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The fact of the day
The Russian Defense Ministry said on Tuesday it had destroyed sites in Odessa, southern Ukraine, used by Kiev to prepare the previous day’s attack on the important Crimean bridge, which connects Russia to the peninsula. annexed Ukrainian. “Overnight, the Russian Armed Forces launched a group retaliatory strike (…) on facilities where terrorist acts against Russia were being prepared using naval drones,” the ministry said in a statement, adding that “the place of manufacture in a shipyard near the city of Odessa” was also affected.
sentence of the day
It is no longer a secret for anyone, it is an obvious fact that this area is used by the Kiev regime for military purposes. »
This is a phrase from Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov. Moscow accuses Kiev of using the maritime corridor previously intended for the export of Ukrainian cereals “for military purposes”, a few hours after the Russian withdrawal from a crucial agreement for world food.
The number of the day
28. This is the number of Ukrainian drones that Moscow claims to have shot down overnight from Monday to Tuesday over Crimea. “Seventeen Ukrainian drones were destroyed by air defense,” the ministry said on Telegram, adding that “another eleven drones were neutralized” and “having failed to reach their target, they crashed.” “There were no casualties or damage,” according to the same source.
The trend of the day
On the front, the Russian army reported Tuesday a rare advance. Russian forces reportedly took a kilometer and a half near Kupyansk in northeastern Ukraine, an area where kyiv has seen a concentration of Russian troops and has been talking of fierce fighting for several days.
The commander of the Ukrainian ground forces, Oleksandre Syrsky, spoke on Tuesday on Telegram of a “difficult” but “under control” situation in the East. “In the Kupyansk area, the units of the “West” group are successfully continuing offensive operations (…) The total advance was up to two kilometers in front and up to one and a half kilometers in depth”, specified the Russian Defense Ministry in a statement.