Russia struck a bridge linking two sides of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv for the second successive day, officials said on Friday, part of an intensifying campaign of air attacks on infrastructure that is upending daily life.
Russia hit the headquarters of Kyivstar, Ukraine's largest mobile service provider on Sunday, the company told local media, as Moscow continued a bombardment of Ukrainian data centres and communications infrastructure.
Russia's rapid expansion of jet drone production has allowed it to bombard Ukraine with overwhelming numbers of weapons whose speed makes them far harder to shoot down.
The U.S. envoys arrived from Moscow where they held three hours of talks with Vladimir Putin, but did not appear to secure a breakthrough in the conflict.
Ukraine thinks Russia is planning to draft an additional 300,000 troops for its war effort after Russian parliamentary elections in mid-September, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said.
They were the president's first comments on the subject since ousted former Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov called for a wartime poll in a bombshell address last week.
Mykhailo Fedorov called for wartime elections in a bombshell address, arguing the nation faced a crisis of governance, in the biggest internal challenge to President Volodymyr Zelenskiy since Russia's invasion.
Three people were killed and 37 wounded in Kharkiv, where a multi-story apartment block was hit, while authorities in Belgorod said five were killed and 25 wounded by a Ukrainian drone attack.
Russia is rolling out its own version of the Starlink satellite internet system faster than expected and plans to have nearly 300 satellites in orbit by 2027, according to a Ukrainian intelligence official.
Ukraine has agreed to export drones to the United States to participate in the Pentagon's Drone Dominance programme, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Wednesday.
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