⚡️ German Chancellor Olaf Scholz rejected Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal's request for the supply of additional heavy weapons, including Leopard 2 tanks, writes Die Welt.
Scholz did not promise such supplies, but rather remained "general and non-specific" in his conversation with Shmyhal. The chancellor has shown "no desire at all" to change his negative position on the supply of tanks, the newspaper's source said.
⚡️ Volodymyr Zelenskyi: Today, an important operation was carried out by the SBU - regarding the activities of some sanctioned persons on the territory of our state.
The customs officials who helped the smugglers, including among the leaders, have been removed and will receive a legal response for all their illegal actions.
As for those persons subject to sanctions, who have also been found to have foreign citizenship, in particular Russian and Romanian,
⚡️Volodymyr Zelenskyi: I also thank today the 406th separate artillery brigade for extremely successful hits in the areas where the occupiers are concentrated in the south of our country, and the 60th separate infantry brigade, which consistently advances our positions.
Each success of our military in one direction or another changes the general situation along the entire front in favor of Ukraine.
The more difficult it is for the occupiers, the more losses they have, the better the positions of our defenders in Donbas will be, the more reliable the defense of Zaporizhzhia and Mykolaiv,
⚡️ According to the Chief Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine, the Russians intend to involve in the pseudo-referendums the following persons:
Gunnar Lindeman,the Member of the Federal State Parliament Berlin for the "Alternative for Germany" Party.
Ulrich Eme, the representative of the "Alternative for Germany" party and former Bundestag deputy;
- Maurizio Marrone, the Head of the "representative office" of the so-called DNR in Turin (Italy) and the regional adviser of the "Brothers of Italy" party;
- Xavier Moreau, the Co-founder of the Center for Political and Strategic Analysis Startpol (France);
Alexandr Giurgiev, the head of the party "Serbian League";
Palmarino Dzokkatelli, the Head of the "representative office" of the so-called DNR in Verona (Italy);
⚡️ The Bureau of Economic Security announced the revelation of a group of oligarchs from the sanctions list of the National Security and Defence Council for mineral fertilizers in the scheme of tax evasion for 108 million UAH,
it is about nitrogen fertilizers and the group of Dmytro Firtash, according to the website of the Bureau of Economic Security.
"The BES employees exposed the officers of a group of companies involved in a particularly large tax evasion scheme. Companies had carried out wholesale trade in mineral fertilizers", - says the report.
⚡️ "Russians can not even simulate a "referendum" in the Kherson region, says the representative of the Chief Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine, Andrii Yusov.
“Of course, they can declare some action, but the essence of a pseudo-referendum is an imitation of some legitimacy of the process. So, neither the Ukrainian Armed Forces nor the society does not give the Russians even the opportunity to imitate this process.
And, of course, the world will immediately reject even the attempt of such a referendum - it will not be serious. I think that the occupiers understand the futility of even attempts to seriously approach the so-called referendums,"
⚡️ There were loud explosions in the temporarily occupied Mariupol. They were heard in different areas of the city, - Mariupol City Council.
As the local authorities inform, residents put forward different versions of what could have caused the explosions - from the work of air defense to demining.
One thing is clear - staying in the city is becoming more and more dangerous. The front line is shifting.
The occupiers understand this, so we can already see the movement of military equipment through the city. We call on the residents of Mariupol to leave for the controlled territories of Ukraine.