Russia-Ukraine war live: Ukraine claims it struck military facility in Russia
From 1h ago 10.34 CET Ukraine claims it struck military facility in Russia The Ukrainian military has said that its air force had carried out a strike on a military industrial facility in Russia?s Rostov region over the past few days.
The facility in the town of Kamensk-Shakhtinsky was used to produce solid fuel for ballistic missiles used in Russian attacks on Ukraine, the Ukrainian military said. It did not give a date for the attack or say what damage was caused. Share
16m ago 11.41 CET Russia?s top security agency has said that it has arrested several suspects accused of involvement in an alleged Ukrainian plot to assassinate senior military officers, an announcement that follows the killing of a top Russian general last week. Associated Press reports:
The Federal Security Service, a top KGB successor known under its Russian acronym FSB, said in a statement carried by Russian news agencies that it had arrested four Russians accused of making preparations to kill senior Defense Ministry officials.
The FSB said that the suspected organisers of the attacks were planning to kill one of the senior officers using a remotely controlled car bomb. It added that another top military official was to be assassinated by an explosive device hidden in an envelope. The agency didn?t name the military officers who were targeted in the alleged plot.
The FSB released a video showing the arrest and interrogation of the suspects, who weren?t named. Share
30m ago 11.28 CET Eight injured in Russian drone attack A Russian drone attack on the central market in the Ukrainian town of Nikopol injured eight on Thursday morning, local authorities said.
Seven of those injured were hospitalised after the strike damaged multiple stalls at the market, Dnipropetrovsk governor Serhiy Lysak wrote via the Telegram messaging app.
The drone strike comes after Russia?s Christmas Day attack on the country?s energy system killed one person in the region.
The Ukrainian military said on Thursday that it shot down 20 drones out of 31 launched by Russia overnight. Of the 31 drones, 11 ?imitator drones? did not reach their targets due to active engagement from the Ukrainian military, it added. Share
1h ago 11.00 CET The Russian defence ministry has claimed that Russian forces have captured a village of Hihant in eastern Ukraine, the RIA news agency has reported.
Reuters could not independently confirm battlefield reports from either side. Share Updated at 11.12 CET
1h ago 10.59 CET Azerbaijan is observing a nationwide day of mourning for the victims of the air crash that killed 38 people and left all 29 survivors injured as speculation mounted about a possible cause of the crash that remained unknown. The Associated Press reports: Azerbaijan Airlines? Embraer 190 was en route from Azerbaijan?s capital of Baku to the Russian city of Grozny in the North Caucasus on Wednesday when it was diverted for reasons yet unclear and crashed while making an attempt to land in Aktau in Kazakhstan. The plane went down about 3 kilometers or 2 miles from Aktau after crossing the Caspian Sea. Cellphone footage circulating online appeared to show the aircraft making a steep descent before smashing into the ground in a fireball.
Azerbaijan on Thursday observed a nationwide day of mourning for the victims of the air crash that killed 38 people and left all 29 survivors injured as speculation mounted about a possible cause of the crash that remained unknown.
Azerbaijan Airlines? Embraer 190 was en route from Azerbaijan?s capital of Baku to the Russian city of Grozny in the North Caucasus on Wednesday when it was diverted for reasons yet unclear and crashed while making an attempt to land in Aktau in Kazakhstan after flying east across the Caspian Sea.
Russia?s civil aviation authority, Rosaviatsia, said that preliminary information indicated that the pilots diverted to Aktau after a bird strike led to an emergency on board.
According to Kazakh officials, those aboard the plane included 42 Azerbaijani citizens, 16 Russian nationals, six Kazakhs and three Kyrgyzstan nationals.
As the official crash investigation started, theories abounded about a possible cause, with some commentators alleging that holes seen in the plane?s tail section possibly indicate that it could have come under fire from Russian air defense systems fending off a Ukrainian drone attack.
Ukrainian drones had previously attacked Grozny, the provincial capital of the Russian republic of Chechnya, and other regions in the country?s North Caucasus. Some Russian media claimed that another drone attack on Chechnya happened on Wednesday, although it wasn?t officially confirmed.
Osprey Flight Solutions, an aviation security firm based in the United Kingdom, warned its clients that the ?Azerbaijan Airlines flight was likely shot down by a Russian military air-defense system.? Osprey provides analysis for carriers still flying into Russia after Western airlines halted their flights during the war.
Osprey CEO Andrew Nicholson said that the company had issued more than 200 alerts regarding drone attacks and air defense systems in Russia during the war. Share
1h ago 10.34 CET Ukraine claims it struck military facility in Russia The Ukrainian military has said that its air force had carried out a strike on a military industrial facility in Russia?s Rostov region over the past few days.
The facility in the town of Kamensk-Shakhtinsky was used to produce solid fuel for ballistic missiles used in Russian attacks on Ukraine, the Ukrainian military said. It did not give a date for the attack or say what damage was caused. Share
2h ago 09.45 CET Russia thinks a weak ceasefire to freeze the war in Ukraine would be futile and counterproductive, and instead would rather a legally binding deal for a lasting peace that would ensure the security of both Russia and its neighbours, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said. He said he suspected a weak truce would be used by the west to re-arm Ukraine, adding: A truce is a path to nowhere.
We need final legal agreements that will fix all the conditions for ensuring the security of the Russian Federation and, of course, the legitimate security interests of our neighbours.
He added that Moscow wanted the legal documents drafted in such a way to ensure ?the impossibility of violating these agreements.? He also said that Ukraine repeatedly hits civilian targets in Russia with Western missiles and drones and Moscow will respond. Russia targets only military facilities and infrastructure and ?it?s not in our rules to strike civilian targets,? he added. Separately, Lavrov said that the new ruler of Syria had called relations with Russia long standing and strategic and that Moscow shared this assessment.
Kremlin foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov said on Monday that Russia was in contact with Syria?s new administration at both a diplomatic and military level. Peskov added that the investigation into the cause of the Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash is underway and it is wrong to speculate before it gives its conclusions.
An Embraer EMBR3.SA passenger jet crashed near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, killing 38 people, after diverting from an area of Russia that Moscow has recently defended against Ukrainian drone attacks. Share Updated at 10.17 CET
