Drone attack rocks Moscow as Putin tells leaders Russia is ‘united’

Russia said Ukraine had attacked Moscow with at least five drones that were all either shot down or jammed, despite one of the capital’s main airports having to reroute flights for several hours. The foreign ministry called the assault “yet another act of terrorism.”

  • Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy is set to summon Georgia’s ambassador to Ukraine over what he decried as the “public execution” of the country’s jailed former president who had appeared severely emaciated at a court hearing. Zelenskyy urged Georgian authorities to allow Mikheil Saakashvili, who holds Ukrainian citizenship, to come to Kyiv for medical treatment.
  • NATO has extended Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg’s contract by a further year, deciding to stick with an experienced leader as the conflict rages on the alliance’s doorstep rather than try to agree on a successor.

Turkey will not lift its opposition to Sweden joining NATO unless it stops harboring groups Ankara considers to be terrorists, President Tayyip Erdogan said. Ankara, a NATO member, has repeatedly said that Sweden needs to crack down on supporters of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) before it lifts its objections.

President Vladimir Putin, speaking during a virtual summit of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, said “the whole of society clearly demonstrated their unity and elevated sense of responsibility… when they responded as a united front against an attempted armed mutiny.”

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