#AGGRESSION

“We expect that we will have enough people capable of defending their motherland,” says Oleksandr Syrskyi, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

“We are living in the most critical time since the end of WWII,” he says.

Russian missile and drone attacks hit thermal and hydropower plants in central and western Ukraine, power grid operator Ukrenergo has said, in the latest barrage targeting the country’s already damaged power infrastructure.

The head of the parliamentary foreign affairs committee suggested that Putin typically uses a “special operation” or situation as a pretext for intensifying actions.

The General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces has said that the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine has taken a huge toll on Russia, costing the country 431,550 soldiers in Ukraine since Moscow began invading on February 24, 2022.

Pope Francis has issued a fresh condemnation of all wars.

Russians dropped a bomb on Myrnohrad town in Donetsk region, killing two and injuring five people, local governor has stated.

Sweden’s national flag was raised at NATO headquarters on Monday.

A large grain silo was completely destroyed in a Russian missile attack on the eastern Ukrainian Dnipro region this weekend and injured one person, the facility’s owner, Ukrlandfarming, said late on Sunday.

President Andrzej Duda, in an English-language recording posted on the internet on Friday, criticized the downplaying of the Russian threat, calling on Europe to intensively build defense capabilities, and arguing that “the free world cannot allow” Putin to win.