✈️🇺🇸 Hegseth has approved a next-generation fighter jet for the US Navy, - Reuters. ❗️Boeing Co. and Northrop Grumman Corp. are competing to produce the aircraft, designated F/A-XX. The new carrier-based fighter jet is intended to replace the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet fleet.

Belgorod region 👀💥

🚂💥 A railway section has been damaged in the Lipetsk region. Damage to the railway track has been recorded near the city of Usman. Local residents report that at about 3:40 an explosion occurred on the tracks - probably after a UAV attack. The area has been cordoned off.

🔥 Novosibirsk. A fire has been reported on the territory of "Zavod Pripoev" plant, which specializes in: ▪️production of electronics and microcircuits; ▪️repair and assembly of electrical devices; ▪️the defense-industrial complex.

🇮🇹➡️🇺🇦 VCC-1 and M548

Footage from Novosibirsk 🔥

🔥 The Ukrainian Forces hit the oil depot in the village of Gvardeyskoye, Crimea, — Krymskyi Veter.

🇺🇦 Russian troops were ordered to storm Ukrainian positions at any cost, — Zelensky The President reported that after this, the enemy's losses increased sharply: in the Pokrovsk direction alone, SBU destroys more than 100 occupiers every day.

Novosibirsk, Russia 🔥

👀 A Russian wanted to catch his Mavic, but he caught a Ukrainian FPV drone strike instead

⚔️ In the Kupyansk direction, a group of soldiers of the 8th separate regiment of the Special Operations Forces prevented the enemy from advancing.

⚔️ Soldiers of the 39th OBR showed how to shoot down Russian drones using the French "Mistral"

🇩🇪 Germany will give police the power to shoot down or disable rogue drones threatening security or air traffic, — Reuters. The new law, awaiting parliament approval, allows methods like jamming or lasers and follows major disruptions at Munich Airport.

Guardsmen of the 2nd Shostka Regiment destroyed 13 air targets 💥

🇪🇺 EU ambassadors agree plan to ban Russian oil and gas imports from 2028, despite objections from Hungary 🇭🇺 and Slovakia 🇸🇰, — Reuters.

🇪🇺👀 Violation of EU airspace is a hybrid war by the Russian Federation, it's time to call a spade a spade, — Ursula von der Leyen.

👀➡️ Russia is objectively entering its worst economic phase since the start of the aggression against Ukraine, — Le Monde ❗️The economic boom, caused primarily by the war effort, is already in the past, and now Russian taxpayers will be forced to shoulder an increasing burden.

🙏 Ukrainian journalist Heorhiy Ivanchenko lost his leg in a Russian FPV drone strike. His colleague Antoni Lallican was killed. From the first days of the full-scale invasion, he worked on the front lines — documenting Russian crimes, and helping to evacuate people.

🤡 Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov stated that relations between Russia and the United States are in a state of disrepair due to the actions of the American side.

The Kremlin showed Putin's celebratory lunch with the generals yesterday. It doesn't feel festive at all. Everyone's expressions are gloomy.