Russia announces shooting down 36 Ukrainian drones over the Black Sea and Crimea, while local media speculates a drone strike causing a fire at an oil refinery. Ukraine retaliates by shooting down five Iranian-made exploding drones launched from Russia. Heavy fighting between Russian and Ukrainian troops results in casualties. Russia threatens to confiscate assets of unfriendly EU states if frozen Russian funds are used to fund Ukraine.
There were claims in local media outlets that a fire at an oil refinery in the early hours of Sunday had been caused by a drone strike or debris from a downed drone. Ukraine has said it shot down five Iranian-made Shahed exploding drones launched from Russia overnight.
The 58th motorised infantry, 79th air assault brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and the 128th territorial defence brigade were reportedly involved in the attack by Russian troops.as a result of continued “heavy but inconclusive” fighting around the Donetsk oblast town of Avdiivka, according to the UK Ministry of Defence.
Ukraine and Russia are locked in a stalemate on the frontlines of their war and the two sides need to sit down and negotiate an end to the conflictFour Ukrainian police officers were wounded when a shell fired by Russian troops exploded by their police car in the city of Siversk“has gradually become global”. Ukraine’s deputy minister Mykola Tochytskyi has said his country aims to hold a global “peace summit” of world leaders this year.
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