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Images show air defence intercepting nighttime drone attacks and smoke rising above the city in Lviv, Ukraine, the day after the attacks. According to Lviv mayor Andriy Sadovyi three warehouses were destroyed and one person was killed. Ukraine says its air defence systems had downed 27 Shahed drones launched overnight in Russia's latest aerial barrage. "A total of 30 attack UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) were launched... As a result of combat work, 27 Shaheds were shot down by air defence units," the Ukrainian air force said on social media. IMAGES
A Ukrainian drone attack on Moscow leaves a building damaged in a central business district, after the sixth straight night of aerial attacks on Russia's capital region. IMAGES
Police cordon off a park in Moscow where debris landed after the Russian defence ministry said it had shot down a drone. The attack, which Moscow blames on Kyiv, would be the latest in a series of Ukrainian drones to target Moscow in the past week. IMAGES
Russian President Vladimir Putin greets foreign officials arriving for a parade through Moscow's Red Square marking 75 years since the Soviet Union's defeat of Nazi Germany. IMAGES
It's the first foreign visit for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad since the start of the Syrian crisis in 2011, in a surprise trip that underlines how Russia's become a major player in the Middle East. Mana Rabiee reports.
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at a lavish ceremony on Red Square following a landslide victory in his country’s presidential elections. The concert marks the tenth anniversary of Russia’s annexation of Crimea from Ukraine, when Moscow formally recognised the peninsula as a federal subject. IMAGES