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MK is broadcasting events online — the day of the 525th special operation. At least four explosions occurred at night in Kyiv, they were heard for 10 minutes. Military correspondents report several fires in Izmail after the Geranium attack. In the Odessa region, port and industrial infrastructure facilities caught fire.
The air raid alert was announced for the second time in the morning in all regions of Ukraine.
Russian Ministry of Defense
Peskov called the issuance of weapons civilian in the Belgorod region. Earlier, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said that the region’s territorial defense volunteers were given weapons, in particular, machine guns and anti-drone guns.
The Russian Armed Forces were able to stop the attempt of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to break through the Russian defenses in the area of the settlement of Pyatikhatki in the Vasilyevsky direction.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine began to transfer new reserves to the Zaporozhye direction.
The Polish Foreign Ministry announced the deterioration of relations between Warsaw and Kiev.
Over 30 models of drones were adopted by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in 15 months. «Including kamikaze drones, shock, reconnaissance and loitering ammunition,» the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine listed.
Zelensky, in a publication on his telegram channel, acknowledged the presence of significant damage in the south of the country after the explosions that occurred last night.
The telegram channel of the office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine claims that the port and industrial infrastructure of the Danube in the Odessa region was shelled, the elevator, grain sheds, production and storage facilities were damaged.
Almost a third of Americans supported the idea of sending US troops to Ukraine. Thus, according to the data received, 31% of respondents approved or strongly spoke in favor of sending US troops to the NMD zone in Ukraine. A quarter of Americans polled neither supported nor objected to this development. Another 34% are against the participation of the US military in the conflict. 10% of respondents found it difficult to answer.
The units of the RF Armed Forces in the Kherson region eliminated the Italian Spada anti-aircraft missile system (SAM) and also destroyed the Msta-B howitzer.
Vehicle traffic on the Crimean bridge.
Consequences of night strikes on Izmail:
Traffic on the Crimean Bridge — telegram channel about the situation at the transport crossing.
Head of the press center of the group «West» Sergei Zybinsky said that in the Svatovsky district over the past three days, the Russian military took eight strongholds of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. «In the Kuzemovsky direction, Russian assault groups captured eight enemy strongholds and four dugouts,» Zybinsky noted.
The US military-industrial complex was unable to work at the proper level after the start of the JMD in Ukraine, the assistant said U.S. Secretary of Defense for Strategy, Planning and Capabilities Mara Karlin. According to her, the government had to increase funding for the defense industry to achieve the desired results.
Czech President Petr Pavel allowed 14 citizens of the country to join the Armed Forces of Ukraine and rejected 8 more such requests. The predecessor of Pavel Milos Zeman, who took the post of head of state on March 9, issued 132 permits to the citizens of the republic from February 24, 2022 to join the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Thus, their total number was .
Ukraine was accused of rudeness to the West in response to foreign aid.
Voenkor Kots spoke about the use of captured NATO weapons by the Russian military.