Ukraine war latest: Explosions blamed for collapse of two bridges in Russia - killing at least seven and injuring dozens

Russia claims to capture village in Ukraine's Sumy region

Russia has said it has captured the village of Oleksiivka in Ukraine's Sumy region.

The announcement from the country's ministry of defence reported comes a day after it claimed to have captured Vodolagy in the same northeastern region.

Sky News could not independently verify the battlefield report.

Ukrainian authorities in Sumy, which borders Russia's Kursk region, have ordered mandatory evacuations in a total of 213 places as a result of Russian gains. 

Volodymyr Zelenskyy said some 50,000 Russian troops had amassed in the area with the intention of launching an offensive to carve out a buffer zone inside Ukrainian territory.

Russia currently controls almost all of Ukraine's Luhansk region, more than 70% of Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson and a small part of the Kharkiv and Sumy regions.

Separate Russian railway track damaged, says train company

A separate railway track has been damaged in Russia's Bryansk region, Russian Railways has said.

The rail company said the Unecha-Zhecha section of track was discovered damaged and trains cannot pass through the area.

Russian Railways said no one was injured.

It is unclear if the damaged line is linked to the bridge that collapsed onto a railway line in Bryansk's Vygonichsky district.

Putin informed overnight about bridges collapsing

Vladimir Putin received reports throughout the night on the collapse of two bridges, the Kremlin has said.

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said that the president was kept up to date about the collapse in Kursk and Bryansk by the Federal Security Service and the emergencies ministry.

It is the first comment from the Kremlin since the bridges collapsed.

It happened on the eve of a second round of peace talks in Turkey, which Russia proposed.

Ukraine has still not committed to attending the talks, with Volodymyr Zelenskyy saying for them to be "meaningful", Russia must share its agenda setting out its proposals for a potential ceasefire.

Destruction at collapsed bridge site

The latest images from the scene in Russia's Bryansk region show the scale of destruction that occurred after a bridge collapsed late last night.

Workers have begun to try to clear the area, which includes the wreckage of the passenger train that was crushed by the overhead bridge. 

A truck that was travelling across the road bridge at the time was also pictured half hanging off the collapsed structure.

Seven people were killed and around 69 were injured in the crash, which the Russian Investigative Committee said earlier was down to an explosion.

'We are stepping up our deterrence': UK's message to Putin

The UK's defence secretary has sent a "message" to Vladimir Putin as the government pushes to rearm the country.

Speaking on Sunday Morning With Trevor Phillips, John Healey said six new munitions factories will be open "very soon" in the UK.

The government is also set to buy up to 7,000 long-range missiles, rockets and drones as part of Sir Keir Starmer's Strategic Defence Review.

The review will recommend an "always on" production capacity for munitions, drawing on lessons learned from the war in Ukraine.

It comes after UK factories were slow to expand after demand for munitions increased after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

Healey told Sky News: "The message to [Vladimir] Putin is we take our defence seriously.

"We're stepping up our deterrence. 

"We should expect to see new factories opening very soon. And we've already got strong munitions factories in every part of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. 

"The investment we're making will boost the jobs in those areas as well."

Russian bridges collapsed due to explosions, says Russia's Investigative Committee

Russia has blamed explosions for the collapse of two bridges overnight.

As we've been reporting, two bridges came down in Russia's Bryansk and Kursk regions.

Now, Russia's Investigative Committee has said both collapses were caused by explosions.

The committee said the first bridge, in Bryansk's Vygonichsky district, collapsed at 10.50pm local time (8.50pm on Saturday in the UK) "as a result of an explosion".

The debris then fell on a passenger train underneath, which was travelling from Moscow to Klimov at the time.

Seven people were killed and around 69 were injured.

A railway bridge in Kursk's Zheleznogorsk district then fell at 3am local time (1am in the UK) this morning, the committee said, causing a passing train to fall onto the road below.

The train driver and two assistants were injured in the crash.

The committee said its employees are working at both scenes to establish "all the circumstances".

Seven injured after drone attacks on Ukrainian city

An estimated seven people have been injured after Russia launched a series of drone attacks on Ukraine's southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia.

Critical infrastructure and residential buildings were damaged in the attacks, local officials said.

A 53-year-old woman and a 21-year-old man were among those injured in the village of Verkhnya Tersa.

The attacks were separate to the air attacks on Kyiv, which we reported on earlier this morning (see our 7.30am post).

180 people involved in Bryansk search and rescue operation

Russia's ministry of emergency situations said this morning that efforts to find and rescue victims after the Bryansk bridge collapse continued overnight.

It said some 180 personnel were involved in the operation. 

Pictures and videos on social media showed passengers trying to help others climb out of the train's damaged carriages in the dark, and firefighters looking for ways to reach passengers. 

Alexander Bogomaz, the governor of the Bryansk region, said 44 people were taken to hospital after the first bridge collapse.

He said three children were among those injured, with one in serious condition.

The driver of the train was one of the seven people that died.

Russia launches air attack on Ukrainian capital

Meanwhile, Ukraine said its air defence units tried to repel a Russian air attack on its capital overnight.

Vitali Klitschko, the mayor of Kyiv, warned people via the Telegram messaging app to "stay in shelters" as air defences were triggered.

He did not say if any drones or missiles had managed to get through the air defences or if anyone had been injured.

The scene after Russian bridges collapse

We can now bring you the latest pictures from the scenes where bridges have collapsed in Russia.

Images show train passenger cars ripped apart and lying amid fallen concrete from the collapsed bridges.

Other footage on social media appeared to be taken from inside vehicles which narrowly avoided driving onto one of the bridges before it collapsed.

-SKY NEWS