Russia blamed Ukraine for the attack on an electricity substation in the Kursk city of Rylsk. “Ukrainian soldiers launched a targeted attack on an electricity substation in the Borovskoe area of Ryksk – reports governor Alexander Khinshtein, as reported by Russia’s Tass agency – The attack paralyzed two technical rooms. About 3,000 users were without electricity”.
At least that two deaths and the death toll from a drone strike attributed to Ukrainian forces that hit an industrial site in Russia’s Samara region was as high as the number of injured. The local government says so.
“Strikes with enemy drones targeted industrial plants in the Samara region – reported the region’s governor, Vyacheslav Fedorishchev, in a statement reported by the Russian agency Interfax – The enemy targeted fuel and energy supply plants. Air defense forces repelled the attacks”.
But the governor still confirmed the death of “two people in a drone crash in Syzran.” Meanwhile, Moscow’s Defense Ministry announced that “overnight” 69 Ukrainian drones were “destroyed”, 15 of them in the Samara region.
Vance: “Victory cannot be achieved with sanctions”
Meanwhile, talks to achieve peace continue, with the Trump administration at the forefront. “Any Ukraine-Russia peace plan must be acceptable to both Russia and Ukraine,” must “stop the killings while protecting Ukraine’s sovereignty,” and minimize “the chances of the conflict continuing.” The vice president of the United States, JD Vance, wrote on his account
After a telephone conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Vance criticized the approach, which he dismissed as an “illusion”, from those who thought that “victory” might be “within reach” and that the end of the war, sparked by Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine that began more than three years ago, was simply a matter of “more money, more weapons or more sanctions”. “Peace will not come if diplomats or politicians fail to live in a fantasy world – he stressed – Maybe peace will come if intelligent people live in the real world”.
