Kyiv launches fresh drone assault on Putin's oil refineries inside Russia - Volgograd governor Andrei Bocharov says a fire temporarily broke out after a Ukrainian drone attack

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine expressed condolences to family and friends of those killed in a Russian strike that targeted an apartment block in Sumy, and stressed the importance of continued international pressure on Russia over such terror.

Russian forces have captured hundreds of square miles of eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region over the past year as part of their advance on the city of Pokrovsk.

The death toll from the Russian drone strike on a multi-story residential building in Sumy has risen to nine, Ukrainian Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said.

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The Sumy Regional Prosecutor's Office announced this on Facebook, Ukrinform reports. “As of 11:00, four people were killed in an enemy attack on a high-rise building: two couples - a 74-year-old man and his 69-year-old wife, a 65-year-old man and his 64-year-old wife,” the report says.

Here are the key developments on the 1,072nd day of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Here is the situation on Friday, January 31:

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An oil refinery in Russia's southern Volgograd region caught fire after an overnight Ukrainian drone attack, but the blaze has now been put out, the regional

Russia on Friday launched a barrage of drones on Ukraine in an overnight attack, injuring four people and damaging a hospital and a grain warehouse in the

Russia launched a barrage of drones on Ukraine in an overnight attack on Friday, injuring four people and damaging a hospital and a grain warehouse in the southern Odesa region, officials said.