All the latest developments from the war in Ukraine.
Drone headed for Moscow shot down
Russia said on Monday it had intercepted a Ukrainian drone in the Kaluga region, less than 200 km southwest of Moscow.
“A drone was shot down by our air defences” overnight, Kaluga region governor Vladislav Chapcha wrote on Telegram.
No damage or casualties were reported.
The incident comes amid multiplying attacks on the Russian capital and annexed Crimean Peninsula.
On 3 August, Russian authorities claimed they downed seven Ukrainian drones bound for Moscow.
Last week, Moscow suffered several drone attacks, including one that damaged an office building in the business district, which was targeted twice within days.
Russia retaliates for Ukrainian attack on tanker
Russia unleashed a torrent of strikes across parts of Ukraine on Sunday, killing at least six people.
Ukraine’s air force said Moscow launched 70 missiles and drones, as it followed through on a promise to retaliate for an attack on a Russian tanker.
Three waves of missiles, fired from aircraft over the Caspian Sea, rained down on the Starokostiantyniv area, damaging several buildings and igniting a fire at a warehouse, according to Serhiy Tyurin, deputy head of Ukraine’s Khmelnytsky region military administration.
The strike may have been intended for the city’s airfield, officials claimed.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the facilities of aircraft engine manufacturer Motor Sich in the Zaporizhzhia region were also attacked.
Moscow’s deadly bombardment followed a Ukrainian drone attack on a Russian tanker in the Black Sea near Crimea late Friday. Ukraine also struck a major Russian port with drones earlier the same day.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova condemned what she called a Ukrainian “terrorist attack” on a civilian vessel.
“There can be no justification for such barbaric actions, they will not go unanswered and their authors and perpetrators will inevitably be punished,” she posted on the Telegram messaging app.
