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Ukraine attacks Moscow and its region with at least 32 drones in early hours
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Russia is losing the highest number of soldiers a day since Vladimir Putin ordered the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the UK army chief has claimed.
Sir Tony Radakin told the BBC that Russian forces were suffering 1,500 casualties a day. He described the cost of the war on the Russian people as “extraordinary”.
“Russia is about to suffer 700,000 people killed or wounded – the enormous pain and suffering that the Russian nation is having to bear because of Putin’s ambition,” said Sir Tony.
Russia has seized swathes of territory in eastern Ukraine over the past few months, however, a fact which is likely correlated with the high casualty toll.
It comes as a major Ukrainian drone attack on the Moscow region forced Russia to close two major airports in the early hours today.
The drones were destroyed in the Ramenskoye and Kolomensky districts of Moscow, its mayor Sergei Sobyanin said, claiming no major damage or casualties at the site of the downed weapons.
Russia’s federal air transport agency said it was temporarily restricting operations at the Domodedovo and Zhukovo airports at 5.30am GMT.
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Ukraine’s military say the hottest fighting along the roughly 640-mile frontline is taking place on the outskirts of the eastern city of Selydove
U.S. officials say the Pentagon is easing restrictions to allow a small number of private American defense contactors to work inside Ukraine, helping repair and maintain equipment
Russia has opened the first ministerial conference of the Russia-Africa Partnership Forum in the city of Sochi, seeking to deepen ties with African nations and dispel a notion that it’s isolated by Western sanctions
Winged explosives weighing up to 1,500 kilograms – and nicknamed the ‘building destroyer’ – have had a devastating impact wherever they have been used, writes Tom Watling. Kyiv is battling them as best it can but needs Western allies to step up and provide more weapons, air defences and ammunition
Russia is preparing a major counterattack in the Kursk region bordering Ukraine to reclaim territory Kyiv took in a daring incursion in August, the New York Times has reported, citing US and Ukrainian official.
The US outlet writes that Russia has amassed around 50,000 troops to carry out the attack, including thousands of North Korea troops deployed in recent weeks.
These troops, the paper adds, will seemingly not be pulled from other Russian attacks in eastern Ukraine.
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