Russia-Ukraine war live: Putin’s forces ‘fired over 800 glide bombs’ as infant injured in Moscow’s strikes

Russian forces have used more than 800 glide bombs in the past week to hit Ukraine, president Volodymyr Zelensky said last night. Ukraine’s war-time president shared photos of the Russian strikes on the besieged country’s cities – Zaporizhzhia, Dnipro, Odesa, Sumy, Kherson, Donetsk and Kharkiv.

“This week alone, Russia has used more than 800 guided aerial bombs against Ukraine. Against our cities and communities, against our people, against everything that makes life normal,” he said on X.

He said this after Russia struck Ukraine’s two largest cities yesterday, with missile fragments falling on a suburban Kyiv apartment building and a guided bomb killing one person in Kharkiv. An eight-month-old infant was injured in the bombing in Kharkiv, officials said.

Mr Zelensky has renewed his call for more long-range weapons after seven people were killed in a Russian strike the previous day.

Western allies have already supplied Ukraine with long-range weapons – including Scalp missiles from France, Storm Shadow from the UK and ATACMS from the US – as well as US-made Patriot air defence systems.

At least seven people have been injured in an overnight Russian attack in southeastern Ukraine, local officials have reported.

Serhiy Lysak, head of the local miltary administration, said a 15-year-old boy was among those hurt.

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Below we have some of the latest photos coming out of Ukraine.

Russia’s air defence systems destroyed 36 drones that Ukraine launched at three regions bordering Ukraine, Russia’s defence ministry said this morning.

At least 18 drones were downed over the Bryansk region in Russia’s west, nine were destroyed in the Kursk region south of Bryansk and nine over the Belgorod region further south, the