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Vyshneve housing weapons strike
President Volodymyr Zelensky said officials who allowed a weapons warehouse to operate in a residential area outside Kyiv in Vyshneve were identified and would be held accountable after explosions killed 10 people.
Zelensky said the strike hit a warehouse housing arms and set off secondary explosions that damaged hundreds of houses, and he called it "a direct violation of both the law and a decision of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief's staff."
The Independent reported that Zelensky said Ukraine needs its allies to ensure weapons supplies are provided more promptly after Russian missile and drone attacks killed eight people and injured dozens more.
In the same account, Zelensky said, "The responsible officials have been identified and the state's position is that each of them must be held accountable."
The Independent also described an investigation into which officials had authorised use of the warehouse after the Russian strike this week on the small town of Vyshneve on Kyiv's western outskirts.
Drone and missile salvos
Al Jazeera reported that Russian drones and missiles killed four people in Ukraine overnight, while Ukrainian attacks on Russia and Russian-occupied areas killed five.
Al Jazeera said three people were killed in Russian attacks on Ukraine’s central Dnipropetrovsk region overnight, including two at an "industrial enterprise" in the city of Kryvyi Rih, and it said a drone attack in the southern city of Kherson killed a 48-year-old, Mayor Yaroslav Shanko reported.
The Moscow Times similarly said Russia fired a wave of drones and missiles at Ukraine overnight, killing four people, while Ukrainian strikes on Russia and Russian-occupied areas killed five.
The Moscow Times added that the strikes came a day before Ukraine's allies were set to meet in Paris for talks on pressuring Russia to end its more than four-year war.
Al Jazeera also said at least 25 heads of state dubbed the “Coalition of the Willing” are due to meet in Paris on Monday to discuss how to support Ukraine and pressure Russia to end the war.
Patriot pressure and logistics
Al Jazeera said Russia has escalated attacks in recent weeks, taking advantage of Ukraine’s critical shortage of munitions for its Patriot air defence system, which has rendered it largely unable to intercept ballistic missiles flying at several times the speed of sound.
“Russia trains sights on schools, offices and buses in busy Ukrainian city It was five in the morning when Anna Holovchenko was woken up by glide bombs hitting the suburbs of her home city of Zaporizhzhia in eastern Ukraine”
Al Jazeera reported that NATO countries pledged at their summit in Ankara last week to provide more Patriot munitions to Ukraine, and it said President Donald Trump said he was willing to give Kyiv a license to manufacture the US missiles domestically.
The Independent reported that Zelensky said Ukraine needs its allies to ensure weapons supplies are provided more promptly after Russian missile and drone attacks kill eight people and injure dozens more.
In a separate thread, The Hill reported that a New York Times report said 9 in 10 Russian missiles and drones have Japanese parts, and it said Tokyo hosts the 20th Directorate, a Russian military intelligence unit.
The Hill said senators Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) announced they had reached an agreement with the Trump Administration to move updated Russia sanctions legislation forward, and it quoted them: "We are proud to announce that we have reached an agreement with the Trump Administration to move our updated Russia sanctions legislation forward."
