– Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner group, states that it is about It could take two years for Russia to conquer the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of eastern Ukraine. For Moscow, the conquest of these two regions is an important goal of the war.
– The Russian armed forces have, according to a senior representative of the US Department of Defense in the war in Ukraine, about the lost half of their main battle tanks. The material was either destroyed or captured by Ukrainians, it sounds.
– Estimated 1140 Russian soldiers died in Ukraine on Friday. The Ukrainian army reports this in a daily update. The numbers have not been independently verified, but according to Kiev, they were 24 hours the deadliest for the Russian troops since the start of the war.