By Tom Balmforth LONDON, July 30 (Reuters) - Russia likely used a North Korean missile for a deadly strike that killed a family near the Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih, two sources said, in what would be the first time such a weapon has been fired in the war in nearly a year.

Ukraine's drone attacks on Russia's biggest online retailer, Wildberries, have ratcheted up the pressure on Moscow's wartime economy.

Russian billionaire Valery ⁠Kustov, ⁠executives of his Efko ⁠company and a government official responsible for drone ​development have all been detained in a major fraud investigation, multiple ‌news outlets reported on ‌Thursday.

By Portia Crowe DAKAR, July 31 (Reuters) - Russian paramilitary group Africa Corps killed eight civilians, including three children, in Mali last month, Human Rights Watch said on Friday, during air strikes the campaign group called "unlawfully indiscriminate".

The Ukrainian president watched in the Senate chamber as lawmakers cast their votes.

Russia said on ⁠Thursday ⁠that its forces had carried ⁠out big overnight strikes on military factories across ​Ukraine, including in the capital Kyiv and in the western city of Lviv, ‌and had struck three ‌cargo ships in the Black Sea.

NATO's top transformation commander says the West cannot produce enough Patriot missiles and must redesign its entire weapons industrial base.

(This July 28 story has been republished to add a video, with no changes to text) By Gram Slattery, Richard Cowan and David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON, July 28 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Tuesday discussed reviving peace talks with Russia and plans for Ukraine to produce Patriot missile interceptors,

Russian forces have used Geran attack drones — its version of the Iranian-designed Shahed — and fixed-wing explosive drones in the attacks on petrol stations. They have also targeted them with heavy aerial bombs able to glide over dozens of kilometres and destroy entire buildings or city blocks.