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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday said he plans to punish officials responsible for setting up ammunition depots in a town outside Kiev that were blown up in a Russian missile
Ukraine’s air force says Russia fired 169 long-range strike drones and seven missiles, including five ballistic missiles. Air defenses shot down or jammed 139 drones, and two anti-radar missiles didn’t reach their targets, it said.
Ukrainian drones hit a dozen more Russian tankers in the Sea of Azov overnight, Ukraine's military said on Thursday.
All the ballistic missiles launched by Russia struck their targets, underscoring Kyiv's need for more U.S. Patriot interceptor missiles, Ukraine officials say.
Moscow’s new dilemma is how to protect a much bigger geographic area with limited air-defense capabilities.
Ukraine's general staff said on Friday it had struck refineries, an oil terminal and a depot across Russia, as well as tankers in the Sea of Azov, as Kyiv shows no sign of easing its campaign targeting the Russian energy sector.
Russia has been using small drones flown via fibre-optic cables to bypass Ukrainian defences and damage high-voltage electricity substations in the frontline northern Ukrainian region of Sumy, open-source analysis shows.
Despite four grinding years and Ukraine now successfully smashing Russia’s energy infrastructure, Vladimir Putin has no interest in trying to end the war for one key reason, Bill Browder tells Sam Kil
