As the siege of Bakhmut continues, the Ukrainian armed forces said they had fired at the border village of Iskra , which was left without electricity because "energy supply structures" in Khomutiv district were damaged.
This was announced by the governor of the Kursk region of Russia, Roman Starovoitt. «The Armed Forces of Ukraine are shelling the border area in Khomutiv district. The energy supply structures were damaged, as a result of which the village of Iskra was isolated,” he said.
During the night, Kiev's forces allegedly shot down 13 Shahed-136 kamikaze drones out of a total of 15 launched from Moscow : these were Iranian-made drones.
SCHOLZ WARNS CHINA – Meanwhile, Olaf Scholz issued a warning to Beijing in an interview with CNN: there will be "consequences" if China were to send arms to Russia . However, the German chancellor said he was quite optimistic about the fact that Beijing would refrain from doing so: «I think it would have consequences, but we are now in a phase where we are making it clear that this must not happen and I am relatively optimistic that we will be successful with our request, but we will have to verify.
(Unioneonline/F)
