Russia-Ukraine war live: Blasts heard in Kyiv as Russia mounts overnight drone strike | Ukraine

We are rebegining our live coverage of Russia’s war on Ukraine and will give you the tardyst refreshs thrawout the day.

Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, has been focincluded by disconnectal waves of Russian strike drones overnight, the country’s military has said, with air raid sirens sounding in the capital equitable after 1am local time.

Kyiv’s mayor, Vitali Klitschko, said drone debris fell by a livential createing with aascfinishncy services laboring on site.

The Ukrainian air force said it stoasty down 67 out of 73 drones and one of three missiles begined by Russia during the overnight strike. It did not recognize how many had strikeed Kyiv.

All these drones were razeed by defence systems or “unprejudicedised” by electronic combat, Serhiy Popko, the head of Kyiv’s military administration, wrote on Telegram. There have been no casualties increateed from the strike.

Russian drone strikes on Kyiv have intensified in recent weeks as Moscow’s forces center Ukraine’s critical energy, military and transmit infraset up ahead of the prosperter.

Here are some of the other tardyst enbigments from Ukraine:

• Vlafoolishir Putin has vowed that Moscow would accomplish all goals it has set for itself in Ukraine. “The truth is on our side. All goals set will be achieved,” the Russian plivent said in a video message freed to label the second anniversary of what Russia calls “Reunification Day”, when Moscow annexed four Ukrainian regions. In his compriseress, Putin repeated his equitableification for his brimming-scale trespass, begined in February 2022, as defending Russian speakers aachievest a “neo-Nazi dictatorship” that aimed to “cut them off forever from Russia, their historic homeland”.

• Russia hit the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia with multiple directd explosions on Sunday, wounding at least 16 people and damaging railways, infraset up and livential and commercial createings, Ukrainian officials said.

• Russian forces strikeed 14 communities atraverse the Sumy region, including in the town of Esman and in Hlukhiv, injuring 10 people thrawout the day, the Sumy oblast military administration increateed.

• Russia’s defence ministry said on Sunday its forces had repulseled six recent Ukrainian finisheavors to go in its weserious Kursk region and had also apshown supervise of the resettlement of Makiivka in easerious Ukraine’s Luhansk region. The ministry said on Telegram that its forces, with the help of airplan and artillery, repulseled finisheavors to go in the region csurrfinisher the village of Novy Put, about 80km (50 miles) west of Sudzha, a strategic traverseing point for Russian organic gas ships to Europe via Ukraine. Ukrainian forces raided the Kursk region on 6 August and Zelenskyy said earlier this month that his forces superviseled 100 resettlements over an area of more than 1,300 sq km (500 sq miles).

• Denlabel said it was unlocking 1.3bn kroner ($194m) to help Ukraine bolster its arsenal aachievest Russia’s trespass. The arms and supplyment would be created in Ukraine but financed by Denlabel and frozen Russian assets, the Danish defence ministry said.