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A Russian guided aerial bomb attack has seriously damaged a combined heat and power plant in Ukraine’s southern city of Kherson, the plant’s owner, Ukrainian energy company Naftogaz, said on Wednesday.

The extent of the damage will be assessed as soon as the security situation allows, Naftogaz said.

Russia launched its 10,000 ton doomsday submarine for the first time last week, according to reports.

Moscow sent the Khabarovsk nuclear submarine, designed to carry nuclear torpedoes, into trials in the White Sea, according to the Telegraph.

Russian media reports have said the submarines can carry up to six Poseidon torpedos which can be detonated underwater to create tsunamis.

CIA Director John Ratcliffe held talks with Russian intelligence officials during his visit to Moscow on Tuesday but did not meet President Vladimir Putin, the Kremlin said on Wednesday.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that Putin had been briefed on the outcome of Ratcliffe’s talks, but declined to provide further details.

Peskov said it was also too early to say whether such contacts between the two countries’ intelligence agencies could help pull U.S.-Russia relations out of what he described as a “deep crisis”.

Russia’s Foreign Ministry has summoned Romania’s charge d’affaires in Moscow, the Interfax news agency reported on Wednesday.

It did not give a reason for the summons.

Russia and Ukraine have each exchanged 10 prisoners of war in the latest such trade, according to Interfax.

It could take up to four months to restore damaged facilities at NKHP, one of the largest grain terminals at Russia’s port of Novorossiysk, where operations have been halted since August, the company said on Wednesday in its financial report.

Local officials said earlier in August that a Ukrainian drone and missile strike on the port damaged two major grain export terminals and hit the last big Russian naval base on the Black Sea.

Andy Burnham was reportedly warned that Russia is plotting retaliation against Britain for its continued support for Ukraine.

Security experts were said to have told the prime minister to be ready for a ‘direct response’, according to the Daily Mail.

Mr Burnham travelled to Kyiv on Monday for his first overseas trip since taking office last month and said London and Paris would provide long-range missile technology to Ukraine.

A unnamed senior security source told the Mail: “An attack on the UK’s defence and security infrastructure is inevitable, based on our high profile support for Ukraine.

“Ourselves and the French are front and centre, and Burnham’s visit to Kyiv and his forthright stance will have been noticed at the Kremlin,” they assessed.

“There had been some optimism in Moscow that he would be softer than Starmer on Ukraine. That was not the case.”

Robert Gilman’s release from Russian custody this month heralded a long-awaited homecoming for the Marine veteran after more than four years behind bars.

But as Harold Jezler followed the media coverage from the United States, he couldn’t help but notice Gilman’s gaunt and sickly appearance and think of the implications for his wife, Olga, who has been detained in Russia since 2022 and faces her own health problems.

“You just look at the pictures and the guy is not in good shape. It’s concerning for me and for all the families, I would imagine,” Jezler said in an interview with The Associated Press. “Is this what it takes for the government to really make a move and prioritize this — that the person is basically in dire straits? It was a very bittersweet thing to see that.”