Early bird: Russia carried out a large-scale drone attack on Odessa, Ukrainian authorities report. American stocks are falling. The dollar has reached a three-year low.
Russia has launched new attacks on Ukrainian territory. The result is further killed and injured civilians. The main US stock indices fell after US President Donald Trump criticized Federal Reserve System Chief Jerome Powell. The dollar is at its lowest level in the last three years.
Civilian targets became the focus of new Russian attacks
Russia overnight carried out a large-scale drone attack on the Ukrainian port city of Odessa, local authorities reported. According to them, the attack injured three people and caused material damage. In total, two people died after Russian attacks on border villages in the Sumy and Kharkiv regions, the website Ceskenoviny.cz reported.
"The enemy massively attacked Odessa using attack drones. Civil infrastructure of the city, residential buildings, educational institutions, vehicles were damaged, and fires broke out,"
the head of the Odessa military administration Oleh Kiper wrote on Telegram.
US stocks are falling
US stocks plummeted on Monday after US President Donald Trump said he wanted to oust the head of the Federal Reserve System, Jerome Powell, wrote the television server CNN. The Dow index fell by 972 points, or 2.48 percent. The S&P 500 index fell by 2.36 percent. The Nasdaq Composite fell by 2.55 percent. All three major indices are at their worst values since 2022. The US dollar index, which shows the strength of the dollar against six foreign currencies, then fell by more than 1 percent to the lowest level in more than three years. Trump criticized Powell for not lowering interest rates as he expected.
White House backs Defence Minister Hegseth after another scandal
The White House expressed support for Defense Minister Pete Hegseth on Monday after reports that he shared more sensitive military details in a Signal messaging chat, reported by AP. This time, the recipients were supposed to be his wife and brother.
"The President firmly stands behind Minister Hegseth, who is doing a phenomenal job leading the Pentagon,"
The White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, made a comment about the case, and at the same time, she addressed the following statement to the media and discontented employees of the Ministry:
"And all this is happening in a situation where the whole Pentagon is working against you and is working against the monumental change that we are trying to bring about."
Salvadoran President Bukele proposes prisoner exchange with Maduro
Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele proposed a prisoner exchange with Venezuela, in which he would swap Venezuelans deported from the United States, whom his government holds in prison, for political prisoners detained by the regime of dictator Nicolas Maduro. In a post on the X social media platform, Bukele listed a number of family members of high-ranking opposition leaders in Venezuela, journalists, and activists, who were detained during last year’s intervention by the Venezuelan government, reported by the AP agency. Among them are, for example, the son-in-law of former Venezuelan presidential candidate Edmundo González and the mother of opposition leader María Corina Machado.
Sources: Ceskenoviny.cz, AP, CNN
