Russian President Vladimir Putin said the attack on the Moscow concert hall was “part of the Kyiv regime’s attacks against Russia,” although he acknowledged that the attack was carried out by the Islamic State. “We are interested in who benefits from this,” Putin said. Adding that the attack was “an act of intimidation”. On the other hand, on the front, Kyiv’s troops are in a “difficult” situation near the city of Chashiv and Donetsk, where Russia is concentrating its offensive, the Ukrainian army reported.

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08:11Ukrainian defense systems shot down all 12 attack drones launched by Russia overnight, the Kyiv Air Force said on Tuesday, as cited by Reuters.

Iranian-made drones were destroyed over Mykolaiv (south) and Kharkiv (east) regions.

07:43Any international summit for peace in Ukraine from which Russia is excluded is simply “absurd” and will fail, Kremlin spokesman Dmytro Peskov said in an interview published on Tuesday, according to Reuters.

07:14What does Russia want by building a second nuclear power plant in Turkey?

A brief summary of recent events:

• Ukrainian forces are in a “difficult” situation near the city of Chashiv and in the east of the country, where Russia is concentrating its offensive, the Ukrainian army said on Monday.
• Putin wonders why the attackers from Moscow fled to Ukraine: “Who was waiting for them there?”.
• The Investigative Committee of Russia on Monday requested the preventive arrest for two months in the case of three more people, in addition to the four, directly involved in the brutal attack committed on Friday night at the Crocus City Hall concert hall.
• Yevgenia Kara-Murza, the wife of Volodymyr Kara-Murza’s opponent, speaks out for the exchange of prisoners.
• The White House on Monday rejected Russia’s proposed connection between Ukraine and the terrorist attack that killed 137 people in a concert hall in the suburbs of Moscow, writes Reuters.
• The Ukrainian military has published a new video of a spectacular explosion of a Russian tank after the detonation of ammunition on board. In this case, it’s a T-80 tank shot down by an FPV drone.
• The European Union has doubled its shell production capacity to one million a year for supply to Ukraine, and will double it again to two million a year in 2025.

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