Russia Ukraine War Live Updates: US agrees to ship superior rockets to Ukraine; oil costs greater following EU ban

Russia’s nuclear forces are holding drills within the Ivanovo province, northeast of Moscow, the Interfax information company cited the Russian defence ministry as saying. Some 1,000 servicemen are exercising in intense manoeuvres utilizing over 100 autos together with Yars intercontinental ballistic missile launchers, it cited the ministry as saying.

Meanwhile, a Russian airstrike on Sievierodonetsk hit a tank of nitric acid at a chemical manufacturing unit, inflicting an enormous leak of fumes, in response to Serhiy Haidai, governor of the Luhansk area. He posted an image of an enormous cloud hanging over town and urged residents to remain inside and put on fuel masks or improvised ones.

At least three individuals had been killed and 6 wounded in a single day in a Russian missile strike on town of Sloviansk, west of Sievierodonetsk, Donetsk Governor Pavlo Kyrylenko stated in a Facebook submit. A college was amongst a number of buildings broken. A crater was blasted within the highway between two condominium buildings closely pockmarked by shrapnel.