British MoD says heavy Russian losses at Avdiivka and little progress for either side; Germany’s Scholz calls on Putin to withdraw troops and seek peace
More now on those drone attacks reported in Kyiv.
Serhiy Popko, the head of Kyiv’s military administration, explained why raid alerts were announced several times in the Ukrainian capital.
Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has sanctioned 37 Russian groups and 108 people including a former prime minister and a former education minister and said he aimed to fight wartime abductions of children from Ukraine and other “Russian terror”.
Ukrainian officials said on Saturday that its armed forces shot down 29 of 38 drones in an overnight raid. More than 400 towns and villages in the south, south-east and north of the country were affected by the drone attacks, including an oil refinery that was hit in Odesa.
Ukrainian troops are working to push back Russian forces positioned on the east bank of the Dnipro River, the military has said, a day after Ukraine claimed to have secured bridgeheads on that side of the river that divides the country’s partially occupied Kherson region.
