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Drone assaults on Russian territory in a single day broken a prepare station and fell round two Russian navy items, officers there stated, blaming Ukraine. An uptick in assaults deep inside Russian territory seemingly means Russian navy leaders are below stress to tighten air defenses, Britain’s Protection Ministry stated.
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The assault on Chernihiv turned “an strange Saturday … right into a day of ache and loss,” Zelensky stated. The United Nations humanitarian coordinator for Ukraine, Denise Brown, condemned the assault — about 80 miles north of the capital, Kyiv, and much from the entrance traces of the struggle — saying in an announcement that it “is heinous to assault the primary sq. of a giant metropolis, within the morning, whereas persons are out strolling, some going to the church to rejoice a spiritual day for a lot of Ukrainians.”
Movies verified by The Washington Submit confirmed an explosion on the roof of the Chernihiv theater earlier than a fiery projectile slammed right into a constructing about 320 toes away. Performing mayor Oleksandr Lomako stated some houses had been broken by the blasts. Among the many injured had been 15 youngsters and 15 law enforcement officials, Inside Minister Ihor Klymenko stated.
5 individuals had been injured after a drone assault on a prepare station in Russia not removed from the Ukrainian border. The governor of the Kursk area stated in a Telegram publish early Sunday {that a} Ukrainian drone strike on the station triggered a hearth on the roof, and the individuals had been “barely injured” by falling glass.
Russia stated it stopped a drone assault it blamed on Ukraine early Sunday, the Russian protection ministry stated. The ministry stated it used digital means to disable the drone. It stated the assault did no injury and nobody was harm. The Submit couldn’t independently confirm the report. Russia’s Federal Air Transport Company stated that two airports round Moscow — Vnukovo and Domodedovo — needed to briefly divert flights to different airports in a single day to make sure the security of these on board. The airports had been working usually Sunday morning, it stated.
Russian forces additionally thwarted a drone assault in its southern area of Rostov, regional governor Vasily Golubev stated early Sunday. Golubev stated two drones “fell on the territory of a navy unit in Kamensk,” a Russian city bordering the jap Ukrainian area of Luhansk, and stated one other drone fell close to Novoshakhtinsk, some 50 miles south. He stated there have been no casualties or injury. The Submit couldn’t independently confirm the report.
Russian navy leaders are “extremely seemingly below intense stress to enhance air defences over western Russia,” the British Protection Ministry stated, as Ukraine’s skill to strike deep inside Russian territory has improved in current months, resulting in extra frequent drone and ballistic missile assaults. The stress to cease these strikes might be falling on “the management of Russia’s Aerospace Forces,” or VKS, and significantly on “VKS Chief of Employees, Colonel-Basic Viktor Afzalov,” the ministry said Sunday in its day by day intelligence evaluation.
It’s “untimely to make assessments in regards to the general success” of Kyiv’s counteroffensive, the Institute for the Research of Warfare stated in an evaluation, following a report by The Submit during which individuals aware of a categorized forecast from the U.S. intelligence neighborhood stated Ukraine would fail in its goal of severing Russia’s land bridge to Crimea on this yr’s push. The D.C.-based assume tank stated it maintains that “the general degradation of the Russian defensive position creates alternatives for any Ukrainian breakthrough to be probably operationally important.”
Zelensky was within the Netherlands on Sunday for “substantive talks” with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, he stated on Telegram. Zelensky stated “the primary difficulty” on the agenda is F-16 fighter jets for Ukraine, after the Biden administration stated final week that it might approve transfers of the American fighter jets from the Netherlands and Denmark to Ukraine, after Ukrainian pilots are educated to make use of them. Kyiv has argued that fighter jets may assist its forces higher defend the sky above Ukraine and forestall extra Russian assaults.
Kyiv has an settlement with Stockholm to provide armored autos referred to as CV-90s inside Ukraine, Zelensky stated in his nightly handle. He didn’t specify what number of, or what the settlement entailed. On his go to to Sweden this weekend, Zelensky and Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson additionally mentioned Ukraine’s want for Swedish-made Gripen fighter jets, which Stockholm earlier this summer time agreed to permit Ukrainian pilots to check.
The US is anticipated to quickly double its prewar month-to-month manufacturing of the usual NATO artillery spherical, The Submit stories, rising its output from 14,000 items a month earlier than Russia’s invasion to finally 28,000 items a month. However business specialists warn of challenges in sustaining the elevated manufacturing ranges, not simply to assist Ukraine struggle efforts but in addition to make sure U.S. safety in potential conflicts with China or Russia.
Ukraine working out of choices to retake important territory: Greater than two months into the extremely anticipated counteroffensive that officers touted as Ukraine’s essential alternative to retake territory from Russian forces, it seems that the trouble is stalling and Ukraine is working out of choices, The Submit’s Susannah George stories.
The slogging effort has stoked fears in Washington and Europe that the struggle may very well be reaching a stalemate and worldwide assist may erode. Franz-Stefan Gady, a senior fellow with the Worldwide Institute for Strategic Research and the Heart for New American Safety, stated “the query right here is which of the 2 sides goes to be worn out sooner.”
