Ukraine-Russia war – live: Moscow suffering highest casualties of war as Kyiv launches major drone attack
Ukraine attacks Moscow and its region with at least 32 drones in early hours
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Your support makes all the difference.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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At least 10 Russian kamikaze drones fired at Ukraine over the 9 and 10 November crossed into Belarusian airspace, a war monitor focused on Belarus has reported.
It is not the first time Russian drones have crossed into allied Belarus; Minsk has previously had to scramble fighter jets to mitigate against the threat of these drones, known as “Shaheds”.
However, this appears to be the largest number of drones to have crossed into Belarus in 24 hours.
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In pictures: Russia’s Moscow region hit by drone strike
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As Russian forces close in on Kurakhove, hundreds of residents remain in the front-line city
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In pictures: Life on the frontline in eastern Ukraine
We have some of the latest photos dropping on the wires, depicting life in Kurakhove, a town in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donetsk.
Only a few hundreds residents remain, and just one shop is still open, as Russian forces advance within a few miles of its outskirts.
Flight tracker over Moscow after Ukraine forces airport closure
Watch live: Flight tracker over Moscow after Ukraine attack forces airport closure
A Ukrainian drone attack has forced the closure of two major Moscow airports - after what’s thought to be their biggest strike today.
Two injured in Russian air attack on Odesa, Ukraine officials say
At least two people were injured and buildings were damaged in an overnight Russian drone attack on Ukraine‘s southern region of Odesa, Ukrainian officials said on Sunday.
“The enemy has once again launched a massive attack on our region,” the State Emergency Service of Ukraine in the Odesa region said on its social media account. “Garages with cars and property were on fire, residential buildings, shops were damaged.”
Oleh Kiper, governor of the region on the Black Sea coast, said, without providing further detail, that the attack caused some fires.
The scale of the attack was not immediately clear.
Video footage posted by the emergency services showed firefighters combing in the dark through a pile of a building debris and an apartment building with blown-out windows, while residents gathered in front.
Additional footage shows Ukrainian drone attacks in Russia
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