The Ukrainian military said they encountered Russian soldiers riding horses near the front line. On Monday, Ukraine's 92nd Separate Assault Brigade posted a video on Telegram that appears to show Russian soldiers traveling on horseback or mules being struck by small drones.
"The Russian occupiers are losing their equipment so quickly in their 'meat assaults,'" Ukraine's term for direct attacks with little chance of survival, "that they are being forced to move on horses," the brigade wrote in the post.
Both sides of the conflict heavily rely on drones to monitor the battlefield. This makes undetected movement nearly impossible and severely limits the use of armored vehicles.
Consequently, Russian forces have increasingly relied on small assault groups to advance quickly toward Ukrainian positions and attempt to establish a foothold.
Previous videos have shown Russian troops using off-road motorcycles, quad bikes, electric bicycles, and electric scooters for transportation.
A Russian general was killed in a car bombing in southern Moscow on Monday, Russia's federal investigators said.
Fanil Sarvarov, head of the Operational Training Directorate of the Russian Armed Forces' General Staff, died from his injuries.
"Investigators are pursuing numerous lines of inquiry regarding the murder. One of these is that the crime was orchestrated by Ukrainian intelligence services," Svetlana Petrenko, spokesperson for Russia's Investigative Committee, said.
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The European Commission announced that Ukraine received an additional €2.3 billion ($2.7 billion) from the European Union to support its finances and public administration.
Since Russia's attack on Ukraine in February 2022, the EU and its member states have pledged hundreds of billions of euros in assistance to the war-torn country, including military aid, financial support, and aid for Ukrainian refugees.
One of the EU's main funding instruments is the Ukraine Facility. It has a total budget of €50 billion. According to the Commission, the Facility is designed to support Ukraine's recovery, reforms, and path toward EU membership.
Additionally, the EU is providing approximately €18.1 billion through the Extraordinary Revenue Acceleration (ERA) loans initiative, a G7 effort to support Ukraine financially. This funding is generated from the interest earned on frozen Russian state assets held within the EU.
Russian state media on Monday quoted the country's deputy foreign minister citing "slow progress" in staggered negotiations held between US, Russian and Ukrainian representatives in US-led talks to end Russia's ongoing nearly four-year invasion of its neighbor.
US President Donald Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner have hosted both Russian and Ukrainian negotiators as the two try to push Ukraine into ceding land to Moscow in order to stop Moscow's unprovoked invasion — which Russian President Vladimir Putin commenced on February 24, 2022 — and bring an end to the war.
The US has at times sidelined Ukraine's European allies, whom Moscow claims are only interested in prolonging the war.
US and Ukrainian representatives said their talks focussed on security guarantees for Kyiv.
In identical posts on X, Witkoff and lead Ukrainian negotiator Rustem Umerov said; "Over the last three days in Florida, the Ukrainian delegation held a series of productive and constructive meetings with American and European partners. Ukraine remains fully committed to achieving a just and sustainable peace."
Putin advisor Kirill Dmitriev, who represented Russia in Miami, described talks as "constructive," according to Russia's state news agency TASS, to which Witkoff posted that "Russia remains fully committed to achieving peace in Ukraine."
Today, we will discuss the latest updates from Ukraine, including the progress of the US-led peace talks in Miami.
In an attempt to end Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which has lasted nearly four years, the Trump administration's international negotiators, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, met separately with Ukrainian and Russian representatives.
Elsewhere, a car bomb killed a leading Russian general in Moscow Monday morning and Ukrainian drone operators report having attacked Russian soldiers traveling on horseback.
Stay tuned for these stories and more.