“Russia is the greatest threat to Europe’s security. The EU must be ready for any eventuality by having enough military equipment in our depots and enough military personnel ready for mobilization.” He emphasized this in an interview with a group of international agencies including ANSA, Andrius Kubilius, former Lithuanian Prime Minister and Commissioner-designate for Defense.
«I will be a big supporter of the Defence Bond option. After all, von der Leyen said that over 500 billion are needed for European defense, and I agree», explained Kubilius.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian naval forces have struck several Russian ammunition depots near Mariupol. Ukrinform reports this, citing the Ukrainian Navy on Facebook. “The other day, units of the naval forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine launched a missile attack on significant ammunition depots identified by intelligence near the temporarily occupied Mariupol,” the post reads. The attack – writes Ukrinform – destroyed the depots and tons of ammunition that the Russians were stockpiling for use against Ukraine.
Ukrainian troops reportedly broke through Russian defenses a few days ago, penetrating into the already invaded Kursk region from another pointseveral kilometers west of the previous bridgehead, and from there they could encircle the Russian troops engaged in the counteroffensive: this was announced by the unit of the Khorne Group of the 116th separate mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, quoted by Rbc Ukraina, which claims to have attacked the town of Vesele, in the district of Glushkiv, reporting a new breakthrough «last week». The analysis portal DeepState quantifies the new Russian area invaded at about 40 square kilometers.
«Ukrainian defense forces have apparently broken through a new section of the Russian border in the Kursk region. This time to the west of the territories under control in the direction of the settlement of Vesele, in the Glushkiv district,” RBC reports. The men of the “Khorne Group of the 116th separate mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine” came into contact with “a group of Russian police officers numbering more than a thousand people under threat of encirclement.” A jet, RBC writes, dropped a bomb on an unspecified building in the center of Vasele, RBC writes. The Ukrainian site then quotes Forbes, according to which “what initially seemed like a short and superficial breakthrough has turned into something much more dangerous for Russian control in the Kursk region. Ukrainian tanks, Forbes says, entered Vasele already on Saturday. Vesele, the Ukrainian news site notes, “is in the rear of the Russian group, which has been advancing since last week in the direction of Snagosti and the Ukrainian bridgehead in the Kursk region. From Vesely to Hlushkovo, where the Russian army’s pontoons are located, the road is about 7.5 km. “According to DeepState co-founder Roman Pohorily, quoted by Rbc-Ukraine, “the fighting continues, including in new sectors. The enemy is trying to storm the western flank of the bridgehead controlled by the Ukrainian Armed Forces and there were ‘some unfavorable moments’, but the situation is dynamic, positions are changing from hand to hand.” “After the last update, everyone could see the ‘gray zone’ (…) the Russians are surrounded (…) Our military are fighting with them, the picture is very interesting, but it is too early to draw any conclusions. Everything is changing so rapidly that it is enough to process the information,” Pohorily noted in a commentary on the YouTube channel of Rbc-Ukraine.