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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken accuses Russian President Vladimir Putin of trying to use the Israel-Hamas war in a bid to reduce Western support for Ukraine. "Putin is very much trying to take advantage of the Hamas attack on Israel in the hopes that it will distract us... and that it will result in the United States pulling back its resources" from Ukraine, Blinken tells a Senate hearing. SOUNDBITE
Images show air defence intercepting nighttime drone attacks and smoke rising above the city in Lviv, Ukraine, the day after the attacks. According to Lviv mayor Andriy Sadovyi three warehouses were destroyed and one person was killed. Ukraine says its air defence systems had downed 27 Shahed drones launched overnight in Russia's latest aerial barrage. "A total of 30 attack UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) were launched... As a result of combat work, 27 Shaheds were shot down by air defence units," the Ukrainian air force said on social media. IMAGES
A Moscow office tower is left damaged after a strike from a Ukrainian drone which was downed by Russia on Tuesday, Russian officials said. The same tower was also hit over the weekend. IMAGES
Images of a damaged office block of the Moscow International Business Center (Moskva City) following a Ukrainian drone attack on Moscow in the early hours of Sunday. "There are no victims or injured," Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin posted on Telegram. IMAGES
Images of shattered glass on the ground and a building with a damaged roof on Komsomolsky Prospekt, after Russia said it had neutralised two Ukrainian drones over Moscow in the early hours of Monday. IMAGES
In Profsoyuznaya street in the southwest of Moscow, a residential building's window is shattered after a swarm of drones struck the Russian capital. The Russian Defence Ministry blames Kyiv for the unprecedented attacks which left two people lightly injured and what it said was "minor" damage to buildings. IMAGES
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