Ukraine-Russia warfare newest: Two Nato members report Russian drones coming into their airspace as energy station hit | EUROtoday

A drone flew into Estonian ‌airspace from Russia early on Wednesday morning and slammed right into a ​chimney at a neighborhood energy ​station, the Baltic nation’s Internal ⁠Security Service informed public broadcaster ​ERR.

There have been no experiences of ​accidents or injury to the facility station, Estonian authorities mentioned.

It follows two drones coming into Latvian airspace in the identical approximate time interval.

Myanmar’s navy is utilizing Russian intelligence and imported weapons to achieve an edge on the battlefield in opposition to insurgent forces, in response to consultants monitoring the rising ties between Yangon and Moscow.

Russian weapons within the palms of Myanmar’s navy have been used to “devastating effect” in opposition to not simply insurgent targets but in addition civilian websites like faculties and hospitals, mentioned Ian Storey, senior fellow on the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute in Singapore.

Moscow can be providing airpower and battlefield techniques it has gained from its warfare in opposition to Ukrainian forces.

“The death toll has been appalling,” he informed Al Jazeera.

The Myanmar generals have additionally adopted Russia’s “meat assaults” techniques and are reportedly throwing waves of infantry at their enemy’s defensive traces with out consideration for the casualties, he mentioned.

“The junta has copied Russian tactics, using conscripted soldiers in human wave attacks against rebel forces,” Storey mentioned.

Russian ⁠air ‌defence items ‌have downed 389 ‌Ukrainian ⁠drones in a single day, together with over ‌the ​Moscow area, officers on the Russian defence ministry mentioned.

A fireplace has damaged out at Russia’s ⁠Baltic Sea port of Ust-Luga following a drone ⁠assault, the governor ​of Leningrad ⁠area ‌mentioned on Telegram this morning.

Alexander Drozdenko mentioned the hearth was being tackled and that 33 drones have been shot down over the north-western area of Russia.

He mentioned ‌nobody ​has ‌been reported injured due ⁠to ⁠the assaults.

A Ukrainian soldier preventing close to the town of Lyman in Ukraine’s jap Donetsk area has mentioned Russian forces have intensified assaults in latest days however failed to attain a breakthrough, regardless of growing bombardments and repeated floor assaults.

Lyman’s full seize is one among Russian president Vladimir Putin’s important strategic targets.

Russian troops had earlier sought to isolate Lyman by concentrating on logistics routes earlier than escalating their offensive, in response to the soldier, who gave solely his name signal King, in line with the principles of the Ukrainian navy.

Ukrainian items repelled preliminary assaults, destroying advancing Russian columns and inflicting important losses by way of each armoured autos and personnel, he mentioned.

In response, Russian forces have elevated airstrikes in town, together with using highly effective glide bombs.“The situation is tense, but not critical,” King said.

Russia carried out a rare day-long aerial attack on Ukraine yesterday, officials said, firing 948 drones over a 24-hour period and killing at least seven people.

The assault began in the early hours of Tuesday morning, with Ukraine’s air force confirming at least 392 drones were fired from Russia overnight.

Russia also launched 23 cruise missiles and seven ballistic missiles at Ukraine during the night, hitting at least 10 locations across the country, according to Ukraine’s air force.

The major onslaught was followed by another 556 drones in the daytime, a pattern rarely seen during the four-year war, and making it possibly the largest aerial attack in a single day so far.

Russia launched swarms of Iranian-designed Shahed drones, hitting at least seven cities, Ukrainian foreign minister Andrii Sybiha said on X.

Kyiv says a long-awaited spring offensive by Russia is now under way along parts of the roughly 1,250-kilometre (750-mile) frontline snaking along eastern and southern Ukraine.

The commander-in-chief of Ukraine’s armed forces, General Oleksandr Syrskyi, said Russian troops have in recent days made simultaneous attempts to break through defensive lines in several strategic areas.

“Fierce fighting unfolded along the entire line of contact,” Syrskyi reported on Monday, saying Russia had launched 619 attacks in four days.

“The occupiers are attempting to bring up new units and are preparing to continue attacks,” Syrskyi said, adding that Ukraine had deployed reinforcements to counter the assaults.

It was not possible to independently verify the battlefield claims.

The Institute for the Study of War, a Washington-based think tank, said Syrskyi’s report backed up its assessment that Russia’s spring-summer offensive is now underway.

Russia escalated its strikes from 17 March and has moved heavy equipment and more troops to the front line, the ISW said late Monday.

Volodymyr Zelensky has called the Russian attack on a Unesco world heritage site in Lviv “utterly perverse”.

“Iranian ‘shaheds’ enhanced by Russia hit a church in Lviv – this is utterly perverse, and only the likes of Putin could take pleasure in it. In Ivano-Frankivsk, a maternity hospital was damaged. The scale of today’s attack strongly indicates that Russia has no intention of really ending this war,” he said in a post on X.

Lviv regional governor Maksym Kozytskyi said part of the Bernardine monastery complex in the historic centre of Lviv, a Unesco World Heritage Site, had been damaged.

The attack stunned residents of Lviv, which lies closer to Vienna than to the nearest active frontline on the other side of Ukraine. Although it has seen some lethal bombardments during the war, they are far less frequent than in other major cities.

Almost half a million people were left without electricity in Russia’s Belgorod region after Ukrainian strikes hit energy infrastructure, the region’s head said this morning.

Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said power outages affected around 450,000 people across several districts, including the regional capital of Belgorod, with many residents also facing disruption to heating and water supply.

Night-time temperatures in Belgorod over the coming days are expected to hover around zero degrees Celsius.

Gladkov said that repair works have already started, but said that it will take several days to complete and restore the power supply completely.

Belgorod, which lies about 40km (25 miles) from the border with Ukraine, has been a frequent target of Ukrainian drone and missile strikes throughout the course of the war, which has now entered its fifth year.

German prosecutors said they have arrested two people on suspicion of spying for Russia.

Sergey N, a Ukrainian national, was arrested in Spain, while Alla S, a Romanian national, was arrested in Germany, a statement by prosecutors said, redacting their full names in accordance with German privacy laws.

“From December 2025, Sergey N spied on a person in Germany on behalf of a Russian intelligence service. This person was supplying drones and related components to Ukraine,” the assertion mentioned, citing the accusations within the arrest warrant.

“To this finish, the accused gathered data on-line and filmed the goal’s office. When Sergey N moved to Spain, Alla S took over his project no later than March 2026,” it added.