Ukraine. The most important events of the last 24 hours

> On Sunday, there were 77 combat clashes on the frontline of the fights with the Russian aggressor. The Russians carried out a total of over 3.2 thousand shellings of Ukrainian military positions – the General Staff of the Armed Forces informed in a cyclical statement Ukraine .

In the past 24 hours, the Russians have attacked Ukrainian territory twice using missiles and carried out 52 air strikes using 69 guided missiles. cluster bombs and 713 kamikaze drones. Fierce fighting took place especially in the Pokrov direction. The enemy was also active in the Kharkov and Kupian directions, the headquarters reported.

In the direction of Kharkov, the Russian aggressor carried out 9 attacks on Sunday in the area of ​​the towns of Glubokoye and Volchansk, 7 of which were successfully repelled. According to preliminary estimates, Russian losses amounted to 79 soldiers killed and wounded. In addition, Ukrainian soldiers destroyed a tank, two artillery systems, an armored combat vehicle, 12 military vehicles and three units of special equipment.

The greatest military activity Russia They showed in the Pokrov direction, where they tried to break through the Ukrainian defense 27 times in the last 24 hours. 22 attacks were repelled, and fighting is still ongoing in five places. “Ukrainian defenders are taking action to stabilize the situation and prevent the enemy from penetrating deep into the territory of Ukraine,” the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said in a Sunday statement.

> A Russian air defense system destroyed eight drones on the night from Sunday to Monday near the town of Tuapse on the Black Sea, the Russian state news agency TASS reported.

> “We can already say that our air defense has been strengthened,” the Ukrainian president said in a recording published on Sunday on Platform X. Volodymyr Zelensky.

The Ukrainian leader referred to the attacks carried out on the territory of the country using kamikaze drones – Shahed – and Russian missiles. “The German Patriot system (anti-aircraft defense – ed.) has arrived in Ukraine and I express my gratitude to Germany and the United States for this step. We will be able to do more in the airspace,” Zelensky said.

On the night from Saturday to Sunday, air defense destroyed all of the drones sent to Kiev. “Our ability to strike distant targets should be a just response to Russian terror. Anyone who supports us in this supports the defense against terror,” President Zelensky wrote on Telegram on Sunday. “Ukraine needs long-range weapons to protect its cities and soldiers on the front line from Russian bombs and drones,” he urged.

> Chairman of the Russian State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin visited recently Nicaragua and Cubalikely as part of the Kremlin's ongoing efforts to increase its influence in the Western Hemisphere and unite countries against the United States and the West, the US Institute for the Study of War (ISW) said in a daily statement.

Experts from the Institute of Social Security pointed out that Volodin's visits took place immediately after the Prime Minister's visits. Belarus Roman Golovchenko in VenezuelaCuba and Nicaragua, during which Golovchenko signed many bilateral economic and trade agreements. Probably – the institute assesses – this is an element of “Russian programs using Belarus to help Russia avoid Western sanctions”.

> One of Russia's top military commanders has been dismissed from service after was arrested on corruption charges – the British station BBC reported, citing Russian state media.

A military officer with the rank of lieutenant general, Vadim Shamarin, was detained as part of a broader operation to combat corruption in the Ministry of Defence. The communications commander allegedly accepted an “exceptionally large bribe” from a telecommunications company.

Shamarin had been serving in the communications structures since 1992, rising from platoon commander to head of the communications center in a brigade of the Far Eastern Military District, as the independent portal The Moscow Times wrote about him in the publication “The chief communications officer of the Russian army has been detained.” As he emphasized, “the general's next arrest took place against the background of the resignation of Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and the appointment of former deputy prime minister Andrei Belousov in his place.”

The prosecutor's office accuses the general of accepting bribes between April 2016 and October 2023 in order to ensure an increase in orders from the private factory.