Ukraine has attacked another warehouse belonging to Russian online retailer Wildberries in a huge overnight air attack including more than 800 drones, Russian authorities have said.

The Russian Defence Ministry said it had destroyed 822 drones overnight, with 600 directed towards the capital. Moscow does not confirm the total number of drones fired by Kyiv in its daily updates.

The Wildberries site in Podolsk, in the Moscow region, is reportedly the largest owned by the retailer. Images show the vast warehouse completely destroyed, as Kyiv continues its campaign against the so-called ‘Russian Amazon’ which aims to “bring home the war” to ordinary Russians.

Moscow region Governor Andrei Vorobyov said an 83-year-old man had been killed, in the drone attack on Moscow.

In Kyiv, at least three people were injured in missile and drone attacks early on Sunday, mayor Vitali Klitschko said.

The attacks come after Ukraine used flamingo missiles to strike a Russian rocket and space centre in Samara that it says supports Russia's nascent Starlink-style satellite internet network, president Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday.

Russia is increasing its attacks on Ukrainian civilians – the West must respond

Russian missile attacks on Ukrainian civilians are nothing new. But they are getting more sophisticated and threaten to tip the war in Russia’s favour for almost the first time.

The aim is to break, at long last, the remarkable resilience and spirit of the Ukrainian people. The Kremlin hopes that, if it succeeds in that, then not only will Russia have secured an imperial expansion; but the West will have lost a strategic ally which is even more valuable than it was when the conflict began.

Tens of thousands of Russian ballistic missiles have been lobbed at apartment blocks and other targets in Ukraine more or less indiscriminately for six years.

These are mighty weapons, intended to fight Nato’s armies in a third world war, not to pummel undefended Ukrainian towns.

They, and the newer Russian-Iranian drones, have accounted for the great majority of the 16,874 Ukrainian civilians killed (according to the United Nations’ figures) since President Putin’s “special military operation” began in February 2022. That death toll includes 820 children, with 51,173 injured, of which 3,126 are children. The kidnapping and torture of captured Ukrainians adds to the litany of Russian war crimes.

Ukrainian missile strike kills six in Russia's Belgorod region, official says

A Ukrainian missile strike killed six people and wounded another four, including a 14-year-old child, in Russia's border Belgorod region, acting governor Alexander Shuvayev said on his Telegram channel.

The attack took place in the early hours this morning.

Ukraine could start hitting Russia with domestic ballistic missiles 'in months'

Ukraine will be able to start hitting Russia with domestically-produced ballistic missiles within three to six months, the country’s former defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov said.

Speaking to CBS News, Fedorov said Ukraine has so far relied on long-range drones and cruise missiles to strike targets deep inside Russia, and that its homegrown ballistic missiles will be far harder for Russia to intercept.

He was referring to ballistic missiles being developed by Ukrainian defence manufacturer Fire Point, with a key test-launch being carried out in June.

Nato jet downs drone in Romanian airspace

Romania’s ministry of national defence said on Sunday that a Spanish Air and Space Force F-18 fighter jet shot down a drone that had entered Romanian airspace.

The drone’s entry into the Nato member’s airspace was detected by surveillance systems at 4.44am, the ministry said, about 24km (14.9 miles) north of the eastern city of Galati near the border with neighboring Moldova. Moldova is a landlocked country between Ukraine and Romania.

A Spanish F-18 aircraft that was performing air policing duties “made radar contact with the target and received engagement approval,” the ministry said. “The drone was safely shot down by the F-18 aircraft at 05.01.”

The ministry later said that drone debris was also reported in the Black Sea around 10am on Sunday, about 1.5km (0.9 miles) from the coastal city of Constanta.

Officials did not specify the drone’s origin.

The incident comes weeks after Romanian pilots shot down three drones over three days as Russia intensified attacks against Ukraine near the border.

Seven killed in Russia as Ukraine launches one of its largest aerial attacks of the war

Ukraine launched hundreds of drones across Russia on Sunday, killing at least seven people in one of Kyiv’s largest aerial attacks of the war.

Russia’s defence ministry said it had destroyed 822 Ukrainian drones overnight. Some 600 drones were detected headed toward the Russian capital, Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin said, with a third of those destroyed over the Moscow region itself.

An 83-year-old man was killed after a Ukrainian drone hit a private home in the Moscow region, local governor Andrey Vorobyov said. A woman was killed in Belgorod after a civilian bus was struck, officials said.

He also confirmed that a Ukrainian attack had sparked a blaze at a Wildberries warehouse in the town of Podolsk.

A drone attack targeted three towns in Russia’s southwestern Rostov region, killing five people, local governor Yury Slyusar said.

The attack, with more than 150 drones, damaged several homes and a railway station and sparked a forest fire.

Russia says it has taken two villages in eastern Ukraine

We’ve heard earlier from Russia's Defence Ministry which said on Sunday that its forces have taken the village of Pershomarivka in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region

The ministry said that Moscow’s forces have also sezied Kudiivka in the northeastern Kharkiv region, state news agency TASS reported.

Kim Jong Un reaffirms deepening ties with Putin

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un reaffirmed deepening ties with Russia in a message to Russian president Vladimir Putin on the anniversary of Pyongyang's liberation from Japanese colonial rule.

Earlier, Putin said the bond between Moscow and Pyongyang was forged as Soviet soldiers "fought against Japan", and that cooperation would continue "in all the sectors".

Kim expressed hope for the future of the ties between the two countries that had "carried forward the history of common struggle for justice and precious traditions of friendship", KNCA reported.

North Korea's ties with Russia have deepened after Pyongyang began deploying troops and weapons to support Russia's war against Ukraine.

Russia warns of 'serious damage' to relations with US and Turkey

Russia conveyed its concern to the US and Turkey over their upcoming transfer of arms to Ukraine, saying the shipment could cause "serious damage" to relations with the two countries.

Delivering the weapons would cause "serious damage to our bilateral relations with Washington and Ankara", Russian foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said.

"Attempts to use peace-promoting rhetoric while simultaneously supplying weapons to (Ukraine) inevitably erode mutual trust, especially against the backdrop of repeated assurances by Turkish officials that Turkey is avoiding 'lethal' deliveries to Kyiv."

Why Putin is testing Japan’s limits with visit to contested Pacific islands

For a few hours last week, the volcanic island of Iturup became the stage for a confrontation that had been decades in the making.

Vladimir Putin, accompanied by the governor of the Sakhalin region, toured a fish-processing complex, a hospital and a school on the island. For Russia, it was a routine presidential visit to a remote territory. For neighbouring Japan, its symbolism was hard to miss.

Japan, after all, claims the island, which it calls Etorofu, as part of its “Northern Territories”.

Prime minister Sanae Takaichi described Putin’s visit to the island as “absolutely unacceptable” while foreign minister Toshimitsu Motegi summoned Russia’s ambassador to protest.