TOP HEADLINES

• A Russian air strike killed three civilians and wounded four other people on Friday in the village of Odradokamianka in the Kherson region, Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said.

• A police building in the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih has been hit by a Russian air strike, killing a policeman and injuring dozens more people, Klymenko stated. READ MORE BELOW

• Russia carried out its fifth drone attack this week on the southern Odesa region, said Oleh Kiper, the regional governor. Officials said air defenses shot down 16 of the 20 drones fired while a non-residential building had been damaged by debris.

• European Council President Charles Michel said it is "difficult to predict if it will be possible to have an agreement on the declaration" over the conflict in Ukraine at a meeting of G20 leaders in New Delhi, as he urged tougher action against Russia over its blockade of grain.

• Russian air defenses have downed a hostile aerial drone over northern Crimea, said Sergei Aksyonov, the head of the peninsula's administration.

• Romania's government is to approve a plan to upgrade road infrastructure in the Black Sea port of Constanta, part of wider investments in the port which could help more Ukrainian grain to transit.

• The CIA, which is trying to recruit more Russians as spies, has released a video targeting Moscow officials with an appeal to tell the truth about a system it said is riddled with lying sycophants. CIA Director William Burns said in July that disaffection among some Russians over the conflict in Ukraine was creating a rare opportunity to recruit spies.

•  Russia's Federal Security Service said it had prevented a "terrorist attack" at a railway transport facility in Crimea. It gave no immediate further details.

• Cuban authorities said they had arrested 17 people on charges related to a ring of human traffickers that allegedly lured young Cuban men to serve in the Russian military amid the Ukraine conflict.

 •  The Russian embassy in the U.S. said that Washington was meddling in its internal affairs by calling elections "illegitimate" in areas of Ukraine under Russian control, the RIA news agency reported. Russia is holding regional elections this week, including in the four Ukrainian regions it partly controls.

IN DETAIL 

Air strike on police station leaves one dead and dozens injured

A Russian missile slammed into a police building in the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih on Friday, killing a policeman and injuring many more people, Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said. The police administrative building was destroyed and rescue workers pulled several people out of the rubble after the attack on President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's hometown, Klymenko said on the Telegram.

He put the number of wounded at 25. In a later update, Regional governor Serhiy Lysak said about 40 had been wounded.

"A policeman was killed as a result of a Russian attack," Klymenko said in an Telegram post accompanied by photos showing a building that had been reduced to rubble and rescue workers carrying away a man on a stretcher.

Three administrative buildings were damaged, and seven residential buildings, including a high-rise building, suffered damage, Lysak said. Russia also carried out its fifth drone attack this week on the southern Odesa region, home to Ukrainian ports on the Black Sea and Danube River that are used to export grain and other agricultural products.

Russia has intensified air attacks on Ukrainian grain export infrastructure on the Danube River and in the port of Odesa since mid-July, when Moscow quit the UN-brokered deal that allowed safe Ukrainian grain exports via the Black Sea.

"During the night the Russian terrorists attacked the Odesa region for the fifth time this week," Oleh Kiper, the Odesa regional governor, said on Telegram.

Officials said air defenses shot down 16 of the 20 drones fired by Russia overnight - the southern military command said 14 drones had been brought down over Odesa region and two more over the southern region of Mykolaiv. Kiper said a non-residential building had been damaged by debris from a drone but gave no further details. He reported no casualties in the Odesa region.

Regional officials said Russia had also attacked the southeastern region of Zaporizhzhia and the northeastern region of Sumy with missiles, wounding several people.

Ukraine's emergency services said three people had been hurt in the Sumy region and posted a video showing rescuers pulling out an injured woman from a hole caused by the explosion. It said in a statement that the 65-year-old woman and a 70-year-old man were rescued after a two-storey residential building was damaged.

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