President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has called on partners to either protect Ukraine’s skies, or at least provide aircraft for defence: Poland was ready to hand them over, but the United States did not support this.
Belarusian journalist Anton Mololko has shared a video showing military vehicles on the move, possibly heading for Ukraine, including Tochka-U tactical operational missile complexes, rockets for Iskander mobile short-range hypersonic ballistic missile systems, Nona light-weight, self-propelled and air-droppable 120 mm gun systems, Strela-10 mobile, short-range surface-to-air missile systems, and armoured vehicles.
Ukraine's Armed Forces seized a Russian flagship tank in Sumy. It was intact and the flag of the Russian Federation was still hoisted over it. The tank was previously used in Russian military parades.
The United States has postponed the test launch of an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile to avoid escalating tensions following Russia's attack on Ukraine.
Ukraine has received additional weapons supplies – dozens of anti-tank guided short-range missiles (NLAW) and portable anti-aircraft missile systems (Javelin).
The commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) Valery Zaluzhny showed how a column of enemy military equipment in the Kherson Oblast was destroyed by a Byraktar.