Ukraine war latest: Zelensky reveals ‘significant’ Russian losses in Kursk

To catch up this morning, Russia has claimed that it demolished a significant salvation of Ukrainian drones, including dozens who go to Moscow.

It was at least the second day of this week that Russia has made this statement.

The Kremlin Ministry of Defense claimed that they had demolished 105 Ukrainian drones between midnight and the early morning of Thursday. The day before, Russia said it demolished more than 300 Ukrainian drones.

Sergei Sobyanin, the mayor of Moscow, said that multiple drones had been shot down towards the capital.

Ukraine has not yet published details of a possible Russian air attack during the night. I will bring you that information if/when it is published.

President Vladimir Putin visited the Kursk region of Russia for the first time since Moscow said he expelled the Ukrainian forces of the area last month, said the Kremlin.

The visit not announced by Mr. Putin seemed to be an effort to show that Russia has control of the conflict, although its large -scale invasion of its neighbor has been slow and expensive in terms of casualties and equipment.

The video transmission by the Russian state media showed that Putin visited Kursk Nuclear Power-2, which is still under construction, and met with selected volunteers.

Many of the volunteers wore stamped clothes with the Russian flag, some had the Latin letters «V» in them, one of the symbols of the invasion of Ukraine in Russia.

«What you are doing now during this difficult situation for this region, for this area and for the country, will remain with you for the rest of your life as, perhaps, the most significant with which it was involved,» Putin said while dranking tea with volunteers.

The Ukrainian forces made a surprise raid in Kursk in August 2024 in one of their greatest successes on the battlefield in the war of more than three years. The incursion was the first time that the Russian territory was occupied by an invader since World War II and gave a humiliating blow to the Kremlin.

A key assistant for a former Ukrainian president was shot dead Wednesday morning outside an American school in Madrid.

The Ministry of Interior of Spain confirmed that Andriy Portnov, 51, high -level assistant, former president Viktor Yanukovych of Ukraine, died after his children was shot at school in the Rico neighborhood of Pozuelo at 9.15 am (8.15 time of the United Kingdom).

Police said the witnesses had reported that Portnov was shot «several times» in the head and body for more than one gunman when he climbed into his car, a Mercedes Benz Negro.

The assailants fled on foot. The Spanish media have reported that researchers are looking for a tall and thin man who fled to Casa de Campo.

A Spanish police source said previously The country That a citizen informed having found a man «injured, lying on the ground and unconscious.»

Great Britain and its allies, including the United States, issued a warning yesterday, warning of a cybernetic campaign sponsored by the Russian State aimed at the delivery of support to technology companies and western logistics entities and Ukraine.

«This malicious campaign of the Russian military intelligence service presents a serious risk for specific organizations, including those involved in the delivery of assistance to Ukraine,» said Paul Chichester, director of Operations of the National Center for Cyber ​​Security of Great Britain (NCSC).

Andriy Portnov, 51, was shot dead on Wednesday morning outside the doors of the American school in the Rico neighborhood of Madrid in Pozuelo.

The police received the call on the shooting at 9.15 am local time. The Radio Cadena Ser said that the man took his children to school when he was shot.

Portnov, from the Eastern Region of Luhansk, is a former Ukrainian politician closely linked to Yanukovich, who served as the deputy head of the presidential office from 2010 to 2014.

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Finland has completed the first 35 km (22 miles) of a nearly 4.5 meters (15 feet) high that is building on its eastern border closed with Russia to prevent migrants from crossing through the desert, said Finnish border guard.

Finland began building the fence, which will eventually cover 200 km (124 miles) of the total of 1,344 km (835 miles) of the border, last year in response to migration through Russia through the border in 2023, which believes that it was deliberately orchestrated by Moscow.

«The main objective of the fence is to control a large mass of people if they are trying to enter Russia in Finland,» the attached commander of the Border Guard District of Southeast of Finland, Antti Virters, told Reuters.

After decades of peaceful relations with Russia, Finland joined the NATO military alliance two years ago in response to the invasion of Ukraine in Russia, which led Moscow to threaten Helsinki with reprisals.

«The border barrier is absolutely necessary to maintain border security,» Operations Chief Samuel Siljanen said.

Multiple drones that go to Moscow have been demolished, said Mayor Sergei Sobyanin this morning.

The Russian Ministry of Defense said it demolished 105 Ukrainian drones about Russian regions, including dozens in Moscow.

Russia only informs the drones that destroys and does not reveal the total number of drones that are directed to the country, or how many reach their goals.

The day before, Russia said it demolished more than 300 Ukrainian drones.

Kiev European allies slapped new sanctions on Tuesday in Moscow, one day after a phone call between the president of the United States, Donald Trump, and Russian President Vladimir Putin failed to produce an advance at the end of the 3 -year war in Ukraine.

Diplomatic efforts have seen few progress in the arrest of the fight, despite Monday’s phone call between Trump and Putin, and the direct conversations of Friday between the Russian and Ukrainian delegations in Istanbul.

In the phone call, the Russian president promised Trump that his country is «ready to work with» Ukraine in a «memorandum» describing the framework for «a possible treaty of future peace.»

But so far, conversations involving the United States have produced little in the path of concrete results.

The new sanctions of the European Union went to almost 200 ships of the «shadow fleet» of Russia that illicitly transported oil to border the western restrictions that also imposed the freezing of assets and the prohibitions of travel to several officials, as well as several Russian companies.

The Russian Ministry of Defense said the aerial defenses demolished 105 Ukrainian drones about Russian regions, including dozens in Moscow.

This is the second consecutive day, Ukraine has attacked Russia with a flood flood.

Sergei Sobyanin, the mayor of Moscow, said they had demolished multiple drones in the head towards the Russian capital. The Ministry of Defense reported 35 drones demolished over the Moscow region.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he has had a conversation with NATO Chief Mark Rutte.

The couple argued how to maintain the pressure on Russia to force him to agree on a fire.

«We also discuss the sanctions that can have a real impact on Russia. It is essential that all decisions are coordinated; only then the sanctions will be effective. Without pressure on Moscow, a fair peace cannot be achieved. Everyone understands it,» he said.