1005 days ago, the Russian attack on Ukraine began. The sound of explosions was heard in Kyiv in the morning. According to the Reuters news agency, Ukraine has lost 40 percent of the territories occupied by the Kursk region of Russia. Negotiations to provide Ukraine with new air defense systems are ongoing. Vladimir Putin wants to cancel the debts of soldiers who are fighting at the front and their wives. This is what happened in the last 24 hours in Ukraine and its surroundings.
> On Sunday morning, explosions were heard in Kyiv, witnesses told Reuters and local media in the Ukrainian capital. The explosions sounded like air defense units in action. The Ukrainian army has not commented on this yet. Kyiv and its surroundings, as well as most of the northeastern regions of Ukraine, are under an air strike warning since 2 am.
> Volodymyr Zelenskyi announced that on his order, the Minister of Defense Rustem Umerov started negotiations with partner countries on providing Ukraine with new air defense systems after the Russian attack on the Dnipro. Earlier, the Interfax-Ukraine news agency wrote that Ukraine is seeking to acquire means of defense against intercontinental missiles.
> The commander of the Russian military group “South”, General Gennady Anashkin, was dismissed from his post due to false reports about the occupation of several cities in eastern Ukraine – independent Russian portals reported on Saturday, citing Russian military bloggers.
> On Sunday morning, the governor of the bordering region with Ukraine said that two Ukrainian missiles and 27 drones were destroyed over the Kursk region of Russia.
> Ukraine has lost more than 40 percent of its territory in Russia's Kursk region, which it seized in a surprise attack in August, as Russian forces launched waves of counterattacks, a military source in Ukraine's general staff told Reuters on Saturday.
The Russian army reports on the progress on the front to Reuters
> North Korean soldiers were observed in the occupied Mariupol and in the occupied areas of the Kharkiv region, reports the American television channel CNN with reference to the sources of the Security Service of Ukraine and the Ukrainian army.
> Vladimir Putin signed a law on Saturday allowing men fighting in Ukraine and their wives to collect debts of up to 10 million rubles (92,000 euros), Reuters reported.
> US President-elect Donald Trump intends to appoint Richard Grenell, the head of the intelligence service in his first term and a well-known critic of Ukraine's rapid accession to NATO, as his special representative on the “Russia-Ukraine conflict”, reports Reuters.
Richard GrenellJIM Barefoot / PAP / EPA
> Defense Ministers of Lithuania and Ukraine Lavrinas Kaschunas and Rustem Umerov signed a mutual cooperation agreement in Vilnius on Saturday. The Lithuanian side announced that it will allocate 10 million euros for the production of the Ukrainian Palanich drone.
> According to Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto, Vladimir Putin does not want to expand the war with Ukraine to other countries. This is how he explained the Russian leader's threats against the West on Saturday. The meeting of the diplomatic heads of the G7 countries will begin on Monday in Italy. The war in Ukraine will be one of the main topics.
> On the “kill list” of Russia, which the authorities in Moscow have planned in the event of the occupation of Ukraine, including: teachers, veterans of previous clashes with Russians in the Donetsk region, journalists and priests, said General Kirilo Budanov, the head of the Military Intelligence Service. Ukraine (HUR).
> In Russia, there are 45-50 special programs aimed at changing the national consciousness of children abducted from the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, said the deputy head of the Ukrainian Military Intelligence Service (HUR) Vadim Skibitsky. He emphasized that the return of children from Russia is a very complex process.
> Residents of Kyiv came to the monument to the victims of the Great Famine on Saturday evening to honor the memory of the millions of people who were killed by the Soviet government in the artificial famine of 1932-1933. .
In Ukrainefacebook.com/zelenskyy.official, the Day of Remembrance of the Great Famine Victims was celebrated
Main photo source: PAP/Vladislav Musienko
