981 days ago, the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine began. A Russian guided bomb hit a multi-story apartment block in Kharkiv, killing a child and injuring at least 29 people, local authorities said. What else happened in and around Ukraine in the last 24 hours.
> Meeting of the Defense Contact Group Ukraine at the Ramstein base will take place in the coming weeks, he said Volodymyr Zelensky on Telegram. The Ukrainian president also announced the results of his visit to Iceland at a meeting of the Nordic Council.
> Ukraine is planning mobilize to the fighting with Russia 160,000 people in the army – said Oleksiy Honcharenko, a deputy to the Verkhovna Rada (parliament) in Kiev, citing a speech by Oleksandr Lytvynenko, secretary of the National Security and Defense Council.
> A Russian guided bomb hit a multi-story apartment block in Kharkiv, killing a child and injuring at least 29 people, local authorities said. Kharkiv is the second largest city in Ukraine.
> North Korean soldiers are 50 kilometers from the Ukrainian border, the British daily Financial Times reported, citing reports from military intelligence in Kiev. The Ukrainian military portal Defense Expess writes about what role Kim Jong Un's envoy is to play on the front.
> The Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) announced that it had arrested a scientist suspected of helping Russia improve Iranian Shahed drones used by the Russian military in battles against Ukraine.
> Poland's request intercepting and neutralizing missiles over Ukraine is both necessary and urgent as a support mechanism for Ukraine and securing the front line of NATO's borders – said the presidents of the congressional group USA Helsinki Commission. They called the president Joe Bidento allow the shooting down of Russian missiles flying towards our country over Ukraine. Representatives of the Polish authorities claimed that they would do it only in consultation with NATO countries.
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