Ukraine carried out drone strikes on several Russian regions overnight, striking a high-rise building in Tver and killing one person, as well as hitting an oil facility in Usmany.
Meanwhile, Russia launched a total of 61 drones against Ukraine, of which air defenses neutralized 53, reports Portfolio.
According to the Russian Defense Ministry, a total of 129 Ukrainian drones were shot down over various regions of Russia on Tuesday night.
According to the Kyiv Independent, the center of the Penza region was also hit by a drone attack. Explosions were also heard in Sterlitamak and Bashkortostan, but it is not yet known what the target was.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on Monday that Vasyl Malyuk, head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), had resigned. Malyuk, however, will remain in the service and focus on asymmetric warfare against Russia in the future.
Zelensky arrived in Paris for a meeting of the “Coalition of the Willing,” to be led by French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer. The United States will be represented by Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner.
According to a report by Ukrainian foreign intelligence, rural depopulation has accelerated in Russia. Last year alone, 266 settlements were officially abolished, and most of them were already completely uninhabited, RBC-Ukraine reports.
“Outside of a few large agglomerations, Russia is showing systemic decline: depopulation, the disappearance of villages, and the development gap continue to grow, while high-profile programs remain mere paper decorations in the face of the reality of rapid depletion,” the report reads.
Most of the villages that have now ceased to exist were once in the Novgorod and Kostroma regions, which account for three-quarters of all abolished settlements.
In third place is the Perm border region, where the authorities are not only registering the extinction of villages, but are also deliberately relocating the population of small, remote settlements. Some small villages are also being merged into larger ones to compensate for infrastructural deficiencies.
