Russia-Ukraine War Latest News: As the war between Russia and Ukraine carries on, there is continued fighting in several regions of Ukraine as each side tries to improve its position on the ground. Now Moscow says it has won new ground, as the Russian defence ministry reports that its troops have seized two more Ukrainian towns. But these assertions have not yet been confirmed.
Russia-Ukraine War Latest News: Russian forces capture two more settlements, says Moscow
Russian forces have captured two more settlements in Ukraine, the Russian defence ministry said on Monday.
It named them as Novosoloshyne in the southeastern Zaporizhzhia region and Andriyivska Hromada in the Donetsk region.
Moscow’s battlefield reports have not yet been independently verified.
Russia-Ukraine War Latest News: Ukraine could start hitting Russia with domestic ballistic missiles ‘in months’
Ukraine will be able to start hitting Russia with domestically produced ballistic missiles within three to six months, the country’s former defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov said.
Speaking to CBS News, Fedorov said Ukraine has so far relied on long-range drones and cruise missiles to strike targets deep inside Russia, and that its homegrown ballistic missiles will be far harder for Russia to intercept.
He was referring to ballistic missiles being developed by Ukrainian defence manufacturer Fire Point, with a key test-launch being carried out in June.
Russia-Ukraine War Latest News: Nato jet downs drone in Romanian airspace
Romania’s ministry of national defence said on Sunday that a Spanish Air and Space Force F-18 fighter jet shot down a drone that had entered Romanian airspace.
The drone’s entry into the Nato member’s airspace was detected by surveillance systems at 4.44 am, the ministry said, about 24km (14.9 miles) north of the eastern city of Galati near the border with neighbouring Moldova. Moldova is a landlocked country between Ukraine and Romania.
A Spanish F-18 aircraft that was performing air policing duties “made radar contact with the target and received engagement approval,” the ministry said. “The drone was safely shot down by the F-18 aircraft at 05.01.”
The ministry later said that drone debris was also reported in the Black Sea around 10am on Sunday, about 1.5km (0.9 miles) from the coastal city of Constanta.
Officials did not specify the drone’s origin.
The incident comes weeks after Romanian pilots shot down three drones over three days as Russia intensified attacks against Ukraine near the border.
Russia-Ukraine War Latest News: Woman killed in Ukrainian drone attack in Russia’s Astrakhan region, says governor
We’ve heard from the local governor of Russia’s southern Atrakhan region, who said on Monday that a woman has been killed in a Ukrainian drone attack.
The attack hit an industrial facility, he added, without giving details.
We’ll bring you more details on the attack as they come in.
Russia-Ukraine War Latest News: Seven killed in Russia as Ukraine launches one of its largest aerial attacks of the war
Ukraine launched hundreds of drones across Russia on Sunday, killing at least seven people in one of Kyiv’s largest aerial attacks of the war.
Russia’s defence ministry said it had destroyed 822 Ukrainian drones overnight. Some 600 drones were detected headed toward the Russian capital, Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin said, with a third of those destroyed over the Moscow region itself.
An 83-year-old man was killed after a Ukrainian drone hit a private home in the Moscow region, local governor Andrey Vorobyov said. A woman was killed in Belgorod after a civilian bus was struck, officials said.
He also confirmed that a Ukrainian attack had sparked a blaze at a Wildberries warehouse in the town of Podolsk.
A drone attack targeted three towns in Russia’s southwestern Rostov region, killing five people, local governor Yury Slyusar said.
The attack, with more than 150 drones, damaged several homes and a railway station and sparked a forest fire.
Russia-Ukraine War Latest News: Russian attack hits civilian vessel in Odesa overnight
An overnight Russian attack on the Ukrainian port city Odesa has damaged a Togo-flagged civilian vessel, officials said.
Regional governor Oleh Kiper said the attack took place in the early hours today.
At least four people were injured in the attack, which started fires in the city, although those have now reportedly been extinguished.
Russia-Ukraine War Latest News: Russia claims it has taken two more eastern Ukrainian villages
The Russian defence ministry has claimed its forces have taken the village of Pershomarivka in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, as well as Kudiivka in the northeastern Kharkiv region, state news agency TASS reported.
