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It crashed in Russia\u2019s western Lipetsk region, about 190 miles from Ukraine’s eastern border.
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A Russian <\/a>MiG-31 fighter jet crashed while attempting to land in the western Lipetsk region near the border with Ukraine<\/a>, the Russian defence ministry said.
The aircraft reportedly crashed in an uninhabited area in Lipetsk, which is about 300km (190 miles) from Ukraine’s eastern border.
\u201cA MiG-31 aircraft crashed during its landing approach after completing a scheduled training flight,\u201d the Russian defence ministry said on Thursday, according to Russia\u2019s Tass news agency.
\u201cThe aircraft\u2019s crew ejected, there is no threat to the pilots\u2019 lives.\u201d
The cause of the crash remains unclear. It occurred shortly before Russia launched a large-scale overnight drone and missile attack against Ukraine on Friday.
A seven-year-old boy was killed when his home was hit in the southeast and at least 20 people were injured, Reuters reported.
Ukrainian officials said much of the capital, Kyiv<\/a>, experienced power outages as a result of the attack.
Russian forces have focused on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure in recent weeks as winter again approaches in the more than three-and-a-half-year-old war. A massive missile and drone attack last week hit several of Ukraine’s main gas production facilities, causing considerable damage.
UK prime minister Sir Keir Starmer and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky have agreed that additional sanctions on Russia will be introduced \u201cin the coming days and weeks\u201d to increase pressure on Moscow, No 10 said.
According to a readout from Downing Street, the leaders discussed Russia\u2019s \u201csystematic attacks on Ukraine\u2019s critical national infrastructure in the lead up to winter,\u201d saying it further demonstrated that President Vladimir Putin was \u201cnot serious about peace.\u201d
Starmer emphasised that it was vital Ukraine received the military equipment it needed to defend itself from continued Russian aggression.
He also reflected on talks with the leaders of France and Germany earlier on Friday, noting that all three countries were united in efforts to unlock the full value of immobilised Russian sovereign assets to help end the war and secure a just and lasting peace.
\u201cFurther sanctions in the coming days and weeks would also add to the pressure on Russia,\u201d the readout said, signalling a coordinated push by Western allies to respond to ongoing attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure.
The announcement comes amid rising international concern over winter energy supplies and the humanitarian impact of Moscow\u2019s continued military strikes.
At least four people have been killed and 18 are injured across Ukraine after the Russian drone and missile strikes targeting the energy grid in the past 24 hours.
Ukrainian air defences intercepted 54 out of the 78 Shahed-type attack drones and other drones launched by Russia overnight, according to the Ukraine Air Force.
Just 21 drone strikes were recorded across six locations.
A child was also killed in separate attacks in the south-east of the country.
In the heart of the Ukrainian capital, rescue crews pulled more than 20 people out of a 17-storey apartment building as flames engulfed the sixth and seventh floors.
Ukraine\u2019s energy minister Svitlana Hrynchuk said Russia \u201ccontinues to use cold and darkness as a tool of terror.\u201d
In a post on Facebook, she said the overnight attack on Friday marked exactly three years since Ukraine\u2019s energy system survived one of the first mass attacks from Russia.
Ukraine\u2019s General Staff has reported that Russia has lost around 1,121,570 troops since launching its full-scale invasion on February 24, 2022.
The daily update on October 11 noted that 1,060 Russian forces were lost in the past 24 hours alone.
The report also detailed extensive equipment losses on Russia\u2019s side, including:
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said there were 203 energy facilities in Ukraine that needed air defence protection from Russia.
He said Ukraine was also waiting for clarification of the status of 10 air defence systems, which the US had promised.
Emergency crews restored power to many parts of Ukraine on Friday after a Russian drone and missile attack struck energy facilities, plunging large parts of Kyiv and other areas into darkness and cutting water supplies.
In the latest mass attack targeting the energy system as winter approaches, electricity was interrupted in nine regions and over a million households and businesses were temporarily without power across the country.
In southeastern Ukraine, a seven-year-old was killed when his home was hit and at least 20 people were injured.
Officials reported Russian attacks in different parts of the country throughout Friday. An official near the Russian border in Chernihiv region said one person was killed when a car belonging to the local energy utility was hit by a drone.
In Kyiv, an apartment block in the city centre was damaged by a projectile, while on the left bank of the Dnipro that divides the capital, crowds waited at bus stops with the metro out of action. People filled water bottles at distribution points.
“We didn’t sleep at all,” said Liuba, a pensioner, as she collected water. “From 2.30am there was so much noise. By 3.30 we had no electricity, no gas, no water. Nothing.”
By evening, the private power company DTEK said electricity had been restored to all Kyiv residents. It said power had also been restored in areas outside the capital and in Dnipropetrovsk region in the southeast.
Ukraine’s energy ministry said more than 800,000 customers had at one point suffered power cuts in Kyiv.
Twenty-three Ukrainian children and adolescents have been brought out of Russian-occupied areas of the country to territory under Kyiv’s control, president Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s chief of staff said on Thursday.
Andriy Yermak, writing on the Telegram messaging app, said the rescue was carried out under the president’s “Bring Kids Back UA” programme aimed at bringing to safe areas children deported to Russia or confined to Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine.
Yermak said those returning included two sisters who refused a demand to attend Russian schools made by Russia-installed authorities who had threatened to remove the girls from their mother’s care.
Another teenage boy similarly refused to attend Russian school and one child and her mother were refused permission to leave occupied areas as one of their relatives was serving in the Ukrainian military.
Ukraine says Russia has illegally deported or forcibly displaced more than 19,500 children to Russia and Belarus in violation of the Geneva Conventions.
Research by Yale’s School of Public Health suggested in September that the number could be closer to 35,000.
Russia denies it has deported children from Ukraine, saying it has taken action to ensure they are safe from wartime hostilities.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky claims Russian President Vladimir Putin is taking advantage of the world\u2019s focus on the peace deal in Gaza by intensifying strikes.
On Friday night, Russia launched a large-scale overnight drone and missile attack against Ukraine.
Head of Russia is clearly taking advantage of the moment while the world is almost entirely focused on the prospect of establishing peace in the Middle East. Most countries, all key leaders, have their attention fixed on what is happening there. And this is truly a good\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/OOPYN4R10x<\/a>
Russian President Vladimir Putin met with members of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) on Friday, a Eurasian organisation of former Soviet nations.
The CIS leaders\u2019 summit in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, was attended by leaders of member states, including Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan.
After the meeting, a package of documents was signed, and several frameworks for cooperation among the members were established.
The frameworks included cooperation in countering terrorism and extremism, strengthening border security, combating transnational crime, and enhancing regional energy security, according to the Kremlin.
At the summit on Thursday, Putin admitted that Russia was responsible for shooting down an Azerbaijan Airlines plane<\/a> that crashed in Kazakhstan <\/a>on Christmas Day, killing 38.
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