Ukraine-Russia war live: Putin’s troops thwart cross-border attack as he warns against long-range weapons
Russia loses nearly 200 soldiers, with 80 confirmed fatalities in Ukraine’s east, in the past 24 hours
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Russian forces blocked another cross-border incursion allegedly by Ukraine into south-western Russia, a local official has claimed.
An “armed group” attempted to breach the border between Ukraine and Russia’s Bryansk region yesterday but was beaten back, local governor Aleksandr Bogomaz claimed. The Russian local official did not specify whether Ukrainian soldiers carried out the attack.
Bryansk region neighbours the Kursk province, where Ukraine launched a surprise push on 6 August that rattled the Kremlin and constituted the largest attack on Russia since the Second World War.
The region has been previously attacked by two murky groups – the Russian Volunteer Corps and the Freedom of Russia Legion.
It came as Vladimir Putin claimed Russia would use “a range of responses” if the US and its Nato allies allowed Ukraine to strike inside his country with Western long-range weapons.
On the frontline, Russia lost nearly 200 soldiers, with 80 confirmed fatalities in Ukraine’s east in the past 24 hours where a fierce battle is underway, military officials said.
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The Kremlin has denied a Wall Street Journal report about regular contacts between Elon Musk and President Vladimir Putin.
“No, this is not true,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. Peskov said that Putin had one contact with Musk - the world’s richest man - and it was before 2022.
The Journal said Musk had been in regular contact with Putin since late 2022. Peskov said the report was absolutely false.
‘Unknown gunmen kill one in ambush on Russian military convoy'
One Russian soldier was killed after a planned ambush on a convoy, according to Russian state media.
“Unknown people attacked a military convoy in the Grozny suburbs,” reported Russia’s state-run news agency RIA Novosti.
“One serviceman was killed and a second was wounded. Measures are being taken to find and detain the attackers,” the statement added.
A local resident described the attack as being “rapid and well-coordinated” with the attackers fleeing shortly after.
The witness was unable to describe the gunmen but indicated that there was more than one attacker.
Putin sidesteps question on North Korean soldiers training in Russia
Vladimir Putin did not deny reports that North Korea sent troops to Russia to join the Russian president’s war in Ukraine but instead pointed to his country’s recent military treaty with Pyongyang which deals with mutual defence.
Mr Putin was asked by a reporter about satellite imagery apparently showing North Korean troops operating in Russia at a news conference on Thursday during the end of the Brics summit in the Russian city of Kazan.
“Images are a serious matter. If images exist, they indicate something,” Mr Putin said. He went on to attack the US for “escalating tensions in Ukraine” and denounced “direct involvement of Nato troops” in the conflict.
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Two killed in artillery shelling of Kherson
The head of the Kherson Regional Military Administration, Oleksandr Prokudin, reported that two people were killed in an artillery barrage on Stanislav.
“Unfortunately, today the Russian army took the lives of two more people in the Kherson region. Around two o’clock in the afternoon, the enemy fired on Stanislav with artillery.
“Two men were fatally wounded. Both died at the scene. I express my sincere condolences to the families of the victims,” he said.
The Kherson Regional Military Administration added: “A man, 49, sustained blast trauma and concussion. The victim was outside at the time of the strike. He refused to be hospitalized, so medics treated him at the scene.”
Body recovered from rubble in Radkove village shelling
Kharviv authorities have revealed the body of a man was found in a house in Radkove in the Chuhuiv district,
“Rescuers recovered the body of a dead 65-year-old man from the rubble of a private house in the village of Radkove, Chuhuiv district,” a post from Kharkiv Regional Military Administration read.
Another local resident suffered an acute stress reaction.
Russian forces struck three settlements on 26 October, damaging residential buildings.
Death toll rises to five after Dnipro strike
The head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration, Serhiy Lysak, said the death toll after Russian strikes on the region has risen to five.
“Rescuers have recovered the body of a man from the rubble,” he wrote.
It came after a Russian missile hit a residential area in the central city of Dnipro, killing a 14-year-old and four others with at least 21 others injured including an eight-year-old and teenagers.
The wife and teenage daughter of a local policeman were pulled dead from the rubble, police reported.
The attack damaged more than a dozen apartment buildings, private houses and a medical facility.
Policeman’s wife and daughter killed in Dnipro strike
A Russian missile hit a residential area in the central city of Dnipro, killing a 14-year-old and four others, said regional governor Serhii Lysak.
The wife and teenage daughter of a local policeman were pulled dead from the rubble, police reported.
The attack damaged more than a dozen apartment buildings, private houses and a medical facility.
A man and woman died after a Russian drone dropped explosives on a village in the southern Kherson region, local prosecutors said, while two people in their 60s were killed by shelling in the Kharkiv province in the north east.
Russian strikes kill one and destroy police car in Nikolaiv
An airstrike has killed a civilian and destroyed a police car after attacks in the Nikolaiv region.
FPV drones struck in the suburbs, reportedly struck on Sunday afternoon.
A 43-year-old resident was killed while riding a moped through the village, according to the Mykolaiv Regional Military Administration.
FPV drones launched repeated strikes on police officers who arrived at the scene to investigate the attack.
The fire completely destroyed their car but the police officers were not hurt.
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