Russia hits Kharkiv, Ukraine downs Russian fighter jet

Russian media reported Saturday that the Russian army had attacked Ukraine's Kharkiv, while Ukraine claimed to have shot down a Russian fighter jet.

Russian forces carried out a strike operation against Ukraine's second largest city of Kharkiv, cutting off the troop rotations and the weapon supplies, according to Russian media on Saturday.

During the operation, the Russian army also attacked the bases of the Ukrainian army and foreign mercenaries, destroying drone production workshops and warehouses.

In Dnepropetrovsk, the Russian army destroyed workshops of Ukrainian military industrial enterprises, mobile air defense systems, and the bases where drone operators were stationed, said the media.

The Russian Defense Ministry reported Saturday that its army shot down 36 Ukrainian drones in regions including Kursk Oblast, Bryansk Oblast and Moscow Oblast.

The ministry stated Friday that over the past week, the Russian military had carried out six cluster strikes using high-precision weapons and drones, destroying Ukrainian military-industrial firms, military airport infrastructure, drone production workshops, and military ammunition depots.

It also said that within a week, the Russian army had controlled seven settlements in the Sumy and Donetsk regions, and the Russian air defense system intercepted 1,390 unmanned aerial vehicles, among which 509 were located outside the special military operation area.

The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces claimed Saturday that Russia launched attacks in the directions of Kharkiv and Kupiansk, and used nine missiles and 206 drones to strike many places in Ukraine.

Officials in Kharkiv said the same day that the city was hit by a large-scale Russian attack in the early morning, resulting in casualties and damage to many residences.

The Ukrainian Air Force said that it shot down a Russian Su-35 fighter jet in the direction of Kursk on Saturday.

The Ukrainian side also stated that on Friday, the Ukrainian military, in coordination with the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine, carried out strikes on multiple Russian military targets, including facilities within the territory of Russia.

Russia hits Kharkiv, Ukraine downs Russian fighter jet

The death toll from a landfill collapse in the central Philippine city of Cebu has risen to eight by Monday morning as search and rescue operations continued for another 28 missing people.

The landfill collapse occurred on Thursday as dozens of sanitation workers were working at the site. The disaster has already caused injuries of 18 people.

Family members of the missing people said the rescue progress is slow, and the hope for the survival of their loved ones is fading.

"For me, maybe I’ve accepted the worst result already because the garbage is poisonous and yesterday, it was raining very hard the whole day. Maybe they’ve been poisoned. For us, alive or dead, I hope we can get their bodies out of the garbage rubble," said Maria Kareen Rubin, a family member of a victim.

Families have set up camps on high ground near the landfill, awaiting news of their relatives. Some people at the site said cries for help could still be heard hours after the landfill collapsed, but these voices gradually faded away.

Bienvenido Ranido, who lost his wife in the disaster, said he can't believe all that happened.

"After they gave my wife oxygen, my kids and I were expecting that she would be saved that night because she was still alive. But the night came and till the next morning, they didn't manage to save her," he said.

Death toll in central Philippine landfill collapse rises to eight