Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has been ongoing for 629 days. Three people were killed and six injured on Monday in Russian attacks on Kherson in southern Ukraine, the head of the Kherson Oblast government, Oleksandr Prokudin, said on Telegram. These are the most important events in the last hours of the war in Ukraine.
> Delays in the adoption of the aid package for Ukraine they already impact our ability to give Ukraine everything it needs, said the US national security adviser Jake Sullivan. He added that the situation is becoming more and more serious every week.
> Three people were killed and six injured on Monday in Russian attacks on Kherson in southern Ukraine, the head of the Kherson Oblast government, Oleksandr Prokudin, said on Telegram.
> Drug use by Russian soldiers fighting in Ukraine is a serious problem, and one of the reasons for this is the inability to rotate troops, the British Ministry of Defense said. The daily intelligence update cited information provided by the independent Russian website Viorstka, according to which up to 15 percent Russian soldiers in Ukraine used drugs, including amphetamines and marijuana, and drugs are easy to obtain even on the front lines.
Streets of Kherson after Russian shelling Drop of Light / Shutterstock
> A Ukrainian court sentenced a man who led a Russian missile attack on the headquarters of the Kharkiv Oblast authorities in March 2022 to life imprisonment. 31 people died in it, informed the General Prosecutor’s Office and the head of the regional authorities, Oleg Synehubov.
> The inauguration of the European F-16 training center, intended for training pilots with Romania, NATO and Ukraine. The ceremony was attended by the Ministers of Defense of Romania and Netherlands.
> Ukrainian soldiers are training in France with French soldiers for four weeks according to a scenario consistent with the realities of operations in Ukraine; they practice combat in urban areas, trench assaults and maneuvers in partially sheltered terrain. Then they return to the front – the daily “Le Figaro” describes the training of Ukrainians.
> Oleksiy Arestovych, former adviser to the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, in an interview with the Spanish daily “El Mundo” stated that “political change is necessary (…) because his [Zełenskiego – red.] policy is no longer effective.
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