Vladimir Putin wants to expand the Russian army by 180,000 soldiers, according to reports from The Associated Press news agency. In this way, the Russian army would consist of 1.5 million soldiers. Putin already increased the number of men in the Russian army to 1.

Military-political expert of the "Information Resistance" group Oleksandr Kovalenko shared this in a comment to RBC-Ukraine, states that the increase in the size of the Russian army by dictator Vladimir Putin indicates the aggressor's problems in the war against Ukraine.

Ukraine’s drone attacks on Russian oil refineries are trying to achieve what Western sanctions couldn’t: grinding down what fuels Russia’s war machine and the backbone of its economy in an echo of the Allies' oil bombing campaign on German assets in World War II.

Ukraine's air force said on Thursday it had shot down all 42 drones and one of four missiles used by Russia during overnight attacks. Air defences went into operation in nine Ukrainian regions, the air force said in a statement on the Telegram messaging app nearly 31 months after Russia's full-scale invasion.