Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said energy companies did such a good job of repairing damage caused by Russian missiles and drones on Friday that most people didn’t have to deal with too many outages on Saturday and Sunday, but he warned it was too early to tell . victory on the energy front.

War in Ukraine. Ukrainian military in DonbasPhoto: Adrien Vautier / Zuma Press / Profimedia

A brief summary of recent events regarding Russian aggression:

  • Ukrainian forces are maintaining defenses along the front line in eastern Donetsk region, including the besieged city of Bakhmut, with the fiercest fighting taking place for the towns of Vugledar and Maryinka, the Kyiv military commandant said on Saturday.
  • Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of the Wagner Group, said on Sunday that mercenaries captured the village of Krasna Gora, north of the city of Bakhmut.
  • 7 days of nightmare for Putin’s army: What a record loss of soldiers, tanks and military equipment they had in the week when they started a new offensive.
  • Russian troops are achieving tactical success in eastern Ukraine, but at the cost of heavy losses
  • On Saturday, Prigozhin said it could take two years for Moscow to control the Luhansk and Donetsk regions in eastern Ukraine, which he has declared a key goal of the war.
  • NATO’s reaction to speculation about Stoltenberg: “The Secretary General of the Alliance has no intention of seeking another extension of his mandate.”
  • A 53-year-old woman was killed early Sunday after Russian forces shelled an apartment building in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Nikopol, the regional governor said.
  • Galina Danylchenko, the Russian-appointed mayor of the Ukrainian city of Melitopol in southeastern Zaporizhia Oblast, said on Saturday that one civilian was killed and two others were wounded during nighttime shelling by Ukrainian forces.
  • British weapons and military vehicles can be manufactured in Ukraine under license, reducing the country’s dependence on arms supplies from Western allies, the Telegraph newspaper reported on Sunday.
  • Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said that he would not have demanded a meeting with Zelensky if he had still been the head of the government, as he considers the Ukrainian president to be guilty of the war with Russia. The Italian government assures that it firmly supports Ukraine
  • US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov discussed priorities, including air defense and artillery, for the next meeting of Kyiv’s allies in Brussels, both sides said on Saturday.
  • Russian Sports Minister Oleg Matitsyn said that the calls of more than 30 countries to exclude Russian and Belarusian athletes from the 2024 Olympics are unacceptable, the TASS news agency reported with reference to Reuters.
  • “Great victory of Poland”. This year, a channel will be ready through which the Poles will no longer depend on the Russians

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