Moscow’s Defense Ministry said on Tuesday morning that a Russian warplane had destroyed a Ukrainian reconnaissance ship in the Black Sea near Russian gas production facilities. The Russian military also said its anti-aircraft systems shot down two attack drones west of Moscow and two more over the Bryansk region on the border with Ukraine.

Ukrainian soldiers leaving for the front in the Luhansk regionPhoto: AA/ABACA / Abaca Press / Profimedia

Highlights of the war in Ukraine, day 545, LIVETEXT:

01:20A Ukrainian drone destroyed a Russian supersonic bomber. Images published on social networks and analyzed by the BBC Verify service show a Tu-22 on fire at the Soltsi-2 airbase.

00:39 And Belgium is preparing to train Ukrainian pilots on the F-16 fighter.

00:21 The US State Department has approved the potential sale of AH-64E Apache helicopters and related equipment to Poland in a deal worth up to $12 billion, the Pentagon announced on Monday.

A brief summary of recent events:

  • “This leaves Kyiv with no other option but to continue the military confrontation with us,” Russia condemned the decision of Denmark and the Netherlands to donate F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine.
  • “Today we have an important result for the aviation coalition. Greece will participate in the training of our pilots for the F-16. I am grateful for this offer,” said President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi.
  • During the meeting in Athens, Prime Minister Marcel Cholaku proposed a European mechanism for grain transportation management and the allocation of additional funds for the agro-food industry and the development of special infrastructure. Čolaku also said that on Monday he discussed with Zelenskyi “the constant efforts of Romania to support Ukraine.”
  • Off the coast of Romania and Bulgaria: Ukraine wants to export grain along the route of the first ship that broke through the Russian blockade on the Black Sea.
  • An Iranian military delegation arrived in Moscow to discuss cooperation between the ground forces of Iran and Russia, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced on Monday.
  • The Telegram channels of Wagner’s Russian mercenaries posted a video on Monday night in which their leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, appears in military uniform amid a seemingly arid landscape and says he is in Africa, where he “works” in temperatures above 50 degrees. to make Russia “even more”, on all continents.
  • German prosecutors announced Monday that they had raided the homes of two prominent pro-Kremlin activists on suspicion of violating a law governing the production and transfer of weapons.
  • A column of Russian tanks and other armored vehicles was destroyed south of Bakhmut: “Another failed attempt” – VIDEO
  • Pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine on Monday sentenced five Ukrainian servicemen accused of “molesting the civilian population” to heavy prison terms, the Investigative Committee of Russia reported.
  • Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson on Monday rejected President Volodymyr Zelenskyi’s request to supply Gripen fighter jets to Ukraine, saying his country cannot do without the ones it has.
  • The Russian economy is in a downward spiral, and the Moscow Stock Exchange’s high yields are “a complete mirage,” say Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Stephen Tian, ​​two economists at Yale University.
  • The Ukrainians are pressing with blows to the rear of the enemy: the fighting spirit of the Russians is in place, there are conditions for a front breakthrough in several critical areas.

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