President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi said that the situation at the front in the east of the country is worsening, and Russia is throwing more and more troops into battle. Odesa has restored power to critical infrastructure after a fire broke out at an overloaded substation, leaving almost 500,000 people in the Ukrainian port city without power after months of Russian strikes on Ukraine’s power grid. Officials say repairs could take weeks.

War in UkrainePhoto: Anatoly STEPANOV / AFP / Profimedia

Summary for the last 24 hours:

  • China is supplying technology needed by Moscow’s armed forces to continue the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine despite international sanctions and export controls, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of Russian customs data.
  • The Ministry of Defense of Great Britain published a photo of Ukrainian crews training on British Challenger 2 tanks, writing that Ukrainians quickly learn to use combat vehicles.
  • Russian President Vladimir Putin has asked the Ministry of Defense to prepare a plan for a large-scale offensive against Ukraine, including a new attempt to capture Kyiv, iStories reports citing a military source, writes The Moscow Times.
  • Romania has taken measures to include in the joint Ukraine-EU declaration, signed on Friday in Kyiv, a clause concerning national minorities, official sources told HotNews.ro.
  • Germany has collected evidence of war crimes in Ukraine, the country’s attorney general said in an interview published on Saturday
  • US Attorney General Merrick Garland has allowed the country to start using confiscated Russian money to help Ukraine, US media reports. The money will come from assets confiscated from Russian oligarch Konstantin Malofeev, he added.
  • Portugal will send Leopard tanks to Ukraine, but first they need to be repaired. When the Portuguese hope to deliver them
  • The lifeless bodies of two British volunteers who died in Ukraine were returned to Russia in Saturday’s prisoner exchange as more than 100 soldiers returned to Ukraine.

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Events related to the war from day 346 were broadcast live on HotNews.ro