The Latest Breaking News from Yuriy Ihnat

The attack came after a second drone strike on a Russian tanker stationed at a Black Sea naval base overnight on Friday

Latest attack comes just hours after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy praises Ukraine’s air defence units for saving lives.

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Fighters of Russia's Wagner mercenary group have captured two more areas of the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, Russia's Defense Ministry said on Saturday. Wagner has spearheaded Russia's attempt to take Bakhmut since last summer in what has been the longest and deadliest battle of the war for both sides. Reuters…

Ukrainian authorities say the death toll from Russian missile strikes on eastern Ukraine’s city of Sloviansk has gone up to 11 as rescue crews try to reach people trapped in the rubble of an apartment building

A spokesman for Ukraine's air force said the balloons had plain metal triangles suspended with string below them, saying that was enough to appear like an incoming missile or drone on radars.

On the outskirts of the capital, Kim Sengupta watches the military shoot down two of the ballloons. Their mission, Ukraine suspects, is to gather intelligence – and impede Ukrainian defences and warplanes ahead of a feared air offensive

Russia may be using balloons to preserve its decreasing stocks of reconnaissance drones as attrition rates soar.

Russia is stepping up its use of S-300 and S-400 air defence systems to conduct strikes on ground targets, suggesting that Moscow's stocks of ballistic missiles are running low, Ukraine's Air Force spokesman said on Monday.

Air raid sirens wailed in Kyiv and across all Ukrainian regions on Sunday morning but no new Russian attacks were reported, officials said. The all-clear was later given.

As Russian cruise missiles sped towards their target this month, a Ukrainian pilot gave chase in an old Soviet MiG-29 fighter jet and locked onto two of them, but could not take the shot: they were nearing a large town and it was too risky.