Ukrainian air defense destroyed “all 29 Shahed 131/136 drones”, of Iranian design, launched from the Russian region of Kursk and southern Russia during the night from Sunday to Monday, the army said. air on Telegram. It also mentions an Iskander ballistic missile firing in the Kharkiv region, in the north-east of the country, where Russian forces have been carrying out a ground offensive for ten days, without specifying whether this missile was shot down.
Information to remember
⇒ Ukraine announced that it had shot down 29 Russian drones overnight
⇒ The United Kingdom and Finland will sign a partnership in the face of the risk of “Russian aggression”
⇒ Bombings killed at least eleven people on Sunday in the Kharkiv region
Russian sentenced for trying to burn down military recruitment center
A Russian military court on Monday sentenced a man to 25 years in prison accused of being recruited by Ukraine to carry out an incendiary attack on a military recruitment office in Siberia. In a statement on Telegram, the court indicates that Ilia Baburin was found guilty of having been in contact with the Ukrainian nationalist organization Azov, designated “terrorist” in Russia, and of having burned down a school in Novosibirsk on their orders and planned an attack on a military recruiting office in the same city.
According to the court, he had found an accomplice to burn down this military recruitment center and had given him a Molotov cocktail and a cell phone, but the latter did not take action and reported him to the Russian security services (FSB).
Since the start of the large-scale Russian attack against Ukraine, and in particular the announcement of a military mobilization in Russia, in the fall of 2022, dozens of attacks or attempted attacks against administrative centers or military recruiting offices have been reported across the country.
A London-Helsinki partnership facing the risk of “Russian aggression”
The United Kingdom and Finland will sign a strategic partnership this Monday to strengthen their ties and face the “threat of Russian aggression” in Europe, the British Foreign Office announced. This agreement, which provides for enhanced cooperation to combat Russian disinformation, cyberattacks, and participate in the reconstruction of Ukraine, will be ratified by the head of British diplomacy David Cameron and his Finnish counterpart Elina Valtonen in London during the day .
The two countries planned to declare on this occasion that Russia, which shares a 1,300 kilometer border with Finland, constitutes “the most significant and direct threat to European peace and stability”, according to a press release from Foreign Office press. Their ambition is “to work together on the challenges facing global security, and to support Ukraine until the war is won”, it is indicated.
At least eleven dead in the Kharkiv region under Russian fire
Bombings on Sunday left at least eleven dead in the Kharkiv region in the northeast of the country. The ground assault launched by the Russian army in this border area, after an intensification of air attacks, allowed it to record its most significant territorial gains since the end of 2022. The Russian progression has now been stopped, says kyiv, this which Moscow refutes.
On Sunday, six people, including a pregnant woman, died and 27 others were injured when a recreation center on the outskirts of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city, was hit by missile fire from the region. Russian neighbor Belgorod, Ukrainian officials said. The same location was targeted 20 minutes after the arrival of law enforcement and rescuers, police said.
Russia has repeatedly been criticized for carrying out double strikes, which consist of bombing a place first and then again when emergency services have reached the scene. Shortly after, five civilians lost their lives and nine were injured in multiple rocket launcher fire on the villages of Novoossynove and Kivsharivka, lamented the governor of the Kharkiv region, Oleg Synegoubov.
The Russian military seeks in this way to “terrorize” the population, reacted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, calling for “two Patriots for Kharkiv”, American anti-aircraft defense systems which “will fundamentally change the situation”.