Overnight, Russia launched a wave of airstrikes on Kiev in what officials said was the biggest drone attack on the city since the start of the war, as the Ukrainian capital prepared to celebrate the anniversary of its founding on Sunday. On Saturday, four Russian regions located on the border with Ukraine were attacked by drones, regional authorities said, in the context of an unprecedented series of attacks on Russian territory.

Soldiers at the frontPhoto: Dmytro Smolenko / Avalon / Profimedia Images

A brief summary of recent events:

  • Preparatory work for a counteroffensive against the Russian occupation forces has already begun, said Mykhailo Podolyak, adviser to the President of Ukraine.
  • Russia’s defeat of Ukraine in the Kremlin’s one-sided war will not de-escalate NATO-Moscow relations even if Putin is gone, but will leave the Russian Federation “cruel” and “vengeful”, says Air Force Chief of the Royal Air Force Mike Wigston.
  • Three explosions occurred in Russian-occupied Mariupol in southern Ukraine
  • The first group of about 400 Ukrainian servicemen began training in the operation and maintenance of American M1 Abrams tanks in Germany
  • Russian troops intercepted two long-range Storm Shadow cruise missiles delivered to Ukraine by Great Britain, the RIA news agency reported on Saturday with reference to the Ministry of Defense.
  • Two drones attacked the Russian Druzhba oil pipeline in the Tver region on Saturday, writes Kommersant.
  • According to British intelligence, mercenaries of the “Wagner” PMC have probably begun to withdraw from some of their positions around the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut and will probably be used for further offensive operations in Donbas.
  • Ukraine has officially asked the German government to supply it with Taurus air-to-surface cruise missiles
  • An attack by two drones damaged the administrative building of an oil pipeline in the Pskov region of Russia

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Saturday’s events regarding Russian aggression were broadcast LIVE on HotNews.ro