Overnight, the Russian army attacked Ukraine using more than 30 drones, which launched Shahed drones from Crimea, targeting Ukrainian ports on the Danube, and others from the Kursk region targeting the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. Loud explosions were heard in the Danube ports, and Ro-Alert messages were sent in Tulcea and Galaţi counties. In Kharkiv, as a result of shelling of a residential quarter, seven people died, including three children, the youngest being a six-month-old baby.

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08:28 VIDEO Russians attacked Ukrainian ports on the Danube with the help of drones, loud explosions rang out / Ro-Alert message in Tulcea and Galati counties.

The Ukrainian military reported that the Russians launched a total of 31 Shahed drones over Odesa and Kharkiv regions, of which 23 were shot down.

01:21President Volodymyr Zelenskyi announced on Friday evening that he awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine to generals Valery Zaluzhny (recently dismissed) and head of Ukrainian military intelligence Kyryll Budanov, and also made new appointments in the leadership of the army, replacing lieutenant general. Serhiy Shaptala from the leadership of the General Staff.

00:12International investigators have found eight Ukrainian children forcibly taken to Russia

A brief summary of recent events:

• After Zelensky fired the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian army, Valery Zaluzhny, Kyiv mayor Vitaliy Klitschko, a well-known war figure in Ukraine, called on the authorities to provide the public with “an explanation for such changes.”
• Five main tasks for the new commander of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi. Syrskyi, who was appointed on Thursday, just before the two-year anniversary of the Russian invasion, takes up his post at an unspecified time, writes France Presse.
• General Syrskyi said on Friday that he was concerned about limiting casualties among his soldiers amid fears that he would not be as cautious in this regard as his predecessor Zaluzhny.
• “Let the earth burn under your feet!”: Dmitry Medvedev’s angry reaction to the appointment of a general of Russian origin to command the Ukrainian army.
• What Polish officials say about Putin’s statements in an interview with Carlson: “He is delusional. He poses a mortal danger to all of Europe” / “He is untrustworthy and will not lull our vigilance.”
• Volodymyr Putin’s hallucinatory statement: World War II started because of Poland, which did not surrender to Hitler.
• The police of the Republic of Moldova opened a criminal case in the case of the fire that occurred at the NATO Information Center in Chisinau. “We are looking into the version of arson.”
• Hundreds of Hungarian farmers on Friday blocked a checkpoint on the border with Ukraine as a sign of protest against the unlimited expansion of imports of Ukrainian agricultural products by the decision of the European Commission.

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