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- According to Politico, Northern Europe and the Baltic states are developing an alternative funding plan for Ukraine in case Hungary and Slovakia continue to block the allocation of a €90 billion loan from the European Union. Anonymous sources among European diplomats report that possible €30 billion could be allocated in the form of bilateral loans, which would exclude the need for agreement with all EU countries.
- As a result of a drone strike on a police department in Shostka, Sumy region, more than 40 people were injured. This was reported by Ukraine's Interior Minister Igor Klymenko, who emphasized that the police building was destroyed.
- Nikopol and nearby villages were attacked by Russian troops on Wednesday, resulting in the death of an 81-year-old woman and injuries to a 43-year-old man, as reported by the head of the regional military administration, Alexander Ganja.
- A strike was also carried out in Zaporizhzhia on a multi-story building, resulting in injuries to 11 people, including one child, as reported by the head of the regional military administration, Ivan Fedorov.
- The governor of the Kursk region, Alexander Khinshtein, reported the death of a citizen of Saint Kitts and Nevis as a result of a drone strike.
- A Hungarian delegation plans to negotiate in Ukraine regarding the resumption of the operation of the "Druzhba" oil pipeline and its condition. The spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Georgiy Tikhiy, clarified that the group of Hungarian citizens sent for negotiations does not have the status of a delegation. Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto accused Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky of lying after Kyiv refused to recognize the visit of the Hungarian group as official.
- The number of casualties from the missile strike in Bryansk on Tuesday has risen to seven, confirmed the governor of Bryansk region, Alexander Bogomaz.
- Kremlin representative Dmitry Peskov stated that the shelling of Bryansk by British Storm Shadow missiles would have been impossible without the involvement of specialists from the United Kingdom.
- In Essen, Germany, a regional court sentenced a 16-year-old Ukrainian citizen to 10 years in prison for the murder of a neighbor at a refugee shelter and her daughter.
