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In the early hours this morning, August 26th, Russian forces launched a wave of missile and drone strikes across 15 Ukrainian oblasts, targeting critical energy infrastructures and prompting a nationwide air raid alert. Ukraine celebrated independence from the Soviet Union on Saturday, and some form of attacks from Russia around the date were anticipated. Immediate Impact and Response Ukrainian Energy Minister German Galushchenko confirmed the attack’s extensive impacts.

Russian forces have launched a counteroffensive to the Kursk incursion as Ukrainian troops continue to secure their gains, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stating that: “A Ukrainian military commandant’s office is being established there [in the captured territories]. Several other settlements have also been liberated.

Salvador Illa, the candidate backed by Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, is on the verge of becoming the new president of Catalonia’s government following a pivotal electoral victory in this Spanish autonomous community. Catalonia’s Political History Spain is organized as a parliamentary constitutional monarchy, comprising 17 autonomous communities and two autonomous cities, each with varying degrees of legislative powers.