Ukraine-Russia war latest: Putin cancels navy celebration parades as Kyiv strikes near St Petersburg
Annual parades of Russian warships to mark the Navy Day were cancelled in St Petersburg, in the Kaliningrad region on the Baltic and in the far-eastern port of Vladivostok.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov confirmed the cancellation of the parades and said it was 'linked to the overall situation, security reasons, which are above all else'.
Russian forces downed nearly 100 Ukrainian drones over several regions from Saturday night into Sunday. The drone threat also forced the shutdown of St Petersburg Pulkovo airport, leading to the suspension of dozens of flights in the early hours of Sunday.
Meanwhile, Poland scrambled its warplanes in the early hours of Monday to protect its airspace after Russia launched missiles at western Ukraine, near the border with the Nato country. As of 1.30am local time, most of Ukraine remained under air raid alerts.
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