Ukraine war news: Drone strikes hits Russia as Zelensky warns Putin ‘war is coming to you’ – latest today

Vladimir Putin’s aide and former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev threatened that Moscow “can be pressured” to deploy a nuclear weapon if Ukraine’s counteroffensive was a hit.

“Think about if the offensive, which is backed by Nato, was a hit and so they tore off part of our land, then we might be pressured to use a nuclear weapon, in accordance to the foundations of a decree from the president of Russia,” he stated.

Mr Medvedev stated that “there would merely be no different possibility”.

“So our enemies ought to pray for our warriors’ (success). They’re ensuring {that a} world nuclear fireplace is not ignited,” he stated.

Ukraine’s first girl Olena Zelenska has expressed her condolences after at the least two folks have been killed within the Ukrainian metropolis of Kyryvi Rih on Monday.

“Kryvyi Rih, multi-storey buildings broken by Russian shelling. There are wounded and useless. This is how the week begins in a Ukrainian metropolis that simply desires a quiet, regular life. Russia desires to take peace and life away. Condolences to the victims and their households. Let’s keep robust,” she wrote on Twitter.

The Russian-put in head of Ukraine’s Donetsk area stated on Monday that two folks had been killed and 4 injured in Ukrainian shelling of Donetsk metropolis, the regional capital.

In an announcement posted on Telegram, Denis Pushilin stated that the casualties had occurred when Ukrainian shells hit a civilian bus. Donetsk’s Russian-put in mayor individually revealed on Telegram photos of a burnt-out bus.

Town of Donetsk has been beneath Russian management since 2014, however Ukrainian troops proceed to maintain positions on its outskirts and town frequently comes beneath artillery fireplace.

Each side reported casualties on Monday, as Ukraine’s head of the ministry of inner affairs confirmed two folks had died after Russian missile strikes within the metropolis of Kryvyi Rih.

“Two are useless and round 5-seven persons are beneath the rubble,” inside minister Ihor Klymenko stated on tv. The final prosecutor’s workplace stated 25 folks had been wounded, together with 4 youngsters.

President Volodymyr Zelensky, who grew up within the metal-producing metropolis that had a pre-war inhabitants of greater than 600,000, stated the strikes had hit a college constructing and a residential constructing.

“This terror won’t frighten us or break us. We’re working and saving our folks,” he stated on the Telegram app.

The inside ministry stated one missile had struck a 9-storey residential constructing and one other had struck a 4-storey constructing that was a part of an academic establishment.

“The emergency providers are placing out the hearth and going by the rubble,” its assertion stated.

New pictures are actually coming in from town of Kryvyi Rih in Ukraine, the place one particular person was killed after a 9-storey house constructing was reportedly attacked by Russia on Monday.

President Volodymyr Zelensky stated “there are useless and wounded” on the scene, sharing photos of broken buildings and roads, on his Twitter account.

In accordance to information reviews, shelling in Kherson this morning additionally left one particular person, a 60-yr-outdated worker at a utility firm, useless.

Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky expressed his condolences after one particular person was reportedly killed in his hometown of Kryvyi Ri, following Russian missile strikes on Monday.

President Zelensky tweeted a video capturing the aftermath of the assault in Kryvyi Rih, together with photos of broken buildings and roads.

He wrote: “Monday morning. Areas of Ukraine are being shelled by the occupiers, who proceed to terrorise peaceable cities and folks. Kryvyi Rih, Kherson. Residential buildings, a college constructing, a crossroads have been hit. Sadly, there are useless and wounded. There could also be folks beneath the rubble. My condolences to all those that have misplaced their family members due to Russian terror.”

Twin Russian missile strikes on the Ukrainian metropolis of Kryvyi Rih on Monday killed at the least one particular person with extra doubtless trapped beneath rubble, the Ukrainian inside ministry stated.

The strikes hit a 4-storey constructing of an academic establishment and a 9-storey residential constructing, it stated in an earlier assertion, after state broadcaster Suspilne reported explosions have been heard within the metropolis.

“The enemy carried out a missile strike on Kryvyi Rih. All the mandatory companies are working on the scene now,” the inside ministry stated, urging folks to stay in air raid shelters.

Kryvyi Rih is a metal-producing metropolis and the hometown of president Volodymyr Zelenskiy.

A Russian missile strike hit the southern Ukrainian metropolis of Kryvyi Rih on Monday morning, the Ukrainian inside ministry stated in an announcement.

An unconfirmed video from town that was circulated on social networks confirmed a gaping gap within the facet of a 9-storey constructing and a hearth inside. There have been no speedy reviews of casualties.

Earlier this morning, the state’s broadcaster Suspilne reported explosions have been heard within the metropolis in Dnipropetrovsk area. It attributed the reviews to Oleksandra Vilkul, he head of town’s defence council.

Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin stated in a voice message revealed on Monday that his Wagner group was not presently recruiting fighters however was doubtless to achieve this in future.

The way forward for Wagner and Prigozhin has been unclear since he led a brief mutiny in opposition to the Russian defence institution in late June, and the Kremlin stated he and a few of his fighters – who’ve fought in a number of the fiercest battles of the Ukraine war – would depart for Belarus.

Regardless of that, Prigozhin attended a gathering with preseident Vladimir Putin 5 days after the mutiny and was photographed final week in St Petersburg, the place Putin was internet hosting African leaders.

“Today we’re defining our subsequent duties, whose define is turning into clearer and clearer. Undoubtedly, these are duties that might be carried out within the title of the greatness of Russia,” a voice sounding like Prigozhin’s stated within the message. It was revealed on Gray Zone, a Telegram channel affiliated with Wagner.

After the June mutiny, the Kremlin stated Wagner fighters who had not taken half would switch to the common military, signing contracts with the Defence Ministry.

Apparently alluding to this, Prigozhin stated within the voice message that “sadly” a few of his fighters had moved to different “energy constructions”, however he stated they have been wanting to return.

“As lengthy as we don’t expertise a scarcity in personnel, we don’t plan to perform a brand new recruitment,” Prigozhin stated. “Nonetheless, we might be extraordinarily grateful to you should you communicate with us, and as quickly as the Motherland wants to create a brand new group that might be ready to shield the pursuits of our nation, we will definitely begin recruiting.”

The Russian International Ministry stated that Russia would proceed dialogue on prospects for a peaceable decision of the war with China, Brazil and Africa, Russian state-owned information company RIA reported on Monday.

This assertion adopted a Russia-Africa summit final week at which some African leaders pressed President Vladimir Putin to finish the war in Ukraine.

The Russian authorities are unable to insulate their inhabitants from the war in Ukraine as they proceed to increase the probabilities for drafting males into the navy, paired with assaults on Moscow and home repression, the British Ministry of Defence stated today.

It pointed to the Russian authorities prioritising amending laws to permit extra males to be quickly drafted into the navy.

In mid-July 2023, the State Duma elevated the utmost age of legal responsibility for conscription from 27 to 30, whereas retaining the present decrease restrict at 18, the ministry stated.

“Whereas conscripts should not presently deployed in Ukraine, additional draftees free-up skilled and mobilised troopers from different duties inside Russia,” the MoD stated in its latest intelligence replace.

“The elevated probability of being compelled to struggle, drone assaults on Moscow, distinctive degree of home repression, and the latest Wagner mutiny mix to spotlight the Russian state’s failure to insulate the inhabitants from the war,” it stated.

“On 24 July, president Putin signed a invoice which is able to progressively enhance the higher age restrict for these responsible for name up as reservists: senior officers can now be mobilised up to 70. Reservists made up the Autumn 2022 ‘partial mobilisation’ and will present a extra speedy enhance to the quantity out there to struggle in Ukraine,” the ministry famous.