Russia-Ukraine battle dwell: Three useless after Russia launches large air assault

Good morning. It’s 10:20am in Kyiv. Russia has launched a missile and drone assault, in line with Ukrainian army. Witnesses reported blasts close to Kyiv, which had been attributed to air defence responding to the assault.

A minimum of three folks had been killed, regional authorities stated. The casualties had been reported in western Lutsk, japanese Dnipro and southern Zaporizhzhia areas.

Energy and water provides had been disrupted in elements of Kyiv, the town’s mayor Vitali Klitschko stated on the Telegram messaging app.

Ukraine’s largest personal vitality producer DTEK stated it was introducing emergency energy outages following the assaults.

We’ll hold you up to date on developments. In the meantime, right here is the newest information from elsewhere within the Ukraine-Russia battle:

• Ukraine on Sunday referred to as on Belarus to tug again what it described as important ranges of Belarusian forces and gear deployed at their frequent border. The Ukrainian overseas ministry warned Belarus towards making “tragic errors” whereas beneath stress from Moscow. The ministry stated Belarus particular forces and former Wagner mercenary fighters had been among the many troops on the border.

• A British man working for the Reuters information company has been killed in a strike on a resort within the japanese Ukrainian metropolis of Kramatorsk, the information company has stated. Ryan Evans, who was working as a security adviser for the company, was killed after a missile struck the Lodge Sapphire on Saturday the place he was staying as a part of a six-person group.

• Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, stated the resort was hit by a Russian Iskander missile, a ballistic missile that may strike at distances as much as 500 km (310 miles). “An extraordinary metropolis resort was destroyed by the Russian Iskander,” he stated in his night deal with on Sunday, including the strike was “completely purposeful, thought out … my condolences to household and buddies.” Russia has been bombing lodges in frontline areas for greater than a yr.

• Ukraine’s forces superior as much as three kilometres in Russia’s Kursk area, taking management of two extra settlements there, Zelenskiy additionally stated in his night deal with.

• Russia launched assaults on northern, japanese and southern Ukraine on Sunday, killing a minimum of 4 folks and injuring 37, Ukrainian army and native authorities stated. In a single day assaults focused Ukraine’s frontline areas of Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv and Donetsk, Ukraine’s air drive stated on the Telegram messaging app. “A lot of the missiles didn’t attain their targets,” the air drive stated.

• Former US president Donald Trump signalled his assist for Ukraine in a dialog with Zelenskiy and stated he desires to cease the battle with Russia, the Ukrainian president advised Indian reporters in an interview posted on his social media channel on Sunday.