Ukraine War Drone Footage and Updates Day 138
- Twelve senior Russian officers have been killed in a Ukrainian strike on a strategically key airport near Kherson, Oleksiy Arestovych, a controversial aide to Volodymyr Zelensky has claimed
- Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree on expanding a fast track to Russian citizenship to all Ukrainians, according to state media. Previously only residents of Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions, as well as residents of the southern Zaporizhzhia and the Kherson regions, were eligible for the simplified procedure, Tass news agency reported.
- Ukrainian officials say the death toll from Russian rocket attack that hit an apartment block in eastern Ukraine on Saturday has now risen to at least 24. Officials fear dozens of people could still be trapped in the rubble of the five-story apartment building in the Donetsk town of Chasiv Yar
- Austrian oil and gas company OMV said on Monday it is receiving roughly 70% less natural gas than it ordered after the biggest pipeline carrying Russian gas to Germany began annual maintenance, reducing flows to Europe
- Russian missiles pounded Ukraine’s second-largest city early on Monday, local administrator said, The Associated Press reported. Governor of the Kharkiv region Oleh Syneihubov said on Telegram that the Russian forces only hit civilian targets in three missile strikes on the northeastern city.
- Ukrainian forces have recaptured the village of Ivanivka in the southern Russian-occupied region of Kherson, a Ukrainian infantry brigade said on Monday.
- The governor of Russia’s Kaliningrad region proposed a total ban on the movement of goods between the three Baltic states and Russia Monday, in response to what authorities in the exclave have called a “blockade” of it by Lithuania, according to Reuters
- The death toll from a Russian rocket attack that hit an apartment block in eastern Ukraine over the weekend rose to 18 on Monday and rescuers were still racing to reach survivors in the rubble, the emergency services said
- The biggest single pipeline carrying Russian gas to Germany started annual maintenance on Monday, with flows expected to stop for ten days, but governments, markets and companies are worried the shutdown might be extended due to war in Ukraine, Reuters reported
- Donetsk regional Governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said on the Telegram messaging service that a Russian missile had struck Druzhkivka, a town behind the front line, and reported shelling of other population centers