BBC Confirm Reside: Investigating stories of mass drone assault on Russia

Rob Corp
BBC Confirm Reside editor

We’re verifying materials posted from inside Russia after the ministry of defence in Moscow stated its air defences had shot down 221 Ukrainian drones – one of many highest of the conflict up to now. Posts on social media and the Telegram messaging app recommend that the drones reached as far north as an oil and fuel terminal close to St Petersburg.

BBC Confirm is constant to collect materials so as to add to what we all know concerning the killing of US conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Our correspondent Nick Beake has travelled to the scene of the taking pictures at Utah Valley College and has despatched a report on what we’ve discovered up to now. We’ll proceed digging into this story and produce you updates right here and on the devoted BBC Information dwell web page.

Our knowledge journalists have been monitoring the UK authorities’s goal to construct 1.5 million new properties in England in 5 years. The most recent knowledge comes out this morning so we will see what progress has been made. We’ll additionally replace our interactive tracker the place you possibly can see what the scenario is like the place you reside.

And we’re monitoring footage being posted from Sudan the place the nation’s military claims to have retaken a key city from the paramilitary Speedy Help Forces that it’s been combating in a civil conflict for greater than two years.

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