Russia is open to listening to new proposals on how to reach a settlement on the Ukraine conflict, a senior Russian diplomat said, but any proposals should reflect the "realities on the ground".
At least 15 people were killed and more than 130 wounded when Russian drones struck a shopping centre in Kryvyi Rih, Ukrainian authorities said.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called the attack an "act of barbarism" and said Ukraine would "definitely respond".
Separately, four people, including three children, were killed in a Russian drone strike in Ukraine's Mykolaiv region.
At least four people, including three children, were killed and a woman was wounded in a Russian drone strike in Ukraine's Mykolaiv region, Ukrainian state media reported on Friday.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukraine would "definitely respond" to a Russian drone attack on a shopping centre.
A Russian drone strike killed four people, including three children, in Tokarivka in Ukraine's Mykolaiv region, Ukrainian state media reported.
The death toll from a Russian strike on the Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih has risen to 14, state media reported.
Colonel-General Denis Lyamin has formally assumed command of Russia’s newly established Unmanned Systems Forces, the Defence Ministry said on Friday.
President Vladimir Putin appointed Lyamin to lead the branch on August 5. Defence Minister Andrei Belousov has now signed the order formally installing him in the post.
At least five people were killed and 52 wounded on Friday when Russian drones attacked a shopping centre in the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih, local authorities said.
Six children were among the wounded in the daytime attack on President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's hometown, regional governor Oleksandr Hanzha said on the Telegram messaging app.
He posted a photo of black smoke billowing from a large industrial building.
The number of wounded was likely to rise, said Mayor Oleksandr Vilkul, who added the shopping centre had been attacked more than once with a jet-powered drone.
Finland's foreign affairs ministry said on Friday it has summoned Russia's ambassador and requested an explanation for a Russian reconnaissance plane that is suspected of violating Finnish airspace on Thursday.
Two people were killed and eight others injured in overnight Russian strikes on Ukraine’s Kharkiv and Sumy regions, local authorities said.
In Sumy region, six people were injured, including a 16-year-old girl, Governor Oleh Hryhorov said.
Separately, Ukraine’s General Staff claimed Russia launched 135 drones overnight, 107 of which were suppressed in northern, southern and eastern parts of the country.
Russia's Defence Ministry said on Friday that its forces had captured the village of Zelene, in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region, state news agency TASS reported.
Russia attacked 52 civilian vessels in July and the first half of August, Ukraine's infrastructure ministry said on Friday.
These included vessels transporting food and other cargo to or from Ukrainian ports, as well as vessels that already were in the ports, the ministry said on the Telegram messaging app.
Russian authorities arrested eight people for planning an attack on an enterprise in the Moscow region and separately detained one foreign national for scouting out government buildings and strategic infrastructure, state news agencies reported on Friday.
The TASS state news agency said eight people were alleged to have used 35 drones equipped with explosives smuggled from the European Union to attack a strategic defence enterprise in the Moscow region.
Separately, the RIA state news agency said a foreign national from an unspecified country was detained in the northwest Murmansk region, where he was planning to cross the border into Norway.
Russian attacks have damaged or destroyed more than 300 gas filling stations in Ukraine in the past six months, Energy Minister Denys Shmyhal said on Friday.
"These are, of course, significant losses for our economy," Shmyhal said in Ukraine's parliament.
Petrol was available at fewer than three in 10 Russian filling stations on Wednesday, highlighting a worsening second wave of fuel shortages.
The Gdebenz monitoring app put nationwide availability at 28 per cent, down from 41 per cent a week earlier, with queues reportedly forming at Moscow petrol stations for the first time.
Problems have been reported in several regions, including Volgograd, Chelyabinsk, Orenburg, Voronezh, Samara, Saratov, Rostov and Tatarstan, while officials in at least eight regions have acknowledged supply disruptions.
Analysts have attributed the shortages to Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian refineries and unplanned maintenance.
Ukraine's military hit a Russian oil refinery in the city of Perm overnight, more than 1,600 km (1,000 miles) from the Ukrainian border, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Friday.
Zelenskyy also reported a strike on the Marinovka military air base in the Volgograd region.
Russian drones damaged a border crossing with Moldova in Ukraine's southern region of Odesa overnight, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine said.
Passenger and vehicle traffic was halted through the Tabaky checkpoint and is being diverted to other crossings, the service said on the Telegram messaging app.
The Moldovan side has been informed of the situation, it added.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said in an interview with the media outlet News.ru, published on Friday, that the United States demonstrated a readiness for "constructive dialogue" and an "understanding of Russia's position".
"At this stage, it is more important to what extent Washington can influence the decisions of the Kyiv regime and its European sponsors, who still dream of a 'strategic defeat' of Russia," he told the outlet.
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Russia is willing in principle to resume peace talks with Ukraine and the United States in November, Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said after President Vladimir Putin met U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff in St Petersburg.
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Yemen's Houthis have denied targeting the holy city of Medina on Wednesday adding that they have not conducted any military operations towards Saudi Arabia either, denying earlier comments from the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen.
Georgia’s Constitutional Court in Batumi will on Wednesday hear a lawsuit seeking to ban five Georgian opposition parties, four of which collectively gained 784,820 votes (37.79 per cent) in the country’s last national elections in 2024.
Russian strikes on Ukraine overnight killed at least two people and injured 15 others, including two children, Ukrainian authorities said. Meanwhile, Russia said it had intercepted the vast majority of 630 Ukrainian drones launched towards Moscow.
Nigeria's first Ebola case in more than a decade may be linked to travel in Uganda, Swiss authorities said on Thursday, although the source of infection remains unclear. Uganda maintains it has no cases of the disease.
Super typhoon Champi is set to batter Japan’s Okinawa Prefecture from Friday (23 October), bringing violent winds, torrential rain and waves up to 11 metres high, as airlines cancel flights and organisers scrap a major festival.
Two women from Austria and Switzerland have been freed after lengthy periods in captivity in Niger, following extensive diplomatic efforts to secure their release amid growing concerns over kidnappings in the Sahel region.
France has reported its first known human case of Shamonda virus following the death of an infected patient, authorities said on Thursday (22 October). The virus, typically found in livestock, is believed to have been transmitted by a biting midge.
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