"Today we will announce a new package of weapons and ammunition for Patriot systems to Ukraine." This was said by the spokesman of the US National Security Council, John Kirby, in a press briefing. "In May alone, Russia launched 17 attacks against civilian and military infrastructure and civilian infrastructure in Ukraine," he added.
Italy will increase naval artillery missiles for Kiev Italy will increase missile production of naval artillery systems, ammunition and bulletproof vests, to be allocated to Ukraine in view of an upcoming aid package. This is what we learn from informed sources. The increase in production, also requested within the framework of the contact group of NATO countries that was held a week ago in Ramstein, concerns the European defense program and European defense cooperation. In fact, the other EU countries will also benefit from the increase in production.
Russian forces have killed at least 483 children in Ukraine since the beginning of the war and maimed nearly a thousand, President Volodymyr Zelensky said at a conference marking International Children's Day. Unian reports.
The Kiev government has so far brought back to the country 371 Ukrainian children who had been kidnapped by Russian forces, the head of the president's office, Andriy Yermak, announced on Telegram. "We are working to bring our children home. All children abducted from Russia must return to Ukraine," the senior official wrote. President Volodymyr Zelensky took it upon himself to develop a detailed action plan, which we prepared on his behalf. 'Bring Kids Back UA' is the... which will counter Russia's crimes against Ukrainian children." "Ukrainian authorities, foreign governments and international organizations are joining their efforts to bring back all our little Ukrainian citizens. We have already managed to bring 371 children back to Ukraine," he added. "The Coordination Council for the Protection and Safety of Children under the President of Ukraine, which I head, will coordinate the implementation of the 'Bring Kids Back UA' action plan," he concluded.
Ukraine, missile fragment falls in a busy street of Kiev
The Russian Defense Ministry said that in a bombing in the port of Odessa, the "last Ukrainian warship", the Yuriy Olefirenko, was destroyed. The unit, reports the ministry quoted by the RIA Novosti agency, was destroyed in a "high-precision attack by the Russian Aerospace Forces".
Ukrainian forces have shot down 32 Russian kamikaze drones in the past 24 hours, the General Staff of the Kiev Armed Forces announced in its daily update on the situation at the front, Ukrinform reports. "In the last 24 hours our defenders have destroyed 32 Shahed attack drones. The units of the missile forces and artillery hit three command posts, an area where the enemy's soldiers were located, four artillery systems in firing position, an anti-aircraft missile system, three fuel depots and an electronic warfare center," the report said. Overall, in the last 24 hours the Russians have launched 64 airstrikes on Ukraine, one missile attack and fired 88 rockets with multiple-launch systems.
Russian authorities said at least five people died and 19 others were injured following an attack launched last night by Ukrainian forces on a chicken farm in Ukraine's occupied Lugansk region. "The shelling of the village of Karpaty (35 kilometers west of Lugansk, ed) by Ukrainian armed groups ... It affected 24 people: five died and 19 were injured. According to preliminary information (the attack) was carried out with Himars (multiple launch) systems," the Russian Center for Monitoring the Security Situation in the Lugansk Region wrote on Telegram.
Russian forces launched 69 attacks on 17 settlements in the Zaporizhzhia region yesterday, the head of the Regional Military Administration, Yuriy Malashko, announced on Facebook, as reported by Ukrinform. "The enemy launched 69 attacks on 17 settlements in Vasylivka and Polohy districts," the message read. Malashko said the villages of Orikhiv and Zaliznychne were airstriked, while Huliaipole and Mala Tokmachka were hit with multiple rocket launchers. Russian forces also fired 63 artillery shells at Olhivske, Novoandriivka, Huliaipilske, Malynivka, Temyrivka, Preobrazhenka and Shcherbaky. No injuries or casualties were reported.
Ukraine, hit a building in Kiev: one dead and 4 wounded
A crude oil storage tank caught fire at an oil refinery in southern Russia's Krasnodar region, allegedly due to a drone attack, Governor Veniamin Kondratyev said on his Telegram channel.
"A fire broke out on the territory of the Afipsky oil refinery. A refining plant caught fire. A drone attack is currently considered the most plausible cause," he added, adding that "the fire was contained in an area of 100 square meters and there were no casualties." The fire was soon definitively extinguished.
The Kremlin considers the situation of civilians in the Russian regions bordering Ukraine bombed by Kiev forces "worrying" and assures that "measures" of contrast are adopted. This was said by spokesman Dmitry Peskov, complaining that there was "not a word of condemnation from the West" regarding the attacks on civilians in these regions. This was reported by the agency Ria Novosti.
