Ukraine Russia war live: Putin cancels navy celebration parades as Kyiv strikes near St Petersburg

Russia’s national carrier Aeroflot said a failure has occurred in the airline’s information systems, which may cause temporary disruptions in service operations.

“As a result, schedule adjustments for some flights are expected, including delays and cancellations,” Aeroflot said in a post on Telegram.

The carrier said that “specialists are currently working to minimise the impact on the flight schedule and to restore normal service operations”, but it did not disclose details on the scale of the failure or possible cause.

The carrier, which despite sanctions imposed on Russia for its war in Ukraine that drastically limited travel and routes, remains among the top 20 worldwide by passenger numbers.

In 2024, passenger traffic of the Aeroflot Group reached 55.3 million passengers, according to a statement on the airline’s website.

While there is no official statement from Russia at this time to indicate that the outage was caused by a cyberattack, Ukraine in the past has targeted Russia’s key infrastructure. Russia has also carried out mass cyberattacks on Ukraine’s state registries, taking down several Ukrainian state websites.

A Russian overnight air attack on Kyiv wounded eight residents of an apartment building, including a three-year-old child, authorities in the Ukrainian capital said this morning.

Four of those injured in the attack, which took place soon after midnight, have been hospitalised, with one person in serious condition, said Tymur Tkachenko, the head of Kyiv’s military administration.

Kyiv’s mayor Vitali Klitschko said that all of the people were residents of a multi-storey apartment building in the city’s Darnytskyi district on the left bank of the Dnipro River.

“The blast wave damaged windows from the 6th to the 11th floor,” Mr Klitschko said in a post on Telegram.

The capital and most of Ukraine were under air raid alerts for several hours overnight following Ukrainian Air Force warnings of Russian missile and drone attacks.

Ukrainian military Starlink systems were down for two and a half hours overnight, a senior commander confirmed, as part of a global disruption to the satellite internet provider.

Ukraine‘s forces heavily rely on thousands of SpaceX‘s Starlink terminals for battlefield communications and drone operations, proving resistant to espionage and signal jamming throughout three and a half years of fighting Russia‘s invasion.

Starlink’s biggest international outage on Thursday, caused by an internal software failure, knocked tens of thousands of users offline.

“Starlink is down across the entire front,” Robert Brovdi, the commander of Ukraine’s drone forces, wrote on Telegram at 10.41pm (1941 GMT) on Thursday.

At least five people were injured in a Russian attack on the Ukrainian capital in the early hours today, officials said.

Tymur Tkachenko, the head of the military administration of Kyiv, said the Russian air attack left at least five people injured and damaged a residential building.

At 1.30am GMT, most of Ukraine was under air raid alerts following Ukrainian Air Force warnings of Russian missile and drone attacks.

Ukraine is among the top three concerns for the British prime minister. The Middle East may not even be Starmer’s biggest international priority in these talks.

He is desperate for a solution to the Ukraine problem and recently, with Macron and Merz, has been pushing ahead with the “coalition of the willing” to provide a safeguard for Ukraine after a peace deal.

He and Macron announced new details and plans for the coalition after the French president’s recent state visit.

But they are moving ahead without the one thing they need – a promise by the US to back them up militarily if things go wrong.

Trump has resisted this idea, much preferring to get a share of Ukraine’s mineral resources. He has shown no interest at all in Starmer’s plan. But the British prime minister needs somehow to get him on side today.

Russia prefers political and diplomatic means to resolve the conflict in Ukraine, but Kyiv and the West reject that path, Russian news agencies reported yesterday, citing Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov.

“Our preferred route is through political and diplomatic means,” Mr Peskov said, according to TASS state news agency.

The Russian official added, without providing evidence, that Moscow continued its military operation in Ukraine because “all proposals for dialogue were rejected, both by Ukraine and by Western countries”.

In Ukraine’s Dnipro region on Saturday, three people died in Russian shelling, while two were killed in Russia’s Rostov region after a Ukrainian drone strike.

Ten missiles and 25 drones found their targets, striking nine locations, while air defences shot down or intercepted the rest, according to Ukraine’s Air Force.

European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen has urged Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky to uphold independent anti-corruption bodies as she also promised continued support for Ukraine on its path to EU membership.

“Ukraine has already achieved a lot on its European path. It must build on these solid foundations and preserve independent anti-corruption bodies, which are cornerstones of Ukraine’s rule of law,” Ms von der Leyen said in a post on X after a call with Mr Zelensky.

“Ukraine can count on our support to deliver progress on its European path,” she added.

Russia has inaugurated a new regular air service between Moscow and Pyongyang, a development underscoring the deepening relationship between the two nations.

The inaugural flight, operated by Russian carrier Nordwind, departed Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport yesterday with more than 400 passengers aboard. Russia’s transport ministry confirmed plans for one monthly flight to accommodate demand.

Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov, who visited North Korea‘s new Wonsan-Kalma beach resort earlier this month to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, promised to encourage Russian tourists to visit the complex.