike additionally broken a civilian Saint Kitts and Nevis-flagged vessel loaded with corn within the Ukrainian port of Pivdennyi on Sunday, Ukraine’s restoration ministry stated.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated the battle was in “a vital section” because the Ukrainian military works onerous to carry the larger Russian forces at bay within the east whereas additionally holding floor in Russia’s Kursk border area, which it captured two months in the past. Ukraine must “put stress on Russia in the way in which that’s crucial for Russia to grasp that the battle will achieve them nothing,” Ukraine’s president stated. “We’ll proceed to use even larger stress on Russia – as a result of solely via energy can we convey peace nearer.”
Russia’s defence ministry claimed the seize of Grodivka, a settlement within the Donetsk area near the strategically vital metropolis of Pokrovsk. There was no impartial affirmation. Final week, Ukraine’s military stated that it had withdrawn from the mining city of Vuhledar additionally within the Donetsk area, handing Russia one among its most vital territorial advances in weeks.
A Russian courtroom has sentenced a 72-year-old American citizen, Stephen James Hubbard, to 6 years and 10 months in jail after convicting him in a closed-door trial of combating as a mercenary for Ukraine. Investigators stated Hubbard, a local of Michigan, served in a Ukrainian territorial defence unit within the japanese metropolis of Izium, the place he had been dwelling since 2014. He was captured by Russian troopers on 2 April 2022, and pleaded responsible, stated the Ria information company, quoting the Russian prosecutor.
In interviews final month, Hubbard’s sister Patricia Hubbard Fox solid doubt on his reported confession, telling Reuters he held pro-Russian views and was unlikely to have taken up arms at his age. He moved to Ukraine in 2014 and lived there for a time with a Ukrainian lady, surviving off a small pension of about $300 a month. He by no means realized Russian or Ukrainian, and had few connections to native folks, she stated. The US embassy in Moscow stated it was conscious of the detention of an American citizen, however declined additional touch upon Monday.
Extra particulars emerged after Ukraine confirmed attacking the Feodosia oil terminal in occupied Crimea over Sunday evening, inflicting an enormous hearth that burned into Monday. Russia’s defence ministry claimed 12 Ukrainian assault drones had been downed over the peninsula in a single day, out of a complete of 21 deployed by Kyiv in opposition to Russian targets together with six over Kursk area, and others over Belgorod, Bryansk and Voronezh.
A Ukrainian sabotage operation broken a Russian minesweeping vessel in Russia’s Kaliningrad area and put it out of motion, Ukraine’s navy spy company, the GUR, stated on Monday. Water had entered the engine of the Alexander Obukhov Alexandrit-class minesweeper via “a mysterious gap” in a fuel pipe, the GUR stated. “The ship, which was primarily based within the metropolis of Baltiysk and was purported to go on fight obligation, was significantly broken.” There was no rapid remark from Russia. The GUR and a pro-Kyiv Russian navy group claimed duty earlier this 12 months for an arson assault on a Russian warship within the Baltic Sea in April.
Ukraine is not going to prolong its fuel transit settlement with Russia after it expires on the finish of 2024, the Ukrainian prime minister, Denys Shmyhal, has informed his pro-Russian Slovakian counterpart, Robert Fico, throughout talks in Ukraine. Shmyhal stated that Kyiv understands the “acute dependence” of some states together with Slovakia on the Russian fuel provide however “Ukraine’s strategic purpose is to deprive the Kremlin of earnings from the sale of hydrocarbons which the aggressor makes use of to finance the battle”. Shmyhal stated Ukraine and Slovakia had agreed on the creation of an japanese European vitality hub aiming to utilise massive Ukrainian fuel storage services. Fico stated Ukraine’s authorities had confirmed it remained thinking about utilizing its fuel and oil transit methods after the cope with Russia expires. Fico opposes Ukraine becoming a member of Nato however has stated he helps it changing into an EU member.
Russian state media firm VGTRK, which owns and operates the nation’s foremost nationwide TV stations, got here underneath a cyber-attack on Monday {that a} Ukrainian authorities supply stated Kyiv’s hackers had brought about coinciding with Vladimir Putin’s 72nd birthday. The web site of VGTRK, the All-Russia State Tv and Radio Broadcasting Firm, was not loading early on Monday and its Rossiya-24 information channel was not out there on-line. A Ukrainian authorities supply stated: “Ukrainian hackers ‘congratulated’ Putin on his birthday by finishing up a large-scale assault on the all-Russian state tv and radio broadcasting firm.” The Kremlin confirmed the assault.
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