Ukraine-Russia battle newest: Kyiv says Moscow used new weapon in lethal Kharkiv assault | EUROtoday

Two kids have been amongst at the very least 10 individuals killed on Saturday in a Russian missile that hit a five-story residential constructing in Ukraine’s second-largest metropolis, Kharkiv, officers mentioned.

At least 16 others have been wounded. President Volodymyr Zelensky condemned the assault and known as for a world response. He mentioned that Russia struck Ukraine in a single day with 29 missiles and 480 drones, focusing on vitality services in Kyiv and different central areas and with harm reported in at the very least seven different places throughout the nation.

According to preliminary information, air defence programs downed 19 missiles and 453 drones with hits from 9 missiles and 26 strike drones recorded at 22 places.

In Kharkiv, in Ukraine’s northeast, emergency employees have been combing the rubble, in search of survivors.

Among the useless was a main schoolteacher and her son, a second-grade scholar, who have been killed of their house and an eighth-grader who additionally died together with her mom, in accordance with town’s mayor, Ihor Terekhov.

Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky mentioned he had spoken ⁠to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman concerning the ⁠scenario ​in Iran ⁠and the Middle East and ⁠restated Kyiv’s provide ​to ⁠assist deal ‌with Iranian drones.

“Ukraine has been fighting ‌against (Iranian-designed) ‘Shaheds’ for years, ‌and everyone acknowledges that no other country in the world has such experience,” the war-time president mentioned.

“We are ready to help and expect that our people will also receive the necessary support,” he said.

The US is supplying Ukraine-tested anti-drone systems to partners in the Middle East, reportedThe Wall Street Journal confirming growing international demand for Kyiv’s battlefield-proven technology capable of countering Iranian drone attacks.

The anti-drone systems are designed to intercept incoming drones and have been tested extensively in Ukraine, which has been fighting the Iranian aerial weapons since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in 2022.

Merops has proven effective against Russian drones in Ukraine and is being sent due to limited current anti-drone capabilities in the Middle East.

The Merops system is compact, uses artificial intelligence to identify and intercept drones, and can function even when satellite and electronic communications are jammed.

Delegations have visited factories and development centers to observe how Ukrainian engineers refine counter-drone tactics and systems based on real battlefield experience, the WSJ reported.

Donald Trump has waved off a question about how Russia assisting Iran with critical intelligence might affect his view of the US-Russia relationship.

“They’d say we do it against them,” Trump responded. “Wouldn’t they are saying that we do it in opposition to them?”

Ukraine, in the four years since it was invaded by Russia, has received US intelligence to help defend against incoming missiles from Russia as well as to help Kyiv hit certain Russian targets.

President Donald Trump said it was inconsequential if Russia was providing Iran information to help it target US military personnel and assets in the Middle East as the week-old war continued to rage.

The president dismissed the import of such information-sharing after he attended the dignified transfer for six Army reservists who were killed in a drone strike in Kuwait the day after the US and Israel launched a war on Iran that has unsettled the global economy.

Trump stopped short of confirming reports by the Associated Press and other news outlets that US intelligence officials believe Russia has provided Iran with such targeting information.

But if Moscow is passing on such details, he said Iran was getting little out of it.

“If you take a look at what’s happened to Iran in the last week, if they’re getting information, it’s not helping them much,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One as he flew to Miami, where he’s spending the rest of the weekend.

For the first time in a decade, a Russian flag was raised on a Games podium as the country won two bronze medals in the men’s and women’s downhill standing events at the Milano Cortina 2026 Paralympics.

Russia has been barred from competing under its national symbols for years over doping violations and the war in Ukraine.

The ban remained in place at the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics but was lifted for the Paralympics following a decision by the International Paralympic Committee, prompting criticism from several countries.

On Saturday, Russian alpine skier Varvara Voronchikhina, 24, took bronze in the women’s downhill standing event, while her compatriot Aleksei Bugaev, 29, finished third in the men’s race.

Hungarian authorities have temporarily detained seven Ukrainian citizens and seized two armoured vehicles carrying tens of millions of euros in cash, amid suspicions of money laundering.

The incident, which occurred across Hungary, saw the individuals held on Thursday before their release on Friday.

Despite the Ukrainians being freed, Hungarian officials retained the substantial sum of money. This move has prompted a rebuke from Kyiv, with Ukraine accusing Hungary’s Russia-friendly government of illegally confiscating the funds.

“We will not tolerate this state banditism,” Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha wrote on X on Friday.

Russian forces have deployed a brand new weapon within the newest strike on Ukraine, officers in Kyiv mentioned after the assault on a residential constructing left 10 individuals useless.

The regional Prosecutors’s Office mentioned the constructing was hit by a brand new Russian cruise missile, generally known as Izdeliye-30.

Ukrainian reviews mentioned that the brand new subsonic air-launched weapon that Russia has lately began to make use of in opposition to Ukraine has a variety of 1,500km (930 miles) and is provided with a brand new satellite tv for pc navigation system extra proof against jamming.

As the battle within the Middle East strains US missile shares, Ukraine is hoping it may flip a wartime innovation – low-cost interceptors designed to shoot down Russian assault drones – into geopolitical leverage.

Now one of many world’s main producers of interceptors, Ukraine is providing that experience to the United States and its Gulf companions for the battle within the Middle East, hoping to obtain in return the high-end weaponry it may’t manufacture at house.

When Russia launched its full-scale invasion 4 years in the past, Ukraine’s home arms business was poor. Forced to innovate to outlive, it has since constructed a fast-growing protection sector centered on low-cost drones — some designed particularly to counter Iranian-style Shahed drones of the type that Russia now launches by the tons of.

The metropolis of Kharkiv was focused by Russian drones and missiles, and 11 individuals, together with two kids, have been killed after a Russian ballistic missile slammed right into a five-storey residential constructing, officers mentioned.

“When we arrived here 20 minutes after the explosion, I thought I was going to have a stroke. I couldn’t string two words together, and my legs were buckling,” mentioned Hanna, a resident of the destroyed constructing.

“It’s good that I wasn’t there with my child and that my father was with me. It was ordinary people who lived there. What were they targeting?”

Russia’s defence ministry claimed its forces carried out massive overnight strikes on Ukrainian military-industrial complexes, military airfields and energy facilities but did not explain why the residential areas were targeted in a barrage of strikes, the Interfax news agency reported.

In Kharkiv, 15 people were also wounded, and 19 residential buildings were damaged by the Russian attacks, Kharkiv regional governor Oleh Syniehubov said.

Commercial and administrative buildings, electricity distribution lines, and cars were also hit, he said.