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  • Russian strikes, including using suicide drones, killed at least eight people in Ukraine on Monday.

    In total, throughout the day, "the enemy carried out nine missile strikes, 39 air strikes, (fired) up to 30 shells with multiple rocket launchers", summarized in the evening the Ukrainian Army General Staff.

    In addition to the capital, the surroundings of Kharkiv and Sumy, Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk or Kherson and Mykolaiv were affected

  • "At the same time, in southwestern Russia, thirteen people, including three children, were killed following the crash of a Russian military plane which caused a gigantic fire in a building in Yeysk, not far from the Ukrainian border, authorities said.

    The crash on Monday evening caused a fire in the nine-story building where around 600 residents reside.

  • "The EU is increasing its military aid to Ukraine to 3.1 billion euros and is launching a military training mission for our soldiers", welcomed the chief of staff of the Ukrainian presidency, Andriï Yermak.

    On Monday, EU foreign ministers discussed in Luxembourg an increase in European military aid and the training of some 15,000 Ukrainian soldiers.


7:26 a.m .: Thirteen dead in the crash of a Russian military plane

"The total number of victims is 13, including three children" and "19 people were injured", according to the ministry, quoted by Russian agencies.

The crash of a Russian military plane on Monday evening caused a fire in the nine-story building where around 600 residents live.

The city of Yeisk, where the tragedy occurred, is a city bordering the Sea of ​​Azov located in the Krasnodar region, close to Ukraine.

The Investigative Committee of Russia, in charge of the main criminal investigations, indicated on Telegram that it was opening a “criminal investigation”.



⚡️The Russian Defense Ministry has confirmed that a Su-34 jet crashed while gaining altitude during a training flight in Yeysk, having taken off from one of Russia's Southern Military District airfields.



Video: eyewitness pic.twitter.com/gV6stBlEaD

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