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The Guardian
3 days ago
- Politics
- The Guardian
Ukraine war briefing: Drones hit Russian electronic warfare plant and disrupt railway and air travel
Ukraine's drone forces were on the attack against Russian strategic targets on Saturday and into Sunday. Drones hit the Signal radio and electronic warfare equipment plant in the Stavropol region, an official from Ukraine's SBU security service told Reuters. Two facilities at the Signal plant in the city of Stavropol, about 540km (335 miles) from the Ukrainian border, were damaged. Videos online showed an explosion and a large column of dark smoke rising into the sky. The plant was one of Russia's leading producers of electronic warfare equipment, including radar, radio navigation equipment, and remote control radio equipment, the official said. 'Each such attack stops production processes and reduces the enemy's military potential. This work will continue.' Russia's civil aviation authority said it again had to shut down an airport as Ukrainian drones attacked. Rosaviatsia said it suspended flights soon after midnight on Sunday at the airport serving the city of Volgograd, which is the administrative centre of the broader Volgograd region. Ukrainian drones also hit a railway power supply in the Volgograd region, the administration of the region in Russia's south said on Sunday. Air raid alerts were introduced in several other regions in Russia's west and south, warning of Ukrainian drone attacks, according to posts by regional officials. Drones again targeted Moscow, said the mayor, Sergei Sobyanin, and an industrial facility in the Penza oblast south-east of the capital, according to the region's governor, Oleg Melnichenko. In the Rostov region, officials said Ukrainian drones killed two people. Ukraine's regions of Dnipro in the south and Sumy in the north-east came under combined rocket and drone attack into Saturday, local officials reported. The head of the Dnipro regional administration, Serhii Lysak, said at least two people died and five were wounded. In the city of Dnipro, a multi-storey building and business were damaged and outside the city a fire engulfed a shopping centre. In Sumy, the military administration said three people were injured. Russian drones hit a central square in Sumy city, and damaged the building of the regional administration. Kharkiv sustained an intense aerial bombardment with Ukraine's state emergency service reporting six people were hurt, including four rescuers wounded in a 'double tap' where a second attack targeted emergency workers trying to help the victims of the first. According to Ukraine's air force, Russia launched 208 drones and 27 missiles overnight into Saturday. It said according to preliminary data, air defences and electronic warfare took down or intercepted 183 drones and 17 missiles, but hits from 10 missiles and 25 drones were recorded in nine locations. Russia's defence ministry claimed its forces had captured two more villages in eastern Ukraine: Zelenyi Hai in the Donetsk region and Maliivka just inside the Dnipropetrovsk region. The Ukrainian military's general staff mentioned Zelenyi Hai as one of several frontline areas that had come under Russian attack 11 times over the past 24 hours. It said Maliivka was one of several villages where 10 Russian attacks had been halted. Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the Ukrainian president, said Ukraine's top commander, Oleksandr Syrskyi, had identified Pokrovsk as an area requiring 'special attention' due to constant attack. A military spokesperson, Viktor Trehubov, told national television that Russian forces were attacking Pokrovsk in 'a small torrent … that simply does not stop'. Zelenskyy said Ukrainian forces had recorded 'successful actions' in Sumy. The Reuters news agency, which reported on the developments, could not independently confirm battlefield accounts from either side. Russia's defence ministry on Saturday claimed that it struck military facilities in Ukraine that 'manufacture components for missile weapons, as well as produce ammunition and explosives'. The claim could not be independently verified. Zelenskyy posted that that 'there can be absolutely no silence in response to such strikes, and Ukrainian long-range drones ensure this. Russian military enterprises, Russian logistics, Russian airports must feel that the Russian war has real consequences for them.' An Indian firm that shipped $1.4m worth of an explosive compound with military uses to Russia said on Saturday that it complies with Indian rules and the substance was for civilian industrial purposes. A Reuters investigation found that HMX, also called octogen, was sent to two Russian explosives manufacturers despite the threat of international sanctions. Ukraine's drones have attacked the factory of one of the Russian companies after security services linked it to Russia's military. The Indian company involved emailed Reuters saying its shipment was 'for industrial activity and it's a civil explosive'. The US government has identified HMX as 'critical for Russia's war effort'. It is widely used in missile and torpedo warheads, rocket motors, exploding projectiles and plastic-bonded explosives for advanced military systems, according to the Pentagon's Defense Technical Information Center and related defense research programmes. The compound also has some limited civilian applications in mining and other industrial activities.
Al Jazeera
3 days ago
- Politics
- Al Jazeera
Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,249
Here is how things stand on Sunday, July 27: Fighting Falling debris from destroyed Ukrainian drones disrupted railway power supply and train operations in part of the Volgograd region, the administration of the region in Russia's south said on Sunday. There were no injuries as a result of the attacks, the administration said on Telegram, quoting Governor Andrei Bocharov. Russia downed 99 drones overnight over 12 Russian regions, the Crimean Peninsula and the Black Sea, the Russian Ministry of Defence said. Meanwhile, Russia launched a barrage of drones and missiles in an overnight attack that killed three people in Ukraine's Dnipro and the nearby region on Saturday, Ukrainian officials said. Ukraine's air force said it intercepted 183 drones and 17 missiles, but hits from 10 missiles and 25 drones were recorded in nine locations. Drones once again targeted Moscow, said the city's mayor, Sergei Sobyanin, and an industrial facility in the Penza oblast southeast of the capital, according to the region's governor, Oleg Melnichenko. In the Rostov region, officials said, Ukrainian drones killed two people, and another in Russia's Kursk region on the country's border, regional Governor Alexander Khinshtein said. Russia's Defence Ministry said on Saturday its forces captured two more villages in eastern Ukraine, Zelenyi Hai in the Donetsk region and Maliivka just inside the Dnipropetrovsk region. Ukrainian drones hit a radio and electronic warfare equipment plant in Russia's Stavropol region in an overnight attack on Saturday, an official from the SBU security service told the Reuters news agency. 'Each such attack stops production processes and reduces the enemy's military potential. This work will continue,' the official told the agency. Attacks targeting the plant continued on Sunday. Weapons and military aid Indian firm Ideal Detonators Private Limited, which shipped $1.4m worth of the explosive compound octogen with military uses to Russia in December, said on Saturday it complies with Indian rules and the substance it had shipped was for civilian industrial purposes. The US government has identified the compound as 'critical for Russia's war effort' and has warned financial institutions against facilitating any sales of the substance to Moscow. Diplomacy Russia will launch direct passenger flights from Moscow to North Korea's capital, Pyongyang, on Sunday, Russian authorities said, as the two former communist bloc allies move to improve ties following Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The start of regular flights between the capitals for the first time since the mid-1990s, according to Russian aviation blogs, follows the resumption of Moscow-Pyongyang passenger rail service, a 10-day journey, in June. Pope Leo discussed the war in Ukraine on Saturday with Metropolitan Anthony, a senior cleric in the Russian Orthodox Church, in a possible effort to ease ties between the churches strained by Russia's invasion. Ceasefire Peace talks and a settlement in Ukraine have never been on the real agenda of the West, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Saturday, in her first comments on negotiations since Russian and Ukrainian officials held talks on Wednesday. If the West wanted 'real peace' in Ukraine, it would stop supplying Kyiv with weapons, Zakharova said in comments reported by the TASS news agency.
The Guardian
4 days ago
- Politics
- The Guardian
Ukraine war briefing: Drones hit Russian electronic warfare plant and disrupt railway and air travel
Ukraine's drone forces were on the attack against Russian strategic targets on Saturday and into Sunday. Drones hit the Signal radio and electronic warfare equipment plant in the Stavropol region, an official from Ukraine's SBU security service told Reuters. Two facilities at the Signal plant in the city of Stavropol, about 540km (335 miles) from the Ukrainian border, were damaged. Videos online showed an explosion and a large column of dark smoke rising into the sky. The plant was one of Russia's leading producers of electronic warfare equipment, including radar, radio navigation equipment, and remote control radio equipment, the official said. 'Each such attack stops production processes and reduces the enemy's military potential. This work will continue.' Russia's civil aviation authority said it again had to shut down an airport as Ukrainian drones attacked. Rosaviatsia said it suspended flights soon after midnight on Sunday at the airport serving the city of Volgograd, which is the administrative centre of the broader Volgograd region. Ukrainian drones also hit a railway power supply in the Volgograd region, the administration of the region in Russia's south said on Sunday. Air raid alerts were introduced in several other regions in Russia's west and south, warning of Ukrainian drone attacks, according to posts by regional officials. Drones again targeted Moscow, said the mayor, Sergei Sobyanin, and an industrial facility in the Penza oblast south-east of the capital, according to the region's governor, Oleg Melnichenko. In the Rostov region, officials said Ukrainian drones killed two people. Ukraine's regions of Dnipro in the south and Sumy in the north-east came under combined rocket and drone attack into Saturday, local officials reported. The head of the Dnipro regional administration, Serhii Lysak, said at least two people died and five were wounded. In the city of Dnipro, a multi-storey building and business were damaged and outside the city a fire engulfed a shopping centre. In Sumy, the military administration said three people were injured. Russian drones hit a central square in Sumy city, and damaged the building of the regional administration. Kharkiv sustained an intense aerial bombardment with Ukraine's state emergency service reporting six people were hurt, including four rescuers wounded in a 'double tap' where a second attack targeted emergency workers trying to help the victims of the first. According to Ukraine's air force, Russia launched 208 drones and 27 missiles overnight into Saturday. It said according to preliminary data, air defences and electronic warfare took down or intercepted 183 drones and 17 missiles, but hits from 10 missiles and 25 drones were recorded in nine locations. Russia's defence ministry claimed its forces had captured two more villages in eastern Ukraine: Zelenyi Hai in the Donetsk region and Maliivka just inside the Dnipropetrovsk region. The Ukrainian military's general staff mentioned Zelenyi Hai as one of several frontline areas that had come under Russian attack 11 times over the past 24 hours. It said Maliivka was one of several villages where 10 Russian attacks had been halted. Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the Ukrainian president, said Ukraine's top commander, Oleksandr Syrskyi, had identified Pokrovsk as an area requiring 'special attention' due to constant attack. A military spokesperson, Viktor Trehubov, told national television that Russian forces were attacking Pokrovsk in 'a small torrent … that simply does not stop'. Zelenskyy said Ukrainian forces had recorded 'successful actions' in Sumy. The Reuters news agency, which reported on the developments, could not independently confirm battlefield accounts from either side. Russia's defence ministry on Saturday claimed that it struck military facilities in Ukraine that 'manufacture components for missile weapons, as well as produce ammunition and explosives'. The claim could not be independently verified. Zelenskyy posted that that 'there can be absolutely no silence in response to such strikes, and Ukrainian long-range drones ensure this. Russian military enterprises, Russian logistics, Russian airports must feel that the Russian war has real consequences for them.' An Indian firm that shipped $1.4m worth of an explosive compound with military uses to Russia said on Saturday that it complies with Indian rules and the substance was for civilian industrial purposes. A Reuters investigation found that HMX, also called octogen, was sent to two Russian explosives manufacturers despite the threat of international sanctions. Ukraine's drones have attacked the factory of one of the Russian companies after security services linked it to Russia's military. The Indian company involved emailed Reuters saying its shipment was 'for industrial activity and it's a civil explosive'. The US government has identified HMX as 'critical for Russia's war effort'. It is widely used in missile and torpedo warheads, rocket motors, exploding projectiles and plastic-bonded explosives for advanced military systems, according to the Pentagon's Defense Technical Information Center and related defense research programmes. The compound also has some limited civilian applications in mining and other industrial activities.
Free Malaysia Today
22-07-2025
- Politics
- Free Malaysia Today
Russia says it downed 73 Ukrainian drones, including 3 flying to Moscow
Workers repair a damaged apartment building following a Ukrainian drone attack in Moscow. (EPA Images pic) MOSCOW : Russian air defences destroyed 73 Ukrainian drones overnight, including three heading for Moscow, Russia's defence ministry said on Friday. Most of the drones were downed over Russia's southwestern regions, including 31 over the Bryansk region that borders Ukraine, the ministry said on the Telegram messaging app. Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin, writing on Telegram, made no mention of casualties or damage but said emergency services were examining the area where drone fragments fell to the ground. The federal aviation agency, Rosaviatsia, briefly ordered the suspension of operations at two airports near the capital, Domodedovo and Zhukovsky, but services were later resumed. Operations were halted well after midnight at a third Moscow airport, Vnukovo, before being reinstated by the morning. There was no immediate comment from Ukraine about the attacks. Kyiv says that its strikes inside Russia are necessary to destroy infrastructure key to Moscow's efforts in its war against Ukraine, now in its fourth year.
Al Jazeera
21-07-2025
- Politics
- Al Jazeera
Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,243
Here is how things stand on Monday, July 21: Fighting The Ministry of Defence in Moscow said Russian forces seized the village of Bila Hora in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region, according to the state RIA Novosti news agency. A Russian attack on the village of Sveska in Ukraine's Sumy region killed a 78-year-old woman, according to Governor Oleh Hryhorov. Six more people were killed in Russian attacks on Synelnykove and Pavlohrad in the Dnipropetrovsk region, as well as Kostiantynivka, Pokrovsk and Raiske in the Donetsk region, according to local governors. Another Russian attack on Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia and Vasylivka districts wounded three women, Governor Ivan Fedorov said, adding that Russia launched 457 attacks on 18 settlements in the region on Sunday. In total, Ukraine's Air Force said it shot down 18 of 57 Russian drones overnight into Sunday. In Russia, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin posted eight separate updates over 24 hours on Telegram saying that several Ukrainian drones 'flying towards Moscow' had been shot down. 'Emergency services are working at the site of the debris fall,' he said in each case. In total, Russia's Ministry of Defence said that Russian forces shot down 216 Ukrainian drones in the 24 hours to 11:20pm Moscow time (20:20 GMT) on Sunday. Politics and diplomacy Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russian President Vladimir Putin was ready to move towards a peace settlement for Ukraine, but that Moscow's main objective was to achieve its goals. The comments came days after United States President Donald Trump gave Moscow a 50-day deadline to agree to a ceasefire or face tougher sanctions. Ukraine's Ministry of Foreign Affairs urged an Italian concert venue to cancel a show with Russian conductor Valery Gergiev's performance, saying it was part of Russian efforts to use 'culture as a tool of propaganda'. Ukraine imposed sanctions on exiled Russian journalist Yulia Latynina, Ukrainian blogger Andrii Serebrianskyi and former Ukrainian lawmakers Natalia Korolevska and Hennadiy Balashov, among others, claiming they had helped spread Russian propaganda, the Kyiv Independent reported. Rosneft, Russia's biggest oil producer, slammed European Union sanctions on India's Nayara Energy refinery as unjustified and illegal, saying the restrictions directly threatened India's energy security.
