• A Russian soldier in Crimeaopened fire on comrades,killing one and wounding another, beforeshooting civilians and killing three. Three other people were wounded, said Mikhail Razvozhayev, the Russian-installed governor of the Sevastopol region. He said the attacker had been arrested. “A tragedy in Sevastopol … According to initial information, a soldier opened fire on his fellow servicemen, killing one person, before attacking civilians and killing three of them,” Razvozhayev posted. “All circumstances and causes of the incident are being established.” Crimea, a peninsula illegally annexed by Russia from Ukraine in 2014, has for weeks been the target of Ukrainian attacks aimed at disrupting Russian military logistics and cutting off the occupiers’ gasoline and electricity supplies.
  • Russian ballistic missiles hit Kyivearly on Wednesday, killing one person, injuring 12 and severely damaging buildings in several districts. Air raid alerts remained in place for more than an hour. The mayor, Vitali Klitschko, said one warehouse building had been destroyed near the city centre and rescue teams had pulled two people from the ruins. “There may still be people under the rubble.” The attack triggered an ammonia leak, which was being tackled by emergency crews.
  • Ukrainian drones struck warehouses across Russia including several run by online retailer Wildberries, local officials said. Wildberries said its warehouse near St Petersburgcaught fire with no casualties. In the Tver region, about 180km north-west of Moscow, a Wildberries facility wasdamaged by dronesin the rural area of Emmaus. In theMoscow region, a drone attack on the city of Chekhov set a warehouse alight and killed five people in the Novoselki industrial zone. Drones damaged aWildberries warehouse near Krasny Bor in north-western Russia, wounding one person. A fire broke out when a drone fell on a distribution centre in the Leningrad region near St Petersburg operated by Lenta, one of the country’s largest food retailers, the company said, with one person injured.

  • Ukraine accused Russia of committing a war crimeafter a video was released showing adrone chasing down a street vendorand exploding in the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson. Police said the man in his 50s survived but suffered shock and shrapnel injuries, having dived under the vehicle for shelter. “Today, many were shocked by yet another video of the drone ‘safari’ Russians are carrying out against civilians in Kherson,” said Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukraine’s president. “We must act and support life in ways that force Russia to think seriously about peace rather than expanding the range of its drones.”

  • Ukraine’s police and its foreign minister, Andrii Sybiha, said the attack happened on Tuesday. Sybiha said the attack formed part of a deliberate Russian campaign to intimidate civilians. “This barbaric Russian war crime in Kherson demands international condemnation and justice, but thousands of similar crimes never come to the public eye.” The minister said the “sadist” pilot of the Russian drone would have known the target was a civilian.

  • Two children and an elderly woman were killed in Russian guided bomb strikeson Ukraine’s northern city of Sumy, said the regional governor, Oleh Hryhorov. Russia said seven people, including three children, were killed and 60 injured at its Black Sea holiday resort of Gelendzhik by a Ukrainian drone. A Ukrainian official said the drone only fell on the beach because it was shot down by Russian air defences: “Ukraine uses its weapons exclusively against the Russian military-industrial complex and economic infrastructure facilities.”

  • Hundreds of mourners dressed mostly in white walked through central Kyiv on Tuesday behind the open casket of a university student killedat the weekend by a Russian strike as shehelped people wounded in an earlier attack. Vitalina Yarovenko’s mother had asked she be given the kind of funeral procession used in Ukraine to honour fallen soldiers. Several hundred people followed her casket. Traffic stopped to let the procession past while drivers stepped out of their cars and stood silently or knelt hand on heart. Russia has repeatedly targeted rescue workers by hitting residential buildings with two consecutive missiles: the first to draw crews to the scene and the second to wound or kill them. The tactic is called a “double tap” in military jargon.