Russia-Ukraine conflict rages on its 549th day.
Russian forces have been attempting to push forward on Ukraine's Kharkiv region frontline in recent weeks. / Photo: AFPTwo people have been killed and one wounded after Russian forces shelled a village near the town of Kupiansk in Ukraine's northeastern Kharkiv region, the region's governor said.
Officials in Kupiansk, about six kilometres from the frontline, had urged vulnerable residents living near the town to evacuate earlier this month as Russia stepped up attacks to recapture the area. "According to the preliminary information of the medical staff, two people died in Podoly village as a result of the shelling, another one was wounded," Kharkiv governor Oleg Synegubov said on social media.The Russian military has said over recent days that it is advancing near the area, which was recaptured by Ukraine last year but is now subject to a renewed offensive.A drone attack on Moscow forced a temporary shutdown of all three major airports serving the city, Russian state media has reported. Officials blamed Ukraine for what appeared to be the latest of near-daily strikes on the Russian capital and the surrounding region. Kiev has since early this year sought to take the 18-month-war into the heart of Russia, also saying recently that it was behind strikes on Russian military assets far behind the front lines. Russia’s defence ministry and Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said that a drone was shot down over the Istra district of the Moscow region, some 50 kilometers west of Red Square.0846 GMT - Russia says second drone downed as Ukrainian shells wound four Russia has said that its air defences shot down one drone approaching Moscow and another in a border region while Ukrainian shelling wounded four in a border town. The Russian defence ministry said one drone was destroyed approaching Moscow at around 0000 GMT and another close to the border in Belgorod region at 0600 GMT. The drone attacks came as the governor of Russia's Belgorod region said Kiev shelled the town of Urazovo, about 10 kilometres from the Ukrainian border, injuring four people. "The Ukrainian armed forces shelled the town of Urazovo in Valuysky municipal district with Grad shells," governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said on social media. He said Ukraine used"cluster munitions" in the attack, and that residential homes and an agricultural shop were hit. "According to preliminary data, there are 4 victims -- three men and one woman. All of them have shrapnel wounds," he added.Ukrainian forces believe they have broken through the most difficult line of Russian defences in the south and will now be able to advance more quickly, a commander fighting in the south told Reuters. Ukraine launched a counteroffensive in June, but well-prepared Russian defence lines reinforced by minefields have slowed their southward advance towards the Sea of Azov. Ukrainian forces said on Wednesday they had raised the national flag in the settlement of Robotyne in the southern Zaporizhzhia region, about 10 km south of the frontline town of Orikhiv. "We don't stop here," said a commander who led some of the troops into Robotyne and uses the nom de guerre"Kombat". "Next we have Berdiansk, and then more. I made it clear to my fighters at once: our goal is not Robotyne, our goal is Azov."Russia's military co-operation with Iran will not succumb to geopolitical pressure, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said, following reports that Washington has asked Teheran to stop selling drones to Moscow. "There are no changes, and co-operation with Iran will continue," Ryabkov said, according to a report from Russian state news agency RIA."We are independent states and do not succumb to the dictates of the United States and its satellites." The US is pressing Iran to stop selling the armed drones, which Russia is using in the war in Ukraine, the Financial Times reported earlier this month, citing an Iranian official and another person familiar with the talks. Iran has acknowledged sending drones to Russia but said in the past they were sent before Russia's February 2022 offensive in Ukraine. Moscow has denied its forces used Iranian drones in Ukraine.Ukraine's GUR military intelligence agency said a Ukrainian drone attack had hit a Russian military base deep inside annexed Crimea, while residents reported casualties, explosions and a road closure. Ukrainian intelligence officials said the attack struck Russia's 126th Coastal Defence Brigade based in Perevalnoye, a town more than 200 km from Ukraine-controlled territory. "We confirm that there was a hit," said GUR spokesperson Andriy Yusov, according to Ukrainian media outlet"People - not only on the Ukrainian mainland but also in Crimea - need to remember and believe that our victory and their liberation are not far away," Ukraine's military intelligence chief Kyrylo Budanov said of the strike. Perevalnoye residents, posting on the Telegram messaging app, reported hearing blasts from the military base and cited casualties.0203 GMT – Russia downs drone approaching Moscow: mayor Russian air defences have destroyed a drone as it approached Moscow, the city's mayor, Sergei Sobyanin, said. "Tonight, air defence forces destroyed a drone on approach to Moscow in the Istrinskii district," Sobyanin wrote on Telegram. "Preliminarily, there were no casualties or damage. Emergency services are working on the site," he added.
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