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As Vladimir Putin travelled through the streets of Astana, his motorcade was accompanied by armoured vehicles, a military helicopter and a vehicle fitted with a roof-mounted structure that may have been an electronic warfare system.
Former US military personnel and Pentagon officials have conducted a military simulation of a potential Russian invasion of Lithuania. One of the scenarios envisaged an attack from three directions simultaneously and a delayed response from NATO allies.
Rustem Umerov, Chair of the Ukrainian National Security and Defence Committee and chief negotiator, has arrived in Berlin for talks with national security advisers from Germany, France and the UK. The meeting is taking place against the backdrop of fresh Russian threats of strikes on Kyiv and discussions regarding Ukraine’s prospects for EU membership.
Officers from the State Bureau of Investigations have exposed a lawyer who, according to the investigation, demanded $9,000 from a serviceman in exchange for closing a case concerning unauthorised absence from his unit and removing him from the wanted list. He was arrested after the second instalment of the money had been handed over.
The Counter-Intelligence Directorate of the Security Service of Ukraine has detained a Russian agent who was coordinating one of the largest-scale air strikes on Kyiv on the night of 24 May. He was detained the following day after the attack whilst conducting reconnaissance near a Ministry of Defence facility.
Disappointment with Vladimir Putin is growing among the Russian elite and the general public due to the protracted war against Ukraine and the deteriorating economic situation. At the same time, according to sources, the Russian president himself has no plans to change course and is determined to continue the hostilities.
In Kyiv, law enforcement officers have arrested a man suspected of a series of burglaries at flats damaged during a night-time missile attack by the Russian Federation. The suspect took advantage of the fact that residents were in shelters and broke into homes in the Podil district
On 23 May and during the night of 24 May, the Ukrainian military carried out strikes against a number of Russian military targets and infrastructure. Among the targets hit were the Tamanneftegaz oil terminal in the Krasnodar Krai, supply depots used by the occupying forces, and ships at the Novorossiysk naval base
On the morning of 24 May, traffic on the Kerch Bridge was temporarily halted. The restrictions remained in place for over three hours following reports of an explosion in the temporarily occupied Crimea and statements by the Russian Ministry of Defence regarding a drone attack
A conscript has died in Ternopil on the premises of the regional recruitment and social support centre. The incident occurred on the evening of 23 May
During a massive Russian attack on the night of 24 May, the occupying forces launched 90 missiles, around 600 attack drones and a missile from the ‘Oreshnik’ system at Bila Tserkva
