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• Six people including an infant were killed by Russian shelling in the southern Ukrainian region of Kherson, officials said.

• A civilian was killed and six people were wounded, including a 12-year-old girl, following intense Ukrainian shelling in Donetsk, including cluster munitions, a Russian-installed official in the eastern Ukrainian region said. READ MORE BELOW

• A large fire broke out at a fertilizer storage in the town of Ramenskoye in Moscow region, Russian state new agency RIA reported.

• Russian air defenses shot down at least three Ukrainian drones over western regions of Russia, its defense ministry said. Two drones were shot down over the Belgorod region and another over the Kursk region, the ministry added.

• A Russian warship opened warning fire on a Palau-flagged dry cargo ship on its way to Ukraine in the Black Sea, the Russian defense ministry said. According to the ministry, the ship went on its way to port in Ukraine after Russia carried out an inspection.

• Russia's Foreign Ministry condemned what it called Ukraine's "terrorist attack" on the Crimean Bridge, saying it put innocent civilians' lives at risk, and vowed retaliation. "There can be no justification for such barbaric actions and they will not go unanswered," ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a statement on the Telegram messaging app.

• The UK's defense ministry said there was a realistic possibility that Russia no longer funds the activities of the mercenary Wagner Group. The ministry said in a daily bulletin the Russian state has acted against some other business interests of Wagner owner Yevgeny Prigozhin after he led a failed mutiny against the Russian army's top brass in June.

• Germany's Rheinmetall will deliver a Luna New Generation drone system to Ukraine by the year end, Bild am Sonntag reported, citing company sources.

IN DETAIL

Intense Ukrainian shelling in Donetsk kills one

A civilian was killed and six people were wounded, including a 12-year-old girl, following intense Ukrainian shelling in Donetsk, including cluster munitions, a Russian-installed official in the eastern Ukrainian region said.

One civilian was killed in a district of the city of Donetsk, while the six wounded people were in Makiivka, which lies east of Donetsk, Denis Pushilin, the Russian-appointed head of the region, said on his Telegram channel. 

"In total, the enemy fired 127 rounds of ammunition at peaceful cities and regions in the republic," Pushilin said, referring to the Donetsk People's Republic as Moscow calls the region it said last year it was absorbing. 

Pushilin said cluster munitions were among the artillery used. Both sides have used cluster munitions in the course of Russia's 17-month-old conflict in Ukraine. Kyiv received cluster munitions from the United States last month and vowed to only use them against concentrations of enemy soldiers.

Russia, which early last year launched a full-scale offensive in Ukraine that it calls a "special military operation," says Ukrainian forces shell the Russian-controlled parts of the Donetsk region on a daily basis.

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