Drone attack triggers power cuts in Russia

Russia said a Ukrainian drone barrage triggered power cuts in one of its border regions -- one of Kyiv's largest attacks of the war.

Kyiv has vowed to increase its strikes on Russian territory, in particularly on Russia's oil infrastructure, in what it sees as a legitimate response to Moscow's daily barrages of Ukrainian cities and its energy network that have at times cut off heating and power to millions.

Russia's defence ministry said it had downed 251 Ukrainian drones overnight.

In the Belgorod border region, thousands were left without electricity.

A refinery in the southern Krasnodar region was also hit, wounding two people, local authorities said.

Meanwhile, Ukraine said it found of foreign parts, including Western-made, in the drones and missiles Russia fired in a weekend air attack on the country.

"During the massive combined strike on Ukraine on the night of October 5, Russia used 549 weapon systems containing 102,785 foreign-made components," Zelensky said on social media, referring to an attack in the early hours of Sunday.

Russia fired almost 500 drones and over 50 missiles at Ukraine that night, killing five people -- including in the western Lviv region hundreds of kilometres from the front line -- and damaging its energy infrastructure.

Zelensky said the parts of drones and missiles intercepted in the attack came "from companies in the United States, China and Taiwan, the United Kingdom, Germany, Switzerland, Japan, the Republic of Korea, and the Netherlands."