Ukraine says Russian drone attack sinks ship in Romanian waters
The latest suspected incursion on NATO’s eastern flank increases fears that the war in Ukraine threatens to spill over.

The latest suspected incursion on NATO’s eastern flank increases fears that the war in Ukraine threatens to spill over.


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Ukrainian president says new intelligence shows Moscow aims to ‘pressure people to leave’ Kyiv and other cities.
Closure of bridges struck by drones in Ukrainian capital causes traffic chaos.
Moscow has suffered further losses of occupied territory, but is using new drones to beat Ukraine’s defences.
Putin warned the West he would deploy nuclear weapons if necessary to defend the Russian Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad.
A combination of rigid Western military attitudes and Kyiv’s regulatory paralysis leaves fewer weapons at the front.
Russian drone strikes hit a school in Kyiv and the main bridge, disrupting transport in the latest wave of attacks.
Crowds cheered and waved national flags as two Shahed drones were paraded through Tehran.

A Russian attack drone crashed into a children’s playground in Kyiv, Ukraine without exploding.
Moscow claims that NATO is preparing an air and naval blockade in the Baltic Sea.
City officials say three killed in Ukraine’s capital, as emergency services say child killed in the surrounding region.