Ukraine-Russia battle newest: Putin’s forces launch over 150 lethal glide bombs in big air assault | EUROtoday

Vladimir Putin’s troops have launched over 150 lethal glide bombs at Ukraine over the past day in an enormous air assault, Kyiv’s navy stated.

At least 153 KAB missiles – winged explosives weighing as much as 1,500 kilograms and nicknamed the “building destroyer” – had been dropped on Ukrainian cities and cities on Saturday, in line with Ukraine’s normal employees.

They had been a part of an enormous air assault on involving almost 100 airstrikes and a missile assault in areas like Sumy, Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhia, it added.

Ukrainian air defences destroyed 65 out of 111 drones launched by Russia throughout an in a single day assault, Kyiv’s air drive stated in a press release on Sunday.

It added that one other 35 drones had been “locationally lost” with out inflicting injury, sometimes a reference to digital jamming, however that injury was reported within the Kharkiv, Sumy, Odesa and Donetsk areas.

Russia and Ukraine have agreed to cease attacking ships within the Black Sea after intense negotiations with the US in Saudi Arabia.

It just isn’t the total ceasefire Donald Trump is continuous to push for 3 years into Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, however the transfer is seen as progress by the White House.

A US delegation held separate talks with counterparts from Russia and Ukraine over three days into Tuesday.

But how lengthy the present deal will maintain – and even when it formally begins – stays unsure after Russia carried out drone strikes on a key Ukrainian port metropolis in a single day.

The Russian defence ministry has claimed Putin’s troops have taken the settlement of Panteleimonivka in Ukraine’s japanese Donetsk area and Scherbaky in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia area.

Ukraine has not commented on the declare. It has not been independently verified.

Downing Street has confirmed British and French navy planners will go to Ukraine subsequent week to debate “how the coalition of the willing’s reassurance force will work in practice”.

The prime minister’s official spokesman stated: “Any peace agreement can only be achieved if it’s backed by real, credible security assurances that deter Putin from coming back for Ukraine again.

“That’s what the focus of the coalition of the willing meetings have been so far, supported by the ongoing military planning meetings, which have been taking place in the last few weeks, and we continue the operational phase of our planning.

“British and French military leaders will go to Ukraine next week to discuss the Ukrainian military, how a reassurance force will work in practice.”

Ukrainian troops have quietly pushed inside Russian territory over the previous few days, in line with navy bloggers.

Emil Kastehelmi, a navy analyst with the Finnish-based Black Bird Group, stated Ukrainian forces had penetrated Russian defences in Belgorod between 1.9 and a pair of.5 miles.

The transfer could possibly be an try and distract Russian forces pushing out Kyiv’s troops in neighbouring Kursk, which Ukraine seized after an invasion in August final 12 months.

Two folks had been killed and 25 injured in a Russian drone assault on Ukraine’s northeastern metropolis of Kharkiv, Kyiv’s navy stated.

Drones struck the navy hospital, buying centre, residence blocks and different targets within the metropolis.

The navy’s General Staff stated that Ukrainian troops had been among the many injured in what it described as a “deliberate, targeted shelling” of a medical facility.

The assault “added to the long list of vile and cynical crimes committed by the Russians since the beginning of the unprovoked invasion of Ukraine”, the military added.

Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov said one of the dead had been pulled out from under rubble. He put the overall number of injured at 27.