Ukrainians said they shot down more than 20 drones in the early hours of Tuesday, with the latest Russian airstrike in Kyiv killing at least one person and injuring four more after the house they were living in was hit and set ablaze. In this attack, the Russians used only Shahed drones, not rockets, as in most previous raids.

Highlights of the war in Ukraine, day 461, LIVETEXT:

08:38 Kyiv’s peace plan is the only way to end Russia’s war, and the time for mediation efforts is over, said a senior adviser to President Zelensky.

Chief diplomatic adviser Ihor Zhovkva told Reuters that Ukraine is not interested in a ceasefire that would consolidate Russia’s territorial gains and wants to implement its peace plan, which involves the complete withdrawal of Moscow’s troops.

He dismissed a wave of peace initiatives from China, Brazil, the Vatican and South Africa in recent months: “There can’t be a Brazilian peace plan, a Chinese peace plan, a South African peace plan when we’re talking about the war in Ukraine.”

Drone attacks in Kyiv, as well as in Moscow

08:00At least one person was killed and four were injured as a result of Russia’s third attack on Kyiv in the past day, with Ukrainian air defense forces destroying more than 20 drones.

“The attack was massive, carried out from different directions, in several waves,” Serhiy Popko, the head of the Kyiv military administration, reported on Telegram. During this attack on May 17, a person died as a result of the debris of the drone hitting the apartment. building, causing a fire.

07:52 VIDEO Drones shot down several buildings in Moscow / Mayor: minor damage was done, no one was seriously injured

07:11 “Dragon’s teeth”, “iron hedgehogs” and me: how Putin is going to defend the occupied territories of Ukraine. Russia and its puppet administrations in Ukraine have strengthened defenses in the four occupied territories.

07:02Why does Russia not use its two best fighters in Ukraine? Colonel Yuriy Ignat said that Russia has never used its Su-57 and Su-75 fighters over the territory of Ukraine.

Zelensky discussed the “right time” with the leadership of the army

06:28 Biden spoke with Erdogan on the phone. The head of the White House told him to give up blocking Sweden’s entry into NATO. Turkey’s president has confirmed Ankara’s desire to buy F-16 fighter jets from the United States, while Washington has made it clear it wants Ankara to drop its objections to Sweden joining NATO.

01:16 Finland, NATO’s newest member, and two other Scandinavian countries are conducting aerial exercises on an unprecedented scale. Since 2013, the Scandinavian countries organize every two years, this year’s “Arctic Challenge” training unites 14 states.

00:35 A Russian spy beluga was spotted on the west coast of Sweden. Beluga Hvaldimir, a cetacean that was discovered four years ago wearing a strange harness that led to suspicions that it was used by the Russian navy, is now off the west coast of Sweden.

00:16 VIDEO Another testimony of the Ukrainian counteroffensive: Zelensky announced the decision on the movement of Ukrainian troops. In his evening speech, the Ukrainian president said he met with the military not only to discuss training, tactics and the supply of ammunition, “but also about the right time.”

A brief summary of recent events:

• Former British commander: Russian strikes have “great psychological impact” on Ukrainians, despite the rarity of large casualties.
• Russian bombings from another point of view: Ukrainian children scream and run for shelter in terror.
• Mykhailo Podolyak, adviser to the President of Ukraine, stated that any acceptable peace agreement should not only include the restoration of borders, but also the creation of a 100-120 km demilitarized zone, which should be established inside Russia, along the border with Ukraine.
• The foreign ministers of Sweden and Turkey will meet “soon” to discuss the ratification of the northern country’s accession to NATO, the Swedish Foreign Ministry announced on Monday.
• Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said Monday that his country does not need to join the state union between Russia and Belarus, but said he appreciated Oleksandr Lukashenko’s “joke” about it.
• Strange Ukrainian statement about the loss of five planes and possible explanations: “It is hard to believe that Ukrainian officials will provide the Russians with BDA.”
• Lavrov warns the West: the Black Sea grain agreement is at risk of collapse.
• The head of aviation of the Air Force Command of Ukraine, Brigadier General Serhii Golubtsov, says that Kyiv will need several squadrons of American F-16 aircraft to stop Russian airstrikes on the country’s territory.

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