Ukrainian officials said Russia struck Ukraine’s port infrastructure and grain warehouses on Tuesday, but also reported some progress on the front line. Volodymyr Zelenskyi talked about the “good details” on the front, without elaborating, and said that Ukraine clearly understands where to put pressure so that Moscow feels it. As long as Russia’s aggression continues, Russia must feel its losses,” the President of Ukraine said in his video address on Tuesday evening.

Highlights of the war in Ukraine, day 581, LIVETEXT:

07:43 Ahead of Saturday’s parliamentary election, which could determine whether Slovakia moves closer to Moscow, voters in the country are being bombarded with misinformation from both inside the country and from abroad, particularly Russia.

Analysts point to three parties making false anti-Ukrainian and pro-Russian statements: the left-wing Smer-SD party of former Prime Minister Robert Fico, the nationalist Republic party, and the Slovak National Party (SNS).

Fico is the favorite to become the new head of government, and according to opinion polls, the Republic and the SNA are expected to win enough votes to win seats in parliament. (AFP)

07:34On Wednesday morning, the movement of cars was suspended on the Crimean bridge, the Russian authorities reported in the Telegram messenger. Usually, such a measure is resorted to due to drone or missile attacks by Ukraine.

00:56Germany will strengthen border controls with Poland and the Czech Republic, the minister said. Over the past year, Germany has taken in about 1 million Ukrainian refugees, and the number of asylum applications unrelated to Ukraine has risen sharply

00:18 ‘Unlucky, Vladimir, you went for it’: Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton mocked Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, referring to NATO expansion following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

A quick summary of the latest information:

• Zelensky promises to make Russia “feel the losses” more strongly. Ukraine will conduct more “actions” against the Russian “terrorist state,” he said in his usual evening speech.
• The Swiss parliament voted to sell more than two dozen Leopard 2 tanks to Germany. For this, Berlin had to guarantee that the tanks would not be delivered to Ukraine.
• Ukraine’s special operations forces said they were “clarifying information” regarding the death of Admiral Viktor Sokolov. This is Kyiv’s first reaction after Russia published a video showing him alive.
• Why are Ukrainians focused on Crimea? Expert: “After the loss of Crimea in Russia, the process of destabilization of the country will begin.”
• The Russian army is creating new reconnaissance and assault units to defeat Ukrainian fortifications in new offensive operations.
• The defense committee of the Bulgarian parliament on Tuesday approved the transfer to Ukraine of an unspecified number of S-300 anti-aircraft missiles, which are in a technical condition that does not allow them to be used, but can be repaired by the Ukrainian army.
• Russia is seeking to return to the UN Human Rights Council after being expelled last April following its invasion of Ukraine.
• The sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea, a major geopolitical event, remains a mystery a year later, and none of the three separate judicial investigations by Germany, Sweden and Denmark have yielded any results.
• Polish experts have confirmed that the missile that killed two people at a grain factory in southern Poland in November was launched by Ukraine, according to sources cited by the daily Rzeczpospolita.
• Moscow again attacked on the night from Monday to Tuesday the region of Odeschyna, on the border with Romania, near the town of Isaccha, Tulcea County.
• The speaker of Canada’s House of Commons announced his resignation on Tuesday following a scandal over a tribute to a Ukrainian veteran who fought alongside the Nazis during World War II. Canada’s “hostile” actions against Russia, including the expansion of the sanctions list, will not go unanswered by Moscow, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday
• Russia’s most prominent opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, on Tuesday lost his appeal against a new 19-year sentence that would have increased his total term to more than 30 years.

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