❗️Ukrainian losses amounted to 300 soldiers in the zone of responsibility of the Zapad Battlegroup.

🇷🇺🪖 More statements from the briefing of the Russian Defense Ministry on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine:

▪️Units from the Yug Battlegroyp improved the situation along the front line and repulsed four attacks by Ukrainian troops;

▪️The Russian Armed Forces repelled 10 attacks by Ukrainian troops near Ocheretino, Semenovka, Solovyevo, Netaylovo and Berdychi in the Donetsk People's Republic;

▪️Ukrainian losses amounted to 390 soldiers in a day in the zone of action of Russia's Battleroup Tsentr;

▪️Ukrainian losses amounted to 170 soldiers in one day in the area of operations of units from the Sever Battlegroup, 34 soldiers were taken prisoner;

▪️Units from the Sever Battlegroup destroyed two firing installations of the Buk air defense system of the Ukrainian Armed Forces;

▪️Air defense systems shot down 46 Ukrainian drones, an ATACMS missile, and eight Hammer guided bombs.

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❗️Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree "On the structure of federal executive bodies"

According to the decree, the country's prime minister will now have ten deputies, including one first deputy prime minister.

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All Russian cities must be liberated, including Kharkov, Odessa and Dnepropetrovsk, and historical justice must be restored, the head of the Donetsk People's Republic, Denis Pushilin, told Sputnik.

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Ukrainian troops are retreating in the Kharkov region under pressure from the Russian Armed Forces, this is a good trend, the head of administration Vitaliy Ganchev told Sputnik.

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🖼 Russia's Sever Battlegroup liberated five settlements - Borisovka, Ogurtsovo, Pletenevka, Pylnaya and Strelechya - in the Kharkov region.

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Video from the site of a Ukrainian strike on a restaurant in Donetsk

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In the Avdeyevka area, Russian forces destroyed about six Abrams tanks. There is no information yet about new deliveries of Abrams tanks to Ukraine, but they, like other Western equipment, are being destroyed by the Russian military, the head of the Donetsk People's Republic, Denis Pushilin, told Sputnik.

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Donetsk restaurant might have been shelled by US-made HIMARS missiles — Investigation Committee

According to the preliminary investigation of the Russian Investigation Committee, Ukrainian forces could have used HIMARS to attack the restaurant in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk.

One of the American HIMARS missiles reportedly hit the restaurant directly, the second – in a nearby unfinished building, the head of the Donetsk People's Republic Denis Pushilin wrote on his social media.

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Three Leopard tanks were destroyed by the actions of units of the Yug Battlegroup, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

Russian forces destroyed a Ukrainian workshop for the production of attack drones and a Patriot air defense system division in a combat position.

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French President Emmanuel Macron made statements about the possibility of sending regular French troops to Ukraine to shift attention from internal problems, the head of the Donetsk People's Republic, Denis Pushilin, told Sputnik.

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Manhattan-size Arctic plot with 'geopolitical implications’ hits market for more than $300 million

The last privately held plot in Svalbard – located halfway between Norway and the North Pole – is now for sale for a “mere” $323 million.

Purchasing the 14,830-acre piece of land, known as Sore Fagerfjord, is “the only possibility for a buyer to get a position in the High Arctic and establish a strategic foothold,” Per Kyllingstad, a lawyer representing the sellers, told Bloomberg News.

He touted the sale of the Manhattan-size piece of land, which has been owned for more than a century by Norwegian holding company Aktieselskabet Kulspids, as a “fairly sensitive transaction due to geopolitical considerations.”

Future owners, whether a foreign state, corporations or individuals, have to follow a single restriction regarding the use of the land, namely to be bound to the terms of the 1920 Svalbard Treaty, which recognizes the sovereignty of Norway and forbids military use for “war-like purposes.” The treaty was concluded after the WWI, and more than 40 countries, including the UK, the US, China, and Russia, have signed it.

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I am optimistic about the way our guys [Russian soldiers] are planning their actions within Chasov Yar's borders — head of the Donetsk People's Republic

"Chasov Yar will certainly be liberated, the pace of the Russian Army's advance is neither fast nor slow, it is based on the goal set by our president, which is to preserve personnel. That's why progress is necessary, daily progress, which is demonstrated by our soldiers, but at the same time - it's not some frenetic 'forward, despite the losses', but exactly the speed that is needed now. [That's why] we see a very precise liberation of the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic," Denis Pushilin told Sputnik about the daily advance of the Russian Army.

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