At least 11 people were killed and 15 wounded at a military training camp in Russia’s southwestern Belgorod region when two volunteers opened fire on other troops, the Russian Defense Ministry said. The shooters were nationals of a former Soviet republic and had been shot dead after Saturday’s shooting, the ministry said, calling it a terrorist attack. Baza, a Russian news site with close ties to police, said the shooting occurred at 10 a.m. local time during firing practice.
Elon Musk has announced that his company SpaceX will continue to pay for Starlink satellite internet in Ukraine, a day after suggesting he might not be able to continue funding the project. “To hell,” the billionaire tweeted on Saturday. “Even though Starlink is still losing money and other companies are receiving billions of dollars from taxpayers, we will continue to fund the Ukrainian government for free.”
Russia has continued to try to strike Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, but Vladimir Putin’s forces do not appear to have had any significant success. However, one missile seriously damaged a key energy facility in the region around the Ukrainian capital, and 10 missiles and four drones hit locations in the southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia.
Ukrainian forces have repelled Russian attacks near 11 settlements, the Kyiv Independent reported. According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Russian forces were trying to advance near the settlements of Novosadove, Yakovlivka, Berestove, Bakhmut, Bakhmutske, Opytne, Krasnohorivka, Nevelske, Pervomaiske, Mariinka and Pobieda.
France will train up to 2,000 Ukrainian soldiers on its territory, the French armed forces minister told Le Parisien newspaper in an interview on Saturday. Sebastien Lecornu said the soldiers “would be embedded in our units for several weeks” and that France would also provide Ukraine with Crotale air defense systems, without specifying how many.
Iran has reiterated that it rejects accusations that it has supplied Russia with weapons “to be used in the war in Ukraine”, its foreign ministry said. EU foreign ministers will discuss the issue at a meeting in Luxembourg on Monday. In a statement, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian “stressed that the Islamic Republic of Iran has not provided and will not provide any weapons for use in the war in Ukraine.”
The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine has revealed the identity of the “Vinnytsia ghost” that had replaced the “Kyiv ghost”, which turned out to be propaganda. The pilot, named Vadym, has been Ukraine’s poster child for the past few weeks following multiple reports of Russian losses in Ukrainian skies.
A fuel depot in Russia’s Belgorod region, which borders Ukraine, caught fire after the bombing on Saturday, its governor said, without specifying the source of the bombing.
The Russian Foreign Ministry has confirmed the retrofitting of Belarusian Su-25 aircraft to carry nuclear weapons, according to the Belarusian Hajun project.
Ukrainian troops have launched an offensive in Kherson Oblast, according to the Kyiv Independent, while Ukraine has not confirmed.
Dane Partridge, a 34-year-old Idaho man who fought as a volunteer soldier in Ukraine, died Tuesday of injuries sustained during a Russian attack in Luhansk, AP reported.