In the temporarily occupied Mariupol, on the eve of the Russian presidential election, the invaders began conducting searches, stopping cars, and detaining people for "espionage."
Russian presidential "elections" in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine -- the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, as well as parts of the Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions of Ukraine -- are illegal and will not have any legal consequences.
In Ukraine, 41% of people admit that they can become war veterans in the future, and 53% hold the opposite opinion, according to a nationwide survey titled "The image of veterans in Ukrainian society."
The High Representative of the European Union, Josep Borrell, said that among all the issues on the EU's foreign policy agenda, the Ukraine issue in the context of Russian aggression worries Europeans the most.
The U.S. administration hopes that the number of members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which will increase their defense contributions to 2% of their GDP, will increase in the coming months, ahead of the NATO summit in Washington.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken had a phone call with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic, Jan Lipavský, during which the top diplomats raised the issue of further support for Ukraine.
The Ukrainian IT Army attacked a number of Russian portals, including the Troika fare payment system, which serves passengers of the Moscow Metro subway network, among other customers.
EU High Representative Josep Borrell thanked the USA for providing a new package of military aid to Ukraine and noted that Ukraine's victory in the fight against Russian aggression depends on the strength and reliability of transatlantic ties.
The Committee of Permanent Representatives of the EU agreed at the level of ambassadors on Wednesday additional funding for the European Peace Facility and the creation within its framework of a specialized fund to provide military aid to Ukraine in the amount of EUR 5 billion in 2024.
During the day, 70 combat engagements took place on the frontline, and in the Novopavlivka direction, Russians, with the support of aviation, tried to break through the defense of Ukrainian troops 19 times.
During the day, servicemen of one of the units of the Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed 13 Russian invaders and disabled six pieces of equipment, including TOS-1A "Soncepyok" using FPV drones.
A 54-year-old man was killed and two women were injured as a result of the shelling by Russian troops of the Velyka Pysarivska community in the Okhtyrka district of the Sumy region.