President Volodymyr Zelensky stated that the previous US administration promised Ukraine 20,000 missiles to combat Shahed drones, but those missiles were later sent to the Middle East.
With its recent strikes on Russian military targets, including the Spiderweb operation, Ukraine has demonstrated its ability to seize the initiative and strengthen its positions for peace negotiations.
President Volodymyr Zelensky outlined the key advantages Ukraine holds in its war against Russia, emphasizing that these strengths lie not in weaponry, but in the people, morality, truth, dignity, and values.
Since the beginning of the day, there have been 75 combat engagements between Ukraine’s Defense Forces and Russian troops, with 25 of them occurring in the Pokrovsk sector.
Russian strikes on Ukraine are not a “response” to operations such as “Spider Web.” Russia is trying to cause as much suffering as possible to civilians; this is one of the elements of pressure.
Firefighters in Ukraine's southern Mykolaiv region have extinguished a large-scale blaze at an agricultural equipment warehouse, which broke out following a Russian strike. The fire covered an area of over 2,000 square meters.
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda has called for the 18th EU sanctions package against Russia to be as far-reaching as possible. He proposed disconnecting the remaining Russian banks from the SWIFT system, blacklisting all vessels in Russia's so-called "shadow fleet," and expanding restrictions on energy companies that help finance the Russian state budget.
Aerial reconnaissance soldiers from the Strix reconnaissance and strike drone systems unit, part of Ukraine's 4th Border Detachment, have destroyed two Russian shelters, two vehicles, and a communications antenna in the Kharkiv region.
Satellite imagery reveals that Russia has started building protective shelters for aircraft at its military airfields following a Ukrainian special operation.
As of 09:00 on Sunday, Russian forces launched three attacks on the positions of Ukraine's Defense Forces near the settlements of Vovchansk, Vovchanski Khutory, and Zapadne in the Kharkiv region.