President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine met with human rights defender Maksym Butkevych, who had been recently freed from Russian captivity in the latest prisoner-of-war exchange effort.
Russian invasion troops opened fire on the town of Lyman in Donetsk region, hitting a five-storey apartment block and leaving at least one civilian injured, as per tentative reports.
Law enforcement identified and charged three Russian service members who, in March 2022, violently attacked and sexually assaulted a woman in the village of Yahidne, Chernihiv region.
In the Kurakhove direction, paratroopers repelled an attack by Russian troops near Maksymilianivka, destroying and damaging 4 enemy tanks and 5 infantry fighting vehicles.
France will hand over to Ukraine’s Armed Forces another 12 Caesar self-propelled artillery systems, bought with the funds derived from the immobilized Russian assets.
President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that North Korean officers are already in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine and are training Russian soldiers.
The SBU Security Service of Ukraine detained a Russian intelligence asset who is believed to have been spying on the defense forces in the Pokrovsk axis.