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Three civilians, including a teenage boy, were wounded in an overnight Russian strike in the Donetsk oblast, according to the office of Ukraine’s prosecutor general.

Russian troops launched a rocket attack on a residential area in the city of Myrnograd at about 1.30am, injuring a 15-year-old boy and a 35-year-old man in their own homes. A 30-year-old resident of a neighbouring house sustained a brain injury.

The surprise visit to the Baltic Nato member country will see Zelenakiy travel to Tallinn and Riga after Vilnius

Zelenskiy has posted an update via his X account. In the statement, he calls Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania “reliable friends and principled partners” to Ukraine.

He has confirmed that while in Vilnius he will hold talks with the president, prime minister, speaker of the Seimas, as well as meet with politicians, the media, and the Ukrainian community. Security, EU and Nato integration, co-operation on electronic warfare and drones, and further coordination of European support are all on the agenda, he says.

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Russia has started using ballistic missiles supplied by North Korea to attack Ukraine, Washington and Kyiv have claimed, in an indication that Moscow plans to further expand its arms deals with regimes under sanctions in order to sustain its war effort.

Washington also alleged Russia was in talks with Iran to buy short-range ballistic missiles. The US intelligence assessment is that Iranian missiles have not yet arrived in Russia, but that the deal will eventually be done.

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Ukraine says it caused “serious damage” to Russia’s defence systems on the Crimean peninsula during an attack on a military command post there on Thursday.

“Not only was one command post hit, really powerful combat work took place over the past 24 hours, including causing serious damage to the defence system on the Crimean peninsula,” said Natalya Gumenyuk, a spokesperson for the defence forces of southern Ukraine.

Ukraine’s cyber spy chief says attack on Kyivstar should serve as a ‘big warning’ to the west

One civilian was killed and eight wounded on Thursday in a Russian missile strike on Kropyvnytskyi in central Ukraine, damaging energy company buildings and causing power and water supply cuts, the regional governor said.

Russia likely used an X-59 missile, governor Andriy Raikovych said at a briefing, according to Reuters. Raikovych said:

Ordinary working people were injured … One worker, unfortunately, died. A simple car mechanic.

We have to state that the regime of Zelenskiy is not inclined to make peace.

Its representatives think in terms of war and resort to highly aggressive rhetoric.

Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, says four people were killed and 92 injured across the country

Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, and its second-largest city, Kharkiv, have come under heavy Russian missile attacks, killing at least five people, a day after Vladimir Putin warned that Russia would “intensify” its assault on Ukraine.

Explosions were heard in all districts of the Ukrainian capital on Tuesday morning, shaking buildings in the city centre, in the third successive day of airstrikes on Ukraine