According to Governor Pavlo Kyrylenko, two persons were murdered in Russian assaults on Donetsk in eastern Ukraine. Avdiivka and Kostiantynivka each saw one fatality, according to Kyrylenko on the messaging service Telegram.
According to a spokesperson for the Ukrainian air force, Russia launched missile attacks against the Ukrainian cities of Kyiv, Khmelnytskyi, and Kirovohrad. We have detected high-speed targets and maybe ballistic missiles; the adversary is employing a variety of weaponry, said Yuriy Ihnat. In October, a sabotage attempt that damaged the Russian-built bridge connecting seized Crimea with Russia was blamed on Ukraine's internal intelligence service.
The town of Orikhiv in the south, one of the regions where Kyiv has been conducting its counteroffensive, was the target of a large-scale Ukrainian onslaught, according to the Russian army.
Hanna Maliar, the deputy minister of defence for Ukraine, claimed that Kiev's forces are still preventing Russian forces from advancing in the eastern Ukrainian regions of Kupyan and Lyman.
After Russia called off the agreement for the UN-mediated grain shipments, the NATO-Ukraine Council convened to talk about the situation in the Black Sea. According to a statement, NATO and Ukraine "strongly condemned" Russia's move to renege on the Black Sea grain agreement.
In order to ensure that ships carrying Ukrainian grain pass without incident, NATO said that it will increase monitoring of the Black Sea region.
The US ambassador to Ukraine, Bridget A. Brink, met with Herman Halushchenko, the country's minister of energy. "We look forward to exploring all options for building a more resilient energy grid, including by taking steps to enable private investment and through US support," she wrote in a tweet.
According to a statement from the defence ministry, intentions to improve cooperation between Russia and North Korea were unveiled by Sergei Shoigu, the Russian Minister of Defence.
President of the International Olympic Committee Thomas Bach left Russia and Belarus off of the official invitation list of 203 nations to the 2016 Summer Olympics in Paris.
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