​Russia launched a wave of airstrikes across Ukraine early Sunday, with air defense systems deflecting all missiles and drones approaching Kyiv, military officials in the capital said. On Saturday evening, an explosion occurred near the city of Dnipro in central Ukraine, which damaged a two-story building and injured 20 people, including five children.

Basic information about the war in Ukraine, day 466, LIVETEXT:

08:29The drone was shot down in Jankoy, Crimea, a Russian official working on the peninsula said on Sunday.

“The windows of several houses in a residential neighborhood were damaged” after the night incident, Oleg Kryuchkov wrote in Telegram. Russia has a military air base near Dzhankoy.

06:59On Sunday morning, the Russian aviation repelled the approach to Kyiv

According to preliminary information, there were no aerial targets in the capital. The anti-aircraft defense destroyed everything that went towards the city, even at a distance,” Serhii Popko, the head of the military administration, reported on Telegram on Sunday morning.

A brief summary of recent events:

• Ukraine is ready to launch a long-awaited counteroffensive to retake territory occupied by Russia, President Volodymyr Zelenskyi said in an interview published on Saturday.
• “The Ukrainian counteroffensive will be very impressive,” said US General David Petraeus, who explained in detail how this joint military operation would be carried out.
• The Russian Freedom Legion, which recently invaded Russian territory from Ukraine, said on Saturday that Moscow’s military had bombed its own population.
• “It was a big surprise for Russia.” What the Ukrainian emissary said at the Singapore Defense Summit about missile strikes and counterattacks
• Detachments of the Chechen unit “Akhmat” are fighting heavy battles against the Ukrainian army in the area of ​​the city of Donetsk, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported on Saturday. They want discord between Wagner and Akhmat, accuses Prigozhin, who condemns the “dangerous games” of those in the “towers of the Kremlin.”
• Prigozhin says that his troops are ready to defend Belgorod, but he needs ammunition: “We don’t want to find ourselves, as they say in our country, with bare feet in the cold.”
• Inspections of 4,800 bomb shelters in Ukraine showed that about 20% of them were “unfit for use” and 252 were closed, the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine reported.
• Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Serhiy Ryabkov said that Russia will return to full compliance with the New Treaty of the SNO if Washington abandons its “hostile position” towards Moscow.
• Indonesia’s defense minister on Saturday offered a peace plan for the war in Ukraine, calling for a demilitarized zone and a UN referendum on what he called disputed territories. Several Ukrainian officials rejected the idea, saying it sounded more like a Russian plan.
• The President of Kyrgyzstan stated that the former Soviet republic is ready to cooperate with the EU. Sadyr Japarov, whose country is an ally of Moscow, said: “Kyrgyzstan is ready to work side by side with the European Union to solve common problems, encourage dialogue and find long-term solutions.”

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• Saturday’s events regarding Russian aggression were broadcast LIVE on HotNews.ro