War

A Russian Mi-8 military helicopter was shot down by Russian air defenses during a Ukrainian drone attack in Rostov Oblast overnight into Wednesday, killing all three crew members, reported the Russian Telegram channel ASTRA, designated a foreign agent by Russian authorities.

Ukraine’s Defense Forces struck Russian warships, air defense radars and systems, and oil-loading infrastructure at the port of Novorossiysk using drones, an informed source in the Security Service of Ukraine told hromadske.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy rejected any notion of exchanging uncontested parts of Donbas for Russian-occupied border areas in the Sumy and Kharkiv oblasts, saying such a trade is impossible and unacceptable during a conversation with journalists on Monday.

Russia is preparing a new wave of massive attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure, logistics and water supply systems in an effort to create severe water problems for individual territorial communities, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told journalists on Monday, according to hromadske’s correspondent.