A major oil refinery was hit by two huge explosions in a kamikaze drone strike in Volgograd - the first air raid on the city previously called Stalingrad since Hitler s failed invasion 81 years ago.
Lt-Gen Alexander Tatarenko, 63, was the most senior of ten military personnel killed in a suspected Storm Shadow missile strike on Belbek airbase in occupied Crimea.
A Russian Su-25 was shot down in a new friendly fire incident, according to reports. It is suspected to have been downed by a Buk-M3 surface to air missile system.