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Russia strikes down 14 Ukrainian drones
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin reported a series of drone interceptions around the Russian capital on MAX.
The statements indicated that around 14 drones were shot down as they approached the city.
Sobyanin said emergency service personnel had been deployed to locations where drone debris fell.
Ukrainian strikes kill one in Russia's Belgorod region
Ukrainian strikes killed one person in Russia's Belgorod region, officials said on Tuesday, after Moscow launched attacks that killed dozens in Ukraine on the eve of a major NATO summit.
Acting Belgorod regional governor Aleksandr Shuvaev said several Ukrainian missile strikes had targeted Belgorod city and the surrounding district.
"In the village of Belovskoye, Belgorod district, a civilian resident was, sadly, killed as a result of the first missile strike," Shuvaev said on the state-backed MAX platform.
He added that the attacks sparked a fire at an infrastructure facility in Belgorod city and that emergency services were working at the scene.
Death toll from Russian strikes on Kyiv up to 28
Russia hammered Kyiv and the surrounding region with missiles and drones early on Monday, killing at least 28 people and exposing Ukraine's critical shortage of US-made air defence interceptors, officials said.
Rescuers were digging bodies from the rubble of a Kyiv high-rise ripped open in the overnight bombardment.
'Absurd' that production of missile defence arms cannot meet demand, Zelensky says
President Volodymyr Zelensky called for Ukraine to be granted US licences to manufacture Patriot missile systems that would allow Ukraine to defend itself against Russian ballistic missiles and said it was "absurd" that production could not meet demand.
"It is simply absurd that, in the modern world, production has still not been scaled up to the level actually required to protect people from ballistic terror," he said in his nightly video address.
Zelensky said Ukraine had the know-how to produce the weapons and if it received US licences to manufacture US Patriot systems "our production would be sufficient not only to defend Ukraine but also to assist partners who need them".
Deadly Russian missile barrage exposes Ukraine's air-defence shortage
Ukraine's military was unable to down any of the 23 ballistic missiles fired by Russia, according to air force data, reflecting its increasing vulnerability to Moscow's strikes as stocks of its prized Patriot missiles run out.
Zelensky has repeatedly pleaded for more interceptors – the only weapon in its arsenal that can shoot down ballistic projectiles, whose high velocity and steep flight path make them difficult to stop.
He called for "strong decisions" at the NATO summit in Turkey, which begins on Tuesday, to ensure Ukraine can defend itself.
Ukrainian air force data shows air defences shot down just four of 49 ballistic missiles in July.
"As long as Patriot missiles sit in our allies' stockpiles, Russia is only encouraged to keep destroying residential buildings," Zelensky said on X. "The US and Europe have the power to stop this terror."
Ukraine intercepted 37 other missiles and more than 90 percent of the 351 drones used during Monday's attack, the air force said.
Death toll in Russia's missile and drone attacks rises to 22
The death toll in the latest Russian drone and missile attack has risen to 22, authorities said.
Fifteen people were killed in the capital of Kyiv, which was Russia's main target, and 56 were wounded, according to administrative head Tymur Tkachenko.
Another seven people were killed in the wider Kyiv region and 29 were injured, according to Ukraine's emergency service.
Ukraine must 'get the support it needs': allies prepare for NATO summit
Speaking ahead of the upcoming NATO summit in Ankara, the military alliance's secretary-general Mark Rutte called on member states to "ensure that Ukraine receives the support it needs in its war with Russia".
Rutte also said that allies will be announcing new arms contracts worth tens of billions to "deter and defend".
FRANCE 24's Kethevane Gorjestani tells us what to expect from the summit, and what it means for Ukraine.
Kremlin says Putin and Trump agreed during weekend call to talk again in 'near future'
The Kremlin said that Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump had agreed in a weekend call that they would talk again "in the near future", suggesting they are likely to talk this week during or after the NATO summit.
Trump is planning to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday in Turkey where he will be attending the NATO summit, a senior US official said on Sunday.
The same official said Trump would likely follow up with Putin after talking to Zelensky. Asked on Monday if Trump would phone Putin after meeting Zelensky, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters:
"Yes, indeed, both President Putin and President Trump have agreed that their contacts will continue in the near future."
Trump says a resolution to Ukraine war is 'getting closer than people realise'
US President Donald Trump suggested that a resolution to the war in Ukraine is "getting closer than people realise", adding that he will discuss Ukraine during talks in Turkey this week at a NATO summit.
NATO chief says allies must ensure Ukraine 'gets what it needs'
UN, Russian nuclear chiefs to meet in Kaliningrad on Friday, Moscow says
Alexei Likhachev, the head of Russia's Rosatom state nuclear corporation, said that he would meet Rafael Grossi, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, in Russia's Kaliningrad region on Friday.
Likhachev said that Russia wanted to discuss the IAEA's policy of not attributing responsibility for what Moscow says are Ukrainian drone attacks on Russian-controlled nuclear facilities.
Death toll from Russian missile attack on Kyiv region rises to at least 18, authorities say
Long-range Ukrainian drone strike caused fire at Omsk refinery, Kyiv's military says
Ukrainian drones struck Russia's Omsk refinery, the country's largest and located deep in Siberia, in what would be one of the longest-ranged Ukrainian strikes since the beginning of the war, Kyiv's military said on Monday.
Ukraine's General Staff said that the strike had caused a fire at the Omsk refinery, which is located around 2,700 km from Ukrainian-held territory and close to Russia's border with Kazakhstan.
Sources told Reuters that the Gazpromneft-owned Omsk refinery processed around 23 million metric tons, or 460,000 barrels, of oil daily last year.
Azerbaijan summons Russian ambassador over drone strike on SOCAR fuel station in Ukraine
Azerbaijan's Foreign Ministry said it had summoned Russia's ambassador to protest over what it said was a Russian drone strike on a fuel station belonging to state oil and gas company SOCAR in Ukraine's Mykolaiv region on Sunday.
Russia has been systematically striking Ukrainian fuel stations in retaliation for Kyiv's escalating campaign against Russia's own energy infrastructure, which has caused fuel shortages in many Russian regions.
Ukrainian drones strike Russia's Omsk, governor says, in one of deepest attacks yet
The governor of Russia's Omsk region said that the western Siberian province had come under attack from Ukrainian drones, in what would be one of the longest-ranged Ukrainian strikes since the beginning of the war.
In a post on Telegram, Vitaly Khotsenko said that several drones had reached what he called "Omsk's northern industrial hub", which is located around 2,700 km from Ukrainian-held territory, close to Russia's border with Kazakhstan.
He said that the consequences of the attack were being clarified, and that emergency services were working to "liquidate" the strike's aftermath.
Khotsenko gave no information on what had been targeted, but Omsk's northern outskirts play host to Gazpromneft's Omsk refinery, Russia's largest.
Ukraine strikes two 'shadow fleet' tankers, top drone commander says
Ukrainian forces struck two vessels belonging to Russia's so-called "shadow fleet" in the Sea of Azov, Kyiv's top drone commander said.
In a statement on Telegram, Robert Brovdi said each of the vessels had been carrying around 7,000 tonnes of fuel from the western Russian port of Taganrog to occupied Crimea.
UK sanctions Russians it says developed chemical weapons used to kill Navalny
Britain sanctioned seven individuals and two research institutes linked to Russia's chemical weapons programme, targeting those it said were involved in developing toxins used to poison Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny.
Russia says it downed 613 Ukrainian drones overnight over its regions
Russia's Defence Ministry said on Monday that its forces downed 613 Ukrainian drones over Russian regions overnight, in a wave of attacks that targeted port and oil infrastructure.
It said in total, Ukraine used 625 drones to attack Russia.
Russia defends China's Pacific missile test
Russia defended its ally China's test-firing of a "strategic" missile carrying a dummy warhead into the Pacific Ocean.
"We believe it is the sovereign right of China to test its missiles. China is not threatening anyone in the world," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters in response to a question by AFP.
Australia and Japan were among the regional powers to criticise the rare show of military might be Beijing, which came on the same day Australia and Fiji signed a major defence treaty.
(FRANCE 24 with AP, AFP and Reuters)
