Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 568 of the invasion
Ukraine claims to have destroyed Russian air defence system in Crimea; Russia claims it repelled drone attack on Black Sea patrol ship
Ukraine claims to have destroyed a Russian air defence system near the town of Yevpatoriya in occupied Crimea in an overnight drone and missile attack which was conducted by the security service of Ukraine and the navy on Thursday morning. The claim was made to Reuters by a Ukrainian intelligence source.
The Ukrainian source told Reuters drones blinded a Russian Triumf" air defence system by attacking its radar and antenna. The navy then fired two Ukrainian-made Neptune cruise missiles at the system's launch complexes, the source said. The Neptune anti-ship missile has been modified to attack ground targets, military analysts say.
Ukraine's air force has claimed that it downed 17 out of 22 drones sent over its territory by Russia overnight.
The Russian military claimed to destroy Ukrainian five drone boats that were trying to attack a patrol ship in the Black Sea early on Thursday, Russian official media reported, citing the defence ministry. The ministry said the unmanned boats were destroyed by fire from the ship's standard weapons" while repelling the attack on the Sergei Kotov about 5am.
A six-year-old boy was killed and four more people were injured by Russian shelling in the village of Novodmytrivka, which is located in Kherson region.
Roman Starovoyt, the governor of the Russian region of Kursk, has reported that one person has been killed by Ukrainian cross-border shelling on the village of Tyotkino.
Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko is travelling to Russia for talks with Vladimir Putin on Friday.
Kim Jong-un invited Vladimir Putin to his country during their meeting in Russia and Putin accepted, Pyongyang's state media KCNA reported on Thursday. The invitation came after the North Korean leader offered the Russian president his support for Russia's sacred fight" against the west during talks at a space base in Russia's far east. The talks also touched on possible Russian help with North Korea's space program.
Romania on Wednesday said it had found new fragments of a drone similar to those used by the Russian army near its border, officials say. Romanian specialist teams were deployed to the eastern county of Tulcea, where the fragments were spread over an area of several dozen metres", the defence ministry said. Preliminary analyses of the first two drone fragments had shown they did not explode in Romania, a Nato member, and were not carrying explosives.
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