Ukraine-Russia war latest: Nato issues stark winter warning after Kyiv faces hypersonic missile attack
Russia launched a barrage of hypersonic missiles on Monday
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Ukraine faces its toughest winter since Russia’s full scale invasion began in February 2022, Nato secretary general Mark Rutte said on Tuesday.
Rutte, who became Nato chief earlier this month, was speaking at a joint press conference in Brussels with the President of Findland, Alexander Stubb.
It comes after Russian president Vladimir Putin’s forces yesterday launched a hypersonic missile barrage at Kyiv, hours after a Ukrainian strike started a fire at Moscow’s largest oil depot in occupied Crimea.
Ukrainian troops were forced to down at least two eight-metre long Kinzhal missiles fired at Kyiv while another hit an airfield 170 miles further west in Starokostyantyniv. The Kh-47M2 Kinzhal is a nuclear-capable, Russian air-launched ballistic missile, described as a “next-generation” weapon by Putin in 2018.
In the Donbas, Russian forces have entered the outskirts of the eastern Ukraine frontline city of Toretsk, Ukraine’s military said last night.
US Presidential candidate Kamala Harris has said Ukraine will need to be in the room for any peace talks to negotiate a solution to end the Russian invasion.
“Ukraine must have a say in the future,” she told CBS News during an interview on 60 Minutes.
Pictured: Ukrainian investigators at wreckage of downed Russian S-70 ‘Hunter’ drone
Russian strikes kill a man in Kharkiv as drone hits his car
One person has died after Russian forces attacked Ukraine overnight with 87 Shahed drones and four different types of missiles, officials said yesterday.
A 49-year-old man was killed in the Kharkiv region after his car was hit by a drone, said regional governor Oleh Syniehubov. A gas pipeline was also damaged and a warehouse set alight in the city of Odesa, Ukrainian officials reported.
Ukraine’s air force said air defences had destroyed 56 of the 87 drones and two missiles over 14 Ukrainian regions, including the capital, Kyiv.
Another 25 drones disappeared from radar “presumably as a result of anti-aircraft missile defence,” it said.
ICYMI: Russia targets Kyiv and Odesa in latest drone attack
Russia unleashed an overnight drone attack across Ukraine targeting the capital Kyiv and hitting infrastructure in the Black Sea port of Odesa, Ukrainian officials said.
The State Emergency Service said one person was wounded and warehouses and cargo trucks were damaged in Odesa during the multi-wave attack, which kept much of the country under air-raid alert for several hours.
The Ukrainian military shot down 56 out of at least 87 drones launched by Russia over various regions of the country, the air force said. It added that another 25 were “lost” due to electronic jamming but did not elaborate.
Kyiv city military administrator Serhiy Popko said air defences destroyed all the drones that had been aimed at the capital. No injuries were reported.
Air raid alerts for Kyiv and the surrounding region were announced three times throughout the night, totalling more than five hours, Popko added.
No prospect for Ukraine war negotiation ‘anytime soon’, say western officials
There is no prospect for negotiation “anytime soon” over the war in Ukraine, western officials have said.
They added that Ukraine was unlikely to reverse recent gains by Russia with “relative stability on the front line” expected.
Russia captured the tactically significant town of Vuhledar on Wednesday, as officials said Moscow would now “seek to exploit opportunities in villages and towns in its vicinity in the coming weeks”.
However, they added that Russia would not be able to “fundamentally capitalise on these gains”.
Western officials said: “We’re not going to suddenly see a breakthrough and a rapid advance of Russia westwards.
“It will just continue to be this slow grind.”
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