🚩President Erdogan is slated to travel to Kazakhstan today, where he will meet with Putin. A Kremlin source said he is set to formally offer to mediate talks between #Ukraine and #Russia to end the conflict.
#Turkey has been making new calls for diplomacy recently. Other Middle East countries (the UAE amongst others) have also pushed for diplomacy.
I doubt Ankara would do so unless they received some form of unofficial signal from #Russia that it is interested in talks.
#Breaking Polish pipeline operator Pern says it detected a leak in the Druzba oil pipeline. It says the cause of the incident is unknown at this time and the damaged pipeline was shut down.
The leak was detected in one of the two main lines. The other is working properly.
The incident was detected around 70 km from Plock, northwest of Warsaw
Is it me or has something changed in Russian media? They are reporting all of the many strikes against cities in Ukraine and damage to infrastructure, quoting Ukrainian authorities. Seems like they don't care to hide that they are deliberately hitting civilian targets
Here is TASS's feed for instance (automatically translated)
On the military level, these strikes have zero impact. They won't reverse military setbacks, they won't change the military dynamic.
Four explosions were heard in Kyiv according to Ukrainian media, as air defenses were activated above the city #Ukraine
This is part of a broader attack, also hitting Dnipro , with reports that missiles have been launched at Odesa moments ago
Some of the weapons used appear to be cruise missiles launched by Russian strategic bombers (Tu-95). There are also unconfirmed claim that Iranian drones have been used.