Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has been ongoing for 611 days. The Ukrainian resistance movement operating in the enemy-controlled city of Berdyansk in the south of the country carried out an attack on Monday on four officers of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB). All occupiers died in the car explosion, Ukrainian military intelligence (HUR) reported. These are the most important events in the last hours of the war in Ukraine.
> Near Kupyansk, Bakhmut and Horlivka, in the Kharkiv and Donetsk oblasts in the east Ukrainemercenaries fight in the ranks of the Russian army Cuba. These people are treated by commanders from Russia as typical “cannon fodder” – reported the website of the Center of National Opposition, run by the Ukrainian armed forces.
> We have information that the Russian military is executing soldiers who refuse to follow orders and is threatening to execute entire units that want to withdraw from Ukrainian fire, said John Kirby, spokesman for the US National Security Council. He added that during the offensive on Avdiivka, the Russians lost 125 armored vehicles.
> The Ukrainian resistance movement operating in the enemy-controlled city of Berdyansk in the south of the country carried out an attack on Monday on four officers of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB). All occupiers died in the car explosion, Ukrainian military intelligence (HUR) reported.
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> Estonia will build homes in Ukraine for foster families adopting children orphaned during the current war against Russia, ERR television reported. The government decided to build four family homes in the Zhytomyr Oblast, intended for large foster families that took in children orphaned as a result of the Russian invasion.
> The US administration announced on Thursday another arms package for Ukraine worth $150 million. The tranche included, among others: ammunition for air defense systems and anti-tank missiles.
> Our support for Ukraine will continue in humanitarian, logistical, military, reconstruction and political terms, said the President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, at the EU summit.
> Ukraine did not stop the operation of the temporary grain corridor through the Black Sea, and the reports about the suspension of the route are untrue; ports around Odessa continue to service ships that arrived this way, said Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Oleksandr Kubrakov.
> Mission Pope Francis regarding Ukraine will be continued – announced the papal envoy, president of the Italian Episcopal Conference, Cardinal Matteo Zuppi. He also recalled the Pope’s words about the ongoing “world war in pieces.”
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