Troop leader Wagner warned that Russian troop positions around the town of Bakhmut were in danger if his troops did not receive ammunition, a statement in a new sign of tensions between the Kremlin and Yevgeny Prigozhin.

Ukrainian military personnel fire from self-propelled guns on the front line in the Bakhmut districtPhoto: LIBKOS / AP / Profimedia

The latest on the war in Ukraine, day 376, LIVETEXT:

07:41 Russia is working on simplifying visa procedures for six countries, including India, Syria and Indonesia, Deputy Foreign Minister Yevhen Ivanov said on Sunday, TASS quoted.

“In addition to India (to simplify procedures) … we are working with Angola, Vietnam, Indonesia, Syria and the Philippines,” Ivanov said. Earlier, he said that Russia is also preparing intergovernmental agreements on visa-free regime with 11 countries. including Saudi Arabia, Barbados, Haiti, Zambia, Kuwait, Malaysia, Mexico and Trinidad.

07:38 On the night from Sunday to Monday, an aerial target was discovered over the Kyiv region, Kyiv Independent writes.

The military administration in Kyiv reported on Telegram that Ukraine’s air defenses went into action at night after detecting an “air target” over the region.

A brief summary of recent events:

  • Prigozhin said Russian front lines near Bakhmut could collapse if his forces did not receive the ammunition promised by the Kremlin in February. “For now, we are trying to find out what the reason is: it is ordinary bureaucracy or betrayal,” said leader Wagner on Sunday.
  • Zelensky emphasized that his army is waging a “painful and difficult” battle against Russian troops in Donbas, where the city of Bakhmut is located.
  • A woman and two children were killed as a result of Russian mortar shelling of a village in southern Ukraine in the Kherson region, the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine said.
  • The Russian military struck the command post of the Azov regiment of Ukrainian troops in the southeast of the Zaporizhzhia region, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported, without giving details.
  • The number of people killed as a result of Russian rocket fire on a residential building in the city of Zaporizhzhia increased to 11 after the body of a woman was found under the rubble, the State Emergency Service of Ukraine reported.
  • The military commanders of the “special military operation” informed Serhiy Shoigu about the current situation and action plans, the Ministry of Defense in Moscow reported.
  • Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said that Ankara is working on expanding the UN initiative that allows Ukraine to export grain from its ports.
  • Two Ukrainian pilots are in Arizona to work on flight simulators and be evaluated by the U.S. military, two U.S. officials said, while Washington remains silent on sending fighter jets or sophisticated remotely piloted drones to Kyiv.
  • The German defense company Rheinmetall is negotiating the construction of a tank plant in Ukraine, the Rheinische Post newspaper reported with reference to an interview with CEO Armin Papperger.
  • In addition to the Leopard 2 tanks, Rheinmetall wants to purchase 96 Leopard 1 tanks from the Swiss defense company Ruag for shipment to Ukraine, the Swiss publication Tages-Anzeiger reports.
  • Germany is making slow progress in applying sanctions against Russian oligarchs and institutions, according to government data seen by Reuters.
  • Olaf Scholz said that Vladimir Putin “needs” to understand that he will not win the war in Ukraine so that he can start negotiations on ending the conflict.
  • The special unit of the Intelligence Service of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine “Kraken” announced that with the help of a kamikaze drone it destroyed the Grenadier observation tower in the Bryansk district of Russia.
  • Wagner’s group has reportedly opened at least three new recruitment centers in Russia’s sports clubs in recent days to recruit soldiers after it was banned from recruiting prisoners.
  • Russian troops are forced to engage in “hand-to-hand combat” in Ukraine, possibly due to a lack of ammunition, the latest figures show, while conscripts are forced to fight with infantry shovels, which are also used to dig trenches.

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  • Sunday’s military events were broadcast LIVE on HotNews.ro