TOP HEADLINES

• Ukrainian drones have struck targets in at least six regions deep within Russia, including an airfield where they destroyed military transport planes. READ MORE BELOW

• Russia's foreign ministry said the wave of Ukrainian drone attacks on Russian territory overnight "will not go unpunished."

• Russia's "largest air strike on Kyiv since spring" killed two people early on Wednesday, with the debris of downed missiles falling on buildings, a park and a school, Ukrainian officials said. READ MORE BELOW

• Ukrainian air defenses shot down all 28 Russian missiles and 15 out of 16 drones launched overnight, commander-in-chief of Ukraine's armed forces, said.

• Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin was buried quietly on the outskirts of St. Petersburg on Tuesday, six days after he was killed in an unexplained plane crash. "The farewell to Yevgeny Viktorovich took place in a closed format," his press service said on Telegram.

• The Russian Defense Ministry claimed it had destroyed four Ukrainian military ships in the Black Sea carrying a total of up to 50 special forces personnel.

• A Moscow court has extended for three months the detention of a former U.S. consular employee accused of gathering information for Washington on the conflict in Ukraine and other issues, TASS has reported.

• Three people were killed by explosions in fields caused by mines and other devices left behind by Russian troops who abandoned much of the region last November, according to governor of southern Kherson region.

• The U.S. has announced a new package of military assistance to support Ukraine that includes additional air defense and artillery munitions, mine clearing equipment and medical vehicles.

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IN DETAIL

Six Russian regions hit by drones

Ukrainian drones struck targets in at least six regions deep within Russia on Wednesday, including an airfield where they destroyed military transport planes. Russian officials described attacks on targets in the Pskov, Bryansk, Kaluga, Orlov, Ryazan and Moscow regions.

In Pskov, in northern Russia more than 600 km from Ukraine, a huge fire erupted at a military airfield. TASS reported at least four giant Il-76 transport planes were damaged.

Footage published by Pskov's governor on Telegram showed a huge fire with the sounds of sirens and an explosion. Other video posted online showed anti-aircraft systems in action around the city, which is just 32 km east of Russia's border with NATO-member Estonia.

Moscow claimed to have thwarted all the attacks on Russia. There was no comment from Kyiv, which generally withholds comment on specific strikes on territory inside Russia but says it has a right to hit military targets in self defense.

Russia said Ukrainian drones had tried to attack a TV tower over the Bryansk region. No casualties were reported.

Strike on Ukrainian capital

Kyiv experienced its biggest attack "since the spring" on Wednesday morning, military authorities said after the death of two people following a missile attack on the Ukrainian capital.

Ukraine said its air defenses had shot down 28 Russian missiles and 15 out of 16 drones fired overnight. Explosions rang out in Kyiv where authorities said debris fell on four areas, killing at least two people.

"The enemy launched a massive, combined attack using drones and missiles," Serhiy Popko, the head of the city's military administration, said on Telegram.

Civilian and military authorities had earlier reported that debris had fallen on the Shevchenkivskyi and Darnytskyi districts of Kiev, causing fires there, and that the competent services had visited the scene.

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