Russian drones kill at least nine in strikes targeting warehouses and ports in Ukraine – Europe live

The strikes come after it was revealed that Ukraine’s president Volodomyr Zelenskyy’s plane was almost hit by a drone when leaving Moldova this week

Meanwhile, French president Emmanuel Macron used his international space summit in Paris to call on Europe to develop its own crewed spaceflight capability as part of a broader push to strengthen the continent’s space sector, AFP reported.

“We want Europe to demonstrate its ambition in the field of crewed spaceflight,” Macron told a space summit in Paris, adding that “our European space programme remains fragile and we must step up our efforts.”