WESTERN PERSPECTIVE

Russia launches air attack on Kyiv, Ukraine's military says

Russia launched an overnight air strike on Kyiv, with the city's air defence forces trying to repel the attack, the military administration and the mayor of the Ukrainian capital said on Sunday.

"Explosions in the capital. Air defences are working. Stay in shelters!" Mayor Vitali Klitschko said in a post on the Telegram messaging app.

Reuters' witnesses heard blasts in what sounded like air defence units in operation.

** Three injured in Russia's overnight attack on Mykolaiv, Ukraine says

Three women were injured and several fires broke out in a Russian air attack on the southern Ukrainian region of Mykolaiv late on Saturday, Ukraine's officials said.

The attack - a day after least 19 people, including nine children, were killedin strikes on the city of Kryvyi Rih - also damaged several houses, Mykolaiv Governor Vitaly Kim posted on the Telegram messaging app.

One of the women was hospitalised, and the other two were treated on outpatient basis, Ukraine's State Emergency Service said. It posted photos and videos of firefighters battling flames in a house at night.

There was no immediate comment from Russia. Both sides deny targeting civilians in the war that Russia started with a full-scale invasion on its smaller neighbour three years ago. Thousands of civilians have died in the conflict, the vast majority of them Ukrainian.

U.S. President Donald Trump, who took office in January after pledging he would end the war in 24 hours, has sought to broker an end to the conflict. The U.S. last week late last month it had agreed with Russia and Ukraine two ceasefire accords, including one that would on each other's energy infrastructure.

RUSSIAN PERSPECTIVE

Kiev forces lost up to 430 personnel in Battlegroup Center’s zone of responsibility

Ukrainian forces lost up to 430 personnel in the Battlegroup Center’s responsibility area in a day, the group's press center chief, Alexander Savchuk, told reporters.

"The losses of Ukrainian armed formations totaled 430 servicemen, a Leopard tank, seven vehicles and six artillery pieces, including two Western-made ones. An electronic warfare station was destroyed," he said.

According to him, the Battlegroup Center continues to advance deep into the enemy's defenses and liberated the settlement of Uspenovka of the Donetsk People's Republic.

"We inflicted damage on the manpower and equipment of two mechanized, ranger, airborne assault brigades, and an unmanned systems brigade of the assault regiment of the Ukrainian armed forces in the areas of Zverevo, Novy Ekonomichesky, Bogdanovka, Yelizavetovka, Krasnoarmeysk, Kotlino, Lenino, Udachny and Alekseyevka," he said.

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