764 days ago, Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine began. The new Russian Dnieper River Flotilla is to take over patrolling the Dnieper estuary from the Black Sea Fleet, but it will be just as susceptible to attacks by Ukrainian surface drones, the British Ministry of Defense said. We summarize what has happened in recent hours in and around Ukraine.
> At least three people were killed on Wednesday in Russian shelling of the Kharkiv, Kherson and Dnipropetrovsk regions of Ukraine, the regional authorities reported on Telegram.
> The integration of the Western Balkan countries with the European Union and NATO is necessary to stop Russia's imperial ambitions in the region, said the Minister of Foreign Affairs of North Macedonia, Bujar Osmani. The politician met in Skopje with ambassadors of EU and NATO countries on the occasion of the fourth anniversary of the country's accession to the Alliance.
> Ukraine has sunk or damaged one third of all Russian ships in the Black Sea, said Ukrainian Navy spokesman Dmytro Pletenchuk in an interview with the AP agency.
> The new Russian Dnieper River Flotilla is to take over patrolling the Dnieper estuary from the Black Sea Fleet, but it will be just as susceptible to attacks by Ukrainian surface drones, the British Ministry of Defense said.
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> If we are weak, Russia will attack us – said the operational commander of the Armed Forces, General Maciej Klisz, in “Fakty po Faktach”. He admitted that he would be far from the opinion that he would “attack us with tanks”, but “economically, cybernetically, cognitively” – in his opinion – this “happens every day”. He also talked about the Russian missile that entered Polish airspace in recent days. He assured that in such situations there is no “doubt whether to shoot it down” because he is prepared to do so. – I have a question in my mind what will happen after being shot down. I'm not talking only about the military domain, he emphasized.
> Ukraine uses a network of thousands of smartphones placed on two-meter poles throughout the country to track incoming Russian drones and missiles, writes the British daily “Daily Telegraph”.
> Poland and Latvia speak with one voice on Ukraine and assess the geopolitical situation in the region similarly, emphasized the Minister of Foreign Affairs Radosław Sikorski. He added that Poland would double its contribution to the Czech ammunition initiative, and the profits from frozen Russian assets would soon go to Ukraine in the form of equipment and ammunition.
> The ambassadors of the member states to the European Union have reached a compromise on the extension of trade liberalization with Ukraine, the Belgian Presidency of the EU Council announced on the X website.
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