00:00Russia continues to push forward in eastern Ukraine, with Moscow claiming new territorial advances on Sunday.
00:07At the same time, Ukraine reported deadly air attacks and urged Western allies to allow it to launch more retaliatory strikes deep into Russian territory.
00:17Tensions further escalated when Russian attack drones breached the airspace of NATO members Romania and Latvia, triggering demands for a strong response from the military alliance.
00:27In recent weeks, Russia has ramped up aerial strikes, while simultaneously defending against a major Ukrainian cross-border offensive in the Kursk region, reshaping the trajectory of this two-and-a-half-year war.
00:40Ukraine launched its Kursk offensive in early August, aiming to force Russia to redeploy its forces from eastern Ukraine.
00:47But Moscow responded with intensified attacks, claiming its most significant gains in nearly two years.
00:54On Sunday, Russia's military reported capturing a village on the road to the key logistics hub of Pokrovsk, located in the Donetsk region.
01:03The defense ministry said Russian troops had liberated the settlement of Novorodivka, just 20 kilometers from Pokrovsk.
01:10Before the war, this town was home to over 14,000 people.
01:15Russian President Vladimir Putin reiterated last week that his primary objective in Ukraine is to capture the eastern Donbass region, including Donetsk.
01:25He suggested that Ukraine's counteroffensive in Kursk has made this goal more attainable.
01:30Meanwhile, Moscow faced global condemnation after its drones violated NATO airspace.
01:37A Russian drone crashed in Latvia, sparking an investigation, while Romania reported that a Russian drone targeting Ukrainian civilian infrastructure had entered its airspace.
01:47Ukraine responded swiftly.
01:50President Zelensky's chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, called on NATO to act decisively, stating that Russian drones should be shot down if they enter European skies.
02:01President Zelensky himself urged Ukraine's western partners to provide more weapons capable of striking targets inside Russia.
02:08In just one week, Russia launched over 800 aerial bombs, 300 Shiite drones, and more than 60 missiles at Ukraine, he reported.
02:17He emphasized that the only way to stop Russia's terror campaign is by targeting Russian military airfields, bases, and logistics hubs.
02:26The death toll continued to rise, with seven Ukrainians killed on Sunday due to Russian strikes.
02:32In Sumy, two people died, and four more were injured, including children.
02:38Meanwhile, Russian rocket attacks killed four in Donetsk, and another person died in the Kharkiv region, with ten others wounded.
02:46The devastation extended to the central city of Poltava, where the death toll from an earlier strike on a military education facility rose to 58.
02:55The violence reached as far west as Lviv, near Ukraine's border with the EU and NATO.
03:01Last week, seven people were killed in a rare strike on the city, marking an expansion of the conflict far from the front lines.
03:09As Ukraine faces these ongoing attacks, Kiev continues to call on the West for long-range missiles and the removal of restrictions on their use to bolster their defense and retaliatory capabilities.
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