Live updates: Russian official says Kursk airfield has been attacked; Ukraine comes under further missile strikes - CNBC

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy praised and congratulated the country's subject connected Armed Forces Day successful the country.

"Our Armed Forces support their autochthonal land, and this gives the strongest imaginable motivation. They combat for freedom, and this ever increases immoderate strength. They support the truth, which means they support the aboriginal of Ukraine," the president posted connected Telegram.

"We are arrogant of you, we respect you, convey you. To each and each one! With heavy respect [from] the President of Ukraine. Glory to the Ukrainian Armed Forces! Glory to Ukraine!" Zelenskyy said.

The Commander of Ukraine's equipped forces, Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, said earlier contiguous that helium believes the country's equipped forces volition triumph against Russia.

"I americium arrogant to service my state broadside by broadside with you. Proud to beryllium your Commander-in-Chief successful this hard time. I judge successful each of you and successful our victory," he said connected Telegram.

Ukraine's Armed Forces Day takes spot connected Dec. 6 and was established by the Ukrainian Parliament successful the aboriginal 1990s.

— Holly Ellyatt

If attacks connected 2 abstracted Russia aerial bases connected Monday are recovered to person been deliberately carried retired by Ukraine, Russia is apt to "consider them arsenic immoderate of the astir strategically important failures of unit extortion since its penetration of Ukraine," the U.K. said Tuesday.

Explosions were reported astatine Russian aerial bases yesterday, 1 incidental taking spot astatine the Engels aerial basal successful the Saratov region, and the different astatine the Dyagilevo airfield adjacent Ryazan, southeast of Moscow.

Two Tu-95 dense bombers were reportedly damaged successful the Engels blast, and 3 radical were killed erstwhile a substance vessel exploded astatine Dyagilevo. The causes of the explosions person not been confirmed and Ukraine has not claimed work for the attacks. Russia says the blasts were caused by drone attacks.

Britain's Ministry of Defense noted that the Engels tract "is the main operating basal of Russia's Long Range Aviation (LRA) wrong occidental Russia and is location to much than 30 dense bombers."

"These craft lend to Russia's atomic deterrent and person besides often been utilized to motorboat accepted cruise missiles astatine Ukraine. The LRA is apt to respond by temporarily moving bombers to dispersal airfields," the ministry said.

"The Russian concatenation of bid volition astir apt question to place and enforce terrible sanctions connected Russian officers deemed liable for allowing the incident," the ministry said.

— Holly Ellyatt

Parts of confederate Ukraine person travel nether sustained bombardment overnight, section officials reported Tuesday morning.

Russian forces launched a rocket onslaught connected the suburbs of the confederate metropolis of Zaporizhzhia overnight, according to the caput of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration.

"One of the missiles deed the territory of Stepne [to the southeast of Zaporizhzhia]. As a result, captious infrastructure facilities and residential buildings were damaged. According to preliminary information, nary 1 was injured," Oleksandr Starukh posted on Telegram.

He said the precedence for Russian forces is successful "holding captured lines" successful the Zaporizhzhia region, which is partially occupied by Russia.

The country astir Nikopol, to the southwest of Zaporizhzhia and successful the neighboring Dnipropetrovsk province, has besides travel nether much shelling "all nighttime long," an authoritative said.

"The shelling of [the] Nikopol territory does not abate... The Russians were firing dense artillery astatine Nikopol town, Chervonohryhorivka and Marhanets communities each nighttime long. Almost 50 force shells slammed into peaceful towns and villages," Valentyn Reznichenko, the caput of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration, said connected Telegram. He said determination were nary casualties.

In Nikopol, much than 10 backstage houses, workplace buildings, state pipelines and powerfulness lines were damaged, helium said. CNBC was incapable to instantly verify the reports.

— Holly Ellyatt

The politician of Russia's Kursk portion said Tuesday that determination was a drone onslaught adjacent an airfield there.

Posting connected Telegram, Governor Roman Starovoyt said "as a effect of a drone attack, an lipid retention vessel caught occurrence successful the country of ​​the Kursk airfield." He said determination were nary casualties and the occurrence was localized.  "All quality agencies are connected site," helium added.

CNBC was not capable to instantly verify the accusation successful Starovoyt's post. Russian authorities quality agencies reported the incidental but did not adhd further details.

If verified, the incidental comes a time aft 2 abstracted explosions astatine Russian subject aerial bases. Russia accused Ukraine of attacking its aerial bases utilizing drones connected Monday. Three radical were killed successful 1 of the incidents

Ukraine has not claimed work for the attacks, which were antithetic fixed that they took spot heavy wrong Russian territory. Kursk is connected the borderline with Ukraine. Officials successful Kyiv person not commented connected the Kursk incident.

— Holly Ellyatt

India volition prioritize its ain vigor needs and proceed to bargain lipid from Russia, its overseas curate signaled Monday, arsenic Western governments property Moscow with a price headdress to compression its net from lipid exports.

Minister of External Affairs Subrahmanyam Jaishankar made the comments aft holding talks with his visiting German counterpart, Annalena Baerbock, successful which they discussed bilateral relations and Russia's warfare successful Ukraine. Jaishankar said it isn't close for European countries to prioritize their vigor needs but "ask India to bash thing else."

"Europe volition marque the choices it volition make. It is their right," helium told reporters.

India has truthful acold not committed to the $60-per-barrel terms headdress connected Russian lipid acceptable by the Group of Seven large industrialized countries and European Union that is expected to travel into effect Monday. The determination is an effort by Western governments to bounds fossil substance net that enactment Moscow's budget, its subject and its penetration of Ukraine, portion besides avoiding a imaginable crisp terms spike if Russia's lipid is abruptly taken disconnected the planetary market.

— The Associated Press

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy emphasized the request for practice successful combatting Russian aggression and panic successful his nightly address, pursuing different deadly question of Russian rocket attacks crossed Ukraine.

"When 1 violent destabilizes everyone's lives, stopping panic is simply a associated task," Zelenskyy said.

The strikes besides caused powerfulness interruptions successful neighboring Moldova erstwhile again, prompting Zelenskyy to admit the spillover effects of the war.

"Russian panic again affects neighboring states," helium said. "And this erstwhile again proves that Russia's quality to transportation retired specified monolithic violent attacks is simply a menace not lone to Ukraine, but besides to our full region. At least," helium added.

Ukrainian aerial defence changeable down "most of" the 70 missiles launched by Russia, according to Zelenskyy. At slightest 4 radical were killed and respective others injured by the strikes, helium reported. Energy infrastructure was besides targeted, prompting much exigency blackouts successful regions crossed the state inactive reeling from anterior attacks.

— Rocio Fabbro

United States Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin underscored U.S. committedness to supporting Ukraine's defence against Russian aggression successful a telephone telephone with Ukrainian Defense Minister, Oleksii Reznikov.

"Secretary Austin reiterated aerial defence arsenic a apical precedence for U.S. information assistance efforts, made evident by caller commitments to supply Ukraine further munitions for U.S.-provided National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems (NASAMS) arsenic good arsenic capabilities to antagonistic Unmanned Aerial System," Pentagon Press Secretary Pat Ryder said successful a readout of the call.

Ukraine archetypal received NASAMS successful aboriginal November. The interceptor systems person proved invaluable to Ukraine's defence and information efforts, giving Ukraine the capableness to sprout down Russian missiles earlier they strike.

Austin besides pledged his "unwavering support" to Ukraine successful its warfare against Russia, condemning "Russia's brutal aerial attacks connected Ukraine's civilian infrastructure," according to Ryder.

— Rocio Fabbro

Russia said that 3 of its subject unit were killed successful what it said were Ukrainian drone attacks connected 2 Russian aerial bases hundreds of miles from the beforehand lines successful Ukraine.

Ukraine did not straight assertion responsibility. If it did transportation retired the attacks, they were the deepest subject strikes it has conducted wrong the Russian heartland since Moscow invaded connected Feb. 24.

One of the targets, the Engels aerial basal adjacent the metropolis of Saratov, houses bomber planes that are portion of Russia's strategical atomic forces.

"The Kyiv regime, successful bid to disable Russian long-range aircraft, made attempts to onslaught with Soviet-made unmanned pitchy aerial vehicles astatine the subject airfields Dyagilevo, successful the Ryazan region, and Engels, successful the Saratov region," the Russian defence ministry said.

It said the drones, flying astatine debased altitude, were intercepted by aerial defences and changeable down. The wreckage caused flimsy harm to 2 aircraft, it said, and 4 radical were wounded.

The ministry called it a "terrorist act" aimed astatine disrupting its long-range aviation.

— Reuters

Russia launched different question of rocket attacks against Ukraine Monday, Ukrainian aerial unit spokesperson Yurii Ihnat said successful a property briefing that took spot amid aerial raid alerts successful Kyiv and crossed the country.

"This is not a drill," Ihnat told reporters. "The missiles are already launched."

The attacks utilized strategical aviation launched from 3 abstracted sites: the Volgodonsk portion successful occidental Russia, the Caspian Sea and from ships successful the Black Sea, according to Ihnat. The astir caller rocket launches are a continuation of Russia's attacks connected captious Ukrainian infrastructure that began successful aboriginal October, helium said. To date, Russian strikes damaged astir fractional of Ukraine's vigor systems, leaving galore Ukrainians without energy arsenic temperatures drop.

Ilhnat warned that Monday's motorboat could effect successful respective waves of strikes, cautioning Ukrainians to instrumentality shelter. "Russians bash this successful bid to disperse and confuse our aerial defence forces," helium said of the motorboat waves.

Several apical Ukrainian officials person requested further aerial defence capabilities, including combatant jets and precocious rocket deterrent systems, implicit the past weeks arsenic Russia ramps up its rocket strikes connected Ukrainian infrastructure.

— Rocio Fabbro