Russia says it repelled a major attack by the Ukrainian army in Donetsk on Sunday, killing hundreds of troops. Kyiv has not yet responded to this information. The Russian authorities in Belgorod claim that a drone shot down an energy facility.

A brief summary of recent events:

• A two-year-old girl was found dead under the rubble of a house after a rocket attack on buildings near the city of Dnipro in central Ukraine, the governor of the region said. Another 22 people were injured, including five children, Serhiy Lysak said.
• Russia launched a wave of airstrikes across Ukraine early Sunday morning, but military officials in Kyiv said air defense systems had repelled all missiles and drones near the capital.
• Arrests in Russia at protests in support of imprisoned opposition leader Oleksii Navalny, who turned 47 on Sunday
• The Russian Ministry of Defense said that its troops used artillery to repel a cross-border incursion by Russian rebels, Interfax reports. The governor of Russia’s Belgorod region said earlier on Sunday that fighting with a “group of Ukrainian saboteurs” was taking place in the town of Nova Tavolzhanka near the border with Ukraine.
• A Ukrainian minister expressed “disbelief” after learning that almost half of the bomb shelters in Kyiv inspected during the initial inspection were closed or unusable. Oleksandr Kamyshyn, Minister of Strategic Industrial Enterprises of Ukraine, said on Sunday that of the 1,078 inspected on the first day, 359 were unprepared, another 122 were closed, while 597 were deemed fit.
• The governor of the Belgorod region of Russia, Vyacheslav Gladkov, said that he is ready to meet with a pro-Ukrainian group of Russian militants who are holding two Russian soldiers captive. Earlier, the group said it was ready to hand over soldiers in exchange for a meeting with the governor.
• According to Gladkov, Ukrainian troops bombed a market in the city of Shebekino, which is not far from the Ukrainian border. According to him, no one was injured, but the attack caused fires near the square.
• The Kremlin said that any supply of long-range missiles to Kyiv by France and Germany would lead to another twist in the “spiral of tension” in the Ukrainian conflict. Last month, Great Britain became the first country to supply Ukraine with long-range cruise missiles.
• Zelenskyi said that the Russian war, which is now in its 16th month, has killed at least 500 Ukrainian children. However, according to him, it is impossible to determine the exact number of children who became victims due to the ongoing hostilities and the fact that some territories are under Russian occupation.
• Four people have been detained as part of the criminal proceedings in connection with the death of a hammer near a locked bomb shelter, the prosecutor’s office of the Kyiv region reported. One person, a security guard who did not unlock the door, remained in custody, while three others, including a local official, were placed under house arrest, it said.
• According to a Russian official, five drones were shot down and four were jammed and missed their targets in Jankoy, Crimea. There were no casualties, but windows were broken in several houses, reported Serhiy Aksyonov, head of the administration in Russia-backed Crimea.
• VIDEO “Shhh!” Video published by the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine after Zelenskyi said that his troops were preparing for a counteroffensive
• Dozens of heads of major spy services from around the world met at a secret “conclave” in Singapore – sources Reuters / Russia was not present
• Ukrainian army: The fighting around Bakhmut continues, the Russians have suffered significant losses

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