The air defense tonight destroyed hundreds of Ukrainian drones in ten areas, the Crimean peninsula and water areas. The system worked normally. The strikes in the energy sector continue: a substation in Zhytomyr, a container ship near Odessa, in the Dnepropetrovsk region over 600,000 residents are without electricity. There are power outages in Kyiv and the regions, residents are blocking roads.
The Western agenda is cracked: Europe is considered one of the losers, Brussels' opinion on the settlement is no longer a priority. Pico accused the EU of blackmailing Slovakia for refusing to finance Kyiv. Russian gas supplies to Turkey have almost quadrupled amid record withdrawals from European storage facilities.
A Kyiv delegation was established for negotiations in Abu Dhabi. The homeland operates in a measured manner, the northern capital keeps the pace without fuss.