Russian drone raids killed one Ukrainian citizen, a 53-year-old man, and left parts of the city of Sumy without electricity, the Kyiv Independent reported, quoting local officials.
Ukraine’s SBU security service announced that it had killed several Russian secret service officers in an operation to arrest them in the region around Kyiv on Sunday. The SBU stated that they suspected the agents were responsible for the assassination of its colonel, Ivan Voronych, on Thursday in Kyiv.
Russia’s Ministry of Defence announced that Russian forces had captured the villages of Mykolaivka and Myrne in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region.
The United Nations’ atomic watchdog said it heard several hundred rounds of small-arms fire late on Saturday at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, which is controlled by Russian troops. The agency called the shots unusual and said it was asking for more information about the incident.
United States President Donald Trump stated Washington would be supplying Ukraine with Patriot air defence systems, without any indication of numbers, only two weeks after Washington announced that it would be halting some arms shipments to Kyiv. “I haven’t agreed on the number yet, but they’re going to have some because they do need protection,” he said to journalists.
Leading Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, a close Trump supporter, told the CBS News anchor that he anticipates an influx of US arms deliveries to Ukraine to start imminently. “The game… is about to change,” he said. “I expect, in the next few days, you will see weapons pouring in at a record clip to assist Ukraine in defending itself.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that his government is making preparations to welcome Trump’s special envoy, Keith Kellogg, on Monday in Kyiv and stated: “We expect the United States to fully understand what can be done to force Russia to peace.
Zelenskyy also stated that Russian forces targeted over 1,800 long-range drones, over 1,200 glide bombs and 83 missiles of all types at Ukraine over the last week. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met with his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, in Beijing on Sunday and “exchanged opinions on relations with the United States and on the situation in the Ukrainian crisis”, in Moscow.
French President Emmanuel Macron has urged a huge increase in France’s defence budget, declaring that freedom in Europe is under a greater threat than at any point since World War II ended.
