War briefing in Ukraine: 16 injured in Russian attacks on the city of Zaporizhia | Ukraine

Russia attacked the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhia with multiple guided bombs on Sunday, injuring at least 16 people and damaging railways, infrastructure and residential and commercial buildingsUkrainian officials said. Russian forces attacked three districts of the southeastern city with a total of 13 guided bombs between 5 a.m. and 7 a.m., the governor of the Zaporizhia region said. At least 16 people were injured in the attacks, including two children aged eight and 17, Ivan Fedorov said. President Volodymyr Zelensky said on the messaging app Telegram that several residential buildings, the city’s infrastructure and railways had been damaged, and posted images from the attack sites showing charred cars, a hole blasted through a residential building and rescuers battling fires were to be seen. Local officials said trains were delayed and diverted while emergency workers cleared the debris.

Management at the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant said Ukrainian forces had launched a new attack on a nearby electrical substation, destroying a transformer. The plant’s management said on Telegram on Sunday that an artillery attack hit the transformer at the “Raduga” substation in the city of Enerhodar in southeastern Ukraine. It described that the incident was aimed at “destabilizing the situation in the satellite city of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant” and published a photo showing smoke rising from a building. Ukrainian officials did not immediately comment on the claim, but Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha previously accused Russia of planning attacks on Ukrainian nuclear facilities before winter.

Russia launched a drone strike on Kiev early Monday, with air defense units busy repelling the attackssaid the Ukrainian military. Witnesses told Reuters they heard several explosions that sounded like air defense systems were in action and saw objects in the air being hit. Kiev, the surrounding region and all eastern parts of Ukraine were under airstrike alert, and the Ukrainian Air Force warned that Russia would attack the area with attack drones.

Ukraine said it sent more than 100 drones deep into Russia on Sunday to attack a major weapons depotas it increased attacks further within Russian territory. “Defense forces have attacked the Kotluban military depot” in the Volgograd region, hundreds of kilometers from the Ukrainian border, a day after a shipment of Iranian weapons reportedly arrived at the site, the Ukrainian military’s general staff wrote on Telegram on Sunday. “A fire and ammunition explosion were observed on the depot site,” the post said, adding that the facility was used to store and modernize missiles and artillery. Russia did not confirm the attack, reporting only that it destroyed 67 drones in the Volgograd region overnight. A Ukrainian defense source told media that 120 drones flew more than 600 km (370 miles) to attack the depot early Sunday. The governors of Russia’s Voronezh and Rostov regions reported some damage but no casualties from the attack.

The Russian Defense Ministry said on Sunday that its troops repelled six new Ukrainian attempts to invade the western Kursk region and also took control of the settlement of Makiivka in the eastern Ukrainian region of Luhansk. The ministry said on Telegram that its forces, supported by aircraft and artillery, repelled attempts to enter the region near the village of Novy Put, about 80 km (50 miles) west of Sudzha, a strategic border crossing for Russian natural gas exports Europe via Ukraine. Ukrainian forces raided the Kursk region on August 6 and Zelensky said earlier this month that his forces controlled 100 settlements covering an area of ​​more than 1,300 square kilometers (500 square miles). Russian sources dispute that figure and Moscow says it has since recaptured some villages in a counterattack. The Defense Ministry said 50 Ukrainian soldiers were killed and injured in the latest attempted attack on Kursk, and a tank, four armored fighting vehicles and a car were also destroyed. Ukraine has not commented. The battlefield reports could not be confirmed.

Denmark said it was providing 1.3 billion crowns ($194 million) to help Ukraine strengthen its arsenal against the Russian invasion. The weapons and equipment would be manufactured in Ukraine but financed by Denmark and Russian assets would be frozenthe Danish Ministry of Defense announced on Sunday. The Scandinavian country also announced the creation of a joint defense center in Kyiv to help develop new partnerships. “Wars are won not only on the battlefield, but also in industry,” Trade and Industry Minister Morten Bodskov said in a statement.

Norway could build a fence along part or all of the 198-kilometer (123-mile) border it shares with Russia, a minister saida move inspired by a similar project in neighboring Finland. “A border fence is very interesting, not only because it can act as a deterrent, but also because it contains sensors and technology that can detect whether people are moving near the border,” Justice Minister Emilie Enger Mehl told Norwegian The public broadcaster NRK published this late on Saturday. She said the Norwegian government is currently examining “several measures” to increase security on the border with Russia in the Arctic north, such as fences, increasing the number of border staff or increasing surveillance.

Volodymyr Zelensky celebrated on Sunday the 83rd anniversary of the Nazi massacre of more than 30,000 Jews in the Babyn Yar ravine near Kiev 1941 – the largest massacre of the Jewish population in Ukraine by the Germans and their local collaborators during World War II. On