On Wednesday, the Russian invasion forces targeted the Nikopol and Kryvyi Rih districts in Dnipropetrovsk region in a combined strike involving multiple rocket launchers, unmanned aerial vehicles, and artillery.
During the day, the Defense Forces of Ukraine repelled more than 45 attacks of the Russian army. The defenders inflicted manpower and equipment losses on the enemy, exhausting it along the entire front line.
There are no safe places for the Russian occupiers in Crimea, and the pressure exerted by the Defense Forces of Ukraine makes it difficult to use the Crimean peninsula as a logistics hub.
Kupyansk direction is currently one of the hottest, the enemy wants to re-occupy the important logistics center of Kharkiv region – the town of Kupyansk – but the Russian army has no strategic successes in this direction.
Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal of Ukraine held a working meeting on the confiscation of frozen Russian assets, noting that Ukraine has sealed the support of a number of partners who are preparing relevant decisions on seizure on their soil.
Russian authorities have likely coerced Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) into joining the so-called ‘volunteer’ formation that will fight in Ukraine, which would constitute an apparent violation of the Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War.