Volodymyr Zelensky announced that he has decided to replace his Minister of Defense Oleksiy Reznikov and this week will ask the parliament to replace him with the head of the country’s main privatization fund, Rustem Umerov. “I believe that the ministry needs new approaches and other formats of interaction both with the army and with society as a whole,” said the President of Ukraine.

Highlights of the war in Ukraine, day 558, LIVETEXT:

07:40 Russian naval aviation destroyed four American-made inflatable boats with a Ukrainian landing force in the northwestern part of the Black Sea on Monday morning, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported in Telegram.

The ministry reported that the inflatable boats of the US-made Willard Marine Sea Force were headed in the direction of Cape Tarkhankut on the Crimean Peninsula.

07:16 Russia announced on Monday that it shot down a Ukrainian drone near the Crimean peninsula, as well as a second one in the Kursk region, on the border with Ukraine.

A quick summary of the latest information:

• On Sunday evening, Zelenskyi said that this week he will ask the parliament to fire the Minister of Defense Oleksiy Reznikov and appoint in his place the head of the State Property Fund of Ukraine, Rustem Umerov.
• Ukraine’s current counter-offensive will not drive Russia out of Ukraine, but no one expects it to, but it has shown how the Russian army can be defeated not in 2023, but in 2024 or 2025, says General Richard Barrons, former commander of the United Kingdom’s Joint Forces Command.
• Footage released by the Ukrainian Navy shows Ukrainian forces using a Bayraktar drone to destroy a Russian motorboat in the northwestern Black Sea just as Russian forces were trying to disembark.
• In a video shared by the Ukrainian military on social networks, it can be seen that more than half of the Leopard 2A4 tanks they received from partner countries are ready to go into battle.
• Armenia’s prime minister said his country’s policy of relying solely on Russia as a security guarantee was a strategic mistake, as Moscow has failed and is getting results and is in the process of abandoning its role in the region.
• A new massive drone strike carried out by the Russians on Sunday morning hit and damaged the infrastructure of the port in the Odesa region, wounding two civilians, the Ukrainian Air Force reported.
• Defense Minister Ángel Tylvar reacted on Sunday to the latest massive Russian drone attacks in Odesa, saying that the infrastructure of the Reni Bridge on the Danube, located a few kilometers from Galaţi, was also a target.
• The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced, as reported by Interfax, that a group of Russian drones successfully hit fuel depots in the port of Reni, which were used by the Ukrainian military.

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