Ukraine-Russia war latest: Kyiv says Moscow used new weapon in deadly Kharkiv attack – UK Times

Russian forces have deployed a new weapon in the latest strike on Ukraine, officials in Kyiv said after the attack on a residential building left 10 people dead.

The regional Prosecutors’s Office said the building was hit by a new Russian cruise missile, known as Izdeliye-30.

Ukrainian reports said that the new subsonic air-launched weapon that Russia has recently started to use against Ukraine has a range of 1,500km (930 miles) and is equipped with a new satellite navigation system more resistant to jamming.

As the war in the Middle East strains US missile stocks, Ukraine is hoping it can turn a wartime innovation – low-cost interceptors designed to shoot down Russian attack drones – into geopolitical leverage.

Now one of the world’s leading producers of interceptors, Ukraine is offering that expertise to the United States and its Gulf partners for the war in the Middle East, hoping to receive in return the high-end weaponry it can’t manufacture at home.

When Russia launched its full-scale invasion four years ago, Ukraine’s domestic arms industry was poor. Forced to innovate to survive, it has since built a fast-growing defense sector centered on low-cost drones — some designed specifically to counter Iranian-style Shahed drones of the kind that Russia now launches by the hundreds.

The city of Kharkiv was targeted by Russian drones and missiles, and 11 people, including two children, were killed after a Russian ballistic missile slammed into a five-storey residential building, officials said.

“When we arrived here 20 minutes after the explosion, I thought I was going to have a stroke. I couldn’t string two words together, and my legs were buckling,” said Hanna, a resident of the destroyed building.

“It’s good that I wasn’t there with my child and that my father was with me. It was ordinary people who lived there. What were they targeting?”

Russia’s defence ministry claimed its forces carried out massive overnight strikes on Ukrainian military-industrial complexes, military airfields and energy facilities but did not explain why the residential areas were targeted in a barrage of strikes, the Interfax news agency reported.

In Kharkiv, 15 people were also wounded, and 19 residential buildings were damaged by the Russian attacks, Kharkiv regional governor Oleh Syniehubov said.

Commercial and administrative buildings, electricity distribution lines, and cars were also hit, he said.

Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky said he had spoken ⁠to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman about the ⁠situation ​in Iran ⁠and the Middle East and ⁠restated Kyiv’s offer ​to ⁠help deal ‌with Iranian drones.

“Ukraine has been fighting ‌against (Iranian-designed) ‘Shaheds’ for years, ‌and everyone acknowledges that no other country in the world has such experience,” the war-time president said.

“We are ready to help and expect that our people will also receive the necessary support,” he said.

Two children were among at least 10 people killed on Saturday in a Russian missile that hit a five-story residential building in Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, officials said.

At least 16 others were wounded. President Volodymyr Zelensky condemned the attack and called for an international response. He said that Russia struck Ukraine overnight with 29 missiles and 480 drones, targeting energy facilities in Kyiv and other central regions and with damage reported in at least seven other locations across the country.

According to preliminary data, air defence systems downed 19 missiles and 453 drones with hits from 9 missiles and 26 strike drones recorded at 22 locations.

In Kharkiv, in Ukraine’s northeast, emergency workers were combing the rubble, looking for survivors.

Among the dead was a primary schoolteacher and her son, a second-grade student, who were killed in their home and an eighth-grader who also died with her mother, according to the city’s mayor, Ihor Terekhov.

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Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday he had spoken to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman about the situation in Iran and the Middle East and restated Kyiv’s offer to help deal with Iranian drones.

“Ukraine has been fighting against (Iranian-designed) ‘Shaheds’ for years, and everyone acknowledges that no other country in the world has such experience,” the Ukrainian president wrote on social media, about his conversation.

“We are ready to help and expect that our people will also receive the necessary support.”

With Iranian drones threatening American bases across the Middle East, the US has turned to Ukraine for help.

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has offered up Kyiv’s air defence specialists and cheap drone interceptors, and suggested Ukraine would accept missiles for Patriot systems in exchange.

“We received a request from the United States for specific support in protection against ‘Shaheds’ in the Middle East region,” he announced earlier this week, adding that he gave instructions to “provide the necessary means and ensure the presence of Ukrainian specialists” to guarantee security in the region.

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For the first time in a decade, a Russian flag was raised on a Games podium as the country won two bronze medals in the men’s and women’s downhill standing events at the Milano Cortina 2026 Paralympics.

Russia has been barred from competing under its national symbols for years over doping violations and the war in Ukraine.

The ban remained in place at the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics but was lifted for the Paralympics following a decision by the International Paralympic Committee, prompting criticism from several countries.

On Saturday, Russian alpine skier Varvara Voronchikhina, 24, took bronze in the women’s downhill standing event, while her compatriot Aleksei Bugaev, 29, finished third in the men’s race.

Britain disclosed on Saturday that it had four facilities used for the maintenance of military equipment in Ukraine, which are being used in the war with Russia.

“From the factory floor to the frontline, the UK is standing with Ukraine,” Luke Pollard, Britain’s Minister for Defence Readiness and Industry, said in a statement.

The British defence ministry said that as part of their work the four facilities in Ukraine were repairing CVR-T armoured vehicles, Husky support vehicles, L119 light guns and AS-90 artillery systems, which Britain had donated.

Britain has been one of Ukraine’s closest allies since Russia invaded its neighbour in February 2022, having committed more than 21.8 billion pounds ($29.2 billion) of support to Kyiv.