Russia tells US to ‘think again’ over Islamic State role in concert hall attack, despite evidence – live

Islamic State released footage of Friday’s deadly attack, even as Russia sought to blame Ukraine, which Kyiv denies

The EU’s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, said that the EU has delivered €31bn in military equipment to Ukraine since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022.

In a blog post, he said the bloc would have trained 60,000 Ukrainian soldiers by this summer and donated more than 1 million artillery shells to Kyiv by the end of the year.

Russia’s defence ministry said its forces destroyed 11 Ukraine-launched drones over the south-western Russian Rostov region.

Emergency power outages were introduced in Ukraine’s port of Odesa on Monday after a Russian air attack damaged one of the high-voltage facilities there, accrording to Ukraine’s top energy provider, DTEK.
“The situation remains difficult,” DTEK wrote on Telegram. “In order to reduce the load on the network, electric transport will not operate in the city today, and industrial consumption is also limited.” The administration of Odesa said the city and the region were attacked by several waves of drones launched by Russia, with four of the air weapons shot down over the Odesa and neighbouring Mykolaiv regions.

Russia will not stop if it wins the war in Ukraine, Jane Hartley, the US ambassador to the UK, told Sky News. She told Sky News she is “optimistic” that the US will release more funding for Ukraine, but said “anybody who thinks that Russia may stop after this, I think is wrong”. “I was ambassador [to France and Monaco] in 2014, and I saw what happened in Crimea. I don’t know why anybody would say, ‘oh this is it for Russia’,” Hartley added.

Ukraine hit two Russian military ships stationed at the illegally occupied peninsula of Crimea, the Ukrainian military said on Sunday. The targets were the landing ships Yamal and Azov, a communications centre and other Black Sea fleet infrastructure. “It was the most massive attack in recent times,” said the Russian-appointed governor of Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvozhayev. He said a 65-year-old man was killed and four people injured. Footage shared on social media showed a large blast in the city, sending a fireball and black smoke into the air.