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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U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said its forces destroyed five Iranian crude oil carriers after the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) allegedly launched two ballistic missile attacks against a U.S. Navy warship over the past two days.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) said on Wednesday they attacked two U.S. vessels and eight oil tankers in the Persian Gulf, calling the strikes a response to a U.S. attack on five Iranian tankers.
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