Ukraine-Russia war latest: Putin launches record drone attack on Kyiv as Briton captured fighting for Ukraine
Russian drones enter Kyiv from different directions in a multi-wave attack this morning
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Your support makes all the difference.Ukraine’s military says Russia fired a record number of attack drones overnight, with 76 out of the total of 188 being shot down by air defences.
Kyiv’s mayor Vitali Klitschko warned of drones approaching the Ukrainian capital in multiple waves this morning, as most of the country sounded air raid alerts.
The air force said it lost track of 96 of the drones, likely due to active electronic warfare, and five drones headed towards Belarus.
This comes as Russia’s military said it had captured British national James Scott Rhys Anderson, who was fighting for a Ukrainian foreign regiment in an occupied part of Russia’s Kursk region.
It represents one of the first known cases of a Western national being captured on Russian soil while fighting for Ukraine. The 22-year-old man’s father said he feared his son would be tortured, while the UK Foreign Office confirmed it was “supporting the family of a British man following reports of his detention”.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon said the US had seen no signs of North Korean troops inside Russian-occupied parts of Ukraine or that they are heading in that direction.
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British spies will seek to counter Russian cyber warfare with a new laboratory for artificial intelligence, a minister will announce, warning Russia will not “think twice” about targeting the UK.
Vowing never to let Vladimir Putin deter the UK from supporting Ukraine, chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Pat McFadden will say the UK and its Nato allies are “watching” Moscow and combatting its attacks both publicly and “behind the scenes”.
In a major speech on Monday, Mr McFadden will warn that Britain “learned long ago” not to appease dictators and that Mr Putin “will not be successful” in attempting to weaken backing for Ukraine.
And the minister, responsible for UK national security, will announce a new Laboratory for AI Security Research (LAISR) aimed at helping the UK stay ahead in “the new AI arms race”.
Our political correspondent Archie Mitchell reports:
UK spies ‘watching’ Russia amid cyber warfare fears, minister to warn
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Pat McFadden will say the UK and its Nato allies are ‘watching’ Moscow and combatting its attacks both publicly and ‘behind the scenes’
At least 23 people injured in Kharkiv
Kharkiv authorities have revised the casualty toll following Russia’s missile attack in the northeastern city.
At least 23 people are now reported to have been injured, with the attack having damaged more than 40 buildings on Monday morning, the regional governor and national police said.
At least 10 people were also injured in a missile attack on the southern city of Odesa, where residential buildings were also damaged, Ukraine’s interior ministry said.
Russia claims to have shot down eight ballistic missiles fired by Ukraine
Russia claims to have shot down eight ballistic missiles allegedly fired overnight by Ukraine.
“Russian air defence forces shot down eight ballistic missiles, as well as six guided US-made JDAM bombs and 45 aircraft-type drones in the past 24 hours,” Russia’s defence ministry was quoted as saying by state news.
While the veracity of the claims were unclear, Ukraine’s military said on Monday it had attacked an oil depot in Russia’s western Kaluga region, along with targets in Bryansk and Kursk.
Russia ‘will weigh deploying short and medium-range missiles in Asia’ if US does the same
Russia will consider deploying short and intermediate-range missiles in Asia if the United States deploys such missiles to the same region, deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov has been quoted as saying by state news.
Japan’s Kyodo news agency reported on Sunday that Tokyo and Washington were aiming to put together a joint military plan for a possible Taiwan emergency, which would include the US deploying missiles to the Nansei Islands in Japan’s southwestern Kagoshima and Okinawa prefectures, and to the Philippines.
UK will offer ‘all the support we can’ to British national captured in Russia’s Kursk region
Britain’s foreign secretary David Lammy has said that “we will do all we can” to offer support to a British man who reportedly captured by Russian forces while fighting for Ukraine.
Mr Lammy was asked about the reports regarding the man who identified himself as James Scott Rhys Anderson and said he was a former British Army soldier in footage that was widely circulated on Sunday.
Speaking in Italy, Mr Lammy told reporters: “I have been updated about that development in the last couple of days and of course we will do all we can to offer this UK national all the support we can.”
War crimes investigator probes site of Kharkiv missile attack
A Ukrainian war crimes investigator was pictured photographing the site of the Russian missile attack on Kharkiv which left 10 people injured, the Associated Press reports.
Russia’s army bigger than two years ago but quality has decreased, says top Nato official
Russia’s land forces are now larger than when Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine in February 2022 but their quality has decreased, a top Nato military official has said.
“The quality of those forces has gone down,” Nato’s highest-ranking military officer Admiral Rob Bauer said, pointing to the state of the force’s equipment and the level of training of its soldiers.
“At the moment, the Russians are not the same threat as in February 2022, so we have a bit of time to prepare ourselves,” he said, adding that this meant ramping up investments into the defence industry.
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