Ukraine and Russia traded fire overnight with 4 people hurt in strikes on refineries in Russia while Russian attacks killed 6 and injured dozens.

Ukraine hit more oil facilities deep inside Russia in overnight attacks, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Thursday, as Kyiv kept up its campaign to undermine Moscow’s wartime economy and embarrass the Kremlin.

Russia has also used this tactic to protect submarines at a key base in the Black Sea from Ukrainian drone strikes.

When evangelical pastor Ihor Ivashchuk fled his home in occupied Ukraine four years ago, he asked a lifelong friend to live there and look after it until he could safely return. But when his friend called to say a man clad in military fatigues had turned up on the doorstep asking who owned the property and whether he could see ownership documents,

The strikes have drawn attention not only because of their reach inside Russia, but also because of Wildberries’ economic importance, its ties to the country’s financial sector, and the impact on ordinary Russian consumers.

A Ukrainian intelligence official says Russia is deploying a North Korean unit with up to 120 ballistic missiles in its war against Ukraine.

Ukraine's president says the overnight strikes aim to limit revenues Russia "uses to finance" its war.

By Dan Peleschuk and Serhiy Chalyi ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine, Aug 6 (Reuters) - When two Russian bombs hit Kateryna Lahuta's seafood business in Ukraine's southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia last month, they shattered the last semblance of security for the 41-year-old entrepreneur.

A projectile struck a crowded Russian Black Sea beach Monday, killing seven people, including four children, and injuring 58. Russia blamed a Ukrainian drone attack as video captured the deadly impact.