Russia launches extensive nuclear weapons exercises simulating retaliatory strikes<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\nPrior to the ship entering service, former Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu announced that the warship would be equipped with Zircon missiles.<\/p>\n
The Zircon, alongside the Avangard hypersonic glide vehicle, forms the core of Russia\u2019s hypersonic strategy, which aims to counter increasingly evolving US missile defences.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In 2023, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the mass production of Zircon missiles as part of efforts to improve Russia\u2019s strategic nuclear capabilities.\u00a0<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1731415983,"updatedAt":1731420367,"publishedAt":1731420053,"firstPublishedAt":1731420053,"lastPublishedAt":1731420053,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/82\/19\/46\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_10df2d55-6669-5b61-a94b-fbb7fa1a1e8f-8821946.jpg","altText":"In this photo taken from video distributed by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Tuesday, 29 Oct 2024, A Bulava ballistic missile is test-fired from the Okhotsk Sea d","caption":"In this photo taken from video distributed by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Tuesday, 29 Oct 2024, A Bulava ballistic missile is test-fired from the Okhotsk Sea d","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":2811,"height":1582}],"authors":{"journalists":[],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"id":239,"slug":"russia","urlSafeValue":"russia","title":"Russia","titleRaw":"Russia"},{"id":8311,"slug":"missile","urlSafeValue":"missile","title":"Missile","titleRaw":"Missile"},{"id":13736,"slug":"us-russia","urlSafeValue":"us-russia","title":"USA-Russia","titleRaw":"USA-Russia"}],"widgets":[{"slug":"related","count":1}],"related":[{"id":2628654},{"id":2615820}],"technicalTags":[],"externalPartners":[],"hasExternalVideo":0,"video":0,"videos":[],"liveStream":[{"startDate":0,"endDate":0}],"scribbleLiveId":0,"scribbleLiveRibbon":0,"isLiveCoverage":0,"sourceId":1,"sources":[],"externalSource":null,"additionalSources":"","additionalReporting":"Oman Al Yahyai","freeField1":null,"freeField2":"","type":"normal","displayType":"default","program":{"id":"world","urlSafeValue":"world","title":"World News","online":1,"url":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/programs\/world"},"vertical":"news","verticals":[{"id":1,"slug":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"News"}],"primaryVertical":{"id":1,"slug":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"News"},"themes":[{"id":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"World","url":"\/news\/international"}],"primaryTheme":{"id":1,"urlSafeValue":"news","title":"World"},"advertising":0,"advertisingData":{"startDate":0,"endDate":0,"type":null,"slug":null,"title":null,"disclaimerLabelKey":null,"sponsor":null,"sponsorName":null,"sponsorUrl":null,"sponsorLogo":"","sponsorLogoReverse":"","isDfp":0},"geoLocation":{"lat":0,"lon":0},"location":1,"continent":{"id":104,"urlSafeValue":"europe","title":"Europe"},"country":{"id":239,"urlSafeValue":"russia","title":"Russia","url":"\/news\/europe\/russia"},"town":[],"contextualSignals":{"doubleVerify":{"ids":["80023001","80122009","80222009","84091001","84092025","84111001","84112001"],"slugs":["aggregated_all_moderate_content","hobbies_and_interests","hobbies_and_interests_radio","human_made_disasters_high_and_medium_risk","human_made_disasters_high_medium_and_low_risk","law_government_and_politics","law_government_and_politics_general"]}},"grapeshot":null,"versions":[],"programDeliverable":{"slug":"sujet-web","format":"default"},"showOpinionDisclaimer":0,"allViews":0,"allViewsMeta":{"pointOfView":[],"survey":[],"tweetId":0,"tweet2NdId":0,"displayOverlay":0},"storyTranslationMethod":[],"localisation":[],"path":"\/2024\/11\/12\/russian-warship-armed-with-hypersonic-missiles-trains-in-english-channel-state-media-repor","lastModified":1731420053},{"id":2674780,"cid":8842788,"versionId":4,"archive":0,"housenumber":"241110_NWSU_56979412","owner":"euronews","isMagazine":0,"isBreakingNews":0,"daletEventName":"RUSSIA UKRAINE DRONE ATTACK","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Ukraine and Russia barrage each other with dozens of drone attacks","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Ukraine and Russia barrage each other with dozens of drone attacks","titleListing2":"Ukraine and Russia barrage each other with dozens of drone attacks","leadin":"A massive drone strike rattled Moscow and its suburbs overnight, injuring several people and temporarily closing some airports, officials said.","summary":"A massive drone strike rattled Moscow and its suburbs overnight, injuring several people and temporarily closing some airports, officials said.","keySentence":"","url":"ukraine-attacks-moscow-with-a-barrage-of-drones","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2024\/11\/10\/ukraine-attacks-moscow-with-a-barrage-of-drones","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"A massive drone strike rattled Moscow and its suburbs overnight into Sunday, injuring several people and temporarily halting traffic at some of Russia's busiest airports, officials reported. Meanwhile, a huge night-time wave of Russian drones targeted Ukraine.\n\nThis came after Russian President Vladimir Putin signed into law a pact with North Korea on Saturday night, obliging the two countries to provide immediate military aid using \u201call means\u201d if either is attacked. The agreement marks the strongest link between Moscow and Pyongyang since the end of the Cold War.\n\nEarlier this week, Ukraine reported that its troops engaged for the first time with North Korean units. U.S. officials earlier confirmed the deployment of at least 3,000 North Korean troops to Russia, while Kyiv has repeatedly said the number is far higher. This has fuelled concerns of a marked escalation in Moscow's war on Ukraine, and tensions spilling over into the Asia-Pacific.\n\nBoth Moscow and Kyiv have kept a tight lid on casualty figures since the start of the full-scale war despite regular reports of Russian forces taking huge losses following \u201chuman wave\u201d attacks that aim to exhaust Ukrainian defences.\n\nHowever, the chief of the U.K. defence staff, Tony Radakin, told the BBC that Russian forces had suffered their worst month of casualties in October since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. He said Moscow\u2019s troops suffered an average of 1,500 dead and wounded per day, bringing their total losses in the war to 700,000. \n\nAccording to Radakin, ordinary Russians were paying \u201can extraordinary price\u201d for the war, even as a gruelling, months-long Russian offensive in Ukraine\u2019s industrial east continues to eke out gains. He did not say how U.K. officials had calculated the Russian casualty figures. \n\n\u201cThere is no doubt that Russia is making tactical, territorial gains and that is putting pressure on Ukraine,\u201d he said. But he added that they were \u201ctiny increments of land,\u201d and Moscow\u2019s mounting defence and security spending was putting an increasing strain on the country. \n\nRadakin insisted that Ukraine\u2019s Western partners should stand by it for \u201cas long as it takes\u201d to beat back Russian aggression, even as allies of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump have signalled that Kyiv may have to cede territory to seek peace. \n\nOn Sunday, the Kremlin\u2019s official spokesman voiced cautious optimism about Trump\u2019s upcoming presidency, saying: \u201cAt least he talks about peace. He does not talk about confrontation.\u201d\n\n\u201cThe signals are positive. Trump, during his election campaign, said that he perceives everything through deals, that he can make deals that will lead everyone toward peace,\u201d Dmitry Peskov told reporters at a briefing.\n\n\u201cHe does not talk about a desire to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia, and this favourably distinguishes him from the current (U.S.) administration,\u201d Peskov said.\n\nBut Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Sunday insisted that \u201cstrong decisions\u201d from Kyiv\u2019s Western partners are needed to stop the \u201cterror\u201d of Russian drone and missile strikes, and secure \u201creliable peace\u201d for Ukraine.\n\n\u201cThe killing of children, the loss of family members cannot simply be forgotten,\u201d Zelenskyy said in a post on the Telegram messaging app.\n\n\u201cWithout strong decisions, there is no security from terror, and this is equally clear in every country. There is no reliable peace without justice,\u201d he said.\n\nFierce fighting has continued near the eastern Ukrainian cities of Toretsk and Kurakhove, Ukraine\u2019s General Staff reported Sunday. Between 700 and 1,000 residents remain in Kurakhove, a front-line city surrounded on three sides and battered into ruin. Most of them live underground with no running water, heating or electricity. \n\nMeanwhile, Russia\u2019s Defence Ministry said a total of 84 Ukrainian drones were shot down overnight in Russian territory, following what it called a \u201cmass strike on civilian infrastructure.\" A man died under rubble after drones struck his apartment block in Russia\u2019s Belgorod region, just kilometres from the Ukrainian border, local Gov. Vyacheslav Gladkov reported. \n\nFive other people were injured in the Moscow suburb of Ramenskoe and a nearby village, according to local officials. Russian channels on the messaging app Telegram carried eyewitness reports of drone debris setting fire to suburban homes. \n\nRussia's aviation authority said flights were briefly grounded at major international airports including Sheremetyevo and Domodedovo. At least 14 flights bound for Moscow were rerouted to Nizhnyi Novgorod, a city over 490 kilometres east, airport representatives there reported. \n\nUkraine\u2019s General Staff claimed on Sunday that Ukrainian drones caused a fire at an arms depot in Russia\u2019s southern Bryansk region, near Ukraine and Belarus. The online update featured a photo showing thick plumes of reddish smoke rising into the night sky. The AP could not verify the circumstances in which it was taken, and there was no immediate comment from Russia.\n\nSeparately, Russia\u2019s emergencies ministry on Sunday said that a major fire broke out at a warehouse outside of Moscow. There were no immediate reports of casualties, and it was not clear whether the blaze was linked to the Ukrainian drone strikes.\n\nRussia overnight launched a \u201crecord\u201d 145 drones at Ukrainian territory, according to Ukraine\u2019s air force, 62 of which were shot down. A further 67 were \u201clost,\u201d the air force said, a likely reference to electronic jamming that caused the drones to veer off course.\n\nAt least one person was injured as Russian drones struck residential areas in Ukraine\u2019s southern port of Odesa, local Gov. Oleh Kiper reported. And at least five civilians, including a 17-year-old girl and 10-year-old boy, were injured by falling drone debris and shelling in Ukraine\u2019s northeastern Kharkiv region Sunday, its Gov. Oleh Syniehubov and local prosecutors said. \n\nRussia later on Sunday said that it had struck a large deployment of Ukrainian soldiers in the Kharkiv province with thermobaric rockets, but didn't immediately provide evidence.\n\n","htmlText":"
A massive drone strike rattled Moscow and its suburbs overnight into Sunday, injuring several people and temporarily halting traffic at some of Russia's busiest airports, officials reported. Meanwhile, a huge night-time wave of Russian drones targeted Ukraine.<\/p>\n
This came after Russian President Vladimir Putin signed into law a pact with North Korea on Saturday night, obliging the two countries to provide immediate military aid using \u201call means\u201d if either is attacked. The agreement marks the strongest link between Moscow and Pyongyang since the end of the Cold War.<\/p>\n
Earlier this week, Ukraine reported that its troops engaged for the first time with North Korean units. U.S. officials earlier confirmed the deployment of at least 3,000 North Korean troops to Russia, while Kyiv has repeatedly said the number is far higher. This has fuelled concerns of a marked escalation in Moscow's war on Ukraine, and tensions spilling over into the Asia-Pacific.<\/p>\n
Both Moscow and Kyiv have kept a tight lid on casualty figures since the start of the full-scale war despite regular reports of Russian forces taking huge losses following \u201chuman wave\u201d attacks that aim to exhaust Ukrainian defences.<\/p>\n
However, the chief of the U.K. defence staff, Tony Radakin, told the BBC that Russian forces had suffered their worst month of casualties in October since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. He said Moscow\u2019s troops suffered an average of 1,500 dead and wounded per day, bringing their total losses in the war to 700,000. <\/p>\n
According to Radakin, ordinary Russians were paying \u201can extraordinary price\u201d for the war, even as a gruelling, months-long Russian offensive in Ukraine\u2019s industrial east continues to eke out gains. He did not say how U.K. officials had calculated the Russian casualty figures. <\/p>\n
\u201cThere is no doubt that Russia is making tactical, territorial gains and that is putting pressure on Ukraine,\u201d he said. But he added that they were \u201ctiny increments of land,\u201d and Moscow\u2019s mounting defence and security spending was putting an increasing strain on the country. <\/p>\n
Radakin insisted that Ukraine\u2019s Western partners should stand by it for \u201cas long as it takes\u201d to beat back Russian aggression, even as allies of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump have signalled that Kyiv may have to cede territory to seek peace. <\/p>\n
On Sunday, the Kremlin\u2019s official spokesman voiced cautious optimism about Trump\u2019s upcoming presidency, saying: \u201cAt least he talks about peace. He does not talk about confrontation.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe signals are positive. Trump, during his election campaign, said that he perceives everything through deals, that he can make deals that will lead everyone toward peace,\u201d Dmitry Peskov told reporters at a briefing.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe does not talk about a desire to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia, and this favourably distinguishes him from the current (U.S.) administration,\u201d Peskov said.<\/p>\n
But Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Sunday insisted that \u201cstrong decisions\u201d from Kyiv\u2019s Western partners are needed to stop the \u201cterror\u201d of Russian drone and missile strikes, and secure \u201creliable peace\u201d for Ukraine.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe killing of children, the loss of family members cannot simply be forgotten,\u201d Zelenskyy said in a post on the Telegram messaging app.<\/p>\n
\u201cWithout strong decisions, there is no security from terror, and this is equally clear in every country. There is no reliable peace without justice,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Fierce fighting has continued near the eastern Ukrainian cities of Toretsk and Kurakhove, Ukraine\u2019s General Staff reported Sunday. Between 700 and 1,000 residents remain in Kurakhove, a front-line city surrounded on three sides and battered into ruin. Most of them live underground with no running water, heating or electricity. <\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Russia\u2019s Defence Ministry said a total of 84 Ukrainian drones were shot down overnight in Russian territory, following what it called a \u201cmass strike on civilian infrastructure.\" A man died under rubble after drones struck his apartment block in Russia\u2019s Belgorod region, just kilometres from the Ukrainian border, local Gov. Vyacheslav Gladkov reported. <\/p>\n
Five other people were injured in the Moscow suburb of Ramenskoe and a nearby village, according to local officials. Russian channels on the messaging app Telegram carried eyewitness reports of drone debris setting fire to suburban homes. <\/p>\n
Russia's aviation authority said flights were briefly grounded at major international airports including Sheremetyevo and Domodedovo. At least 14 flights bound for Moscow were rerouted to Nizhnyi Novgorod, a city over 490 kilometres east, airport representatives there reported. <\/p>\n
Ukraine\u2019s General Staff claimed on Sunday that Ukrainian drones caused a fire at an arms depot in Russia\u2019s southern Bryansk region, near Ukraine and Belarus. The online update featured a photo showing thick plumes of reddish smoke rising into the night sky. The AP could not verify the circumstances in which it was taken, and there was no immediate comment from Russia.<\/p>\n
Separately, Russia\u2019s emergencies ministry on Sunday said that a major fire broke out at a warehouse outside of Moscow. There were no immediate reports of casualties, and it was not clear whether the blaze was linked to the Ukrainian drone strikes.<\/p>\n
Russia overnight launched a \u201crecord\u201d 145 drones at Ukrainian territory, according to Ukraine\u2019s air force, 62 of which were shot down. A further 67 were \u201clost,\u201d the air force said, a likely reference to electronic jamming that caused the drones to veer off course.<\/p>\n