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Russia’s air defence systems destroyed seven Ukrainian missiles overnight over the Kursk region, governor of the Russian region that borders Ukraine said on Monday. He said that air defence units also destroyed seven Ukrainian drones. He did not provide further details. A pro-Russian military analyst Roman Alyokhin, who serves as an adviser to the governor, said on his Telegram messaging channel that “Kursk was subjected to a massive attack by foreign-made missiles” overnight.

Russian forces captured a British mercenary fighting with the Ukrainian army in Russia’s Kursk region, which is still partially controlled by Kyiv forces, a security source told Russia’s RIA state news agency. “A mercenary from Great Britain, who called himself James Scott Rhys Anderson, was captured. He is now giving evidence,” the Russian source told RIA in remarks published on Sunday. In a video posted on unofficial pro-war Russian Telegram channels on Sunday, a young bearded man wearing military clothing with what appears to be his hands tied in the back, says in English that his name is James Scott…

Russian forces attacked energy infrastructure in Ukraine’s southern region of Mykolaiv overnight, its governor said on Monday. The engineers restored power to most of the consumers facing impacted by the power cuts in the attack’s aftermath as of the morning, governor Vitaliy Kim said via the Telegram messaging app.

The Israeli cabinet will convene on Tuesday to approve a Lebanon ceasefire deal, a senior Israeli official told Reuters on Monday. Another Israeli official told Reuters the cabinet would convene to discuss a deal that could be cemented in the coming days. U.S. news website Axios reported earlier that Israel and Lebanon had agreed to the terms of a deal to end the Israel-Hezbollah conflict.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte discussed possible ways to end the war between Ukraine and Russia during talks in Ankara on Monday, the Turkish presidency said. “During the meeting, what can be done to end the Ukraine-Russia war and the massacre in Palestine were discussed…” the presidency said on X.

The Ukrainian military said on Monday it had struck an oil depot overnight in Russia’s western Kaluga region. The military said it had also struck “a number of important targets” overnight in Russia’s Bryansk and Kursk regions, which are adjacent to Ukraine.

Iran is preparing to “respond” to Israel, Ali Larijani, a senior adviser to the country’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said in an interview published by Iran’s Tasnim news agency on Sunday. On Oct. 26, Israeli fighter jets carried out three waves of attacks on Iranian military targets, a few weeks after Iran fired a barrage of about 200 ballistic missiles against Israel. Iran has previously vowed to respond to Israel’s attacks.

Israeli attacks killed 84 in Lebanon on Saturday, taking the death toll to 3,754 and 15,626 injured since October 2023, the Lebanese health ministry reported on Sunday.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned on Sunday Jewish settlers who attacked senior Israeli military officers including Major General Avi Bluth, the head of the army’s Central Command in the occupied West Bank. The Israeli army said that a group of settlers trailed Bluth and other officers in the West Bank city of Hebron on Friday, blocked their exit and hurled abuse at them. It added that five rioters had been arrested. “All violence directed against IDF officers and soldiers must be dealt with to the fullest extent of the law,” the prime minister’s office said in a statement. Some of…

The Israeli military issued new evacuation orders to residents in areas of an eastern Gaza City suburb, setting off a new wave of displacement on Sunday, and a Gaza hospital director was injured in an Israeli drone attack, Palestinian medics said. The new orders for the Shejaia suburb posted by the Israeli army spokesperson on X on Saturday night were blamed on Palestinian militants firing rockets from that heavily built-up district in the north of the Gaza Strip. “For your safety, you must evacuate immediately to the south,” the military’s post said. The rocket volley on Saturday was claimed by…