Russia’s Ministry of Defence said it had shot down 127 drones over more than a dozen regions. <\/p>\n
The department also said it had taken control of Bochkove, a village in the Kharkiv region, on Saturday morning, according to state-linked news agency Tass.<\/p>\n
The settlement is close to Ukraine’s northern border with Russia, where invading forces have made repeated attempts to push further south towards the city of Kharkiv.<\/p>\n
Ukrainian authorities have not commented on Russia’s claim to have gained control of the village, nor has BBC News been able to independently verify it.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, Romania’s defence ministry said it was investigating “the fall of an object” on its territory close to the Ukrainian border during the Russian attack.<\/p>\n
It also clarified a previous statement which incorrectly suggested that British jets based in the country had shot down Russian drones, which would have been the first incident of its kind.<\/p>\n
It said British jets “did not enter Ukrainian airspace”, and “no drones were shot down by the aircraft, because the drones did not breach Romanian airspace”.<\/p>\n
A Nato official said British Typhoon jets “had the authority to engage the potential threats”, but “engagement was not required as the targets were neutralised outside Romanian airspace”.<\/p>\n
With peace talks between Russia and Ukraine at an impasse, Ukraine continues to seek international backing for its military efforts. <\/p>\n
On Friday, Zelensky met Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the second round of talks between the pair in recent months as Ukraine seeks to broker closer ties with Gulf allies.<\/p>\n
Saudi Arabia and its neighbours have a renewed interest in Ukraine’s drone warfare expertise since coming under Iranian attack in recent weeks. <\/p>\n
The crown prince and Zelensky discussed strengthening air defence cooperation and joint military production, an official account of the meeting said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russia’s Ministry of Defence said it had shot down 127 drones over more than a dozen regions. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-550006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}