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A Russian ballistic missile strike on a steel plant in Ukraine’s eastern Dnipro region has killed five workers and damaged production facilities and other infrastructure. Steelmaker Metinvest said all operations at the plant had been suspended following the attack.
India’s Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri says 51 Indian nationals recruited into the Russian armed forces have reportedly been killed, while 139 of the 227 Indians identified as serving in Russia’s military have been discharged.
Israel and Greece have signed a $3.5 billion defense agreement, their largest arms deal to date, under which Athens will acquire a multilayered Israeli air defense system designed to counter ballistic missiles, drones and other aerial threats.
The death toll from a Russian strike on a warehouse near Kyiv has risen to 38, with four people still missing, while Russia threatens large-scale attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure.
At least 27 people were killed in a Russian attack near Kyiv’s Bucha district, damaging around 50 residential buildings and triggering major fires, Ukrainian authorities said.
A Russian drone strike on a shopping center in Ukraine’s Kryvyi Rih killed 20 people and injured 130 others, including 23 children. Nine people remain missing as rescue workers continue searching the rubble.
Russia launched a massive overnight barrage of missiles and drones across Ukraine, killing at least 16 people and injuring more than 40, as President Zelenskyy called for more Western air defence systems to counter intensifying Russian attacks.
Senior Russian military officer Robert Mansurovich Shageev was killed in a suspected planned assassination attack in Sevastopol, Crimea. Russian authorities said a Russian woman suspected of carrying out the attack on the instructions of Ukrainian special forces had been detained.
Germany’s cabinet has approved major reforms expanding the powers of the BND and BfV to collect data and counter sabotage, cyberattacks and hybrid threats, amid concerns over civil rights.
Pope Leo has called for an immediate halt to attacks on civilian targets in Ukraine and Russia, warning that civilian casualties, including children, continue to rise amid the war.
At least five people were killed and 10 injured after a Ukrainian drone strike hit an industrial area on the outskirts of Moscow early Tuesday, Russian officials said. Authorities also reported another drone attack that damaged a warehouse in the Leningrad region, as Ukraine intensified long-range strikes on Russian infrastructure.
At least three people were killed and 21 others injured in a bombing outside Moscow's Balzi Rossi Italian restaurant, which Mayor Sergei Sobyanin described as a "brutal terrorist attack." Authorities said the suspected female attacker detonated an improvised explosive device after being stopped by security guards, while investigators continue to search for those responsible.
