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A Russian drone struck the Kyiv headquarters of Ukraine’s Security Service, the SBU, on Friday, in a rare direct hit on a key government building that highlights Ukraine’s dire shortages of air defenses.
The daytime strike - the first time the SBU building has been hit in the four-and-a-half year conflict - came after days of near continuous aerial assaults by Russia on the Ukrainian capital.
The death toll from a Russian attack on a warehouse west of Kiev, the deadliest attack of the war so far this year, has risen to 38, with four people still missing, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on social media on Sunday.
Friday night’s attack on the warehouse, which Ukrainian officials said was used to store ammunition, caused powerful explosions and massive fires that spread to dozens of nearby homes and buildings.
Niger’s military authorities said they control the situation in the country’s capital, Niamey, after gunfire and explosions were heard in several parts of the city on the morning of August 29.
According to the government, facilities including the airport and the presidential palace came under attack by mutinous soldiers.
Mazloum Abdi, the commander-in-chief of the Syrian Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on Tuesday announced the dissolution of the group in a televised speech from the presidential palace in Damascus.
The dissolution followed the integration of SDF fighters into the Syrian military, said Abdi, and represented a major victory for Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa.
Papua New Guinea’s prime minister has urged the nation to appreciate the gravity of the decision on Bougainville that parliament is to debate this week.
The PNG parliament resumed on Tuesday and from Thursday MPs will debate whether to ratify the 97.7 percent vote by Bougainvilleans for independence in their 2019 non-binding referendum.
