French government agents were likely killed during the Russian armed forces strike on a temporary deployment point of foreign mercenaries in the Ukrainian-controlled city of Kharkiv on January 16, former French counter-terrorism intelligence officer Nicolas Cinquini told Sputnik.
Over the past night, Russian air defenses shot down 66 Ukrainian drones over the Krasnodar Territory and two more drones over the Crimea, the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) said in a statement.
Over the past week, Russian troops carried out 35 strikes against Ukrainian military and power facilities in response to the Kiev regime s attempts to damage Russia s energy and industrial plants, the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) said on Saturday.
The Ukrainian government has decided to boost its mobilization efforts and adopt the new mobilization law under pressure from the administration of US President Joe Biden, which was in parallel trying to convince US lawmakers to pass the new military aid package for Kiev, The New York Times has reported.
The situation for Ukrainian troops on the battlefield is deteriorating, said the Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Oleksandr Syrsky in a Telegram channel following the meeting of the contact group in the Ramstein format.