🔴 Live: Ukraine launches 600 drones at Russia, one of its largest aerial attacks of the war
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By: FRANCE 24 Smoke billows from the burning Wildberries warehouses following a Ukrainian drone attack, according to the regional governor, in the course of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, in Koledino, Moscow Region, Russia on August 16, 2026. © Stringer, Reuters Ukraine hit a missile fuel production facility in Russia's Rostov region overnight, Ukrainian military said on Sunday, as Ukraine steps up long-range attacks into Russian territory. The assault came as Russian forces launched a missile attack on Kyiv, sparking fires in at least two districts of Ukraine's capital, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said. Follow our live blog for all the latest updates.
Ukraine hit a missile fuel production facility in Russia's Rostov region overnight, Ukrainian military said on Sunday.
"The company ... manufactures solid rocket propellant for multiple launch rocket systems, as well as for a range of missile systems and airborne weapons," the military said on Telegram.
Russia's Defence Ministry said on Sunday that its forces have taken the village of Pershomarivka in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region, as well as Kudiivka in the northeastern Kharkiv region, state news agency TASS reported.
Ukraine has struck a missile fuel production facility in Russia's Rostov region, Ukrainian military says.
A drone shot down in Romanian airspace on Sunday morning appeas to be Russian, a NATO military headquarters spokesperson said.
Debris from "enemy drones" damaged the wall of a Wildberries warehouse in Russia's Tver region during an overnight attack, Vitaly Korolyov, the local governor, said on Friday.
Smoke at the site quickly dissipated and no employees were injured, he said.
Ukraine launches one of its largest aerial attacks of the conflict, killing at least 6 people across Russia.
Bookseller Alexander Bahlai reacts as firefighters try to put out a fire at a city book market following a Russian missile attack in Kyiv, early Sunday, August 16, 2026. (Photo: Francisco Seco, AP)
Firefighters shelter in a metro station following a siren alarm while they were trying to put out a fire at a city book market following a Russian missile attack in Kyiv, Ukraine early on August16, 2026. (Photo: Francisco Seco, AP)
Firefighters try to put out a fire at a city book market following a Russian missile attack in Kyiv, Ukraine early on August 16, 2026. (Photo: Francisco Seco, AP)
Firefighters continue to dampen the blaze at a city book market after a Russian missile attack in Kyiv, Ukraine early on August 16, 2026. (Photo: Francisco Seco, AP)
Romania's defence ministry said Sunday that a Spanish fighter jet shot down a drone that breached its airspace near the border with Ukraine and Moldova.
The interception of the drone – which entered from Moldova – was carried out by an F-18, deployed on NATO duties, at 5:01am local time (0201 GMT), the ministry said in a statement, adding that debris fell in an unpopulated area of the Galati region, near the Ukrainian border.
Russian forces launched a missile attack on Kyiv early on Sunday, sparking fires in at least two districts of Ukraine's capital, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said.
The city's military administration said one person had been injured.
Klitschko, writing on the Telegram messaging app, said falling debris had caused a fire in a non-residential part of a northern suburb.
Several cars were on fire, and another fire had broken out in an area just south of the city centre, he said.
Reuters witnesses reported explosions in the city.
Firefighters at the scene of a book market hit by a Russian missile strike in Kyiv, Ukraine, on August 16, 2026. Gleb Garanich, Reuters
Six hundred drones targeted the Moscow region in a sustained overnight assault that wounded three people, the Russian capital's mayor said on Sunday, as Ukraine steps up long-range attacks into Russian territory.
"From yesterday evening until 6:30 am (0330 GMT) today, 600 drones were flying towards Moscow region, of which 201 were destroyed in Moscow region," Mayor Sergei Sobyanin posted on the state-backed MAX platform.
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