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Russia Pounds Ukraine With Missiles, Drones for Second Day in Row

This handout photograph taken and released by the Ukrainian Emergency Service on August 26, 2024 shows rescuers working to extinguish a fire following a missile attack at an undisclosed location in Odesa region of Ukraine. (Photo by Handout / UKRAINIAN EMERGENCY SERVICE / AFP)
This handout photograph taken and released by the Ukrainian Emergency Service on August 26, 2024 shows rescuers working to extinguish a fire following a missile attack at an undisclosed location in Odesa region of Ukraine. (Photo by Handout / UKRAINIAN EMERGENCY SERVICE / AFP)
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Russia Pounds Ukraine With Missiles, Drones for Second Day in Row

This handout photograph taken and released by the Ukrainian Emergency Service on August 26, 2024 shows rescuers working to extinguish a fire following a missile attack at an undisclosed location in Odesa region of Ukraine. (Photo by Handout / UKRAINIAN EMERGENCY SERVICE / AFP)
This handout photograph taken and released by the Ukrainian Emergency Service on August 26, 2024 shows rescuers working to extinguish a fire following a missile attack at an undisclosed location in Odesa region of Ukraine. (Photo by Handout / UKRAINIAN EMERGENCY SERVICE / AFP)

Russia launched several waves of missile and drone attacks overnight targeting Kyiv and other regions, Ukraine's military said early on Tuesday, a day after Moscow's biggest such attack of the war.
At least one person was killed when a civilian object was "wiped out" in the central Ukraine city of Kryvyi Rih, regional officials said.
Kyiv region's air defense systems were deployed several times overnight to repel missiles and drones targeting the Ukrainian capital, the region's military administration said on Telegram.
Reuters' witnesses reported at least three rounds of explosions overnight in Kyiv.
On Monday, Russia launched more than 200 missiles and drones, killing at least seven and damaging energy infrastructure in an attack condemned by US President Joe Biden as "outrageous."
The size of the Tuesday attacks was not immediately known, but Ukraine's air force said it recorded the launch of several groups of drones and the take-off from Russian airfields of strategic Tu-85 strategic bombers and MiG-31 supersonic interceptor aircraft.
Reuters could not independently verify the reports. There was no immediate comment from Russia.
The Kremlin denies targeting civilians in the war that President Vladimir Putin launched against Russia's smaller neighbor with a full-scale invasion in February 2022.
The Russian defense ministry said that its strikes on Monday hit "all designated targets" in Ukraine's critical energy infrastructure.
Kryvyi Rih, Kyiv and central and eastern regions of Ukraine were under air raid alerts for most of the night, starting at around 2000 GMT on Monday.
Five civilians may be still under the rubble and four were injured as a result of the Russian attack, Oleksandr Vilkul, head of Kryvyi Rih's military administration, said on Telegram.
"The news is bad," Vilkul said.

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Nearly 200 Killed in Terrorist Attack in Burkina Faso

Staff are seen at the hospital of Kaya which received more than 300 wounded. (State television)
Staff are seen at the hospital of Kaya which received more than 300 wounded. (State television)
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Nearly 200 Killed in Terrorist Attack in Burkina Faso

Staff are seen at the hospital of Kaya which received more than 300 wounded. (State television)
Staff are seen at the hospital of Kaya which received more than 300 wounded. (State television)

The Burkina Faso government said it will respond firmly to a terrorist attack that killed at least 200 people, mostly civilians, in the Barsalogho region, where terrorist groups affiliated with Al-Qaeda and ISIS are active.

The attack, which is the deadliest in the country this year, was carried out by dozens of heavily armed terrorists who entered the village in the early hours of Saturday morning.

For more than seven hours, they clashed with a unit of the army supported by local militia.

At least 200 people were killed, with another 300 wounded, according to an unofficial tally.

Local witnesses said every family lost at least one relative in the assault.

The assailants also targeted security forces, killing community leaders, numerous civilians, and several members of the security forces who responded to the attack.

The victims were buried in mass graves not far from the village.

Most of the injured were taken to a hospital in Kaya, the regional capital, about 45 kilometers from the site of the attack.

In light of the popular shock caused by the terrorist attack, the government sent on Sunday a ministerial delegation to the hospital, including Health Minister Robert Kargougou, Security Minister Mahamadou Sana, and government spokesman Jean-Emmanuel Ouedraogo.

Ouedraogo, denouncing the attack on national television, described it as a “cowardly and barbaric attack” carried out by “hordes of criminals” who targeted “women, children, the elderly, men, indiscriminately.”

Security Minister Sana assured the public that the Burkinabe armed forces will give “an answer so that the enemy knows that we will never again accept similar barbarism on our territory.”

No one has yet claimed responsibility for the attack. However, evidence show the attack was carried by the Group for Support of Islam and Muslims (JNIM), Al-Qaeda’s branch for West Africa.

According to a local resident, the victims were mainly “young civilians, who came out in large numbers to help the soldiers dig trenches around the town, to protect themselves from possible attacks by armed terrorist groups.”

A security source said that “the response of the soldiers” and auxiliary troops “made it possible to neutralize several terrorists and avoid a greater tragedy.”

Extremists affiliated with Al-Qaeda and ISIS have waged a grinding insurgency since 2015 in Burkina Faso that has killed more than 20,000 people, including 4,000 in 2024, ACLED figures show.

The attacks have also displaced two million people.