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As a result of the nighttime shelling of Kharkiv by drones, 25 trucks and buses, 3 cars, 4 houses, and windows in an office building were damaged. A total of 7 people were injured in the city. All of them suffered from an acute stress reaction. 🪐 Subscribe to Live: Ukraine

🇵🇱Nine people suspected of sabotage ordered by Russia have been arrested in Poland According to Donald Tusk, the sabotage actions include beatings and arson. The detainees are citizens of Ukraine, Belarus, and Poland. Tusk emphasized that sabotage is also taking place on the territory of other countries, including Lithuania, Latvia, and Poland. In addition, “similar signals are coming from Sweden.” 🪐 Subscribe to Live: Ukraine

🇩🇪German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock arrived in Kyiv on a visit She emphasized that almost a billion euros had been raised for the German global initiative to strengthen Ukraine's air defense. Baerbock also came to Ukraine to demonstrate her country's support and to prepare for the Berlin conference on reconstruction as an investment in Ukraine's future. 🪐 Subscribe to Live: Ukraine

Innovations win wars A drone with an installed machine gun is designed to destroy Russian positions.  🪐 Subscribe to Live: Ukraine

Zelensky insists NATO can shoot down Russian missiles over Ukraine. He told Reuters that Russia uses 300 aircraft in Ukraine, and Kyiv needs "at least 120, 130" F-16 fighters to counter them. He questioned why NATO allies intercepted Iranian missiles and drones heading to Israel but fear doing the same in Ukraine. 🪐 Subscribe to Live: Ukraine

The Economist, citing "obtained military plans," writes that the Russians planned to partially surround Kharkiv and push eastward from the Pechenihy reservoir The Russians allegedly "identified two directions" of attack on both sides of the reservoir. In particular, the offensive in the western direction was to bring Russian troops within artillery range of Kharkiv near the village of Borshchova. However, they were stopped by the 92nd Brigade, which pushed the invaders back 10 kilometers from their original goal. The Economist also writes that in the Vovchansk direction, the occupiers planned to break through to the town of Pechenihy. 🪐 Subscribe to Live: Ukraine

🇳🇱The Netherlands will provide Ukraine with a batch of YPR armored vehicles. The vehicles are equipped with remote-controlled combat modules, are capable of rapid troop deployment, and can be used for reconnaissance, offense, and defense. The armored vehicles are expected to arrive in Ukraine shortly, but their exact number has not been disclosed. The Netherlands has already delivered 207 YPR armored vehicles of various types to Ukraine. 🪐 Subscribe to Live: Ukraine

Exactly two years ago, the defense of Mariupol and Azovstal ended Denys Prokopenko, a lieutenant colonel in the National Guard of Ukraine and commander of the Azov Special Forces Brigade, recalled those days.

"Before that, after a round of difficult negotiations with the Russian side, agreements were reached to evacuate civilians from the Azovstal plant. Hundreds of people, residents of Mariupol, who had taken refuge on the territory of the plant, were rescued. All the civilians who were hiding from enemy bombardment at Azovstal survived. The last civilian left the plant on May 7, 2022,” he wrote.

Redis also posted a photo of the negotiations with the Russians, which took place on neutral territory, between the Kommunalnyk enterprise and the Azovstal metallurgical plant in May 2022. 🪐 Subscribe to Live: Ukraine

May, 2022. Azov commander Denys Prokopenko negotiates with a Russian representative on the evacuation of civilians from Azovstal 🪐 Subscribe to Live: Ukraine

In Zaporizhzhia, two streets were named in honor of teenagers Tigran Ohannisyan and Mykyta Khanganov, who were killed by Russians The boys were shot dead by Russian snipers in June 2023 in Berdiansk. Before that, they had been persecuted and searched. Ohannisyan was abducted and tortured. The Russian occupiers accused the teenagers of allegedly throwing support onto the railroad tracks, which could have blocked the railway connection to Berdiansk. 🪐 Subscribe to Live: Ukraine