Russia-Ukraine war news: Zelensky vows response to Chernihiv strike; Drone strikes in Russia

Drone assaults on Russian territory in a single day broken a prepare station and fell round two Russian navy items, officers there stated, blaming Ukraine. An uptick in assaults deep inside Russian territory possible means Russian navy leaders are below strain to tighten air defenses, Britain’s Defense Ministry stated.

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The assault on Chernihiv turned “an ordinary Saturday … into a day of pain and loss,” Zelensky stated. The United Nations humanitarian coordinator for Ukraine, Denise Brown, condemned the assault — about 80 miles north of the capital, Kyiv, and much from the entrance strains of the war — saying in an announcement that it “is heinous to attack the main square of a large city, in the morning, while people are out walking, some going to the church to celebrate a religious day for many Ukrainians.”

Videos verified by The Washington Post confirmed an explosion on the roof of the Chernihiv theater earlier than a fiery projectile slammed right into a constructing about 320 toes away. Acting mayor Oleksandr Lomako stated some properties have been broken by the blasts. Among the injured have been 15 youngsters and 15 cops, Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko stated.

Five individuals have been injured after a drone assault on a prepare station in Russia not removed from the Ukrainian border. The governor of the Kursk area stated in a Telegram post early Sunday {that a} Ukrainian drone strike on the station triggered a hearth on the roof, and the individuals have been “slightly injured” by falling glass.

Russia stated it stopped a drone assault it blamed on Ukraine early Sunday, the Russian defense ministry said. The ministry stated it used digital means to disable the drone. It stated the assault did no injury and nobody was harm. The Post couldn’t independently confirm the report. Russia’s Federal Air Transport Agency said that two airports round Moscow — Vnukovo and Domodedovo — had to quickly divert flights to different airports in a single day to guarantee the security of these on board. The airports have been working usually Sunday morning, it stated.

Russian forces additionally thwarted a drone assault in its southern area of Rostov, regional governor Vasily Golubev said early Sunday. Golubev stated two drones “fell on the territory of a military unit in Kamensk,” a Russian city bordering the jap Ukrainian area of Luhansk, and stated one other drone fell close to Novoshakhtinsk, some 50 miles south. He stated there have been no casualties or injury. The Post couldn’t independently confirm the report.

Russian navy leaders are “highly likely under intense pressure to improve air defences over western Russia,” the British Defense Ministry stated, as Ukraine’s capability to strike deep inside Russian territory has improved in current months, main to extra frequent drone and ballistic missile assaults. The strain to cease these strikes might be falling on “the leadership of Russia’s Aerospace Forces,” or VKS, and notably on “VKS Chief of Staff, Colonel-General Viktor Afzalov,” the ministry said Sunday in its each day intelligence evaluation.

It is “premature to make assessments about the overall success” of Kyiv’s counteroffensive, the Institute for the Study of War stated in an assessment, following a report by The Post in which individuals aware of a categorized forecast from the U.S. intelligence neighborhood stated Ukraine would fail in its goal of severing Russia’s land bridge to Crimea in this 12 months’s push. The D.C.-based suppose tank stated it maintains that “the overall degradation of the Russian defensive line creates opportunities for any Ukrainian breakthrough to be potentially operationally significant.”

Kyiv has an settlement with Stockholm to produce armored automobiles generally known as CV-90s inside Ukraine, Zelensky stated in his nightly tackle. He didn’t specify what number of, or what the settlement entailed. On his go to to Sweden this weekend, Zelensky and Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson additionally mentioned Ukraine’s need for Swedish-made Gripen fighter jets, which Stockholm earlier this summer time agreed to permit Ukrainian pilots to take a look at.

The United States is anticipated to quickly double its prewar month-to-month manufacturing of the usual NATO artillery spherical, The Post reviews, rising its output from 14,000 items a month earlier than Russia’s invasion to ultimately 28,000 items a month. But business specialists warn of challenges in sustaining the elevated manufacturing ranges, not simply to help Ukraine war efforts but in addition to guarantee U.S. safety in potential conflicts with China or Russia.

Russian President Vladimir Putin visited navy officers in Rostov-on-Don, in accordance to reports by state media. The journey to town in southwestern Russia, close to the Ukrainian border, is his first since Wagner Group mercenaries briefly took management there throughout their short-lived June rebel.

Ukraine working out of choices to retake important territory: More than two months into the extremely anticipated counteroffensive that officers touted as Ukraine’s essential alternative to retake territory from Russian forces, it seems that the hassle is stalling and Ukraine is working out of choices, The Post’s Susannah George reviews.

The slogging effort has stoked fears in Washington and Europe that the war might be reaching a stalemate and worldwide help may erode. Franz-Stefan Gady, a senior fellow with the International Institute for Strategic Studies and the Center for New American Security, stated “the question here is which of the two sides is going to be worn out sooner.”