Russia downed 158 Ukrainian drones targeting Moscow and surrounding areas as well as the Belgorod and Kursk border regions overnight, the defence ministry said on Sunday. Amid ongoing fighting in east Ukraine, Russia said its forces had captured two more Ukrainian settlements. Read our blog to see how the day's events unfolded.
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Summary:
- At least 47 people, including five children, were injured on Sunday after Russian missiles struck a shopping mall and events complex in Kharkiv, officials said.
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Russia said that it had thwarted a "massive" Ukrainian drone attack by downing 158 drones across 15 regions, including two over the capital Moscow. Its defence ministry said most of the drones – 122 – were downed over the regions of Kursk, Bryansk, Voronezh and Belgorod, which border Ukraine. A coal-fired power plant near the city was reported hit, as was an oil refinery within the city boundaries.
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One civilian was killed and four others were injured in Russian shelling overnight on the border region of Sumy in Ukraine, the local administration said, adding that nine districts of the region were under attack.
Yesterday's key developments:
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky increased pressure on the United States to let Kyiv strike deeper into Russian territory after his representatives met senior US officials in Washington on Saturday.
- A Russian guided bomb attack on Saturday killed two people and injured 10 more including children in a village in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, the governor said.
- Ukraine was fully within its rights to launch its surprise offensive into Russia's Kursk border region as an act of self-defence, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg told German newspaper Die Welt.
(FRANCE 24 with AFP, AP & Reuters)
