Ministry of Defense news, comments, reports from sources
The 327th day of the special operation is underway. The day before, Ukraine imposed sanctions on 198 Russian cultural and sports figures, including Yuriy Loza, Angelina Vovkova and Andrei Konchalovsky. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said the West would increase arms supplies to Ukraine and relations with Russia would not normalize after the end of the conflict. The British Ministry of Defense has denied information spread in the media about plans to move Apache military helicopters to Ukraine.
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12:45 Croatian President Zoran Milanovič sanctions against Russia for senseless.
12:43 The governor of Sevastopol said that the air defense has already shot down 7 drones over the sea, no objects in the city itself or in the water area are damaged.
12:42 The mayor of Donetsk said that 4 urban areas are now under massive shelling by Ukrainian troops, the air defense is working.
12:41 The lack of energy in the Ukrainian energy system has increased significantly, in an emergency shutdown was used in five regions, the national energy company Ukrenergo said.
12:04 Two people died, four others were injured as a result of Ukrainian shelling in the Kalinin district of Donetsk, he said officer of the DLR People's Militia, member of the parliament of the republic Andrey Baevskij.
12:02 The number of downed drones in a day near Sevastopol reached three, air defense continues to repel the attack, authorities said.
11:38 Air defense systems shot down UAV over the sea towards Belbek near Sevastopol.
11:08 ISW called scenarios for “decisive strategic actions by Russia” in Ukraine.
10:50 "We believe that in the spring we will probably start liberating the Zaporozhye region in full. Before – I don't think it can happen. We know what forces oppose us – the entire collective West”, he said in an interview with the TV channel “Crimea 24”. Acting Governor of the Zaporozhye Region Yevgeny Balitsky.
10:43 The Ministry of Defense demonstrated the work of Acacia self-propelled guns in the NVO zone.
10:17 In the Irkutsk region, criminal proceedings were initiated in connection with the fire in the Bratsk army registration and admissions office. This was reported to the RIA Novosti agency by the representative of the FSB of the Russian Federation in the region.
10:02 The head of the IAEA, Rafael Grossi, announced the expansion of the organization's presence in Ukraine.
9:42 Emergency power outages have been implemented in Kyiv, Odessa and Dnipropetrovsk.
9:22 Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley said , that Washington will start preparing Ukrainian fighter jets for a major offensive.
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