Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,026 Leave a comment

Fighting

• Russia has launched 49 drones to attack Ukraine overnight, the Ukrainian military said, adding that its air force shot down 27 of the drones and lost track of 19 others.

• Ukraine’s military intelligence said its troops killed or wounded at least 30 North Korean soldiers who had been deployed by Russia near the villages of Plekhovo, Vorozhba, and Martynovka in the Kursk region, where Ukraine has seized territory.

• Russian troops captured the village of Shevchenko in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, the TASS state news agency reported on Monday, quoting Denis Pushilin, the Moscow-installed head of the region. The claim could not be immediately verified.

• Russia’s Defence Ministry claimed its forces had taken control of the villages of Veselyi Hai and Pushkino, also in Donetsk. The ministry further said Russian forces had hit and destroyed four Patriot air defence systems.

• Ukraine’s SBU security service said it had launched an operation to destroy 40 railcars carrying fuel to Russian troops in an area of the Zaporizhzhia region, which is now about 70 percent under Russian control.

• A Ukrainian drone has struck a campus belonging to Russia’s National Guard on Sunday in the Russian region of Chechnya, as Kyiv continues to strike back against Moscow. Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov confirmed the hit on a site belonging to the Akhmat Grozny riot police battalion.

• Ukraine has claimed there are no more Russian vessels patrolling the Black Sea, after Moscow’s naval force in the area has been degraded by Kyiv, said Al Jazeera’s Alex Gatopoulous, who is reporting from Kyiv.

• Politics and diplomacy

  • Moscow’s foreign intelligence chief Sergey Naryshkin said he has not been in contact with the CIA over Kyiv’s strikes with Western long-range weapons into Russia and Moscow’s use of its new missile in response, Russia’s RIA agency reported.

  • Norway said it will provide 2.7 billion crowns ($242.38 million) to strengthen the Ukrainian navy and help it deter Russian naval forces in the Black Sea. “It is essential to protect the Ukrainian population and Ukrainian infrastructure from attacks by Russia’s Black Sea Fleet,” Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere said in a statement. “It is also important to protect exports by sea of grain and other products, which generate crucial revenues for Ukraine.”

  • Foreign ministers from the European Union are meeting in Belgium on Monday; Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine is on the agenda.

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    Source (Al jazeeraNews)