A man died as a result of Ukrainian drone attack overnight on the Russian Black Sea city of Sochi, a Russian regional governor said on Tuesday.

Debris from a destroyed drone hit a car the man was driving in the Adler district of Sochi, Krasnodar Governor Veniamin Kondratyev said on the Telegram messaging app.

In addition, six residential houses were damaged, Kondratyev said.

The full-scale of the attack was not immediately known.

Russia’s bid to militarise children in occupied Ukraine is becoming “increasingly pervasive,” according to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW)

In their 9 September update, they cited an interview with Ukrainian Eastern Human Rights Group activist Pavlo Lysyansky, who estimated during an interview with Ukrainian outlet Suspilne that over 513,000 Ukrainian children living in occupied areas have undergone some sort of military training or exposure to Russian militarisation programs, presumably since 2022.

“Russian occupation officials continue to expose young children to Russian military and law enforcement personnel as a means of indoctrination,” they added.

It follows a new report that found nearly 20,000 Ukrainian children have been forcibly transferred to Russia and subjected to military training, sexual violence and detention in camps, since 2022.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged Kyiv's allies on Tuesday to quickly boost supplies of air-defence weapons to Ukraine.

In his nightly address following a Russian air strike on an eastern Ukrainian village that killed 24 people, he said that Moscow interpreted a lack of stronger international sanctions as permission to continue its war.

President Donald Trump has said he is ready to move to a second stage of sanctions against Russia if Putin continues to refuse to sit down with President Zelensky.

On Sunday, Mr Trump signalled he may finally escalate sanctions on Moscow or its oil buyers, which he has so far delayed to pursue peace talks.

But what this second wave of sanctions could look like is not yet clear. The Independent’s Steffie Banatvala takes a look at those already in place, and what Trump could do next.

The European Union has fulfilled 80 per cent of its promised two million artillery shells to Ukraine, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Tuesday.

She added the bloc would aim to complete its obligation by October.

Top politicians from the UK, US, Ukraine, and Germany among others met in London on Tuesday for a meeting of the Ukraine Defence Contact Group (UDCG).

The UDCG is made up of NATO members as well as other countries who have pledged military support to Ukraine since Russia’s invasion in 2022.

In a post on X, Ukraine’s defence minister Denys Shmyhal said the support of the attending countries “means a lot”.

The first launchers of two Patriot air defence systems Germany pledged to Ukraine have been delivered, German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said at a meeting of the Ramstein group of Kyiv's military supporters in London on Tuesday.

Germany will also launch a new deep-strike initiative and boost its support for the procurement of long-range drones through the Ukrainian industry, concluding contracts with defence companies in the country amounting to 300 million euros, he said.

Moscow targeted the front-line village of Yarova in a deadly attack that killed at least 23 people on Tuesday.

The village, in Donetsk Oblask, is just 10km away from occupied territory, according to the authoritative Deep State War map.

Yarova is marked on the map below, with the areas in red representing Russian-occupied territory.

Ukraine has requested a new International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme as it seeks to keep itself afloat in the midst of its fourth year of war against Russia.

In a post on X, Ukrainian Prime Minisya Yulia Svyrydenko said the country had prepared its draft state budget for 2026 with the “understanding that the war is far from over”.