LATEST HEADLINES

• At least three people were wounded in two-waves of Russian drone and missile attacks overnight on the port city of Odesa. "As a result of the enemy attack in Odesa, several fires broke out from falling rocket fragments," the governor, Oleh Kiper, said on Telegram. "Windows in buildings were blown out by the blast wave."

• Ukraine's armed forces command in the south said that its air defense forces destroyed all 15 drones and eight Kalibr-type sea-based missiles that Russia launched at Odesa.

• Russia is in the process of equipping its new nuclear submarines with hypersonic Zircon missiles, the head of Russia's largest shipbuilder told the RIA state news agency on Monday. "Multi-purpose nuclear submarines of the Yasen-M project will ... be equipped with the Zircon missile system on a regular basis," said Alexei Rakhmanov of the United Shipbuilding Corporation.

• The Danish air force has intercepted two Russian bombers that were identified over Denmark and flying towards the area that the Netherlands monitors for the NATO military alliance, the Dutch Royal Airforce said.

• Seven people are now reported to have been killed, including a 22-day-old infant, from Russian shelling in Kherson on Sunday, prompting local officials to declare Monday a day of mourning and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to promise justice.

• Ukraine has condemned what it called "provocative" Russian actions and called for decisive countermeasures by the international community, a day after Moscow said one of its warships fired warning shots at cargo vessel Sukru Okan in the Black Sea.

• The Russian rouble slid past the psychologically important 100 per U.S. dollar on Monday. The rouble has chartered a turbulent course since the Ukraine conflict started, slumping to a record low of 120 against the dollar in March last year.

• Poland has detained two Russians who were distributing propaganda materials of the Wagner group in Polish cities, Interior Minister Mariusz Kaminski said on Monday.

• Russia's defense ministry on Sunday said air defenses had shot down a drone over Russia's western Belgorod region at around 10 p.m. Moscow time. "There were no casualties or destruction," the ministry said in a post on Telegram.

• Ukrainian forces are trying to pierce Russian lines in the western parts of Donetsk region where waves of Ukrainian fighters were used to gain a foothold to the east of the town of Staromaiorske, a Russian-installed official said.

IN DETAIL

Odesa attacks sees at least three people wounded from rocket fragments

At least three people were wounded in two-waves of Russian drone and missile attacks overnight on the port city of Odesa, an official and the military in the Ukrainian region on the Black Sea said early on Monday.

"As a result of the enemy attack in Odesa, several fires broke out from falling rocket fragments," the governor, Oleh Kiper, said on the Telegram messaging app. "Windows in buildings were blown out by the blast wave."

Ukraine's armed forces command in the south said that its air defense forces destroyed all 15 drones and eight Kalibr-type sea-based missiles that Russia launched at the port. A dormitory and a supermarket were damaged by falling missiles debris, the command said on social media. It posted a video and photographs of firefighters battling a big blaze.

Odesa, Ukraine's largest port and naval base, has been repeatedly attacked with missiles and drones after Russia pulled out of an agreement allowing grain shipments from Ukraine's ports in July.

Russia to equip new nuclear submarines with hypersonic missiles

Russia is in the process of equipping its new nuclear submarines with hypersonic Zircon missiles, the head of Russia's largest shipbuilder told the RIA state news agency in an interview published on Monday.

"Multi-purpose nuclear submarines of the Yasen-M project will ... be equipped with the Zircon missile system on a regular basis," Alexei Rakhmanov, chief executive officer of the United Shipbuilding Corporation, told RIA.

"Work in this direction is already underway."

Yasen-class submarines, also known as Project 885M, are nuclear-powered cruise missile submarines, built to replace Soviet-era nuclear attack submarines as part of a programme to modernize the army and fleet. The sea-based Zircon hypersonic missiles have a range of 560 miles, and can travel at several times the speed of sound, making it difficult to defend against them.

President Vladimir Putin said earlier this year that Russia would start mass supplies of Zircon missiles as part of the country's efforts to boost its nuclear forces. The Russian multi-purposes frigate Admiral Gorshkov, which has tested its strike capabilities in the western Atlantic Ocean earlier this year, has been already equipped with Zircon missiles.

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