After an incursion of Russian planes into Estonian airspace, the UN Security Council is set to meet for an emergency session. Meanwhile, Russia says a Ukrainian attack on Crimea has killed three people.
Russia and Ukraine at odds over whether advances have taken place in Dnipropetrovsk
Russia and Ukraine on Monday disputed whether Moscow had made advances in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
Russia’s Defense Ministry claimed its forces had seized control of the settlement of Kalynivske, just inside Ukraine’s southeastern Dnipropetrovsk region.
A Ukrainian military spokesperson refuted the notion, saying that Russian troops had made less progress in the region than they had reported.
Ukraine says it is engaged in counterattacks in part of the Donetsk region, the focal point of the conflict.
Russia downs dozens of Ukrainian drones, including some en route to Moscow, officials say
Russian anti-aircraft units on Monday downed dozens of Ukrainian drones, officials said.
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said on Telegram that 21 drones were destroyed that were headed for the Russian capital over a period of about six hours.
Meanwhile, Russia’s Defense Ministry said that anti-aircraft units had downed 81 Ukrainian drones, mostly over central and southern regions, over an eight-hour period.
Mikhail Razvozhayev, the governor of the port of Sevastopol in Crimea, where Russia’s Black Sea fleet are based, said units had destroyed at least six drones near the port. Falling debris had caused a fire on open ground, but the blaze was subsequently put out.
The governor of the Tula region in central Russia, Dmitry Milyayev, said three drones were destroyed with no damage or casualties.
Nicaragua signs agreements with four Ukrainian regions annexed by Russia
Nicaragua signed cooperation agreements on Monday with the heads of four Ukrainian regions Russia claims to have annexed and the Crimean city of Sevastopol.
“We greatly appreciate this truly friendly step in the spirit of a genuine strategic partnership between our countries and see it as an open manifestation of solidarity,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.
He stressed that Moscow sees “growing interest in the global South and East in establishing contacts with the new Russian regions.”
“Russia and Nicaragua are countries and peoples with a historic relationship of brotherhood,” special representative and son of Nicaraguan co-presidents, Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, Laureano Ortega Murillo, said.
Nicaragua, along with North Korea and Syria, are the only countries that have recognized the legality of Russia’s annexation of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
Russia occupied and illegally annexed the autonomous city of Sevastopol and the rest of the Crimean Peninsula in 2014.
It then declared the annexation of the regions of Donetsk and Luhansk in the east and Kherson and Zaporizhzhia in the south in September 2022, months after it launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, although it only controls those four regions in part.
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