Ukraine war: Russia put on 'list of shame', Moscow sanctions Europe, missile attack thwarted

The Ukrainian Air Force said on Friday it shot down multiple Russian cruise missiles overnight. 

“All thirteen Kh-101/Kh-555 missiles were destroyed by anti-aircraft defence,” it announced on Telegram, adding the attacks targeted a military airfield in the western Khmelnytsky region. 

Two Ukrainians were killed and four others injured after Russian strikes on the city of Kherson as Russia has continued its bombardment fo Ukraine with exploding drones and missiles since May and Kyiv launched its much-anticipated counteroffensive.

Kyiv also released images of the destruction of a Russian tank in the Donetsk region. 

Russia announced on Friday it had "considerably expanded" the list of European officials banned from entering its territory. 

Moscow said it was retaliation to new sanctions from Brussels over the Ukraine war. 

Without specifying how many people were targeted, Russia suggested the officials were members of Europe's security services or political and commercial institutions, besides European parliamentarians "promoting an agenda towards Russia".

Moscow vowed all "unfriendly measures" taken by the West would receive an "appropriate" response.

Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Moscow has banned hundreds of Western leaders, officials, industrialists, journalists and other individuals it considers hostile. 

The latest announcement comes following a new package of sanctions announced by Brussels, the eleventh since fighting broke out. These measures aim to avoid the circumvention of existing sanctions. 

Moscow has created special groups to collect and hide the bodies of people killed by the Kakhovka dam breach in southern Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Thursday.

"The Russian evil has formed special groups