Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has been ongoing for 612 days. A source in the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) told the Interfax-Ukraine agency that the assassination of pro-Russian politician Oleh Tsarev was the work of the SBU. Two shots were fired at him; he was taken to hospital. According to a source in the SBU, his condition is critical. A source in the SBU called Tsarev a “legitimate target” of the operation because the politician “personally came with Russian tanks to take over Kiev.” These are the most important events in the last hours of the war in Ukraine.
> President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said in a telephone conversation with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak that in fighting for Avdiivka in the Donetsk Oblast The Russians lost at least a brigade. Zelensky thanked Sunak for London’s support for Ukraine.
> A source in the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) told the Interfax-Ukraine agency that assassination of pro-Russian politician Oleh Tsarev was the work of the SBU. Two shots were fired at him; he was taken to hospital. According to a source in the SBU, his condition is critical. A source in the SBU called Tsarev a “legitimate target” of the operation because the politician “personally came with Russian tanks to take over Kiev.”
> Eight people were injured in a Russian attack on a fire station in Izium in the Kharkiv Oblast in northeastern Ukraine, Ukrainian Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko announced on Telegram on Friday.
Ukrainian soldiers in the Zaporizhia OblastEPA/KATERYNA KLOCHKO
> Russia’s long-range aviation (DA) heavy bomber fleet has not carried out missile attacks on Ukraine for over a month, one of the longest pauses in such attacks since the beginning of the conflict, the British Ministry of Defense said.
> Ukraine received this week from German the third IRIS-T SLM air defense system – announced the German Federal Ministry of Defense. The delivery was made under a contract with Diehl Defense – the ntv portal reported.
> We cannot allow Putin to win in Ukraine because he will not stop there, said the newly elected Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Mike Johnson. However, he stressed that he would not agree to vote on the combined aid package Israel and Ukraine and instead the two cases will be dealt with separately.
> The European Commission is working on a proposal to use part of the profits from frozen Russian state assets to help Ukraine in its post-war reconstruction, EC President Ursula von der Leyen announced on Friday.
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