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France will deploy 35,000 security agents and the military to secure the 2024 Olympic Games opening ceremony, a river parade through the heart of Paris, from security threats including drone strikes, the interior minister said.

Hundreds of thousands of spectators are expected to line the Seine river along the 6km route to watch the national delegations sail in a flotilla of boats from the Austerlitz Bridge to the foot of the Eiffel Tower.

Darmanin said the government would be asking police forces elsewhere in Europe to step up their intelligence sharing of individuals who might pose a terrorism threat to prevent them arriving on French soil.

VIDEOGAME-style footage captured the moment a Ukrainian kamikaze drone smashed into a Russian tank before it bursts into flames.

The incredible clip shows how the drone quickly hones in on its

The brief video was shared on Twitter by a Ukraine -affiliated account which vowed they will continue to hit back until achieving “complete victory.”

It shows the drone catapulting through the air towards an unsuspecting Russian tank in a rural area.

The clip then dramatically stops just before the moment of impact, allowing the accuracy of the strike to be admired.

It then switches to an aerial view to show further footage of when the drone hits, as smoke ominously begins to rise from the tank.

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The video was captioned: “The special forces of the SBU continue to pelt the occupiers with “gifts” straight from the sky .”

It is not clear where the drone attack in the footage occurred.

The tweet also boasted that Putin ‘s men are often stunned by “the accuracy of such surprises.”

Throughout the war, Ukrainian fighters have been using relatively cheap drones to cause havoc with Russia.

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But they have still managed to rattle Vladimir Putin with their blitzes over the last week.

Footage shared on Thursday appeared to show a Ukrainian kamikaze marine drone destroying a Russian spy ship after dodging its gunfire.

The clip seems to indicate there was a near strike on the Ivan Khurs, one of Vladimir Putin ’s most modern warships, in the Black Sea .

Ukrainian official Anton Gerashchenko said the unmanned marine drone exploded close to the reconnaissance warship, although the footage doesn’t make clear what happened afterwards.

He said it “exploded right at the side of the ship and seriously damaged it.”

Gerashchenko said that the Ivan Khurs “was definitely damaged, and perhaps was even on its side.”

The vessel is said to have been undamaged, according to Russian sources, but offered no proof of this.

A massive explosion then reportedly ripped through a Russian missile store as Ukraine allegedly fired British-made Storm Shadows .

An enormous fireball erupted after the reported strike on an arsenal of Russian S-300 air defence missiles in the occupied port of Berdiansk in southern Ukraine.

It was unclear if the surge of attacks represented the start of a counteroffensive or a change in strategy by Ukraine.

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KYIV — Russia unleashed a major two-wave overnight air attack on Kyiv that killed at least one person, officials said, as the Ukrainian capital prepares to celebrate its birthday on Sunday (May 28).

Air defence systems downed at least 20 drones moving towards Kyiv, with falling debris killing a 41-year-old man and injuring a 35-year-old woman in the city, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said.

The pre-dawn attacks came on the last Sunday of May when the capital celebrates Kyiv Day, the anniversary of its official founding 1,541 years ago. The day is typically marked by street fairs, live concerts and special museum exhibitions – plans for which have been made this year too, but on a smaller scale.

“The history of Ukraine is a long-standing irritant for the insecure Russians,” Andriy Yermak, the head of President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s office, said on his Telegram channel.

Several districts of Kyiv, by far the largest Ukrainian city with a population of around three million, suffered in the overnight attacks, officials said, including the historical Pecherskyi neighbourhood.

Reuters witnesses said that during the air raid alerts that started soon after midnight, many people stood on their balconies, some screaming offensives directed at Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and “Glory to air defence” slogans.

With a Ukrainian counteroffensive looming 15 months into the war, Moscow has intensified missile and drone strikes this month after a lull of nearly two months, targeting military facilities and supplies. Waves of attacks now come several times a week.

In the leafy Holosiivskyi district in the southwestern part of Kyiv, falling debris set a three-storey warehouse on fire, destroying about 1,000 square metres (10,800 square feet) of building structures, Mayor Klitschko said.

A fire broke out after falling drone debris hit a seven-storey non-residential building in the Solomyanskyi district west of the city. The district is a busy rail and air transport hub.

In the Pecherskyi district, a fire broke out on the roof of a nine-storey building due to falling drone debris, Kyiv’s military administration officials said on Telegram.

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