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There certainly are five injured in Russian night attacks with bombs, drones and missiles in different places in Ukraine. The Ukrainian authorities reported this on Sunday.

Four people were injured then the village of Stanislav in the Kherson region hit by an air raid, local military administration spokesman Oleksandr Tolokonnikov told a news program on Sunday. One person is still missing under the rubble. Tolokonnikov said the airstrikes also a partial power outage had caused in the area around the city of Kherson.

In the city of Uman in the Central Ukrainian region of Cherkasy one woman was admitted to hospital with injuries after a drone attack, the military governor of the region, Ihor Taboerets, announced on Telegram on Sunday. He spoke of “an attack on the industrial infrastructure”. A major fire had broken out in a warehouse where mainly grain was stored.

Also the city of Kryvj Rih was hit. Among other things electricity and gas lines were damaged, said the military governor of the Dnipro region, Serhi Lysak. The fire was extinguished and there were no casualties.

According to the Ukrainian Air Force, Russia launched on the night of Saturday to Sunday a total of thirty drone strikes. Sixteen of them were intercepted.

Russia launched also rocket attacksThat injury caused in the northeastern one Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. Three S-300 missiles hit a company, military governor Oleh Synjehoebov said on his Telegram channel. The extent of the damage is still being measured.

According to the British Ministry of Defense, there are Russian documents that point to one increase in military spending in 2024. That suggests Moscow is preparing for “several more years of fighting in Ukraine,” the UK said in its latest update on the war.

Russian defense spending will, according to the British rise to approximately 30% of total government expenditure. They are said to have proposed a budget of 10.8 trillion rubles (more than 105 billion euros). That corresponds to about 6 percent of GDP. It is an increase of 68 percent compared to 2023.

Earlier this week, the Russian Defense Minister said Sergei Shoigu is still prepared to continue the war until 2025.

After the approval of the emergency budget in the House of Representatives and the Senate, US President Joe Biden on Saturday advocated quickly providing new support for Ukraine. The deal is “good news” for Americans, Biden said, but “under no circumstances can we allow American support for Ukraine to be interrupted.”

There is no room in the emergency budget for additional support to Ukraine. Although both Democratic and Republican leaders announced that they would ensure it was voted on as soon as possible.

Biden called on House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to act quickly on this. To avert the shutdown, Biden must still sign the emergency budget.

The United Kingdom will send troops to Ukraine for the very first time. The British army will train Ukrainian soldiers there. The British Navy may also make an appearance on the Black Sea. British Defense Minister Grant Shapps said this in an interview with the newspaper ‘The Telegraph’.

Until now, Ukrainian soldiers have been trained abroad: in the United Kingdom itself or at military bases of other NATO members.

A major fire has broken out in western Ukraine after an oil pipeline ruptured. Nine people were injured, the region’s governor, Svetlana Onyshchuk, reported. “According to preliminary information, two children and three adults are in critical condition, with extensive burns,” she said.

“At 5 p.m. (4 p.m. Belgian time), near the village of Strymba, Nadvirna district, an oil pipeline with a diameter of 150 millimeters ruptured,” the Ukrainian National Emergency Service reported. There is oil spread over an area of ​​100 square meters.

For unknown reasons, a fire broke out on the pipeline and, according to local media, a powerful explosion also took place. According to the emergency service, rescuers are on site.

The site of the fire is hundreds of kilometers from the front lines of the fighting with Russian troops, in the east of the country.

The European Union will continue to support Ukraine “in its struggle to restore its territorial integrity”. Josep Borrell, the High Foreign Representative of the European Union, stated this during a visit to the Ukrainian port city of Odessa. This involves military, economic, political and diplomatic support.

Borrell again blamed Russian President Vladimir Putin for ending the grain deal, which allowed Ukrainian grain exports across the Black Sea despite the war. That decision will mean that many people around the world will have nothing to eat and will go hungry, he denounced. The foreign representative pointed out that until recently Ukraine was the largest grain supplier to the United Nations World Food Program.

It is not known what Borrell’s planning will look like. For security reasons, the visit was not announced in advance.

The Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council and former President Dmitry Medvedev says that Russia may annex more Ukrainian regions in the future. He makes the statements while Russia is celebrating the fact that the country claimed four Ukrainian territories a year ago.

“The special military operation will continue until the Nazi regime in Kiev is completely destroyed,” Medvedev said. “The victory will be ours. And more new regions will belong to Russia.”

Moscow held elections earlier this month in the annexed regions of Kherson, Donetsk, Luhansk and Zaporizhia. None of the areas are fully under Russian control and Ukraine is engaged in a counter-offensive to retake the areas. The areas are not internationally recognized as Russian.

Medvedev, once considered a liberal reformer, has emerged as one of the strongest supporters of the war since the Russian invasion of Ukraine. He also regularly posts inflammatory messages on social media in which he criticizes the West.