Bulletin world briefing: Ukraine destroys air defence system protecting ‘Putin’s Palace’
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An anti-missile launch pad was left ‘ablaze and sputtering for three hours’, according to Ukraine’s military

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Earlier, Zelensky says his forces struck Russia’s Novorossiysk naval base with drones, missiles and unmanned boats
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Ukrainian leader accused Russia of using Korean ballistic missiles to exploit shortages of American air defences
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First used in the 1991 Gulf War, the US Patriot air defence system has seen demand spike sharply this year

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Ukrainian warns Putin is poised to escalate the conflict as air defences run dry
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Ukraine said the attacks on key air defence systems would allow them to strike deeper into Russia

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Nine members of the Russian team and staff were initially denied visas for the championships in Croatia
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Moscow denies Ukrainian claims that Kyiv’s forces are killing Russian troops faster than they are being recruited
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Russian athletes have been banned from international events since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022
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Ukrainian drone attack hits targets over 600 miles deep inside Russia, killing 13 people

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Donald Trump brushed off a question about Russia’s attacks on civilian targets in Ukraine, stating that the United States is “separated by an ocean.”
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It has been announced that global food prices reached their highest level in over three years last month
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Ukraine and Russia accused each other of deadly attacks on Sunday
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Ukrainian President says Ukraine has hit two more oil facilities deep inside Russia

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The drone incident was framed as the latest in a series of hybrid attacks across Europe

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Lithuania also fears Putin may be planning a ‘false flag’ strike on the Baltics

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Kyiv says that Ukraine has been supplied with a third of the air defence missiles it was given in 2025
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Flights at Germany’s Leipzig/Halle Airport were disrupted overnight as authorities investigated
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Kyiv said it does not target civilians but is ramping up long-range strikes

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Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russian missile and drone strikes on Kyiv and its region have killed over a dozen people and wounded many others.

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North Korean missiles are bigger than Russia’s
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Warehouses in several parts of Ukraine under attack overnight as Russia pounds Kyiv and surrounding regions

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Ukraine’s National Police has shared a video of a Russian drone appearing to “hunt down” and wound a market vendor in Kherson.

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Kyiv has not yet acknowledged killing Russian civilians on a Black Sea beach, but as it strikes deeper at Moscow, these tragedies will multiply – and that’s not the only worry, explains world affairs editor Sam Kiley

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Ukraine’s foreign minister branded the drone’s pilot as a ‘sadist’ and accused them of knowingly targeting a civilian

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Soldier killed four people and injured three in apparent random rampage in Russian-occupied Crimea

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Ukraine’s foreign minister said the attack formed part of a deliberate Russian campaign to intimidate civilians.
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Officials said 40 people were injured in the attack on a holiday resort

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