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Ukraine faced its biggest drone attack of the war so far last night, according to Kyiv. Five people were wounded by falling debris in the capital city, including an 11-year-old child, and the attack led to power cuts.
Ukraine’s air force said it shot down 71 of the 75 drones launched in the attack. “The enemy launched a record number of attack drones at Ukraine! The main direction of the attack is Kyiv,” the commander of Ukraine’s air force, Gen Mykola Oleshchuk, said.
The former Russian prime minister turned Kremlin critic Mikhail Kasyanov has been added to a list of “foreign agents”, Russia’s justice ministry has announced. Kasyanov, who was the first head of Putin’s government in the early 2000s, now appears in the justice ministry’s register of foreign agents, a term reminiscent of the Soviet-era “enemy of the people”.
The UK Ministry of Defence reported that Russia’s Black Sea fleet is facing issues reloading its vessels with cruise missiles. Russia will, the MoD said, need to overcome such issues “in time for maritime cruise missiles to be included in any winter campaign of strikes against Ukraine”.
The Swiss president, Alain Berset, was in Kyiv to meet his Ukrainian counterpart and attend an international summit on food security. Latvia’s president, Edgars Rinkēvičs, was also in Ukraine – he met the country’s prime minister, Denys Shmyhal, and they discussed the progress of Ukraine’s integration into the EU.
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The UK defence secretary, Grant Shapps, has reiterated his support for Ukraine following the drone attack. He tweeted:
