by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says the publication of a call between Russian and French leaders is a breach of “diplomatic etiquette”.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says air alerts rang out across almost all of Ukraine on Tuesday night, as he calls again for a modern, effective air-defence system.
He says there were attacks in the Khmelnytskyi region of western Ukraine, the central region of Dnipropetrovsk, the border region of Sumy, and the Black Sea port city of Mykolaiv.
Russian troops are engaged in heavy fighting, making their way into Ukraine’s Donetsk region, the governor of Luhansk has said.
Russia says it destroyed two US rocket systems in Ukraine
Russia’s armed forces have destroyed two advanced US-made HIMARS rocket systems and their ammo depots in eastern Ukraine, according to the Russian defence ministry.
The ministry said Russia had destroyed two launchers for the High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) that the US and its allies have been supplying to Kyiv.
It also said Russian forces destroyed two ammunition depots storing rockets for the HIMARS near the frontline in a village south of Kramatorsk in Ukraine’s Donetsk region – the main focus for Russian troops following the capture of Luhansk over the weekend.
