Russia carried out an airstrike on Kyiv early Tuesday, a few hours before the start of the NATO summit in Lithuania. According to preliminary information, air defense systems shot down all “Shakhed” drones launched by Russia. NATO leaders are gathering today for an important summit in Lithuania, on the border with Russia, to express support for Ukraine, which is waging a tough counteroffensive and awaiting commitments on future membership. The meeting of the 31 leaders of the Alliance is taking place on Tuesday and Wednesday in Vilnius – about 35 km from the Belarusian border and not far from the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad – under the protection of deployed French Rafale jets and German Patriot missile batteries.

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A brief summary of recent events:

• Tayyip Erdogan has agreed to back Sweden’s entry into NATO, which he had blocked for more than a year, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg announced on Monday, calling the decision a “historic day.”
• On Monday, NATO allies agreed on defense plans detailing how the alliance would respond to a Russian attack by overcoming the Turkish blockade. Dmytro Kuleba: NATO has decided to remove the main obstacle to Ukraine’s accession. Volodymyr Zelenskyi will personally visit the NATO summit in Lithuania. Tbilisi criticizes NATO’s hesitation to accept Georgia into the alliance: “Russia is taking advantage of this.” Lithuania suffered a wave of cyberattacks on Monday, a day before a meeting of NATO leaders in Vilnius.
• According to sources in Western special services, Yevgeny Prigozhin was held for at least ten days in the Kremlin and met with Vladimir Putin. The Kremlin confirmed that Putin met with Prigozhin and Commander Wagner: “They said they were ready to continue fighting for the Motherland.”
• A new video appeared on social networks showing that the Ukrainian military suppressed an attempted counterattack by the Russian army using armored vehicles and tanks in the Donetsk region on Sunday.
• On Monday, Canada announced it would double the number of NATO-backed troops in Latvia, with an additional 1,200 Canadian troops deployed to the tiny Baltic state.
• Ukraine has recruited some 12,000 foreign fighters from 84 countries since the beginning of the Russian invasion, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement on Monday, which also referred to the likely number of Romanian “mercenaries” fighting in neighboring regions. country.
• The commander of a Russian Navy submarine was killed. Was responsible for military mobilization in Krasnodar.
• Russia is still outraged by the fact that Turkey allowed the return of Azov commanders to Ukraine: “We hope that the development of these relations between Ankara and Kyiv will not be directed against us.”
• Chisinau authorities discovered a spy network created on the territory of the Republic of Moldova by two Russian citizens who worked under the leadership of the Federal Security Service.
• Ramzan Kadyrov called the situation on the front line defended by the Chechen special forces “Akhmat” “difficult”, but assured that the military leadership in Moscow trusts his fighters.

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