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Turkey's COVID-19 Deaths Hit Record for Ninth Consecutive Day

Drone footage reveals deserted Taksim Square is seen at the popular touristic neighborhood of Beyoglu during a nation-wide weekday curfew to combat the spread of COVID-19 as the country's daily death toll hit a record high for a ninth consecutive day in Istanbul, Turkey, December 1, 2020. REUTERS/Mehmet Emin Caliskan
Drone footage reveals deserted Taksim Square is seen at the popular touristic neighborhood of Beyoglu during a nation-wide weekday curfew to combat the spread of COVID-19 as the country's daily death toll hit a record high for a ninth consecutive day in Istanbul, Turkey, December 1, 2020. REUTERS/Mehmet Emin Caliskan
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Turkey's COVID-19 Deaths Hit Record for Ninth Consecutive Day

Drone footage reveals deserted Taksim Square is seen at the popular touristic neighborhood of Beyoglu during a nation-wide weekday curfew to combat the spread of COVID-19 as the country's daily death toll hit a record high for a ninth consecutive day in Istanbul, Turkey, December 1, 2020. REUTERS/Mehmet Emin Caliskan
Drone footage reveals deserted Taksim Square is seen at the popular touristic neighborhood of Beyoglu during a nation-wide weekday curfew to combat the spread of COVID-19 as the country's daily death toll hit a record high for a ninth consecutive day in Istanbul, Turkey, December 1, 2020. REUTERS/Mehmet Emin Caliskan

Turkey’s daily COVID-19 death toll hit a record high for a ninth consecutive day on Tuesday, with 190 fatalities in the last 24 hours, Health Ministry data showed.

The rise in deaths came as Turks braced for new restrictive measures to curb the spread of the pandemic.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced new measures earlier on Monday to combat the surge in cases and deaths.

According to Reuters, the new measures include introducing a weekday curfew and a full lockdown during weekends.

The number of new virus cases, including asymptomatic ones, recorded over the past 24 hours stood at 30,110.

Total deaths rose to 13,936, but historical data on total cases is not available, as Turkey only reported symptomatic cases for four months. It began reporting all cases last Wednesday.

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Russia Says It Struck Oil Refinery That Supplies Ukrainian Army with Fuel

A rescuer walks next to destroyed cars and a building of shopping mall damaged by a Russian drone strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine June 14, 2025. (Reuters)
A rescuer walks next to destroyed cars and a building of shopping mall damaged by a Russian drone strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine June 14, 2025. (Reuters)
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Russia Says It Struck Oil Refinery That Supplies Ukrainian Army with Fuel

A rescuer walks next to destroyed cars and a building of shopping mall damaged by a Russian drone strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine June 14, 2025. (Reuters)
A rescuer walks next to destroyed cars and a building of shopping mall damaged by a Russian drone strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine June 14, 2025. (Reuters)

Russian forces carried out an overnight strike on the Kremenchuk oil refinery that supplies fuel to Ukrainian forces in the Donbas region, Russia's defense ministry said on Sunday.

The ministry's statement said that missiles had been fired at the refinery in Ukraine's Poltava region from both sea and air and that strike drones were also used in what it said had been a successful attack.

Reuters could not verify the battlefield report and there was no immediate Ukrainian comment on the Russian statement.

Russia has claimed Ukraine's eastern Donbas region as its own and controls most of its two regions, Donetsk and Luhansk. Ukraine is fighting to stop Russia taking control of the rest of Donbas and has said it plans to retake territory it has lost through a combination of force and diplomacy.

The Russian Defense Ministry said separately that its forces had taken control of the village of Malynivka in the Donetsk region, known in Russia as Ulyanovka.

It also said its forces had advanced deep into enemy defenses in Ukraine's Sumy region and inflicted heavy losses on Ukrainian units there. Sumy is not one of the regions Russia has formally claimed as its own, but it has spoken of creating a buffer zone there.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday that Ukrainian forces had recaptured Andriivka village in northeastern Sumy as part of a drive to expel Russian forces from the area.

He says Russia has amassed 53,000 troops in the vicinity.