📊 US military aid to Ukraine has decreased by 93.5% per month compared to the beginning of 2023, reports the military telegraph channel Ukraine Battle Map, citing Pentagon data

Last month, Ukraine received only one package of military aid. At the same time, Biden asked for another 61.4 billion dollars to finance the Zelensky regime. However, it is unknown whether the U.S. Congress will agree to this in the face of growing popular discontent. The Palestinian-Israeli conflict, in which the United States is directly involved, is also making its own adjustments.

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❗️All hospitals in the Gaza Strip have run out of fuel, according to Hamas

In total, 12 hospitals and 32 medical centers were out of service due to shelling and fuel shortages, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.

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🇩🇪 Sarah Wagenknecht, who criticizes Germany's participation in military supplies to Ukraine and sanctions against Russia, announced her resignation from the Left Party and her intention to found her own party

A return to a policy of reason is necessary, especially in the economic sphere, Wagenknecht stated.

She also criticized the German authorities for abandoning the policy of détente and diplomacy. Polls show that Wagenknecht is one of the most popular politicians in the country.

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❗️ The murder of Daria Dugina was organized by the Security Service of Ukraine, the Washington Post has reported, citing sources

Since 2015, the CIA has spent tens of millions of dollars to transform Ukraine's Soviet-era services into "powerful allies" against Moscow, the WP said, citing unnamed officials.

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⚡️ The target of the operation of the Ukrainian special services, which resulted in the death of Daria Dugina, was her father, the Washington Post has reported

The components of the explosive device that was used to blow up the car were smuggled into Russia in a pet carrier with a secret compartment built into it.

In general, the Ukrainian special services committed dozens of murders, another victim was Vladlen Tatarsky, WP has noted. These “operations” provoked tension between Kiev and Washington, according to WP.

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Foreign mercenaries spotted among Ukrainian troops in the Donbass

“From time to time, we pick up Polish and Georgian chatter on the radio. We can also identify them by their weapons. They have foreign firearms, including Browning guns, foreign rifles, and especially those Polish 60 and 120 mm mortars,” Elena, a spokeswoman for the Pyatnashka international brigade told Sputnik’s Russell Bentley (@TXDPR).

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The drones that Kiev used to strike the Crimean bridge were developed as part of an operation involving the CIA and other Western intelligence services, according to the Washington Post.

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More excerpts from the Washington Post article:

▪️The CIA-Ukraine cooperation took root in the aftermath of the 2014 political protests that led the former Ukrainian president to flee the country;

▪️The CIA worked with the SBU to create an entirely new directorate, officials said;

▪️The the new unit was prosaically dubbed the "Fifth Directorate" to distinguish it from the four long-standing units of the SBU;

▪️A sixth directorate has since been added to work with Britain's MI6 spy agency, the officials said;

▪️Training sites were set up outside Kiev, where hand-picked recruits were trained by CIA personnel, the officials said;

▪️The plan was to form units "capable of operating behind the front lines and working as covert groups," a Ukrainian official said.

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The Irish authorities intend to limit the period for which Ukrainian refugees will be provided with housing to three months. The reason is the high cost; the authorities spend 1.5 billion euros a year for these purposes, according to the Irish Examiner.

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📹 Russian paratroopers destroyed a Ukrainian tank in the Zaporozhye direction

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Over 15,000 Palestinians were injured, the Palestinian Health Ministry stated.

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⚡️ Erdogan proposes to Turkish parliament to ratify protocol on Sweden's membership in NATO

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❗️Key points of the Russian Defense Ministry briefing on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine:

▪️In the Kupyansk direction, the Russian Army repelled nine attacks by Ukrainian forces near the settlements of Sinkovka, Ivanovka;

▪️In the Kharkov region and Novoegorovka in the LPR. Ukrainian losses amounted to 195 military personnel, three armored combat vehicles, three cars, one Grad MLRS combat vehicle and one D-20 gun;

▪️ In the Krasny Liman direction, the Russian Army repelled 12 attacks by Ukrainian troops. Ukrainian losses amounted to 480 military personnel, four armored combat vehicles, three cars and a D-30 howitzer;

▪️In the Donetsk direction, Russian forces repelled one attack by Ukrainian troops. Ukrainian losses amounted to 165 military personnel, two armored combat vehicles, four vehicles, one Msta-B howitzer and one D-30 gun;

▪️In the South Donetsk direction, Ukrainian losses amounted to 160 military personnel;

▪️In the Zaporozhye direction, the Russian Army repelled seven attacks by Ukrainian troops in the area of the Rabotino settlement, Zaporozhye region. Ukrainian losses amounted to 80 military personnel, one tank and three armored combat vehicles;

▪️In the Kherson direction, Ukrainian losses amounted to 90 military personnel, one Grad MLRS combat vehicle, two D-30 howitzers;

▪️Russian air defense systems destroyed 19 Ukrainian drones.

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🇺🇸 US urges Israel to defer Gaza ground offensive, according to reports

Washington wants Israel to delay its ground offensive into the Gaza Strip in order to buy time for talks on hostages and to allow more humanitarian aid into the territory, unnamed US sources were quoted as saying by an American newspaper.

The sources claimed that the “fast-moving events” since the Palestinian militant group Hamas freed two American women last week “have spurred the Biden administration to more urgently suggest that the Israelis allow time to negotiate the release of 212 other hostages.”

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