The United Nations secretary-general has called for an immediate ceasefire in Sudan's Darfur region after a deadly drone attack on Friday killed more than 70 worshippers in el-Fasher, expressing grave alarm about the rapidly deteriorating situation. The fighting must stop now, Antonio Guterres said in a statement issued by his spokesperson on Saturday, urging the warring parties to engage in dialogue and provide humanitarian corridors, with the brutal civil war wracking the nation in its third year.
A Ukrainian drone crashed into one of Russia's largest oil-refining complexes on Saturday, sparking a fire and causing minor damage, a Russian official said. The complex, which belongs to Russian oil company Bashneft, lies on the outskirts of the central Russian city of Ufa about 870 miles (1,400km) from the frontline in Ukraine. Videos posted on social media appeared to show a drone drifting towards the facility before exploding in a ball of flames, sending a cloud of smoke into the sky.
(We are) drawing the world's attention to this unprecedented Russian drone attack on a member of the UN, EU, and Nato, deputy prime minister and foreign minister Radosaw Sikorski told RMF FM radio. I have spoken before the UN security council in the past, and it seemed to me that our arguments resonated, that they broke through. We have not yet decided who will speak on behalf of Poland, he said.
On Tuesday night video footage emerged of the Alma - which Mr Hickey was onboard at the time during night watch - was set ablaze after a device was dropped on its top deck from a flying apparatus, suspected to be a drone. Activists supplied the Irish Independent with a photograph showing the charred device they say dropped onto the Alma's deck.
An overnight Ukrainian drone attack on an oil depot near the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi has ignited a raging fire, as the two countries traded strikes at the end of one of the deadliest weeks in Ukraine in recent months.
"The attack marks a deadly escalation in the ongoing conflict, with the Rapid Support Forces being accused of systematically targeting power infrastructure and civilian areas."
