“Eliminate terrorist threat”: Ukraine continues to target Belgorod. More than 70 people may have died in a military plane crash in Russia.
Russia condemns the crash as a “barbaric” act. Ukraine announces investigations that should not stand in the way of operations in the Ukrainian war. The Defense Ministry in Moscow said that the prisoners had been flown for a planned exchange. A spokesman for the Ukrainian intelligence service announced that a prisoner exchange was actually planned for today.