Russia Ukraine War Live Updates: US agrees to send advanced rockets to Ukraine; oil prices higher following EU ban
Russia’s nuclear forces are holding drills in the Ivanovo province, northeast of Moscow, the Interfax news agency cited the Russian defence minry as saying. Some 1,000 servicemen are exercising in intense manoeuvres using over 100 vehicles including Yars intercontinental ballic missile launchers, it cited the minry as saying.
Meanwhile, a Russian airstrike on Sievierodonetsk hit a tank of nitric acid at a chemical factory, causing a huge leak of fumes, according to Serhiy Haidai, governor of the Luhansk region. He posted a picture of a big cloud hanging over the city and urged residents to stay inside and wear gas masks or improvised ones.
At least three people were killed and six wounded overnight in a Russian missile strike on the city of Sloviansk, west of Sievierodonetsk, Donetsk Governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said in a Facebook post. A school was among several buildings damaged. A crater was blasted in the road between two apartment buildings heavily pockmarked shrapnel.