Russia is pummeling major Ukrainian cities in an effort to sustain a sputtering war effort marked by a struggle to maintain momentum on the battlefield, where advances over the last month slowed to a near halt, researchers say.
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Ukrainian drones hit an oil terminal in St Petersburg and a warship in dry-dock at a nearby naval base, hours before Vladimir Putin’s showcase economic forum got under way in the city, in a clear attempt to embarrass the Kremlin chief.
Ukrainian drones struck energy and industrial targets across several Russian regions overnight, Russian authorities said on Sunday, in an escalating campaign of strikes against infrastructure.
The drone left a hole in the wall of a turbine hall, Russia’s state nuclear-energy company said.
He suggested Romania offer drone fragments for Moscow to conduct its own probe.
Romania said a Russian drone crashed into an apartment block during an attack on Ukraine.
Eight years after ousting a corruption-mired, centre-right government on the promise of cleaning up politics, Spain’s Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez is running out of road as graft accusations stack up against his party and family.
The incident in Romania, also a member of the European Union, is likely to increase tensions on NATO’s eastern flank at a time when Ukraine’s allies are worried about Russia’s war on its neighbour spilling over its borders.
Exiled Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya visited Kyiv on Monday following weeks of mounting warnings from Ukrainian officials about Russian plans to draw Minsk more deeply into the war against Ukraine.
The mines were found by divers during an inspection of the hull of the tanker Arrhenius.