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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIn this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, emergency services personnel work to extinguish a fire of residential buildings following a Russian missiles attack in Odesa, Ukraine, Sunday, Aug. 9, 2026. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP)<\/p>\n
In Kharkiv, Ukraine\u2019s second-largest city, Russian missiles struck a high-rise apartment block in the Saltivskyi district, killing two people and injuring 13, according to regional head Oleh Syniehubov. Eight more people were injured in Ukraine\u2019s Black Sea port of Odesa after \u201cdozens of missiles and drones\u201d struck the city and surrounding region, according to local administration head Oleh Kiper.<\/p>\n
Ukraine\u2019s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has for months lobbied other countries, especially the U.S., to send Ukraine more Patriot systems made scarcer by the Iran war, arguing they are crucial for defending civilians.<\/p>\n
Failing that, Zelenskyy wants to make Patriot ammunition in Ukraine or get approval from Elon Musk to use his Starlink satellite communications system to guide strikes inside Russia that can hit its missile launchers.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Kyiv has kept up long-range drone strikes against Russian energy infrastructure, as well as the country\u2019s largest online retailer, Wildberries, and other targets deep inside Russia, sparking a fuel crisis.<\/p>\n
Russia\u2019s defense ministry on Sunday claimed its overnight strikes hit drone warehouses in the Kharkiv region, as well as fuel depots and stores of other materiel belonging to Ukraine\u2019s armed forces at the port of Odesa.<\/p>\n
It said its forces had shot down 153 Ukrainian drones during the night, including over Russian-occupied Crimea and the Black and Azov seas.<\/p>\n
In Russia\u2019s Belgorod region, authorities said Ukrainian drone strikes damaged 29 apartment blocks and five private houses, as well as administrative buildings and unspecified \u201ccommercial facilities.\u201d<\/p>\n
Debris from Ukrainian drones also fell on two enterprises and a private home in the Russian city of Novorossiysk, mayor Andrey Kravchenko said on Sunday. He did not specify what the commercial sites were. Regional authorities later said falling debris had injured one person, damaged two private houses, and blew out a window in an apartment block.<\/p>\n
A major fuel terminal is located at Novorossiysk that links Kazakhstan\u2019s oil fields to markets around the world, and which has previously been a target for Ukrainian strikes.<\/p>\n
Moldova says blast near Ukraine border caused by drone<\/p>\n
A \u201cpowerful explosion\u201d believed to be from a combat drone was reported in the village of Crocmaz, in southeast Moldova near the border with Ukraine, local police said Sunday.<\/p>\n
No one was injured by the impact, which caused a vegetation fire in the Stefan Voda district, police said, adding that \u201cfragments of a combat drone were found at the scene\u201d and would be examined by specialists. Police did not specify the origin of the drone.<\/p>\n