Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that the anti-Jewish riots in Dagestan show that Russia’s moral foundations are so stained with hatred that it is no longer capable of winning a “strategic” victory. The President of Ukraine said that Sunday’s storming of an airport in southern Russia by protesters was aimed at Jewish passengers. the second time this year, after the Wagner uprising, that Moscow lost control of events.

Highlights of the war in Ukraine, day 615, LIVETEXT:

01:30A Russian military blogger was forced to close his Telegram channel after “traitors” stole his raccoon / The Russians stole the animal from the zoo in Kherson last year

01:11 The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyi, in his video address to the nation on Monday, noted that Sunday’s incidents at the airport in the capital of Dagestan, Makhachikal, which was stormed by protesters looking for Israeli passengers, are already the second time this year that the failed uprising by Russian mercenaries in June shows that Moscow has lost control over events. .

Synthesis of the last 24 hours of the war:

• The first (American-made) F-16 fighter jets that the Netherlands is donating to Ukraine will arrive at a training center in Romania within two weeks, Dutch Acting Prime Minister Mark Rutte said on Monday.
• Putin accuses Ukraine and its Western allies of involvement in the anti-Israeli incidents at the Dagestan airport. The United States has called “absurd” Russia’s accusations that Ukraine played a “key role” in the anti-Israel riots that took place at Makhachkala Airport on Sunday.
• The head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, said on Monday that Sunday’s attack on an airport in Russia’s predominantly Muslim Caucasian republic of Dagestan was an “attempt to sow discord” between Muslims and Jews in Russia.
• The revelation behind the scenes of the letter – the shock that the Metropolitan of Moldova sent to Patriarch Kirill: “It is absolutely obvious that the ROC is disintegrating”
• Mike Johnson, the new Republican speaker of the US House of Representatives, wants to separate aid to Ukraine from aid to Israel. This puts him in opposition to US President Joe Biden, who wants Congress to approve about $106 billion in global aid for the two countries at war.
• The Russian Ministry of Defense claims to have shot down a record number of Storm Shadow missiles fired by Ukrainians at targets in Crimea.
• ​Less than a week after confusing Hungary with Turkey by calling Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán the leader of Turkey, former US President Donald Trump got Hungary’s borders completely wrong.
• The commander of the Russian Airborne Forces, Colonel-General Mykhailo Teplinskyi, has been appointed the new commander of the Dnipro military group on the Ukrainian front, the Russian news agency TASS reported on Monday. Teplinsky replaced Colonel-General Oleg Makarevych.
• The elite apartment of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi and his wife Elena in Crimea was sold by the Russian authorities at a public auction.
• Head of the Ground Forces of Ukraine, General Oleksandr Sirskyi: On the Bakhmut front, the Russians moved from defensive positions to “active actions”.
• Polish authorities announced on Monday that they had detained a Norwegian man who had “direct links with neo-Nazi groups” in Norway and was trying to join the International Territorial Defense Legion of Ukraine.
• The European Central Bank (ECB) has stepped up pressure on banks in the eurozone to reduce their exposure to Russia, ECB supervisory board president Andrea Enria said.
• ​The Information and Security Service of the Republic of Moldova announced on Monday that it is suspending the broadcasting licenses of six television stations, including Publika TV, which are considered “dangerous to information security”. More than 30 websites were also blocked, some of them directly controlled by Russia.

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