Russian air defences have shot down “several” drones targeting the Moscow region, mayor Sergei Sobyanin has said, with one hitting a tower that had been struck on Sunday.
The Russian defence ministry said two drones were destroyed by air defence systems in the Odintsovo and Narofominsk districts near Moscow, while a third was jammed and crashed in the capital, the Russian state news agency Tass reported early on Tuesday. The ministry blamed the attacks on Kyiv.
Sobyanin said in a Telegram post that no injuries had been reported. “The facade of the 21st floor was damaged. The glazing of 150 square metres was broken,” he said.
Moscow’s Vnukovo airport was also temporarily shut and flights redirected.
Kharkiv’s mayor Ihor Terekhov has described last night in the city as “very difficult”.
Earlier he said that drones destroyed two floors of a dormitory, and Reuters reports he confirmed on Ukrainian television that the dormitory was not in use.
Regional governor Oleh Synehubov said a sports complex in the city’s Shevchenkivskyi district was hit, damaging a two-storey building. A 63-year-old security guard had been injured and was in hospital.
Alexander Bogomaz, the governor of Russia’s Bryansk region, has reported on Telegram that Ukrainian forces have shelled the village of Churovichi. He said there were no casualties, but that residential buildings and two cars were among the objects damaged.
Ukraine has thwarted an overnight attempt by a Russian saboteur group to cross its northern border, the interior minister, Ihor Klymenko, wrote on the Telegram messaging app.
“Last night, in the Chernihiv region, border guards stopped an attempt by an enemy saboteur-reconnaissance group to cross the state border of Ukraine within the Semenivka community,” Reuters reports he said.
Serhiy Naev, commander of the joint forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said four armed people attempted to cross the border but were repelled by Ukrainian fire.
Klymenko said the four people were detected moving from Russian territory.
He added that reserves of the State Border Guard Service and Ukraine’s armed forces were deployed to strengthen the area.
Ukraine has strengthened its northern military sector following the reported arrival of Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin and some Wagner group troops in Belarus. The reported presence of the Wagner mercenaries has also led to Poland reinforcing its border.
Maria Zakharova has said of the drone attack on Moscow that Kyiv “continues to reveal itself to the world community as a terrorist cell.”
Tass quoted the Russian foreign ministry spokesperson, saying she was appearing on the Soloviev live TV channel.
Since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the UN has recorded over 20,000 civilian casualties in areas of Ukraine controlled by the Kyiv government and attacked by Russia, including over 7,000 civilian deaths.
Here are some of the latest images that have been released from the site of a Russian strike on Kharkiv.
Reuters has a quick snap that Ukraine’s interior minister has claimed an attempt to cross into the country on its northern border in the Chernihiv region by a Russian saboteur group was foiled.
More details soon …
Suspilne, Ukraine’s state broadcaster, includes the following headlines in its morning daily round-up on Telegram today:
At night, the Russian Federation attacked Kharkiv with five “shahed” drones. In the Shevchenkivskyi district, three struck the territory of a sports complex: a two-story building was damaged, a security guard was injured. In Saltivskyi district, two floors of a school were destroyed.
The number of wounded in Kryvyi Rih has increased to 81, reported the head of the defence council of the city. Among them are seven children. 19 people remain in hospitals. All are in a moderate condition.
Over the last 24 hours, four people died in Kherson region, 18 were injured. On 31 July, two people were killed and three injured in Donetsk region.
Here are some of the pictures that have been sent to us over the news wires from Moscow after a drone hit a building there earlier.
The Russian ministry of defence claims it successfully repelled a unmanned boat drone attack on two of its ships in the Black Sea fleet – the Sergey Kotov and the Vasily Bykov.
Interfax reports that in a statement the ministry said:
Tonight, the armed forces of Ukraine made an unsuccessful attempt to attack the patrol ships Sergey Kotov and Vasily Bykov of the Black Sea Fleet with three sea unmanned boats … 340 km southwest of Sevastopol.
In the course of repulsing the attack, all three unmanned enemy boats were destroyed by fire from the standard armament of Russian ships. The ships Sergei Kotov and Vasily Bykov of the Black Sea fleet continue to perform their tasks.
It is the second time the ministry has claimed that the Sergey Kotov was targeted in recent days.
More on the drone strikes in Moscow, which come two days after Zelenskiy said the war was coming to Russia, after three drones were shot down over the city on Sunday, although Ukraine has not claimed responsibility for the attacks.
“Gradually, the war is returning to the territory of Russia – to its symbolic centres and military bases. This is an inevitable, natural and absolutely fair process,” Zelenskiy said in his nightly video address on Sunday.
The attacks on Tuesday mark at least the fifth time unmanned aerial vehicles have reached the Russian capital since May, when two drones came down over the Kremlin. Moscow and its surrounding area are more than 310 miles (500km) from the Ukrainian border and the conflict there.
In Sunday’s attack, Russia said its air defences shot down a drone in Odintsovo in the surrounding Moscow region, while two others were jammed and crashed into the Moscow City business district.
Valery Gerasimov, the chief of the general staff of Russia’s armed forces, has visited Russian troops in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region, part of which is controlled by Russia, the Interfax news agency cited the Russian defence ministry as saying on Tuesday.
It said Gerasimov inspected a command centre and underscored the importance of preemptive strikes against the Ukrainian forces.
Officials in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, said on Tuesday that drones hit populated areas of the city and one drone destroyed two floors of a college dormitory.
The chief of police in Kharkiv region in northeastern Ukraine, Volodymyr Tymoshko, said there were two night-time strikes - one on the college and one on the city centre.
One person was injured in the city centre, he told Suspilne, or public, television. The college building was empty at the time of the strike.
Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov spoke of three strikes, Reuters reports.
“One of the drones destroyed two floors of a dormitory,” Terekhov wrote on the Telegram messaging app. “A fire broke out and emergency services are attending.”
A video posted on social media showed the top of a building ablaze and smoke billowing upwards. Suspilne said the half the college building was destroyed.
Reuters could not immediately confirm the attack or determine the location of the site in the video.
Russian air defences have shot down “several” drones targeting the Moscow region, mayor Sergei Sobyanin has said, with one hitting a tower that had been struck on Sunday.
The Russian defence ministry said two drones were destroyed by air defence systems in the Odintsovo and Narofominsk districts near Moscow, while a third was jammed and crashed in the capital, the Russian state news agency Tass reported early on Tuesday. The ministry blamed the attacks on Kyiv.
Sobyanin said in a Telegram post that no injuries had been reported. “The facade of the 21st floor was damaged. The glazing of 150 square metres was broken,” he said.
Moscow’s Vnukovo airport was also temporarily shut and flights redirected.
Welcome back to our live coverage of the war in Ukraine. This is Helen Sullivan with the latest.
Our top stories this morning: Russian air defences have shot down “several” drones targeting the Moscow region, mayor Sergei Sobyanin has said, with one hitting a tower that had been struck on Sunday.
Meanwhile, officials in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, said on Tuesday that drones hit populated areas of the city and one drone destroyed two floors of a college dormitory.
One person was injured in the city centre, said Kharkiv’s chief of police, Volodymyr Tymoshko.
We’ll have more on these stories shortly. In other news:
At least six people, including a 10-year-old child, have been killed and more than 50 people injured when Russia struck a high-rise apartment in Kryvyi Rih. Authorities said people were trapped under rubble. Oleksiy Kuleba, the deputy head of Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s office, called for revenge, saying: “Every day, Ukrainian cities are under fire from Russian terrorists. Sumy, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipro, Kharkiv. This is only for the last few days.” He said targeting civilians was a sign of “the despair and defeat of the Russian Federation at the front”.
Ukraine’s first lady, Olena Zelenska, said: “This is how the week begins in a Ukrainian city that just wants a quiet, normal life. Russia wants to take peace and life away.” She offered condolences to the victims and their families. The city is the home town of both Zelenska and her husband.
Russian opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza on Monday lost an appeal against his 25-year jail sentence, the RIA state news agency reported. Kara-Murza, who holds Russian and British citizenship, was jailed for 25 years in April for treason and spreading “false information” about Russia’s war in Ukraine, Reuters reports. Britain added six new designations to its Russia sanctions list, an update to the government website showed on Monday, targeting judges and officials involved in the trial of Kara-Murza.
Ukraine and Croatia have agreed on the possibility of using Croatian ports on the Danube and the Adriatic Sea for the export of Ukrainian grain, Ukraine’s foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba said after talks with his Croatian counterpart on Monday, according to Reuters.
Russian airstrikes destroyed an estimated 180,000 metric tonnes of grain crops in the space of nine days this month, the Ukrainian foreign ministry said on Monday.
Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine’s minister of digital transformation, said Russia lost 87 units of equipment last week, including 33 strongholds, 26 armoured combat vehicles and 15 tanks.
The Kremlin on Monday described a drone attack on Moscow as an “act of desperation” by Ukraine after setbacks on the battlefield. AFP reported that Kremlin spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, said it had been “very difficult” for Ukrainian forces on the frontline since they launched their counteroffensive in June.
Ukrainian forces have recaptured nearly 15 sq km (5.8 sq miles) of land from Russian troops in the east and south over the past week during their counteroffensive, a senior defence official said on Monday. Kyiv’s forces have now retaken 204.7 sq km in the south since they launched a major push back against Russian forces early last month, deputy defence minister Hanna Maliar said on Telegram.
Denis Pushilin, the Russian-imposed acting governor of occupied Donetsk, has claimed that at least two people have been killed and at least six injured after a Ukrainian strike hit a bus in the city, which had been capital of the self-declared Donetsk People’s Republic since 2014, and which Russia claimed to have annexed last year.
Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin appears to have said in a voice message published on Monday that his Wagner group was not currently recruiting fighters but was likely to do so in future. Prigozhin said in the voice message that “unfortunately” some of his fighters had moved to other “power structures”, but he said they were looking to return.
Saudi Arabia will host a Ukrainian-organised peace summit in early August seeking a way to start negotiations over the war, the Associated Press has reported, citing Saudi officials. One, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Russia was not invited to the talks in Jeddah.
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