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Farage comments on Russia 'not worth listening to', says ex-army chief
Lord Richard Dannatt, the former head of the army, has been asked for his opinion on what Nigel Farage said about the conflict in Ukraine.
Mr Farage claims the West provoked Russia's invasion.
In response, Lord Dannatt told the BBC: "As far as I'm concerned, Nigel Farage doesn't have a point worth listening to about anything."
On the wider point of a potential conclusion to the war, he said it was "entirely a matter" for President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to decide if negotiating with the Russians "would be a better thing to do [...] to save more lives than continue fighting".
Ukraine has hit more than 30 Russian oil refineries, Zelenskyy says
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Ukraine has hit more than 30 Russian oilrefineries, terminals and oil depots.
He did not provide any additional details or give a timeperiod.
Ukraine has stepped up attacks on Russian oil facilitiesthis year, seeking to disrupt oil supplies to the Russian armyand curb Russia's revenues to finance its war against Ukraine.
EU approves plan to use Russian profits for Ukraine
The European Union has approved a plan to use€1.4bn (£1.19bn) in profits from frozen Russian assets to help Ukraine.
Hungary has previously objected to the proposal, and has said it will legally challenge the decision.
But the European Union's foreign policy chief JosepBorrell said the EU has found a way to implement the suggestion without needing Hungary's consent (see 9am post).
The first tranche of the profits is expected to be available next week.
Four Ukrainians killed in town 15 miles from the frontline
Russian missile strikes have killed at least four people and injured 34 others, including two children,inthe eastern Ukrainian town of Pokrovsk, the regionalgovernor has said.
"This is one of the largest enemy attacks on civiliansrecently," Vadym Filashkin wrote on Telegram.
Images shared alongside his post show buildingswith shattered windows, ruined rooftops and construction waste scattered around.
Mr Filashkin said Russian troops launched two Iskander-Mballistic missiles at the town, which is about 15 miles (24km) from the front line.
The attack destroyed one home anddamaged 16 more, he added.
The second missile struck half an hour after the first, the Ukrainian Prosecutor General's office said in a statement.
The attacks also damaged a gas pipeline and cars, it added.
Ukraine detains gang members 'extorting money from families of dead soldiers'
Two members of a criminal gang that extorted money from the relatives of dead Ukrainian soldiers have been detained, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has said.
A wife and 20-year-old son of a soldier killed in battle were among those targeted, it said.
The family received financial aid from the state, but the gang "immediately attacked them to take a percentage", it added.
The suspects, who extorted five million Ukrainian hryvnias (£97,250), chased the young man and threatened to "make him disabled" while putting "psychological pressure on the mother through phone calls".
The group also demanded that the family recognise one of the gang members as an "illegitimate son" of the dead soldier.
The SBU said the suspects face up to 12 years in prison.
Russia vows to retaliate against US after Ukrainian missile attack on Crimea
The Russian defence ministry has claimed that Ukraine used US-provided weapons in a strike on Crimea yesterday, which killed at least four people and injured 151 more.
Five US-supplied Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) were used in the attack, the ministry said.
Four were intercepted, while the fifth exploded in mid-air and caused several casualties in a village in Sevastopol.
At least two children were killed in the attack, according to Russian officials. Pictures and videos posted online appeared to show people running from a beach near Sevastopol and some of the injured being carried off on sun loungers.
Sky News has not verified the images.
"All flight missions for the American ATACMS operational-tactical missiles are entered by American specialists based on their own US satellite intelligence data," the ministry claimed in a Telegram post.
"Therefore, responsibility for the deliberate missile attack on civilians in Sevastopol lies primarily with Washington, which supplied these weapons to Ukraine, as well as the Kyiv regime, from whose territory this attack was launched."
"Such actions will not go unanswered."
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov also directly blamed the US for the attack, saying: "You should ask my colleagues in Europe, and above all inWashington, the press secretaries, why their governments arekilling Russian children. Just ask them this question."
Russia also summoned US ambassador Lynne Tracy to the foreignministry, where she faced accusations that Washington was "waginga hybrid war against Russia and has actually become a party tothe conflict".
President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly warned of the riskof a much broader war involving the world's biggest nuclearpowers, though he has said that Russia does not want a conflictwith the NATO alliance.
Neither Ukraine nor the US has commented on the Sevastopol attack.
MoD marks one year since Prigozhin's march for justice
The UK Ministry of Defence has acknowledged the first anniversary of the Wagner group's "march for justice" in its latest intelligence update on Ukraine.
Wagner's former leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, led the march of more than 8,000 people last year and accused the Russian military's high command of corruption and dereliction of duty.
Since his death in plane crash in August, Wagner is now directed by his son Pavel and the group maintains deployments in Belarus, Mali and the Central African Republic.
But the private mecenary group has lost power and influence in Mr Putin's Russia, having withdrawn from Ukraine's frontlines last May, while their deployments in Syria and Libya were replaced by Russian ministry of defence troops.
Analysis: Blaming Ukraine for Dagestan attack fits Russia's wider narrative
By Ivor Bennett, Moscow correspondent
There is a lot we still don't know about the attacks in Dagestan.
It's not clear who the gunmen were or what their wider affiliation might be. There has been no immediate claim of responsibility.
There are also questions over how many assailants there were and how many people died in total.
But despite that uncertainty, conclusions are being made, some more surprising than others.
According to the local member of Russia's parliament, Abdulkhakim Gadzhiyev, there is "no doubt" the attacks are connected to "the intelligence services of Ukraine and NATO countries".
Really? There doesn't seem to be any evidence.
But it's not the first time a domestic attack has prompted claims of Western and Ukrainian involvement.
Remember the attack on Moscow's Crocus City Hall concert venue in March? It was Russia's deadliest terror attack in two decades. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility, but that didn't stop the authorities blaming Kyiv.
Before we take that further, let's rewind and establish what we do know about what happened yesterday.
The attacks appear to have been coordinated. A synagogue and an Orthodox church in Derbent were seemingly the targets.
The historic city claims to be Russia's oldest. It's home to an ancient Jewish community as well as a UNESCO world heritage site.
The wider region of Dagestan is predominantly Muslim, and is no stranger to Islamist violence.
A homegrown insurgency staged multiple attacks across the North Caucasus over the past two decades, after Russia's wars in Chechnya.
In 2017, the FSB said it had defeated the insurgency and since then, attacks have become less frequent.
But the Crocus City attack was a reminder that Russia's Islamist threat hasn't gone away.
And there was the disturbing moment in October, shortly after the start of the war in Gaza, when a rampaging mob stormed Dagestan's main airport on the hunt for Jewish passengers arriving on a flight from Tel Aviv.
There's plenty of speculation this attack may be in the same vein.
State news outlets have been reporting the gunmen were followers of "an international terrorist organisation", citing law enforcement agencies.
The US-based Institute for the Study of War has suggested it is likely the work of Islamic State's Northern Caucasus branch, Wilayat Kavkaz, but there is no confirmation of that.
Despite all this, though, it hasn't stopped some, like the local Duma deputy, claiming Western involvement.
Leonid slu*tsky, who heads the State Duma Committee on International Affairs, is another.
"The United States and its European satellites... have turned into outright sponsors of state terrorism," he said on Telegram, adding the blood of the victims is "on their hands".
Don't be surprised if there are more.
It fits the Russian authorities' wider narrative that the country is under attack by Ukraine and the West. That is the reason, Russians are told, for going to war with Kyiv. Linking attacks like this helps to reinforce it.
Russia tries to blame Ukraine for Dagestan attack
Russia has tried to link Ukraine to deadly attacks that killed at least 19 people in Russia's southern republic of Dagestan.
Dagestan's governor, Sergei Melikov, claimed in a video statement on Monday, without providing evidence, that the attacks might have been prepared from abroad.
He also referenced what the Kremlin calls "the special military operation" in Ukraine.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attacks, which killed at least 15 police officers and four civilians, including an Orthdox priest.
Gunmen opened fire on two Orthodox churches, a synagogue and a police post in two cities in Dagestan on Sunday.
Russia's national anti-terrorist committee described the attacks - in a predominantly Muslim region with a history of armed insurgency - as terrorist acts.
The committee said five gunmen were "eliminated" while the governor said six "bandits" had been "liquidated".
In March, gunmen opened fire on a crowd at a concert hall in suburban Moscow, killing 145 people.
An affiliate of the Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack, but Russian officials also sought to link Ukraine without providing any evidence. Kyiv has vehemently denied any involvement.
Read our reporting on the Dagestan attack below...
Pictures show devastation after Odesa strike that injured three
New pictures showing the devastation after a Russian attack on Ukraine's southern city of Odesa have been released (see 7.52am post).
At least three people - a19-year-old boy and two middle-aged men - were injured in the attack, regional governor Oleh Kiper said this morning.
Mr Kiper also added that around 5,000sqm had been damaged in the attack and that a fire hadspread over 3,000sqm.
The strike damaged a storage facility where some 50 peoplewere working.
Ukraine's air force said it had prevented one of two cruisemissiles launched by Russia from reaching the target.
