A Russian airstrike inflicted on the Ukrainian city of Pavlograd on Sunday evening hit a rocket fuel depot, the GeoConfirmed OSINT project reported. An explosion at this warehouse could lead to an environmental disaster in five regions of Ukraine, wrote Current Time and the BBC Ukrainian Service in 2020. Details. OSINT analysts have identified the site of the Russian strike as a warehouse at the Pavlograd chemical plant, which stores old rocket fuel.

Oppositionist Ilya Ponomarev was unable to attend the opposition congress held this weekend in Berlin with the support of Mikhail Khodorkovsky. The organizers explained this by lack of time and unwillingness to change the composition of the participants at the last moment, and the politician himself - by an attempt by the forum organizers to avoid conflict among the congress participants. Details.

Finland and the United States have held talks on concluding an agreement between the countries on bilateral cooperation in the field of defense, the Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat reported, citing Deputy Defense Minister Mikael Antell. The document will allow the deployment of American troops and equipment on Finnish soil, that is, it will actually allow the creation of an American military base. Details. The talks took place last week in Helsinki.

Russia failed to destroy the Ukrainian military industry, Kyiv can still produce its own shells, missiles and drones, writes The Wall Street Journal. Vladimir Putin said that the Ukrainian defense industry has “zeroed out” or “is rapidly moving towards it.” Details. As the WSJ writes, the capacities of Ukrainian enterprises allow replenishing stocks of ammunition for Soviet-style weapons and repairing such equipment.

On Monday, a train with oil products and building materials derailed in the Bryansk region. This is one of the most significant sabotage on the railways since the beginning of the war and the first time since February 24, 2022, when the authorities attributed the train crash to a detonated explosive device. At the same time, power lines were blown up in the Leningrad region. Details.

The State Council of Tatarstan submitted to the State Duma a draft law obliging state employees to work for three years after graduation. The explanatory note says that the adoption of such a law will provide personnel for enterprises of the military-industrial complex. Details. According to the document, students are offered to be accepted on the budget, subject to the conclusion of an agreement on the further employment of a graduate for three years in their specialty.

For the second time in a week, Russia launched a massive missile attack on Ukrainian regions far from the front. Regular shelling resumed ahead of an expected Ukrainian counteroffensive. Details. On Monday night, 18 X-101/X-555 cruise missiles were fired across Ukraine, 15 of them were shot down, according to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The Kyiv administration said air defense forces shot down all Russian missiles and drones over the Ukrainian capital at night.