A team from Latvia’s public broadcaster LSM – journalist Odita Krenberga and cameraman Aigars Kovalevskis – came under a Russian drone attack while working in a combat zone in Ukraine near the front line.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that important international events focused on defense and security will take place in the coming days.

The crew of a Ukrainian Mi-24 helicopter was killed while carrying out a combat mission.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko have approved new support programs for citizens and territorial communities to help them cope with electricity shortages.

Fighters of the State Border Guard Service’s Hart border brigade have thwarted an attempt by Russian invaders to break through the state border in the Southern Slobozhanshchyna sector, destroying five vehicles and three communications antennas with drones.

Polish volunteers have delivered 15 industrial generators to Kyiv, which utility companies will install to ensure electricity supply for residential buildings and heating points.

Ukrainian Defense Forces are holding the line and inflicting significant losses on Russian troops in the Kramatorsk sector of the front, while the situation remains difficult in the Orikhovo-Vasylivka area.

Russian forces attacked the Synelnykove, Nikopol, Dnipro, and Kryvyi Rih districts of the Dnipropetrovsk region throughout the day with missiles, drones, and artillery, leaving three people injured.

Heating has been restored in the Troieshchyna district of Kyiv, while work continues to thaw individual risers and address local emergencies.

BBC News Persian Forensic has been able to confirm the security forces’ deployment of a wide array of lethal and non-lethal weaponry.