Three Ukrainian pilots were killed after two L-39 training planes collided mid-air in central Ukraine, the Air Force of Ukraine said, Reuters reported.
The accident happened on Friday over the Zhytomyr region, which is located west of Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine.
"We express our condolences to the families of the victims. This is a painful and irreparable loss for all of us," the Air Force of Ukraine said in a statement.
Six people were injured in the Ukrainian shelling of the Russian border region of Belgorod with cluster munitions, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov announced today.
Gladkov accused Ukraine of firing "cluster ammunition" in the attack and stated on his Telegram account that residential buildings were damaged, the British newspaper Guardian reported.
As a result of the cluster munition attack, he said, six civilians suffered shrapnel wounds.
"One victim is in extremely serious condition," he wrote on Telegram.
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Fighters of the Wagner group will have to take an official oath of allegiance to Russia in the future, which was decided after the plane crash in which their leader Yevgeny Prigozhin was allegedly killed.
This is prescribed by a decree signed by the President of Russia Vladimir Putin, and it comes into force immediately.
The introduction of a mandatory oath for Wagner fighters and other paramilitary forces is a move aimed at bringing such groups under tighter state control, Reuters writes.
The decree, published on the Kremlin's website, stipulates that anyone working on behalf of the military or supporting a "special military operation" in Ukraine is required to take an official oath of allegiance to Russia.
It is stated that this is a step towards "creating the spiritual and moral foundations of Russia's defense".
It further states that all those who take the oath promise to strictly follow the orders of commanders and senior leaders.
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Two people were killed and one was wounded in the Russian shelling of a cafe in the town of Podoli in the east of Ukraine, announced the head of the Kharkiv region, Oleg Sinegubov.
"The enemy hit a civilian facility - a cafe where local residents were during the day," Sinegubov wrote on Telegram.
He added that members of the police and emergency services are on the scene, reports Reuters.
Ukrainian forces believe they have broken through the most difficult line of Russian defense in the south, which will allow them to advance faster, the commander of the forces fighting in the south of the country said today.
Ukraine launched a counteroffensive in June, but well-prepared Russian defense lines reinforced with minefields slowed their advance south toward the Sea of Azov.
Ukrainian forces said on Wednesday that they had raised the national flag in the town of Robotine in the southern Zaporozhye region, about 10 kilometers south of the frontline town of Orihiv.
"We are not stopping here. Next is (the city of) Berdyansk, and then we will move on. I immediately made it clear to my fighters: 'Our goal is not Robotine, our goal is (the Sea of Azov)," said the commander, who led some from troops to Robotine and uses the nickname "Kombat" to the Reuters agency, reports Radio Free Europe.
Robotin is about 100 kilometers from Berdjansk, a port on the coast of the Sea of Azov, and 85 kilometers from the strategically important city of Melitopol.
Both cities were occupied by Russian forces after the invasion of Moscow in February last year.
Moscow has not confirmed that Ukraine has made progress in the Robotina area.
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Russia reported a new drone attack on Moscow in the early hours of Saturday morning, again forcing authorities to temporarily close all three major airports serving the capital.
The mayor of Moscow, Sergey Sobyanin, said that the air defense system shot down the drone over the Istria district of the Moscow region. The district is about 50 km (31 miles) west of the Kremlin, Reuters reports.
The Military Intelligence Agency of Ukraine (GUR) announced that a Ukrainian drone had struck a Russian military base deep inside annexed Crimea, as residents reported casualties, explosions and road closures.
Russia reported one of the largest coordinated Ukrainian airstrikes to date on Russian-controlled territory, but said anti-air defense systems shot down all 42 drones attacking Crimea before they could hit their targets.
Ukrainian intelligence officials said the attack hit Russia's 126th Coastal Defense Brigade based in Perevalnoy, a town more than 200 kilometers from Ukrainian-controlled territory, Hina reported, citing Reuters.
"We confirm that a goal has been scored," said GUR spokesman Andriy Yusov, according to Ukrainian media Liga.Net, as reported by Al Jazeera.
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