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Day 490 of the invasion of Ukraine. Summary of key events in the last 24 hours:

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday accused Ukraine and its Western allies of wanting Russians to "kill each other" during a revolt by mercenaries of the Wagner group, which stunned the country with an aborted march on Moscow over the weekend.

However, the Institute for the Study of War introduced two new names in the foreground - the head of the office of the Russian president, Anton Vain, and the Russian ambassador to Belarus, Boris Gryzlov.

Day 485 of the invasion of Ukraine. Summary of key events in the last 24 hours:

Last night, during a speech at a ceremony marking the end of military training in the Kremlin, he warned that "the special operation in Ukraine gave the Russian army invaluable experience." "Satan II", originally named "Sarmat", can carry up to 16 nuclear warheads and has a range of 18,000 km.

The long-announced Ukrainian counter-offensive has been underway for several days, and the US, Great Britain, Denmark and the Netherlands are sending hundreds of missiles to Ukraine. At the same time, NATO defense ministers are discussing in Brussels the continuation of the support that the allies have been providing to Ukraine for months.

The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, confirmed that the counter-offensive of the Ukrainian army has begun.
More than 23,000 homes in 20 settlements in the Kherson region were flooded after the collapse of the Nova Kakhovka dam, the spokesperson of the regional emergency services announced.

Day 474 of the invasion of Ukraine. Summary of key events in the last 24 hours:

After the unexpected success of the opposition march last Sunday in Warsaw, which put a record half a million people on the streets of the capital according to the organisers, democratic political parties seeking to defeat PiS in the general election are feeling emboldened.

Ukraine on Tuesday accused Russian forces of blowing up a major dam and hydroelectric power station in a part of southern Ukraine they control, threatening a massive flood that could displace hundreds of thousands of people, and ordered residents downriver to evacuate.