Russia-Ukraine War Latest News: The Russia-Ukraine war has once again seen long-range strikes targeting key military and strategic facilities deep inside Russian territory. Ukraine has reported hitting a Russian military airfield as well as a rocket facility that it says is supporting Moscow’s emerging Starlink-style satellite internet network. The reported strikes come as both sides continue to target infrastructure considered important to military operations. Zelensky said the targeted airfield was being used by aircraft involved in attacks against Ukraine, while stressing that reducing Russia’s ability to sustain the war remains a key objective for Kyiv.
Russia-Ukraine War Latest News: Rocket centre hit by Ukraine supports Russia’s Starlink-style satellite internet
Ukraine said on Saturday its long-range strikes had hit a Russian military airfield and a rocket centre that Kyiv says supports Russia’s nascent Starlink-style satellite internet network.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said Flamingo cruise missiles struck the rocket facility, about 900 km (560 miles) from Ukraine’s border, as part of Kyiv’s campaign to pressure Moscow to end the more than four-year war by targeting sites deep inside Russia.
“It is important that Russia’s war potential be reduced. Peace is needed, and this must be evident in Russia – through concrete damage to specific facilities,” he said in a post on X.
He said the airfield hosted aircraft used to attack Ukraine.
Russia-Ukraine War Latest News: Zelensky shares footage of long-range strikes on Russia
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky shared footage of long-range strikes on Russian facilities.
He said: “Our plan of long-range strikes against Russia for this war is being implemented, and it is important that Russia’s war potential be reduced. Peace is needed, and this must be evident in Russia – through concrete damage to specific facilities. Glory to Ukraine!”
Russia-Ukraine War Latest News: Protesters demonstrate to reinstate Fedorov as defence minister on Friday
Protesters hold placards as they demonstrate for a reform of the defence sector and to demand the reinstatement of the tech-savvy defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov, who was sacked a month ago, in central Kyiv on August 14, 2026, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Russia-Ukraine War Latest News: Russia repels ‘massive attack’ in Samara, local authorities claim
Ukraine struck industrial infrastructure in Russia’s Samara region on Saturday, local authorities said.
Ivan Noskov, head of the regional capital Samara, said air defences had repelled a “massive attack”.
“Samara’s industrial infrastructure sustained localised damage,” he said in an online post, without giving further details on what facility had been affected.
Ukraine has previously targeted the southwestern region’s Syzran oil refinery on the Volga river as part of its campaign to strike energy infrastructure and pressure Russia to end the more than four-year conflict.
Russia-Ukraine War Latest News: China launches first regular cargo service through Arctic waters along Russian coastline
A Chinese shipowner is set to begin the first weekly container service through the Arctic on an express route to Europe on Saturday, making the voyages until October and prompting concerns over vessels warming polar ice.
The company, Sea Legend, tested the premise last year when it completed the first China-to-Europe container ship transit through the frigid Northern Sea Route (NSR) along Russia’s coastline.
