Ukraine war latest: Putin loses more than 8,000 troops in new offensive on frontline

A gasoline reservoir ⁠in Russia’s Baltic Sea port of ⁠Primorsk ​caught ⁠fireplace after ⁠a drone assault this morning, stated ​Alexander ⁠Drozdenko, ‌the governor of northwestern Leningrad ‌area.

He stated 35 drones have been ‌shot down ​over ‌the ⁠area ⁠in latest assaults.

Kenyan nationals enlisted by Russia to battle the struggle in Ukraine will now be granted amnesty on their return residence, Kenya’s international minister stated.

“Thus far 44 Kenyans have been safely repatriated again residence whereas 11 have been reported lacking in motion/killed in motion, 38 are presently hospitalised in varied Russian hospitals underneath restricted entry, leaving 160 Kenyans officers nonetheless actively concerned,” Musalia Mudavadi stated in an announcement.

The Kenyan international ministry stated Mudavadi has negotiated a deal that allowed Kenyans presently on the entrance line and “unwilling to proceed within the task disengaged and freed to journey again residence”.

At the very least 1,000 Kenyans had been recruited to battle for Russia in Ukraine after being misled with false guarantees of jobs in Russia earlier than being despatched to the entrance traces, an intelligence report stated.

Russia stated its forces have captured Potapivka, a tiny village close to the Russian border in Ukraine’s northern Sumy area.

“Because of decided actions, models of the Northern grouping of troopers established management over the village of Potapovka within the Sumy area,” the Russian defence ministry stated, utilizing a Russian title for the village.

Ukraine didn’t instantly reply to the Russian defence ministry’s claims.

The Russian military has been ramping up its efforts to determine a “buffer zone” within the Sumy area for months, however Ukraine has largely repelled these advances and says Moscow has struggled to determine a significant foothold within the area.

Volodymyr Zelensky has stated he has a “very unhealthy feeling” concerning the penalties of the battle within the Center East for his nation.

“You see that our diplomatic conferences, trilateral conferences, are continually postponed. There’s one motive: struggle in Iran,” he stated, chatting with the BBC in an interview.

“Putin will desire a lengthy struggle. For Putin, a protracted struggle in Iran is a plus,” he stated.

Ukraine is working with Gulf international locations on a regular basis and offering experience and “actual” assist, Volodymyr Zelensky has stated.

”Different international locations of the world ought to now additionally make their contribution to stabilisation,” he wrote on social media.

“All of us want joint choices and joint work so that there’s extra safety for everybody. I thank everybody who contributes to coordination and shared outcomes.”

Russian forces have tried to accentuate offensive efforts over the previous ⁠week, making the most of extra beneficial climate situations, though that ⁠resulted ​in a rise ⁠in its ⁠casualties, Volodymyr Zelensky ​stated.

“In ‌the Donetsk area, our positions have ‌not considerably modified over the previous week,” he stated.

“Within the Kharkiv area and in border communities of the Sumy area, we’re observing makes an attempt by the occupier to advance from the border – Russian models finishing up these makes an attempt are being destroyed,” Zelensky stated.

Poland’s prime minister Sunday stated Poland “had our suspicions” in response to a Washington Publish report that Hungary’s authorities has for years offered Russia with detailed info from EU Council conferences.

The Publish, citing a number of present and former European safety officers, discovered that the Hungarian authorities underneath Viktor Orban has lengthy supplied Moscow entry to delicate discussions inside the European Union.

Hungarian international minister Péter Szijjártó commonly calls throughout breaks in EU council conferences to supply his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, with “direct studies on what was mentioned” and doable options, in accordance with the Publish report.

“The information that Orban’s folks inform Moscow about EU Council conferences in each element should not come as a shock to anybody,” Polish PM Donald Tusk stated on X.

“We have had our suspicions about that for a very long time. That is one motive why I take the ground solely when strictly essential and say simply as a lot as essential.”

Szijjártó known as Tusk’s feedback “pretend information”.

The US and South Korean militaries are discussing transferring a number of the American Patriot missile defence programs based mostly in South Korea for use within the struggle towards Iran.

South Korean international minister Cho Hyun on Friday was responding to a query at a parliamentary listening to and stated the 2 nations had been working carefully collectively. The choice on the deployment of weapons and army personnel can be made on a case-by-case foundation, he stated.

Earlier studies stated the US troops stationed in South Korea relocated their Patriot missile defence batteries to Osan Air Base from different US bases, in indicators that US Forces Korea (USFK) might deploy a part of its essential air-defence belongings to the Center East because the battle escalates.

Ukraine destroyed two Buk air protection programs in a drone assault in Russia’s Bryansk Oblast on Sunday.

Footage shared by Robert Brovdi, the commander of Ukraine’s Unmanned Methods Forces, exhibits its army placing the 2 programs.

Mr Brovdi stated a Buk-M3 surface-to-air missile system and a transporter-loader car of a Buk-M2 system had been destroyed.