corner. as we go through the day and to the south west, showery outbreaks of rain arriving. the wind direction is still easterly and it looks likely the best of the sunshine will be across the south east corner. we might see 19 or 20 degrees, still very nice indeed. as we move out of thursday into friday, that low pressure is going to push its way steadily northwards taking rain with it. plenty of showers tucking in behind. friday will see some persistent rain moving through north east scotland, sunny spells and scattered showers across england and wales, some of them heavy and thundery. but there will still be some sunshine and warmth so temperatures are likely to peak at around 19. thanks, louise. and that s bbc news at ten. there s more analysis of the day s main stories on newsnight with kirsty wark, which isjust getting underway on bbc two. so who gave the order? if ukraine did launch the drones, what was the calculation? and what will putin do next? we ll be speaking to
Footage on social media has shown large convoys of troops heading north from Voronezh, thought to be Wagner mercenaries, as they vow to take Moscow and install a new President.
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visiting finland today, denied responsibility for the strike. we don t attack putin or moscow. we fight on our territory. we are defending our villages and cities. we don t have, you know, enough weapons for these. last summer s hit on the kerch bridge was also called terrorism by the russians, and used as a pretext for large scale missile attacks on ukrainian civilian infrastructure. but did the ukrainians mount today s operation? a presidential adviser in kyiv tweeted, ukraine wages an exclusively defensive war and does not attack targets on the territory of the russian federation . what for ? this does not solve any military issue, but it gives the russian federation grounds
questions, how closely is president putin actually protected, how effective are russian air defences, and what will be russia s next move? a ukrainian presidential adviser mykailo podolyak told the bbc that the incident indicated russia could be preparing a large scale terrorist provocation in ukraine. here s mark s anaylsis. it s an attack rich in symbolism. a drone, or missile, strikes the senate dome inside the kremlin. video reveals a clock showing it s 2.27am. then, 16 minutes later, a second strike goes in, apparently with the same aiming point. but this projectile arrives from a different direction. clocks show it happened at 2.43am. next week we have victory day, the russian celebrations, which is really the high holy day of putin s nationalist war cult, when, frankly, the senate house dome