Russia and Ukraine trade strikes, NATO summit in Ankara

Al Jazeera Podcasts. Russia has launched a wave of drones and missiles at Ukraine a day before NATO leaders are set to make a renewed push for peace. Every Russian ballistic missile launched at Kiev on Monday has hit its target. At least 15 people have been killed in the capital and dozens are injured. Russia's defense ministry says its forces have intercepted 613 Ukrainian drones. Strikes were reported across the Russian territory. One woman was killed and Russian-controlled Crimea. The strikes knocked out power across the entire peninsula. Keev says it also hit

energy sites in the Baltic seaport of Vyazotsk and Yaroslavl north of Moscow. And it struck one of Russia's largest oil refineries in Omsk. That's more than 2,000 kilometers from the Ukrainian border. Lamar is one of the longest range Ukrainian strikes to date. The Omsk oil refinery was one of the last in Russia to avoid Ukrainian attacks. Russia has accused Ukraine of attempting to damage civil and energy infrastructure across the country. Donald Trump will soon be headed for the NATO summit in Turkey, where the war in Ukraine will be high on the agenda. The U.S. president says he's held discussions with both Volodymyr Zelensky and Vladimir Putin over the weekend.

He says a peace deal is getting closer than people realize. Hamas has announced the dissolution of its own. governing committee which ran Gaza for nearly two decades. It paves the way for a transitional, technocratic committee to assume responsibility. The new committee's activities will be overseen by the Board of Peace, which was set up by U.S. President Donald Trump, when the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel was agreed in October. Despite the ceasefire, Israeli attacks are continuing across Gaza.

Israeli forces have killed at least six Palestinians on Monday. Four people were killed in two separate attacks in Khan Yunus, and several others were injured. A riot in a Sri Lankan prison has killed at least 26 people and injured more than 100 others. A senior prison official says it happened after fighting between two factions spiraled out of control. Prisoners have accused officers of indiscriminately firing at them, but officials say that was not the cause of most of the deaths. On the Inside Story podcast, we're discussing the increase in violence in Mali

after a wave of coordinated attacks by rebels and armed groups over the weekend. The fighters have made significant territorial gains with the government in Baumiko unable to restore the stability it promised. So what are the consequences? Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.