Russia and Ukraine continue to attack each other with drones. Ukrainian port infrastructure in the Danube region was damaged again in a new attack on Thursday morning. At the same time, several Russian regions were targeted by Ukrainian drones, and at least one person was reported killed in Moscow.

Highlights of the war in Ukraine, day 561, LIVETEXT:

07:40 Russian drones struck port infrastructure, a grain silo and administrative buildings in the Izmail district of the Odesa region of Ukraine, Governor Oleg Kiper said on Thursday, Reuters reports.

According to him, as a result of the attack, one person was injured, the fourth in the district in the last five days. Izmail is a Ukrainian port on the Danube River.

07:35 Ukrainian drones were shot down near Moscow, in the south of the Rostov region and in the southwest of the Bryansk region on Thursday morning, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Russian authorities, Reuters notes.

According to TASS, in the city of Rostov-on-Don, as a result of the fall of one of the drones in the city center, three buildings were damaged, one person was injured. Another drone crashed outside the city in the Rostov region.

As The Guardian reports, the explosions occurred near the headquarters of the Southern Military District, which plays a key role in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

In Bryansk, debris from one of the two destroyed drones broke the windows of the railway station building and damaged nearby cars, Interfax reports.

02:08Russia claims to exaggerate Ukraine’s influence on the wheat market

According to Sky News, Russia is using social media to try to downplay the influence of Ukraine’s wheat industry, claiming it accounts for less than 5 percent of global wheat exports.

00:56Zelensky: At the Three Seas Summit in Bucharest, we asked all our partners and neighbors to continue to protect the unity of Europe

President Volodymyr Zelenskyi told Ukrainians in a video speech on Wednesday night that it was a difficult day because of the Russian attack on Kostyantynivka, which killed dozens of civilians, but it was also a day full of diplomatic events, recalling, among other things. According to him, the Three Seas Summit, organized by Romania, unites “a great region that is one of the sources of European strength”, reports News.ro.

00:34Macron: “The Russian flag cannot be at the Games in Paris”

French President Emmanuel Macron said “the Russian flag cannot be at the Paris Olympics” because Russia “has nothing to do while it is committing war crimes,” according to an interview with the daily newspaper L’Equipe on Wednesday night. .

When asked about the possible individual presence of Russian athletes, the head of state answered: “I hope that this will be a conscious decision of the Olympic world (…) the non-hosting country decides what the IOC should do. “

A quick summary of the latest information:

• HotNews.ro VIDEO report in the village where the Russian drone fell: the locals kept complaining that the drones were flying over their houses, the Romanian authorities told them that they could not see well
• USA, a new aid package for Ukraine worth 1 billion dollars. What does it include?
• Zelensky: At the Three Seas Summit in Bucharest, we asked all our partners and neighbors to continue to protect the unity of Europe
• NATO allies expressed “strong solidarity” with Romania on Wednesday after the country notified them that what appeared to be debris from a Russian drone had fallen on Romanian territory, the alliance said, according to Reuters.
• During a surprise visit to the Ukrainian capital, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken joined Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba for lunch at McDonald’s, where they joked about hangovers in front of the cameras, The Guardian reports.
• French President Emmanuel Macron said that there “cannot be a Russian flag” at the Olympics in Paris, because Russia “has nothing to do while it is committing war crimes.”
• Anatol Shalaru, former Minister of Defense of the Republic of Moldova, on the case with drones: This is an uncomfortable situation for NATO / Romania should apologize to Ukraine
• On Wednesday, the Kremlin expressed “concern” about joint military exercises between Armenia and the United States that will be held on Armenian territory, as the government in Yerevan moves away from Moscow.
• At least 16 people, including a child, were killed on Wednesday during a Russian attack on the town of Kostyantynivka in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region, presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi said, Reuters reported.

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Wednesday’s events related to Russian aggression were broadcast LIVE on HotNews.ro