Ukraine accused Russia of committing a war crime on Tuesday after widely-shared footage appeared to show a drone chasing down and wounding a civilian market vendor in Kherson.
Footage released by Ukrainian police shows the drone pursuing an unidentified man around a van being used as a street stand before exploding after he dives for cover behind the vehicle. Police said the vendor, a man in his 50s, survived but suffered shock and shrapnel injuries.
Ukrainian foreign minister Andrii Sybiha said the “barbaric Russian war crime” demands international condemnation and justice. He claimed the pilot would have been aware they were targeting a civilian, branding them a “sadist”.
President Volodymyr Zelensky condemned what he called the ‘drone safari’, saying that that Russia had deliberately hunted down a man selling vegetables. He said “the world must see” the video and “every piece of evidence that Russia has gone mad and that its soldiers take pleasure in killing and abusing civilians”.
“Without pressure on Russia, the dismantling of its capacity for aggression, and real security guarantees, it is simply impossible to imagine the world being able to coexist with this evil,” he wrote in a post on X.
Mayor says 184 drones targeted Moscow area yesterday
A total of 184 Ukrainian drones targeted Moscow and the surrounding area throughout the day on Tuesday, the city’s mayor said.
Sergei Sobyanin, writing on the Telegram messaging app, said that count was registered between 8.30am to 10pm.
Most of the drones had been intercepted some distance from the capital, he said, with 18 destroyed on approach to the city.
Ukrainian drones targeting Moscow have become a common occurrence in recent months. On rare occasions, drones have damaged buildings in the city.
Why Ukraine is targeting Russia’s ‘Amazon’ Wildberries with major strikes
Ukraine launched a wave of drone strikes deep into Russia this week, hitting a major logistics hub belonging to e-commerce Wildberries in the Ryazan region.
Ukrainian drones struck two more warehouses belonging to Russian online retailer Wildberries overnight on Thursday, sparking fires at both sites, the company and a regional official said.
Ukraine has attacked about a dozen Wildberries sites since July 18 in a bid to disrupt the operations of the company, a linchpin of the consumer economy that is often described as Russia’s answer to Amazon. Kyiv accused the firm of helping to bolster Vladimir Putin’s war machine.
According to Data Insight analyst Sergei Semko, goods destroyed by strikes on Wildberries warehouses in Moscow and Tambov regions alone were worth up to an estimated $2.9bn.
Why Ukraine is targeting Russia’s ‘Amazon’ Wildberries with major strikes
Wildberries is Russia’s largest online marketplaceArpan Rai5 August 2026 05:02
Russian shipping firm suspends Black Sea orders after Ukrainian drone attack
Russian logistics and shipping group FESCO has suspended accepting new shipment requests via the Black Sea after a Ukrainian drone attack on one of its vessels, the company said on Tuesday.
Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom, which owns FESCO, said earlier that the vessel Yanina was damaged by Ukrainian seaborne drones and sank in the Black Sea overnight from Friday to Saturday.
Putin lifts recent deposit restrictions from foreign national and firms’ Russia-based branches
Russian president Vladimir Putin has signed a decree exempting bank deposits held by foreign citizens and Russian-registered branches of overseas companies from recently imposed restrictions that had effectively frozen the funds.
Moscow introduced special “Type C” bank accounts in 2022 that serve as a financial blockade against what Russia deems “unfriendly countries” – nations that imposed sanctions on the Kremlin over its military operation in Ukraine.
Funds belonging to foreign investors, major Western corporations, and institutional funds are directed into these accounts and effectively frozen.
From 1 June, 2026, bank deposits of foreigners from unfriendly countries were also frozen in the special Type C accounts.
However, according to the new amendments, those restrictions on bank deposit withdrawals will no longer apply to foreign individuals, or to deposits made by branches, permanent representative offices, and other structural units of foreign companies, provided they are registered within the Russian Federation.
Under the decree, these categories of foreign depositors are permitted to freely manage their funds and withdraw ruble equivalents that were credited to Type-C accounts between 1 June, 2026, and the document’s effective date on 4 August, 2026.
One killed and 22 injured in Russian attacks on Kyiv
Russian forces attacked the Ukrainian capital Kyiv with waves of ballistic missiles in the early hours today, killing one person, injuring 22 and severely damaging buildings in several districts of the city of 3 million people.
The city’s military administration said seven sites had come under attack in the assault that began after midnight. Air raid alerts for Kyiv remained in place for more than an hour.
Mayor Vitali Klitschko said one warehouse building had been destroyed near the city centre and rescue teams had pulled two people from the ruins.
“There may still be people under the rubble,” he wrote. “Search and rescue operations are proceeding.” He said an ambulance driver was among the injured.
Klitschko said the attack triggered fires in warehouses and storage areas, but initial reports that a 20-storey apartment building was ablaze proved to be inaccurate. A large fire broke out on the city’s outskirts, he said, and debris from a fallen missile had landed next to a residential building.
The city’s military administration also said the attack triggered an ammonia leak, which was being tackled by emergency crews. Reuters witnesses said explosions had been heard throughout the city.
Klitschko said air defence units had gone into action to repel the assault. In the surrounding Kyiv region, another person was killed and 21 other people injured, local authorities said on Telegram.
Wildberries warehouse in Russia’s Tula region on fire after drone attack
A warehouse of top online Russian retailer Wildberries in Russia’s Tula region caught fire after a Ukraine drone attack that injured one person, regional governor Dmitry Milyayev said on Telegram this morning.
He said two industrial facilities in the Novomoskovsk and Uzlovaya areas and two apartment buildings in another part of the Tula region were also damaged.
Russian soldier opens fire killing three civilians and one colleague in Crimea
A Russian soldier in Crimea opened fire and killed four people – one colleague and three civilians – in an apparent random gun rampage.
The solider first opened fire on his colleagues, killing one and wounding another.
An official said the solider then turned his weapon on civilians, killing three, in the village of Khmelnytske.
According to the BBC, the victims were two men, aged 71 and 59, and a 64-year-old woman.
Three other people were wounded, said Mikhail Razvozhayev, the Russian-installed governor of the Sevastopol region. He said the attacker had been arrested.
There was no information on the motive for the attacks.
Russian soldier opens fire killing three civilians and one colleague in Crimea
Soldier killed four people and injured three in apparent random rampage in Russian-occupied Crimea Arpan Rai5 August 2026 03:59
The real worry for Ukraine’s allies as beach strike on Russian civilians marks a shift in the war
The gentle splash of breaking waves on a resort beach and the laughter of children having innocent fun gives way to the screech and crack of an explosion. Seven people dead – three of them are children.
This was the scene on Monday in the Russian Black Sea town of Gelendzhik where, even if every adult killed and all 40 of those injured were wide-eyed fans of Vladimir Putin and part of his war machine, the children were innocent.
It was the sort of attack that, if carried out by Russia against Ukraine, would have sparked international outrage and allegations of war crimes by targeting civilian areas.
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The real worry for Ukraine’s allies as beach strike on civilians marks shift in war
Kyiv has not yet acknowledged killing Russian civilians on a Black Sea beach, but as it strikes deeper at Moscow, these tragedies will multiply – and that’s not the only worry, explains world affairs editor Sam KileyHolly Evans5 August 2026 02:00
Russian forces attack Ukrainian capital Kyiv with ballistic missiles, officials say
Russian forces attacked the Ukrainian capital Kyiv with waves of ballistic missiles early on Wednesday, officials said.
The city’s military administration, writing on Telegram, said warehouse buildings had been set ablaze in two districts.
“The danger remains high,” the administration’s post said.
Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on Telegram that emergency crews had been dispatched to the scene of one strike in a northern suburb. He said air defence units were in action to repel the assault.
Holly Evans5 August 2026 01:00
Russian fuel tanker convoy hit by Ukrainian forces travelling to Crimea
The US army has used up “virually all” of its stockpile of highly accurate long-range missiles during its five-month war with Iran, according to three people familiar with the data, raising concerns about the military’s readiness for future conflicts.
The missiles are principally the Army’s surface-to-surface weapons, known as Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) and Precision Strike Missiles (PrSM). Two sources told Reuters the pre-war stockpiled were almost entirely depleted.
The long-range munitions – which cost more than $1 million each – are an important part of the military’s arsenal, allowing accurate strikes from a safe distance.
US-supplied ATACMS have played a key role in the war in Ukraine, allowing Ukrainian forces to attack targets inside Russia. The PrSM is a newer, more advanced generation that will replace the ATACMS, which have a shorter range.
The dramatic rundown in precision, long-range missiles means US President Donald Trump may have to rely more on riskier, piloted bombing missions if he relaunches large-scale attacks on Iran.
Three people familiar with the matter expressed concerns that the falling missile supplies could limit the US ability to deter adversaries, including Russia and China.
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