Capital’s residents told on Sunday to stay in shelters; Iskander missiles apparently used in Kharkiv region strike while shelling hits city of Nikopol. What we know on day 879

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Ukraine’s air defence systems were engaged in repelling a Russian air attack on the capital, Ukraine’s military said on Sunday. “Air defence systems are being activated on the approaches to Kyiv,” Serhiy Popko, the head of Kyiv’s military administration, said on Telegram. “Stay in shelters until the air raid alarms is lifted.”

Russian missiles and artillery fire in north-east and southern Ukraine killed at least three people on Saturday, law enforcement agencies said. A missile attack was launched around 3.15am on the town of Barvinkove in Izium district, the north-east Kharkiv region’s prosecutor’s office said. The statement listed the dead as two men aged 48 and 69 and said about 50 buildings were damaged in the strike, apparently by three Russian Iskander missiles. Another strike hit an agricultural business in the village of Oleksiivka, it said, with no reported casualties.

Separate artillery shelling later on Saturday killed a 44-year-old man in the city of Nikopol in Ukraine’s south, the national police said.

The death toll from a Russian strike on a playground in Mykolaiv on Friday rose to four, including one child, with 24 injured, the mayor of the southern city, Oleksander Senkevitch, posted on Telegram.

Chechen soldiers known for their antics on TikTok are being put on the Ukraine war’s front line in a sign of the Russian military’s “desperation”, the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) said. In a video posted to X, it said pro-Russian Chechen forces had been fighting in Ukraine since 2014 but after initial heavy losses had became “largely relegated to conducting rear area security operations”. However, since the withdrawal of Wagner forces from the war, “these TikTok soldiers are being pressed back into frontline service”, the MoD said. It added that about 42,000 Russian soldiers had been trained at a Chechnya military university since 2022, according to Chechnya’s leadership, but with only up to 10 days’ training likely, its effectiveness was in doubt. “The use of Chechen TikTok soldiers on the frontline and to train Russian solders illustrates the desperation and resources strain within the Russian military.”

Donald Trump says he will “prevent world war three from happening” and that he will have the war between Russia and Ukraine “settled” if he is re-elected in November. “You’re very close to world war,” the US Republican presidential nominee told a campaign rally in Michigan. “I will restore a thing called peace through strength.” Trump’s comments came a day after he said he had a call with Volodymyr Zelenskiy and told the Ukrainian president he would end the war. Trump has repeatedly claimed he would end the war quickly, without giving details as to how. Zelenskiy said he had agreed to arrange a meeting with Trump.

Jackson Lee, who was first elected to Congress almost 30 years ago, had said she was being treated for pancreatic cancer last month

US representative Sheila Jackson Lee, a strong progressive voice in the Democratic party who was outspoken on African American and women’s rights, has died, her family posted on X late on Friday.

Jackson Lee, of Texas, announced last month she had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and was undergoing treatment. She was 74 and had also previously had breast cancer.

Fox News host recently had his show canceled after joining in the false narrative of 2020 election being stolen

Lou Dobbs, a longtime cable news anchor known in recent years for supporting Donald Trump and for spreading misinformation, has died at age 78, according to statements posted on his social media accounts.

Trump paid tribute to Dobbs as “a friend, and truly incredible Journalist, Reporter, and Talent” in a post on his social media site, writing: “He understood the World, and what was ‘happening,’ better than others.”

Incensed crowd facing riot police set BTV building on fire as students demand end to discriminatory job quotas

Bangladeshi students have set fire to the state broadcaster’s building a day after the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, appeared on the network seeking to calm escalating clashes that had killed at least 39 people.

Hundreds of protesters demanding reform of civil service hiring rules clashed with riot police who had shot at them with rubber bullets on Thursday, chasing the retreating officers to BTV’s headquarters in the capital, Dhaka.