At least three people were killed in a Russian attack on the outskirts of Kharkiv in Ukraine, officials said, as Kyiv and Moscow continued to exchange attacks overnight. Emergency services have rescued and evacuated eight people, some of whom were injured, governor Oleh Syniehubov said, adding the search was ongoing to identify any other possible casualties. In Russia, Ukrainian attacks have targeted another online retailer, setting fire to Ozon's logistics hub in Makhachkala in Dagestan.
Kyiv has repeatedly targeted facilities belonging to Russia's largest online shop Wildberries, accusing it of providing logistics support to Vladimir Putin's armed forces. Ozon said it also paused operations at two warehouses in the nearby regions of Stavropol and Adygeya in the North Caucasus amid a drone attack alert. Earlier, Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky warned that Putin intends to draft 300,000 new troops to join the war from next month in a bid to seize territory.
Zelensky said that the Russian leader would start the drive after elections in September, as Moscow pursues its main goal of capturing the rest of Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region. The Russian defence ministry said it had hit a tanker carrying fuel and lubricants for Ukrainian troops in the port of Pivdennyi near Odesa, as well as port infrastructure facilities used for unloading and storing military cargo. Holding a wartime election in Ukraine while active fighting with Russia continues would “destroy” the country by splitting Ukrainians, president Volodymyr Zelensky said.
His comments, released to reporters on Sunday, were Zelensky's first on the subject since ousted former defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov called for a wartime poll in an address last week. Fedorov's surprise dismissal last month sparked widespread protests, but supporters calling for his reinstatement later baulked at his call for an election - the first such demand by a major Ukrainian political figure since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in 2022. Prime minister Andy Burnham has agreed to provide Ukraine with blueprints to produce long-range missiles.
He is set to announce the move today during his first trip to Ukraine that he will allow European defence firm MBDA to declassify information on UK components for the long-range Scalp missile – the French-produced version of the UK’s Storm Shadow. The “deep precision strike” missiles use shared French and British technology, and Ukraine and France are looking to set up local assembly lines to produce them in Ukraine. The PM is visiting Kyiv on his first foreign trip to mark Ukraine’s independence day and signal the UK’s continued support for the country under his administration.
A Russian attack on the outskirts of Kharkiv in Ukraine's northeast killed three people, the regional governor said late last night. A logistics centre belonging to Russian online retailer Ozon is on fire in Makhachkala in Dagestan following a drone attack this morning, the company said. Ozon has also temporarily shut down two warehouses in the nearby regions of Stavropol and Adygeya in the North Caucasus amid a drone attack alert, it said, though they were not damaged.
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