Ukraine has attacked another warehouse belonging to Russian online retailer Wildberries in a huge overnight air attack including more than 800 drones, Russian authorities have said.
The Russian Defence Ministry said it had destroyed 822 drones overnight, with 600 directed towards the capital. Moscow does not confirm the total number of drones fired by Kyiv in its daily updates.
The Wildberries site in Podolk, in the Moscow region, is reportedly the largest owned by the retailer. Images show the vast warehouse completely destroyed, as Kyiv continues its campaign against the so-called 'Russian Amazon' which aims to "bring home the war" to ordinary Russians.
Moscow region Governor Andrei Vorobyov said an 83-year-old man had been killed, in the drone attack on Moscow.
In Kyiv, at least three people were injured in missile and drone attacks early on Sunday, mayor Vitali Klitschko said.
The attacks come after Ukraine used flamingo missiles to strike a Russian rocket and space centre in Samara that it says supports Russia's nascent Starlink-style satellite internet network, president Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday.
Why Putin is testing Japan's limits with visit to contested Pacific islands
For a few hours last week, the volcanic island of Iturup became the stage for a confrontation that had been decades in the making.
Vladimir Putin, accompanied by the governor of the Sakhalin region, toured a fish-processing complex, a hospital and a school on the island. For Russia, it was a routine presidential visit to a remote territory. For neighbouring Japan, its symbolism was hard to miss.
Japan, after all, claims the island, which it calls Etorofu, as part of its "Northern Territories".
Prime minister Sanae Takaichi described Putin's visit to the island as "absolutely unacceptable" while foreign minister Toshimitsu Motegi summoned Russia's ambassador to protest.
Putin's visit wasn't simply a territorial dispute being replayed. It was a statement about the changing security order around Japan.
Russia says it has taken two villages in eastern Ukraine
We've just heard from Russia's Defence Ministry which said on Sunday that its forces have taken the village of Pershomarivka in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region.
The ministry said that Moscow's forces have also seized Kudiivka in the northeastern Kharkiv region, state news agency TASS reported.
Ukraine strikes missile factory in Rostov region, Kyiv says
Ukraine has struck a missile fuel production facility in Russia's Rostov region overnight, Kyiv's military said.
"The company...manufactures solid rocket propellant for multiple launch rocket systems, as well as for a range of missile systems and airborne weapons," the military said on Telegram.
Kim Jong Un reaffirms deepening ties with Putin
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un reaffirmed deepening ties with Russia in a message to Russian president Vladimir Putin on the anniversary of Pyongyang's liberation from Japanese colonial rule.
Earlier, Putin said the bond between Moscow and Pyongyang was forged as Soviet soldiers "fought against Japan", and that cooperation would continue "in all the sectors".
Kim expressed hope for the future of the ties between the two countries that had "carried forward the history of common struggle for justice and precious traditions of friendship", KNCA reported.
North Korea's ties with Russia have deepened after Pyongyang began deploying troops and weapons to support Russia's war against Ukraine.
Poland's army will soon be 'largest in Europe', Tusk says
Polish president Donald Tusk said the country's army will soon be the "largest in Europe" as Warsaw celebrated Army Day yesterday.
"Our army, our armed forces, will soon be the largest in Europe," Tusk said during a speech at a naval parade in Gdynia that featured a record-breaking 300 armoured vehicles and approximately 2,000 soldiers.
"We can already say that we are building a force that will determine the fate of the region with its modernity and sheer numbers, and the entire world appreciates this, especially our allies," he said.
Russia warns of 'serious damage' to relations with US and Turkey
Russia conveyed its concern to the US and Turkey over their upcoming transfer of arms to Ukraine, saying the shipment could cause "serious damage" to relations with the two countries.
Delivering the weapons would cause "serious damage to our bilateral relations with Washington and Ankara", Russian foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said.
"Attempts to use peace-promoting rhetoric while simultaneously supplying weapons to (Ukraine) inevitably erode mutual trust, especially against the backdrop of repeated assurances by Turkish officials that Turkey is avoiding 'lethal' deliveries to Kyiv."
Kyiv launches more than 800 drones at Russia in massive aerial assault
Ukraine has fired more than 800 drones at Russia, killing at least six, Russian authorities have said.
In what is one of Kyiv's largest aerial assaults of the war, the Russian Defence Ministry said it had destroyed 822 drones overnight, with 600 directed towards the capital.
Moscow does not confirm the total number of drones fired by Kyiv in its daily updates.
Moscow region Governor Andrei Vorobyov said an 83-year-old man had been killed, with several more injured in Podolsk, where he said a warehouse belonging to online retailer Wildberries was struck.
In Kyiv, at least three people were injured in missile and drone attacks early on Sunday, mayor Vitali Klitschko said.
