In the event of a government shutdown in the United States from October 1, deliveries of security and defense aid to other countries, including Ukraine, may become complicated.
In Mariupol, the strategic port city on the Sea of Azov temporarily occupied by Russian forces, loud explosions were heard Monday afternoon. In the village of Mangush, Russian air defense forces were activated to engage aerial targets.
After a Ukrainian strike on the headquarters of the Russian Black Sea Fleet command in the temporarily occupied Sevastopol, the Russians will have problems with the control of their troops deployed in the Black Sea area.
Ukraine’s former Foreign Affairs Minister Pavlo Klimkin believes Ukraine will join NATO sooner than it will gain full membership in the European Union, but “not tomorrow”.
In the Melitopol direction, Russian troops continue entrenching, strengthening their defense lines and laying minefields. Meanwhile, Ukrainian forces are repelling enemy attacks near Avdiivka and Marinka.
More than 20 deliveries of nuclear safety- and security-related equipment have been made to different organizations in Ukraine since the start of the war.
In Bucha, in the Kyiv region, another residential building destroyed during active hostilities in the city is being restored at the expense of the Fund for the Elimination of the Consequences of Armed Aggression.
Over the last week, the Russian troops made efforts to conduct local counter attacks against the advancing Ukrainian forces in Orikhiv and Bakhmut directions, but the invaders are unable to regain the territories liberated by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Over the past week, the Defense Forces of Ukraine eliminated more than 2,800 Russian invaders, 39 tanks, 76 combat armored vehicles, 198 artillery systems, and 39 missiles.