Drones hit buildings in Moscow
The Russian Defense Ministry said Ukrainian forces fired at least three drones into Moscow, the latest in a wave of attacks on Russia; one of them was destroyed in Odintsovo, outside Moscow. Two others struck commercial buildings in the capital after being intercepted by Russian air defenses, officials said.
Ukraine does not normally claim responsibility for attacks in Russia, but senior Ukrainian officials said last week that the recent drone attack on Moscow was orchestrated by Kyiv. Video from Russian state media showed shattered windows and bent beams in one of Moscow’s top skyscrapers. No one was injured.
In his evening speech, Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, did not directly mention the strikes in Moscow but noted that “gradually, war is returning to Russian territory,” including military centers and “symbolic ”. He earlier vowed “revenge” after two weeks of relentless Russian bombing of Odesa, a city on the Black Sea.
Ukrainian achievements: The recapture of the strategically important village of Staromaiorske was among several breakthroughs in a stalled counteroffensive, in which for two months Kyiv troops had advanced less than 10 miles at any point along a 100-mile front.
A deadly explosion at a rally in Pakistan
An explosion at a rally organized by an Islamist party yesterday in northwest Pakistan killed at least 43 people and wounded 200 others, officials said, the latest sign of the deteriorating security situation in the country. The explosion occurred around 4 pm in Bajaur, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province near the border with Afghanistan, a local official said.
A video from the rally shows hundreds of men sitting outside under a canopy as party officials address the crowd. As a district leader took the stage, enthusiastic party workers stood up, shouting, “Allah is great,” said one rally-goer. Then an explosion shook the crowd.
Details: Officials said they suspect it may have been organized by an Islamic State affiliate in the region that is active in northwestern Pakistan and has previously attacked the Taliban administration for not establishing what it considers a strict enough interpretation of Islamic principles in Afghanistan.
West African countries are demanding that democracy be restored
After a crisis summit in Nigeria, a bloc of West African leaders threatened military action against Niger, where soldiers seized power in a coup on Wednesday, unless the country’s democratically elected president was reinstated. duty for a week. But the new junta insists it is going nowhere, and has repeatedly warned against any foreign military intervention.
The request, by the Economic Community of West African States, or ECOWAS, echoes earlier calls by the US and France, Niger’s main security allies, which have warned they will cut aid and military ties worth hundreds of millions dollars unless the ousted leader, Mohamed Bazoum, is reinstated.
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