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Volodymyr Zelensky has mocked Vladimir Putin for his reliance on ally North Korea, saying Russia is no longer capable of waging its war on Ukraine alone.
The Ukrainian president said Russia used North Korean ballistic missiles in its strikes overnight, which killed six in Zaporizhzhia and another six in Dnipropetrovsk and Donetsk, according to local authorities.
There were also explosions in Kyiv overnight, with reports of at least one person wounded.
“For the first time in its history, Russia cannot wage war without reinforcements from North Korea,” Zelensky said earlier in his overnight address.
He also issued a warning to countries in Asia, saying North Korea will present a “greater danger” to Japan, South Korea and the Philippines as it gains military experience, correcting any shortcomings in the process.
Meanwhile, a Ukrainian drone attack killed one person in Russia’s Voronezh region overnight, while falling debris triggered fires at a Wildberries warehouse, Alexander Gusev, the regional governor, and the company said on Tuesday.
North Korea preparing to deploy another 50,000 soldiers to fight for Russia in Ukraine, Zelensky claims
The Ukrainian president said Moscow and Pyongyang had agreed to station between 30,000 and 50,000 North Korean troops on Russian territory, an escalation from earlier deployments that he described as first hundreds and then thousands of men.
Stuti Mishra11 August 2026 13:30
Moment Ukraine’s Black Forest Brigade destroys Russian air defence command centre
Video published on Sunday showed the moment of impact from above as a loitering drone hit the side of the truck with devastating effect, sending smoke billowing from the wreckage.
Shweta Sharma11 August 2026 13:00
Ukraine says it hit huge Russian oil refinery
Ukraine says it hit “one of the largest” oil refineries in Russia in Orenburg, located in the city of Orsk, around 1,500km from the frontline.
Regional governor Yevgeny Solntsev earlier confirmed a fire.
“Preliminary reports indicate no casualties. Emergency services are working at the scene,” he wrote on Telegram. He said eight drones had been shot down.
Stuti Mishra11 August 2026 12:30
Drone attack kills one in Russia’s Voronezh region, triggers fire at Wildberries warehouse
A drone attack killed one person and injured two others in Russia’s Voronezh region overnight, while falling debris triggered fires at a Wildberries warehouse, Alexander Gusev, the regional governor, and the company said.
Russia’s air defence units destroyed 15 drones over the city of Voronezh and five districts of the region, he said on Telegram.
“A drone crash caused fires at two warehouses of a large company. At one facility, the fire has been contained to an area of 16,000 square meters, while at the other, a blaze covering 20,000 square meters is being extinguished. Emergency services are on scene,” the governor said.
Earlier today, Russian online retailer Wildberries said its logistics facilities in the Voronezh region had been evacuated in accordance with safety requirements. It later said that the fire at the facility had been extinguished, that goods had not been damaged and that deliveries had been rerouted to other warehouses.
Stuti Mishra11 August 2026 12:10
Russia claims to have captured two Ukrainian villages
Russia’s defence ministry claims its forces have taken control of two settlements in Ukraine – Shcherbakivka in the Kharkiv region, and Nove Pole in the Zaporizhzhia region. The claims could not be independently verified.
Moscow also claimed to have captured another two villages in Donetsk on Sunday, naming them as Vasyutinske, a few kilometres east of the “fortress city” of Kramatorsk, and Toretsk, southwest of the city of Druzhkivka. Ukraine also made no acknowledgement of those claims, but confirmed fighting was ongoing in the region.
There has been little significant change for months in the positions along the 1,200-km (775-mile) frontline.
Stuti Mishra11 August 2026 11:51
Ukrainian military says it attacked oil refinery in Russia’s Orsk
The Ukrainian military said on Tuesday it attacked an oil refinery in Russia’s Orsk.
Russia’s defence ministry said that its forces had carried out overnight strikes on military-related transport and logistics centres in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and on a major iron and steel works it said was helping Ukraine’s war effort in Zaporizhzhia.
Shweta Sharma11 August 2026 11:30
Another Wildberries warehouse ablaze in Russia
A drone attack killed one person and injured two others in Russia’s Voronezh region overnight, while falling debris triggered fires at a Wildberries warehouse, Alexander Gusev, the regional governor, and the company said on Tuesday.
Russia’s air defence units destroyed 15 drones over the city of Voronezh and five districts of the region, Gusev said on Telegram.
File: A crater near the remains of the Wildberries warehouse that burned down after a recent Ukrainian drone attack in the course of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, in the city of Elektrostal in the Moscow region, Russia, 23 July 2026 (Reuters)
“A drone crash caused fires at two warehouses of a large company. At one facility, the fire has been contained to an area of 16,000 square meters, while at the other, a blaze covering 20,000 square meters is being extinguished. Emergency services are on scene,” the governor said.
Russian online retailer Wildberries said its logistics facilities in the Voronezh region had been evacuated in accordance with safety requirements.
Wildberries is known as “Russia’s Amazon”.
It later said that the fire at the facility had been extinguished, that goods had not been damaged and that deliveries had been rerouted to other warehouses.
Shweta Sharma11 August 2026 11:30
Death toll rises to six in Zaporizhzhia after Russian strikes
Russian attacks killed six people and wounded 20 in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia early on Tuesday and also struck Kyiv, triggering fires in the capital, officials said, taking the death toll to 12 across Ukraine in the last 24 hours.
Zaporizhzhia regional governor Ivan Fedorov said Russian troops launched missiles and aerial bombs at the city.
Air raid alerts were sounded in both Zaporizhzhia and in Kyiv, where the capital’s military administration said warehouses in a central district were ablaze. One person was reported injured.
(AFP/Getty)
Mayor Vitali Klitschko said medical personnel had been dispatched to a central district.
Elsewhere in Ukraine, local authorities reported another six people were killed and 16 wounded overnight in the regions of Dnipropetrovsk and Donetsk.
Shweta Sharma11 August 2026 11:00
Latest pictures from Kyiv show emergency workers tackling fire
Air raid alerts were sounded in Kyiv, where the capital’s military administration said warehouses in a central district were ablaze after Russian strikes.
Pictures showed emergency workers dousing fire at multiple places in Kyiv.
Smoke rises in the city during a Russian missile strike, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv (Reuters)
Firefighters work at a compound of a warehouse hit by an overnight missile strike, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv (Emergency Service of Ukraine)
(Emergency Service of Ukraine)
An employee removes debris at the compound of a City Children’s Clinical Infectious Disease Hospital hit by an overnight missile strike (Reuters)
Shweta Sharma11 August 2026 10:30
UN expert says 95% of Ukrainian POWs faced torture or ill-treatment
More than 95 per cent of Ukrainian prisoners of war interviewed by the UN reported experiencing torture or ill-treatment, while more than half reported sexual violence.
The UN assistant secretary-general for human rights, Claudia Fuentes Julio, said her office had documented widespread and systematic torture and ill-treatment of both Ukrainian POWs and civilian detainees by the Russian authorities, including sexual violence.
Since Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022, the UN human rights office has documented the execution of 129 Ukrainian prisoners of war at the beginning of their captivity and the deaths of 48 in custody, linked to torture, denial of medical care and other inhumane detention conditions.
Released Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) embrace each other following a prisoner exchange at an undisclosed location, in the Chernihiv region (AFP/Getty)
The UN also documented severe beatings, electric shocks, dog attacks and mock executions.
Fuentes Julio said the UN had documented torture and ill-treatment of Russian and third-country prisoners of war held by Ukraine, but on a “fundamentally different scale”, with about half of those interviewed reporting abuse during the initial stages of captivity.
Shweta Sharma11 August 2026 10:01