Russian officers reported drone strikes in 4 areas of western and southern Russia, and blamed Ukraine. An uptick in assaults deep inside Russian territory doubtless means Russian army leaders are underneath stress to tighten air defenses, Britain’s Protection Ministry mentioned.
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The Netherlands and Denmark agreed “to switch F-16 plane to Ukraine and the Ukrainian Air Power in shut cooperation with the U.S. and different companions, when the circumstances for such a switch are met.” Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte made the announcement Sunday, after touring a Dutch air base with Zelensky, information wires reported. Rutte declined to say what number of F-16s could be despatched to Ukraine, and mentioned that the Netherlands has 42 of them in inventory, in line with Reuters. Kyiv has argued that fighter jets may assist its forces higher defend the sky above Ukraine and stop extra Russian assaults.
Zelensky additionally visited Denmark on Sunday to “put together for excellent news,” he tweeted. Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen mentioned in a information launch that she, her protection minister and her overseas minister would meet with Zelensky to debate F-16s and Danish help for Ukrainian forces.
Zelensky mentioned the army would “reply tangibly” to an assault on Chernihiv, which killed no less than seven folks, together with a 6-year-old youngster. Ukrainian authorities mentioned 144 folks have been injured within the daytime strike on a theater within the northern metropolis. The regional governor mentioned the strike “most likely” concerned a ballistic missile.
The assault on Chernihiv turned “an abnormal Saturday … right into a day of ache and loss,” Zelensky mentioned. 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 struggle — saying in a press release that it “is heinous to assault the principle sq. of a giant metropolis, within the morning, whereas persons are out strolling, some going to the church to have a good time a spiritual day for a lot of Ukrainians.”
5 folks have been injured after a drone assault on a practice station in Russia not removed from the Ukrainian border. The governor of the Kursk area mentioned in a Telegram put up early Sunday {that a} Ukrainian drone strike on the station brought on a hearth on the roof and that folks have been “barely injured” by falling glass.
The Russian Protection Ministry mentioned it foiled deliberate drone strikes on the border area of Belgorod. The ministry mentioned three drones tried to focus on amenities in Belgorod between 2 and a pair of:40 p.m. native time on Sunday. It mentioned air protection methods destroyed the drones and no harm was achieved. The Publish couldn’t independently confirm the claims. The regional governor, Vyacheslav Gladkov, mentioned that “12 air targets” have been shot down as they approached Belgorod. He mentioned “the results on the bottom” have been nonetheless being clarified.
Russia mentioned it stopped a drone assault it blamed on Ukraine early Sunday, the Russian Protection Ministry mentioned. The ministry mentioned it used digital means to disable the drone. It mentioned the assault did no harm and nobody was harm. The Publish couldn’t independently confirm the report. Russia’s Federal Air Transport Company mentioned that two airports round Moscow — Vnukovo and Domodedovo — needed to quickly divert flights to different airports in a single day to make sure the protection of these on board. The airports have been working usually Sunday morning, it mentioned.
Russian forces additionally thwarted a drone assault within the southern area of Rostov, regional governor Vasily Golubev mentioned early Sunday. Golubev mentioned two drones “fell on the territory of a army unit in Kamensk,” a Russian city bordering the jap Ukrainian area of Luhansk, and mentioned one other drone fell close to Novoshakhtinsk, some 50 miles south. He mentioned no casualties or harm occurred. The Publish couldn’t independently confirm the report.
Russian army leaders are “extremely doubtless underneath intense stress to enhance air defences over western Russia,” the British Protection Ministry mentioned, as Ukraine’s capability to strike deep inside Russian territory has improved in latest months, resulting in extra frequent drone and ballistic missile assaults. The stress to cease these strikes might be falling on “the management of Russia’s Aerospace Forces,” or VKS, and significantly on “VKS Chief of Workers, Colonel-Common Viktor Afzalov,” the ministry mentioned Sunday in its day by day intelligence evaluation.
It’s “untimely to make assessments concerning the total success” of Kyiv’s counteroffensive, the Institute for the Examine of Struggle mentioned in an evaluation, following a report by The Publish during which folks accustomed to a categorised forecast from the U.S. intelligence group mentioned Ukraine would fail in its goal of severing Russia’s land bridge to Crimea on this 12 months’s push. The D.C.-based assume tank mentioned it maintains that “the general degradation of the Russian defensive position creates alternatives for any Ukrainian breakthrough to be probably operationally vital.”
Kyiv has an settlement with Stockholm to provide armored automobiles referred to as CV90s inside Ukraine, Zelensky mentioned in his nightly handle. 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 check.
America is anticipated to quickly double its prewar month-to-month manufacturing of the usual NATO artillery spherical, The Publish studies, rising its output from 14,000 models a month earlier than Russia’s invasion to ultimately 28,000 models a month. However trade consultants warn of challenges in sustaining the elevated manufacturing ranges, not simply to assist Ukraine struggle efforts but in addition to make sure U.S. safety in potential conflicts with China or Russia.
Ukraine operating out of choices to retake vital territory: Greater 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 trouble is stalling and Ukraine is operating out of choices, The Publish’s Susannah George studies.
The slogging effort has stoked fears in Washington and Europe that the struggle could possibly be reaching a stalemate and that worldwide help may erode. Franz-Stefan Gady, a senior fellow with the Worldwide Institute for Strategic Research and the Heart for a New American Safety, mentioned “the query right here is which of the 2 sides goes to be worn out sooner.”