Ukrainian forces struck a Russian oil refinery in Siberia and a seaport in Dagestan in the past 24 hours, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. He will meet Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Thursday to discuss air defences for Ukraine over winter.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has arrived in New Delhi to attend the BRICS Summit, hosted by India, as member states seek to strengthen the bloc's international influence and expand cooperation on economic and geopolitical issues.
The summit is expected to focus on global governance, trade, development and coordination among BRICS nations, as the grouping continues efforts to increase its role in an evolving multipolar world.
A large Russian attack on the southeastern Ukrainian city of Pavlohrad killed seven people and wounded 76 others, including children, Ukrainian officials said. The assault targeted multiple districts of the city, a key logistics hub.
Separately, Russian strikes hit a petrol station in Kyiv and an agribusiness facility in Dnipro, as Moscow intensifies attacks on Ukraine's economic and transport infrastructure.
Russia’s Defence Ministry said its forces struck a cargo vessel carrying what it described as military cargo at Ukraine’s Chornomorsk port. Reuters could not independently verify the claim..
One person was killed and six others were wounded in Ukrainian drone attacks on Russia’s Belgorod region, regional authorities said.
Canada has agreed to provide Ukraine with a “very important package of air defence”, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Thursday ahead of a meeting with Prime Minister Mark Carney in Calgary.
He did not provide further details.
A Russian drone attack on Pavlohrad killed at least three people and wounded 34, including a child, local authorities said.
Russian attacks on businesses and civilian infrastructure across Ukraine are growing rapidly, Prime Minister Sergii Koretskyi said on Thursday, announcing additional support measures for enterprises.
Over the past 24 hours, our forces have struck eight Russian infrastructure facilities supporting the war effort. Targets included an oil refinery in the Yamalo-Nenets region and a seaport in Dagestan, as well as facilities in the Moscow, Voronezh, Astrakhan and Bryansk regions.
Russia continues its daily terror against Ukraine, and every day it receives a response. I thank every soldier and everyone contributing to our long-range capabilities and precision strike operations.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping are set to hold in-depth talks on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in November, according to the Kremlin.
However, no separate meeting between the two leaders is planned during this weekend’s BRICS+ summit, Russian state media reported.
The Kremlin said on Thursday that Latvia would lose out from its plan to impose a 300% tariff on grain arriving from Russia and Belarus.
Asked to comment on the plan, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters Russia would be able to find alternative export routes.
Two Azerbaijani sailors were killed and two others injured after a Somali-flagged cargo vessel carrying Azerbaijani crew members was hit by drones in the Black Sea. Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry identified the victims as Aslan Aliyev and Asim Gasimov, saying the injured crew members are receiving treatment in Ukraine.
The TEDY vessel was reportedly attacked several times while travelling near Odesa and heading towards Romania’s Constanța port. The ministry did not identify those responsible but said it was coordinating with relevant authorities.
The incident comes amid growing risks for commercial shipping as Russia and Ukraine continue drone strikes in and around the Black Sea. Earlier this year, five Azerbaijani crew members were also killed in a drone attack on cargo ships in the Sea of Azov.
The Kremlin, asked about a potential moratorium on attacks on ships in the Black Sea, said on Thursday that its armed forces would continue to destroy vessels carrying ammunition for the Ukrainian army.
Both Ukraine and Russia have stepped up attacks in recent weeks against commercial ships, sending world grain prices higher. Russia has previously rejected the idea of a ceasefire in the Black Sea as a “half-measure”.
Britain is aware of the detention of an ex-embassy security guard in Moscow and is working to establish the facts of the incident, a UK Foreign Office spokesperson told Russian state news agency TASS.
Earlier, Russia's FSB internal security agency said that it had detained a former guard at the British Embassy in Moscow who collected personal data on British diplomats, alleging that he had been working for Ukrainian intelligence.
Bone fragments from the sword hand of a medieval Russian prince who won a famous victory over the Mongols have been sent to the front in Ukraine to raise army morale in the Russian Orthodox Church's latest show of support for President Vladimir Putin's war.
The sarcophagus of Grand Prince Dmitry Donskoy, who died in 1389 and is revered by Russian nationalists for defeating the Mongol Golden Horde at the 1380 Battle of Kulikovo, was uncovered this summer during restoration work at Moscow's Cathedral of the Archangel inside the Kremlin.
Putin personally inspected what experts said were the prince's well-preserved remains in August, hailing them as “an absolutely unique and marvellous discovery,” which reinforced the foundations of Russian history.
Russian attacks on Ukraine's southeastern city of Dnipro hit a business owned by global agribusiness and food company Bunge, Mayor Borys Filatov has said.
Regional Governor Oleksandr Hanzha said earlier that two people had been killed and five injured in strikes that damaged a food business in the city.
One of Russia's largest oil refineries stopped operations following a drone strike on Sunday (6 September), two industry sources have said.
The Rosneft-owned Ryazan oil refinery, southeast of Moscow, had to shut down its main unit, as well as another primary unit, following the attack, sources said.
The main unit, which caught fire in the attack according to the sources, has the capability to process eight million metric tons of oil per year, or around 160,000 barrels per day, accounting for almost a half of the plant's capacity.
Two Azerbaijani citizens were killed on Wednesday when a foreign cargo ship they were travelling on was attacked by drones in the Black Sea, Baku's Foreign Ministry has said.
The Ministry named the two citizens who died as Aslan Aliyev and Asim Gasimov.
Two other Azerbaijani crew members were injured in the strike and are currently being treated at a hospital in Chernomorsk, southwest Ukraine, the Ministry added.
The two wounded citizens, Imran Novruzov and Rauf Aliyev, are expected to return to Azerbaijan after being examined and treated.
“We express our deepest condolences to the families and relatives of the deceased, and wish the injured a speedy recovery,” Azerbaijan's Foreign Ministry said.
“We once again call on Azerbaijani citizens to refrain from travelling to regions where military operations are ongoing or the security situation is unstable, from engaging in labour activities in those areas, or from working on vehicles, including ships, operating on these routes,” the Ministry added.
A man was killed when a Ukrainian drone hit his car in Russia's western Belgorod region, bordering Ukraine, local authorities said. Two more people were being treated for wounds in hospital, authorities added.
British special forces veterans are training Russians to fight in Ukraine, UK newspaper The Telegraph has reported, citing a leaked intelligence memo it obtained.
An assessment compiled by the intelligence agencies of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK and the U.S., found with “strong confidence,” that Western military veterans had been recruited to train Russian citizens.
The Special Operations Forces of Ukraine has said it struck Russian gas processing plants more than 3,000 km away overnight, the deepest attacks into Russia since the beginning of the conflict.
Ukrainian special forces said they hit the Novy Urengoy and Purovsky plants in Russia’s Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Region in Siberia, one of the country’s key oil and gas-producing regions.
Ukraine's special forces have explained why they targeted the Makhachkala port in Dagestan.
The SSO said the port is strategically important to Russia as it serves oil tankers with the capacity to carry up to 10,000 tons of oil, in a statement on Telegram.
The port in Dagestan's capital is Russia's only deep water port on the Caspian Sea, which is ice-free all year round.
The SSO said the port is an important link between Russia and Iran, India and other countries in South Asia.
Ukraine's General Staff also posted an explanation of the rationale behind the strike on X:
Three people were injured after a drone hit a gas station in southwest Kyiv, the city's Mayor Vitali Klitschko said in a post on Telegram on Thursday.
Eight people were injured late on Wednesday in the drone attacks on the Russian resort of Sochi on the Black Sea, the region's Acting Head Fyodor Schukin said.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will meet Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney later on Thursday to discuss air defence preparations for the winter, Zelenskyy has said in a post on X.
“Important meetings and agreements are planned that will shape our cooperation and solidify the already strategic level of our relationship for years to come,” he added.
Ukrainian forces hit eight sites in Russia in the past 24 hours, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said in a post on X.
Zelenskyy said that an oil refinery in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug in northwest Siberia, as well as a seaport in Dagestan in the North Caucasus were struck.
Sites in Moscow, the city of Voronezh in southwestern Russia, Astrakhan in southern Russia and Bryansk, southwest of Moscow, were also targeted, he said.
Ukraine downed 128 drones overnight, Ukraine's General Staff has said in a post on X.
Russia struck the country with 149 drones, according to Ukraine's military command.
NATO foiled a Russian plot to sabotage undersea cables in Arctic waters near Noway's remote Svalbard archipelago earlier this year by using a secret weapon designed to disable the critical cables without leaving any trace.
The clandestine Russian operation, described to Reuters by two Western officials, was carried out by Moscow's GUGI undersea warfare directorate, which used deep-sea submersibles to simulate the deployment of the sophisticated and destructive technology.
A joint operation involving Britain, Norway and the U.S. tracked and confronted the Russian vessels at sea, the two officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity. The vessels were prevented from completing their exercise and eventually left the area.
Britain and Norway disclosed in April that they had uncovered a covert Russian operation in Arctic waters. But the discovery of the new weapon, the location of the operation and the U.S. involvement have not been reported.
Flights at Lublin and Rzeszów airports in Poland have resumed, the Polish Air Navigation Services Agency said on X.
Earlier, operations at both airports were suspended due to the Polish Air Force carrying out preventative operations related to Russian missile strikes on Ukraine, the Polish army said.
Russia's FSB internal security agency said on Thursday that it had detained a former guard at the British Embassy in Moscow who collected personal data on British diplomats, alleging that he had been working for Ukrainian intelligence.
The agency said the data collection was part of preparations for a Ukrainian false-flag operation against British diplomatic staff in Russia, aimed at accusing Moscow of hostile actions at a later stage.
Relations between Britain and Russia have deteriorated sharply since Moscow launched its military action in Ukraine in 2022. Moscow sees Britain as Ukraine's main backer in the four-and-a-half-year conflict.
A woman was killed and two people wounded after drone debris fell fallen on a house in the town of Borisoglebsk in Russia's Voronezh region, regional Governor Alexander Gusev said on Thursday.
Air defence systems had destroyed 19 drones over the region, Gusev wrote on the Telegram messaging app.
The Russian defence ministry said 448 Ukrainian drones were shot down over multiple regions overnight.
Russian air strikes hit Ukraine's port of Mykolaiv and civilian and industrial infrastructure there on Wednesday and overnight, killing four and injuring 19, Acting Regional Governor Heorhii Reshetilov said on Telegram.
Russia's Defence Ministry said on Thursday it hit facilities used for military purposes in Ukraine's Black Sea port of Chornomorsk, two vessels near Odesa and a drone warehouse in Mykolaiv overnight.
Russian drone attacks have killed five and injured 24 in Ukraine's region of Sumy, Ukrainian National Police said on the Telegram messaging app on Thursday.
Authorities have doused a fire ignited by Ukraine drone strikes on port infrastructure in Russia's Caspian Sea city of Makhachkala in Dagestan, the region's Acting Head Fyodor Shchukin, has said on Telegram
Two people have been injured, one seriously, in Russian drone strikes on the city of Kryvyi Rhi in central Ukraine, Oleksandr Vilkul, Chairman of the city's Defence Council said in a post on Telegram.
Houses, businesses and educational buildings were damaged in the attacks he said, adding that an emergency response was underway.
Ukraine's State Emergency Service also reported a drone strike on the city of Khmelnytskyi, western Ukraine.
Sea drones injured eight people in Russia's popular Black Sea resort of Sochi late on Wednesday, regional authorities said on Telegram.
Beach infrastructure at the resort was also partially damaged, the post said. Russian President Vladimir Putin has an official residence in Sochi.
Weapons were fired and an explosion seen on a social media post from a Sochi embankment, with people heard screaming. The video was verified by Reuters.
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