A Russian drone attack on the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv on Friday damaged a maternity hospital, authorities said, terrifying patients as windows shattered and shards of glass fell on to the beds, leaving families rushing to shelter their babies.

Poland on Saturday scrambled fighter jets in response to Russian military aircraft near its border with Ukraine.

Three Ukrainians were killed in the southeastern Dnipropetrovsk region, where Russia captured a first village this week after a months-long incursion. In the neighboring Zaporizhzhia region — the site of a nuclear plant — two civilians were killed in the attacks, Gov. Ivan Fedorov said.

Russia pounded Ukraine with hundreds of drones and missiles overnight and Saturday as part of a stepped-up bombing campaign that killed at least six people and wounded dozens, officials said.

Slovakia aims to reach an agreement with the European Commission and EU partners by Tuesday on guarantees it will not suffer from the end of Russian gas supplies and on a new sanctions package against Russia,

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that Russian forces have fallen significantly short of their commanders' expectations for this summer and that Ukraine will continue doing everything possible to bring the war onto Russian territory.

The death of a Russian Cabinet minister in a field near his posh home in a Moscow suburb has fueled wild speculation about how he died and what it means.

Given the weakness of Iran’s air force, the country has relied heavily on its own surface-to-air missile systems. However, during the “Twelve-Day War,” Israel succeeded in neutralizing Iran’s air defenses, clearly exposing their shortcomings.