Ukraine updates: Kyiv says it hit Russia fuel facility

Ukrainian drones have hit a fuel and energy facility in the Russian region of Kaluga. Meanwhile, Germany’s vice chancellor admits Berlin has been too slow to provide weapons to Ukraine. 

Kharkiv mayor says 23 injured in air attacks

Russia has launched heavy air attacks on Ukraine, with 19 people injured in the second-largest city of Kharkiv, the city’s mayor has said.

Mayor Ihor Terekhov said Kharkiv was hit by a repurposed S-400 air defense missile.

He said 23 people had been injured and some 40 buildings, including official or administrative offices, were damaged.

Meanwhile, in the southeastern Ukrainian region of Zaporizhzhya, the regional administration said a child was injured, with infrastructure facilities as well as residential buildings damaged.

Russia captures UK man fighting for Ukraine, reports say

Russian media is reporting that Moscow’s military has captured a British national fighting with Ukrainian troops occupying part of Russia’s Kursk region.

The Briton has been identified by state news agency Tass and other media as James Scott Rhys Anderson. The agency quoted him as saying that he had served as a signalman in the British army for four years before joining the International Legion of Ukraine, which was formed early on in Russia’s full-scale war against its neighbor.

A video shared by pro-Kremlin social media channels over the weekend showed a man appearing to have his hands tied and identifying himself as James Anderson.

He said he had joined the Ukrainian army after being dismissed from the British army in 2023, and was reportedly taken prisoner in the Russian border region of Kursk.

Meanwhile, the UK Foreign Office said it was “supporting the family of a British man following reports of his detention.”

British government travel advice has previously warned citizens not to travel to Ukraine “to fight, or to assist others engaged in the war.” It says anyone who does so could be prosecuted under UK law.

Ukraine says it hit oil depot south of Moscow

The Ukrainian military says it struck an oil depot in Russia’s western Kaluga region overnight into Monday.

“As a result of an operation by the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine, a fuel and energy facility in the Kaluga region of Russia was hit overnight,” the AFP news agency cited a source as saying.

“The target of the attack was an oil depot of Kaluganefteprodukt JSC, which is involved in supporting Russia’s armed aggression against Ukraine,” the source said.

Moscow and Kyiv have ramped up drone and missile attacks against cross-border targets, with Russia last week launching its new Oreshnik missile on Ukraine.

The governor of Kaluga, which lies south of the Russian capital, Moscow, said air defense systems in the region had downed eight drones. He confirmed that an “industrial enterprise” had caught fire.

Unverified social media images of the alleged attack showed tracer ammunition in the night sky and a large fire next to two industrial chimneys.

The Ukrainian military also said it hit “a number of important targets” in Russia’s Bryansk and Kursk regions, which both border Ukraine.