kyiv says Russia launched 'record' night attack with '4 Iskander-M missiles and 188 drones'

On Monday, ATACMS targeted the Kursk-Skhidny (????) airfield near Kursk, Russian and Ukrainian Telegram channels say.

Russian bombings on the center of Kharkiv left twenty-three injured, according to local authorities. In Odessa, Russian missile attacks caused “victims” and residential buildings were damaged. “Dozens of attack drones attacked Zaporizhia; a child is injured. Odessa was attacked, there was damage from falling rocket fragments. And this is just one day of Russian terror against Ukraine,” described Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in a morning report published on Telegram.

During the night, Ukrainian drones bombed a fuel depot in Russia's Kaluga region. “The target of the attack was the oil depot” du groupe Nefteprodukt, “who is involved in supporting Russia's armed aggression against Ukraine”an anonymous Ukrainian military intelligence source told Agence France-Presse, saying the strike had caused “destruction” important. Vladislav Chapcha, Russian governor of this region south of Moscow, said Russian air defenses had shot down eight drones in the suburbs of Kaluga.

“Air defense downed eight ballistic missiles, six American-made JDAM guided aerial bombs as well as forty-five drones”the Russian Defense Ministry said on Monday, without giving further details.

The Secretary General of the United Nations denounced, on Monday, the “renewed threat” anti-personnel mines, days after the United States said it would provide these weapons to Ukrainian forces.

A video online from this weekend shows a Ukrainian army foreign fighter after he was captured in Kursk Oblast. The man, in military fatigues, introduces himself in this video as James Scott Rhys Anderson, 22, a British national. He claims he joined the Ukrainian International Legion, a unit made up of foreign volunteers, after serving in the British army from 2019 to 2023.

The British government announced on Monday sanctions against thirty additional ships of the “ghost fleet” allowing Russia to export its oil and gas by circumventing Western restrictions imposed since the invasion of Ukraine.

The site is known as the “February 11 Factory.” It is part of the Ryongsong Engineering Complex in Hamgyong, North Korea's second-largest city. According to Ukrainian military officials and documents analyzed by CNN, Moscow is increasingly using North Korean ballistic missiles: since the start of the year, Russia has fired around sixty KN-23 missiles against Ukraine, or nearly a third of the 194 ballistic missile strikes recorded by the Ukrainian Air Force.

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock spoke about the crash, Monday morning near the airport in Vilnius, of a cargo plane linking Germany and Lithuania. “Recently, we have had hybrid attacks on several occasions in Europe (…) on people, infrastructure underwater or on land »continued the head of German diplomacy.

In a context of increased tensions with Russia, the Federal Office for Population Protection and Disaster Assistance (the equivalent of civil protection in France) announced on Monday that it was launching an inventory of bunkers and shelters where the German population could find refuge in the event of an attack.