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00:00Russia launched a massive attack early on Sunday, hitting targets across Ukraine with

00:05120 missiles and 90 drones.

00:10Israeli airstrike on central Beirut kills Hezbollah chief spokesperson Mohamed Afif

00:14and other strikes to the city destroy seven buildings. The death toll is unknown.

00:22Protesters in Abkhazia refused to leave government buildings despite the breakaway region's de

00:26facto president pledging to step down.

00:33Russia launched a massive attack early on Sunday, hitting targets across Ukraine with

00:38around 120 missiles and 90 drones.

00:42Here in the southern city of Mykolaiv, two people were killed and six others were injured,

00:47including two children, President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

00:51Russia also targeted parts of Ukraine's energy infrastructure across the country, just as

00:56winter is approaching. Its strikes have been hammering power plants ever since it invaded

01:01in February 2022.

01:06Two people were killed in the Odessa region, where the attack damaged energy infrastructure

01:11and disrupted both power and water supplies, the local governor reported.

01:15The barrage included Iranian-made drones, as well as cruise, ballistic and aircraft

01:21launch missiles. Air defences shot down 140 targets, Zelensky claimed.

01:27The operational command of Poland's armed forces also reported that Polish and other

01:32Western aircraft were mobilised as the strikes came in.

01:40Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has said he hopes the war with Russia will end

01:44in 2025 through diplomatic means.

01:48He also claimed that Ukraine's military has become one of the most powerful in the world.

01:53In almost three years of war, Kiev has received almost €120 billion of military aid, mostly

01:59from Western allies.

02:01But Zelensky said Ukraine had achieved breakthroughs in its own weapons production, including missiles,

02:06drones and electronic warfare systems.

02:11Japan's foreign minister was in Kiev on Saturday to discuss North Korea's deepening military

02:16alliance with Russia. Takeshi Iwaya said cooperation between Moscow and Pyongyang didn't

02:22just pose a threat to Europe, but also to Asia.

02:25According to intelligence assessments, up to 12,000 North Korean troops have been sent

02:30to Russia as part of a major defence treaty between the two countries.

02:40Protesters in the breakaway region of Abkhazia have refused to leave government buildings

02:44as they stormed to protest against a new property deal.

02:48Lawmakers had gathered in the parliament to discuss ratifying measures allowing Russian

02:52citizens to buy property with generous tax breaks.

02:56Opponents say it will drive up prices of apartments and boost Moscow's dominance in the region.

03:02The region's de facto president Aslanbzhania said he would step down and hold early elections

03:07if demonstrators vacated parliament.

03:13Crowds in the capital, Suhumi, rejected the proposal and said they would only accept his

03:17unconditional resignation.

03:20That property deal has since been scrapped.

03:23Russia recognizes Abkhazia as an independent country, but many Abkhazians are concerned

03:28that the region of around 245,000 people is a client state of Moscow.

03:38An Israeli airstrike on central Beirut killed Hezbollah's chief spokesman and at least four

03:42other people on Sunday, but the official toll is not announced as there has not been

03:46any comment yet, neither from Lebanese or Israeli side.

03:50It was Mohamed Afif, the head of media relations for Hezbollah, who was killed in the Arab

03:54Socialist Baath Party's office building.

03:58Israel also struck seven buildings in southern suburbs of Beirut one hour after posting evacuation

04:03warnings on social media platform X.

04:06The Hezbollah militant group has a strong presence in the area known as the Daae.

04:11Their strikes continue to intensify ahead of Lebanon's expected response to a United

04:15States-brokered ceasefire proposal.

04:18In the Hadath municipality, civil defense first responders rushed to the site of the

04:23strike to search for bodies under the rubble.

04:26More than 3,400 people have been killed in Lebanon, according to the country's health

04:30ministry, and over 1.2 million driven from their homes.

04:34It's not known how many of the dead are Hezbollah fighters.

04:37On the Israeli side, Hezbollah's aerial attacks have killed at least 76 people, including

04:4231 soldiers, and caused some 60,000 people to flee from communities in the north.

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