- Three villages lost electricity when a Russian drone attack destroyed an oil refinery in central Ukraine.
- Air defenses shot down a Russian missile fired overnight and eighteen of the twenty drones that were launched.
- Ukraine was on schedule to complete its preparations for initiating accession talks.
Three villages lost electricity when a Russian drone attack destroyed an oil refinery in central Ukraine. Moscow has frequently targeted the Kremenchuk refinery, and according to Filip Pronin, head of the military administration of the Poltava region, the fire was quickly put out.
It was unclear to what degree the damage was done. It coincides with the Air Force of Ukraine reporting that air defenses shot down a Russian missile fired overnight and eighteen of the twenty drones that were launched.
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General Zaluzhny stated that the Ukrainian army should have been able to retreat at a rate of eighteen miles per day as it broke through the Russian defensive lines.
According to him, four months ought to have been sufficient for Ukraine to enter Crimea, engage in combat there, leave Crimea, and then return. It was not until he reread a 1941 book written by a Soviet major general that he began to understand. The book examined the battles of World War I.
Dmytro Kuleba, the foreign minister of Ukraine, praised reforms carried out even in the face of the Russian invasion and expressed confidence in Kyiv’s efforts to begin EU membership negotiations this year.
He declared that Ukraine was on schedule to complete its preparations for initiating accession talks. He is excited about the report’s presentation and thinks it will clear the path for the European Council to decide whether to start accession negotiations with Ukraine.
Additionally, Zaluzhny discussed how Russia’s perspective on the lives of its soldiers has led to a slow pace of development. In the beginning, he thought he could stop Russia “by bleeding its troops.” Russia is thought to have suffered an estimated 120,000 fatalities, compared to up to 70,000 Ukrainian deaths and 100–120,000 injuries.
It is unrealistic to expect the war to end quickly, according to Volodymyr Zelenskiy, the president of Ukraine. Earlier, he dismissed criticism that the counteroffensive against Russia was moving too slowly, arguing that the conflict was not like a scene from a Hollywood film.
