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.

Russia targeted Ukrainian energy facilities and struck civilian infrastructure in overnight attacks, Ukrainian officials said on Thursday, and a U.N. monitoring body said Moscow's strikes on the power grid probably violated humanitarian law.

A Ukrainian drone strike launched at an arms depot in Russia's Tver region caused a massive explosion picked up by NASA space satellites. (Video Credit: East2West News./ Still photo: Reuters.)