The main information relating to the conflict in Ukraine over the last 24 hours:
– Moscow claimed the capture of a new village on the eastern front, Novobakhmutivka, in a sector where Moscow’s forces have advanced rapidly over the past week in the face of a defensive Ukrainian army. This village is located near that of Ocherytné, invested this week by Russian forces who currently control most of it according to observers.
– Russia also claimed to have neutralized 17 Ukrainian drones in several regions in the west of the country, during the night from Saturday to Sunday. Russian anti-aircraft defense “intercepted and destroyed seventeen Ukrainian drones”, assures a press release from the Ministry of Defense, which specifies that nine of them were neutralized above the Bryansk border region.
– The commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian army, Oleksandr Syrsky, recognized this Sunday that the situation on the front had “deteriorated”, the Russian troops, superior in weapons and soldiers, having achieved “tactical successes” in several areas.
– A former German career soldier appears this Monday before his country’s courts for espionage for the benefit of Moscow. Thomas H. was arrested in August 2023 in the city of Koblenz. He is on trial before the Düsseldorf court for having transmitted information to the Russian intelligence services while he worked in the main IT and logistics department of the Bundeswehr, responsible in particular for the management of military equipment.
