Russia on Tuesday morning shot down at least three drones launched by Ukraine that were targeting Moscow, the Russian Defense Ministry said. According to him, his air defense systems destroyed two drones over the Kaluga and Tver regions, which border the Moscow region, as well as one closer to the capital, over the Istrian district of the Moscow region.

Highlights of the war in Ukraine, day 559, LIVETEXT:

07:09Belgian F-16s can no longer be used for Ukraine – “We cannot give them planes that we would not use ourselves”

06:58Abrams tanks will arrive in Ukraine. America’s most advanced battle tank is now ready to be deployed in Ukraine after the training and education of the first Ukrainian troops was completed in Germany, Politico reports.

00:57 The governor of the Bryansk region in western Russia said on Monday evening that border guards and security forces “repelled” a group of Ukrainian saboteurs who tried to cross the border.

A quick summary of the latest information:

• North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is reportedly planning to visit Russia in September, the New York Times reported, citing US and allied sources.
• Vladimir Putin said Monday after a meeting in Sochi with Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan that Russia is not giving up on talks on how to end the war.
• The negotiations between Vladimir Putin and Recep Erdogan in Sochi did not lead to an agreement on the renewal of the agreement on the export of Ukrainian grain through the Black Sea ports.
• Russian General Sergei Surovikin, who earned the nickname “General Armageddon” for his brutal tactics and has not appeared in public since the failed Wagner Group uprising in June, has resurfaced.
• Ukraine’s military intelligence service has released an interview with a man it says is the Russian pilot who defected in his Mi-8 helicopter last month.
• The former Minister of Defense of Ukraine Oleksiy Reznikov said on Monday how much a day of war against Russia costs and that the vast majority of funds come from the state budget.
• A spokesman for the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said that Russian drones crashed and exploded on the territory of Romania during an attack on Sunday night in the Danube region. Defense and foreign ministers in Bucharest have denied the report, but Kyiv insists, saying it has “photographic evidence”.
• Russian journalist Dmytro Muratov, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, will temporarily leave his post as editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta to challenge his recent conviction as a “foreign agent” in court.
• Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama’s joke to Vladimir Putin about the death of Yevgeny Prigozhin went viral on social media.
• Russia has imposed ever-increasing costs on foreign companies that choose to leave the country, but is now asking foreign banks that are preparing to leave a condition they cannot meet even if they wanted to.
• Who is Rustem Umerov, proposed by Zelensky for the position of the new Minister of Defense of Ukraine after the resignation of Oleksiy Reznikov.

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