Volodymyr Zelenskyi has warned Ukrainians to prepare for new waves of Russian attacks on infrastructure as winter approaches and said his troops expect an attack in the eastern theater of war. A military spokesman said Russian attacks on the town of Avdiyivka had weakened last day but were likely to intensify in the coming days. And Ukrainian military intelligence said at least three Russian soldiers were killed in an explosion in the Russian-occupied southern city of Melitopol, adding that it was an “act of revenge” by resistance groups.

Highlights of the war in Ukraine, day 628, LIVETEXT:

06:47Germany’s defense minister announced on Sunday evening that the military aid originally planned by his country for Ukraine in 2024 would be doubled to eight billion euros.

06:18 Recently, in the world of American special services, details about Putin’s attempts to meet with Peter Thiel, one of the most influential people in Silicon Valley, who later became an FBI informant, have appeared, the Italian press writes.

Christian Angermeier, a German businessman known for his dealings with politicians around the world, who had close ties to the Kremlin, acted as a mediator and tried to arrange a conversation between them.

00:23 Zelenskyy named Romania among the states that helped Ukraine with air defense: “We can’t talk openly about everything now”

A brief summary of recent events:

• Former Russian President Dmytro Medvedev published a message on Telegram in which he seemed to respond to the proposal of ex-NATO head Anders Fogh Rasmussen, who suggested that Ukraine join the alliance without the territories occupied by Russia. Medvedev wrote that such an approach would practically be an acknowledgment of the fact that “Crimea and Donbas are no longer part of Ukraine.”
• Large parts of Wagner’s mercenary group are likely to have been assimilated into the Russian National Guard (Rosgvardia) command staff, and this Wagner unit is commanded by Pavel Prigozhin, son of Yevgeny Prigozhin, the British Ministry of Defense claims.
• Ukraine’s military intelligence said on Sunday that at least three Russian officers were killed a day earlier in an explosion at the “occupation headquarters” in Melitopol following a “local resistance” action.
• On Sunday, Russia accused Ukraine of a series of terrorist attacks in the border regions of Bryansk and Belgorod, in which one person was injured and five train cars were damaged.
• Israel signed an agreement to supply Finland with the “David’s Sling” anti-missile defense system in the amount of 317 million euros.
• 48-year-old Ukrainian colonel Roman Chervinsky, who was part of Ukraine’s special forces and has close ties to the country’s special services, coordinated the operation to sabotage the Nord Stream gas pipelines in 2022, according to several sources of The Washington Post.
• Ukraine’s Energy Minister Herman Galushchenko said Ukraine will have enough energy resources to survive the coming winter, but increased Russian attacks could disrupt supply networks.
• The Russian army has become more active in the direction of Bakhmut, Oleksandr Syrskyi, commander of the Eastern Group of Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, wrote in his Telegram channel. According to him, the Russians are trying to recapture previously lost positions, and the Ukrainian Armed Forces are repelling attacks.
• The government of Hungary plans to ask its citizens whether they support Ukraine’s potential membership in the EU during national consultations with the help of a mailed questionnaire, the state secretary of the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Tamas Mentser, said.

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