Satellite photographs have shown the damage to a headquarters building for the Russian Black Sea fleet in the naval base of Sevastopol in Russian-controlled Crimea, after it was struck by Ukrainian missiles.
Ukraine's intelligence chief, Kyrylo Budanov, told Voice of America that at least nine people were killed and 16 others wounded as a result of Kyiv's attack on the Black Sea Fleet last Friday.
He claimed that Alexander Romanchuk, a Russian general commanding forces along the key southeastern front line, was "in a very serious condition" following the attack.
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Ukraine's military also said the air force conducted 12 strikes on the Black Sea Fleet headquarters, targeting areas where personnel, military equipment and weapons were concentrated.
It said that two anti-aircraft missile systems and four Russian artillery units were hit.
This photo taken from video shows smoke rising over the headquarters building.
Sevastopol, the main base of Russia's Black Sea Fleet since the 19th century, has had a particular importance for navy operations since the start of the war in February 2022.
Earlier in September, the Russian-installed authorities in Crimea accused Ukraine of attacking a strategic shipyard in Sevastopol, damaging two ships undergoing repairs and causing a fire at the facility.
Russia's Defence Ministry said Ukraine launched 10 cruise missiles at the shipyard.
As the war in Ukraine rages on, Ukrainian forces have turned to a new kind of weapon to frustrate Russian forces.
They are created with one single aim in mind: to be destroyed as quickly as possible.
And in that, the steelworks company behind them boasts, these decoy weapons are remarkably successful: hundreds have been targeted by Russian forces almost as soon as they were deployed.
The aim, says the spokesman, is twofold: to save Ukrainian lives and to trick Russians into squandering their own, very expensive, kamikaze drones, shells and missiles.
Ukrainian D-20 gun-howitzers, American-made M777 howitzers, mortar tubes, air defence radars and all manner of military hardware have been duped by the Ukrainian company.
Before the war they were Ukraine's largest metalworking company, now they build an impressive array of replicas of the latest American and European killing technology.
The idea is that, from the sky, the decoys should look worthy of attack – without costing too much.
And that has meant striking a balance in the choice of materials, complementing cheap plywood – which doesn't give off the right heat signature to trick Russian heat-seeking radars and drones – with enough metal that they should be fooled.
"War is expensive and we need the Russians to spend money using drones and missiles to destroy our decoys", explains Metinvest's spokesman.
"After all, drones and missiles are expensive. Our models are much, much cheaper."
The real test now – the measure of each decoy's success – is how long they stay in the field. If one design survives too long, the company's decoy designers go back to the drawing board. As a result, the company's catalogue of fake weaponry is getting impressively long and varied.
"We do not count the number of decoys produced, but the number of those destroyed, and this is the main thing for us," says the spokesman.
"The sooner our decoys are destroyed, the better for us".
The Netherlands and Denmark announced they will give F-16 warplanes to Ukraine, a long-awaited announcement that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called an important motivation for his country's forces.
After months of entreaties from Zelenskyy for F-16s to bolster the Ukrainian air force, the US recently gave approval for the Netherlands and Denmark to provide Ukraine the American-made jets.
Zelenskyy travelled to both countries on Sunday to finalise the delivery deals.
"F-16s will certainly give new energy, confidence, and motivation to fighters and civilians. I'm sure it will deliver new results for Ukraine and the entire Europe,″ the Ukrainian leader said.
Ukraine hopes the jets will give it a combat edge, after launching a counteroffensive against the Kremlin's forces without air cover from Western aircraft, placing its troops at the mercy of Russian aviation and artillery.
Zelenskyy called the Dutch and Danish donations a "huge push for other countries who were in doubt" about providing Ukraine with F-16s.
Ukraine has been relying on older aircraft, such as Russian-made MiG29 and Sukhoi jets.
F-16s have newer technology and targeting capabilities.
They are also more versatile, experts say.
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen pledged 19 F-16s to Ukraine and said she hoped the first six could be handed over early next year.
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte didn't provide a number or timeframe, saying it depends on how soon Ukrainian crews and infrastructure are ready.
Zelenskyy said on his Telegram channel that Ukraine would get 42 jets.
Rutte and Zelenskyy inspected two F-16s parked in a hangar at a Dutch base in the southern city of Eindhoven.
He later travelled to an air base in southern Denmark where Ukrainian pilots will receive F-16 training in coming months
Russia is ramping up its efforts to ensure even its youngest citizens fall in line with the official narrative when it comes to the war in Ukraine.
The country's Ministry of Education this week unveiled new history textbooks with sections about what it calls the "special military operation" in Ukraine, the annexation of Crimea and Western sanctions.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has always maintained that Moscow's unprovoked aggression against Ukraine is an effort to liberate the country from a "Nazi regime" and Western influence.
The new textbooks endorse this narrative and include maps that show occupied regions in Ukraine as being part of Russia.
Photos of the books published by state media show they call Ukraine an "ultranationalist state" where all dissent is persecuted and "everything Russian is declared hostile".
Elsewhere, the authors tell students that when they look for information about Ukraine on the internet, they should remember that there is a "global industry for the production of staged videos and fake photos and videos".
The towering Mother Ukraine statue in Kyiv — one of the nation's most recognisable landmarks — lost its hammer-and-sickle symbol on August 6, 2023, as officials replaced the Soviet-era emblem with the country's trident coat of arms.
The move is part of a wider shift to reclaim Ukraine's cultural identity from the Communist past amid Russia's ongoing invasion.
Erected in 1981 as part of a larger complex housing the national World War II museum, the 61-metre Mother Ukraine monument stands on the right bank of the Dnieper River in Kyiv, facing eastward toward Moscow.
But now, instead of the hammer-and-sickle emblem, the shield features the Ukrainian tryzub, the trident that was adopted as the coat of arms of independent Ukraine in 1992.
The completed sculpture will be officially unveiled on August 24 — Ukraine's Independence Day.
The change is just one part of a long effort in Ukraine to erase the vestiges of Soviet and Russian influence from its public spaces — often by removing monuments and renaming streets to honour Ukrainian artists, poets, and soldiers instead of Russian cultural figures.
Drone attacks in Moscow's glitzy business district have left residents on edge and shattered Russian government assertions that the city is safely away from the fighting in the Ukraine war.
The attacks aren't the first to hit Moscow — a drone even struck the Kremlin harmlessly in May.
But these latest blasts, which caused no casualties but blew out part of a section of windows on a skyscraper building and sent glass cascading to the streets, seemed particularly unsettling.
The glittering towers of the Moscow City business district dominate the skyline of the Russian capital.
The sleek glass-and-steel buildings - designed to attract investment amid an economic boom in the early 2000s – are a dramatic, modern contrast to the rest of the more than 800-year-old city.
But these latest blasts, which caused no casualties but blew out part of a section of windows on a high-rise building and sent glass cascading to the streets, seemed particularly unsettling.
"It's very frightening because you wake up at night hearing explosions," said a woman who identified herself only as Ulfiya, adding that she lived in a nearby building.
Like other Muscovites interviewed by The Associated Press, she did not identify herself further out of fear of retribution or for her personal safety.
Another resident, who gave her name as Ekaterina, said Tuesday's blast "sounded like thunder".
"I think for the first time, I got really scared," she said.
"I don't understand how people in a war zone can live like this every day and not go mad."
The business district, a 10-minute subway ride west of the Kremlin, is home to some of Moscow's flashiest restaurants.
Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said that Moscow "is rapidly getting used to a full-fledged war," without confirming or denying Kyiv's involvement in the drone attack".