It is day 587 of the war in Ukraine. Southern Ukrainian regions were targeted in a kamikaze drone attack overnight, as was Russia’s Bryansk region.

Germany has announced another military aid package for Ukraine.

A resident of Kamchatka has been stripped of his Russian citizenship after being found guilty of “calling for extremism”.

The Russian ruble is depreciating again, falling below the psychologically important 100-ruble-to-the-US-dollar mark for the first time since 14 August.

Novaya-Europe’s news roundup will brief you on the main developments overnight.

Drone strikes launched on southern Ukraine. Cluster munition shelling reported in Russia’s Bryansk region

The Russian military has launched more Shahed kamikaze drones on targets in southern Ukraine, the Ukrainian air force reported on Tuesday.

Air-raid sirens went off overnight in Ukraine’s Kherson, Mykolaiv, Dnipro and Zaporizhzhia regions and continued until dawn. No direct damage or injuries from the attack were reported.

Dnipro region Governor Serhiy Lysak said that the Ukrainian military had managed to down 13 drones and one cruise missile over the region, adding that drone debris had damaged an industrial facility in the city of Pavlohrad and caused a fire that was quickly put out.

The Russian military also attacked the city of Kherson in southern Ukraine, killing two and injuring seven more, Kherson region governor Oleksandr Prokudin reported on Tuesday.

In the past 24 hours the Russian military attacked Kherson with shells, artillery guns, Grad rockets, tanks, jets and drones, damaging multiple buildings, Prokudin said.

In Russia, Bryansk region Governor Alexander Bogomaz said on Tuesday that the local air defences had downed a Ukrainian drone over the region overnight. The Ukrainian military also shelled the village of Klimovo with cluster munitions, damaging several buildings, Bogomaz said.

Germany sends more military aid to Kyiv

The German government announced a new military aid package for Ukraine on its website on Tuesday.

The new military aid package includes 14 Bandvagn 206 all-terrain vehicles, a Biber bridge layer, two WiSENT 1 MC engineering vehicles, seven HX81 tow cars and eight trailers for them, 21 border guard vehicles, radios for Leopard tanks, 99 satellite communication terminals, and a set of spare parts for Vecto drones, among other items.

Russian man loses citizenship over ‘extremism calls’

A resident of Kamchatka in the Russian Far East has been stripped of his Russian citizenship and sent to a penal colony for four years after a court found him guilty of making public calls for “terrorism and extremism”, the regional Federal Security Service (FSB) office reported on Tuesday.

The man, who renounced his Ukrainian citizenship in 2014 and was granted a Russian passport, was found to have made calls for violence against Russians on social media site VK between June 2020 and February 2022.

Noting that the case had precedence, the FSB office cited another incident in which a Kamchatka resident from a former Soviet state who was granted Russian citizenship had also been stripped of his new passport for the “public justification of terrorism”. No further details of the case were made public.

Ruble drops to below key psychological threshold of 100 to the dollar for first time since 14 August

The Russian ruble is plummeting again, breaking the psychological barrier of 100 rubles per 1 US dollar for the first time since 14 August, Russian news agency TASS reported on Tuesday.

The last time the US dollar was worth more than 100 rubles was on 14 August, the first time since March 2022, indicating growing pressures on the Russian economy.