Kremlin fires wave of cruise and S-300 missiles
Russia has carried out an array of aerial attacks on Ukraine with cruise missiles, drones and ballistic missiles, Ukraine’s air force said yesterday.
Meanwhile, the head of the army said Russia is increasing its troop concentration in the Kharkiv region, where Moscow’s forces have made significant advances in a spring offensive.
Ukraine’s GUR military intelligence operation claimed that sea drones had destroyed two Russian KS-701 patrol boats in the Black Sea off the Russia-annexed Crimean peninsula. Russian officials did not immediately comment on the claim.
The air force said that the overnight attacks on Ukraine included eight S-300 ballistic missiles, 11 cruise missiles and 32 Shahed drones.
All the drones and seven of the cruise missiles were shot down, the air force said but gave no more details.
In Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, seven people were injured and a municipal services building caught fire in the attacks, regional governor Oleh Syniehubov said.
Two soldiers have been killed in a car-ramming attack in the occupied West Bank, the Israeli military said yesterday.
Officials said they received a report late on Wednesday about the incident near the Palestinian city of Nablus. They said the attacker fled the scene and that soldiers had launched a search for him.
Yesterday, the military said top officials are carrying out an inquiry into the attack.
Israeli Army Radio reported that the attacker had turned himself in to Palestinian security forces, but this could not immediately be confirmed.
The Israeli military also said that it is reviewing an incident in which two workers with the Palestinian Red Crescent were killed in the Gaza city of Rafah.
The Gaza Health Ministry said the two medics were killed on Wednesday when the ambulance they were travelling in to evacuate casualties came under Israeli fire.
A French court has ruled the auction of a trophy awarded to the late Diego Maradona after the 1986 World Cup can go ahead as planned despite opposition from his heirs, their lawyer said.
The footballer’s heirs tried to stop the auction of the Golden Ball trophy he received for being the best player of the 1986 World Cup by starting an urgent judicial procedure.
Lawyer Gilles Moreu said the court’s ruling “was not favourable to the heirs of Diego
Maradona”.
The trophy is set to go under the hammer at the Aguttes auction house in Paris next Thursday.
The Golden Ball was missing for decades after it disappeared in uncertain circumstances and only recently resurfaced.
Maradona’s heirs say the trophy was stolen and claimed the current owner is not entitled to sell it.
Aguttes said the trophy reappeared in 2016 among other lots that were acquired from a private collection at auction in Paris.
Mr Moreu said the president of the Nanterre court outside Paris ruled that the current owner of the trophy, identified as Mr Benchaieb, “should be considered as acting in good faith.”