UKRAINE: President Volodymyr Zelensky marked the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster today by warning that Russian attacks risk repeating history.

“Through its war, Russia is once again bringing the world to the brink of a man-made disaster — Russian-Iranian Shahed [drones] regularly fly over the plant and one of them struck the confinement last year,” he wrote on Facebook, accusing Moscow of “nuclear terrorism.”

At least 16 people were killed in strikes over the weekend in Ukraine, in Russian-occupied territory and in Russia.

UNITED STATES: The military has announced another strike on a boat accused of ferrying drugs in the eastern Pacific ocean, where two people were killed on Friday night.

The Trump administration’s campaign of blowing up alleged drug-trafficking vessels has killed at least 183 people since early September.

ISRAEL: Former prime ministers Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid said today that they would join forces in upcoming elections in a bid to unseat Benjamin Netanyahu.

The two plan to merge their parties into single faction led by Mr Bennett.

“The move is intended to unite the bloc, put an end to internal divisions and focus all efforts on winning the critical upcoming elections,” Mr Lapid’s Yesh Atid party said.

HUNGARY: Outgoing Prime Minister Viktor Orban will not take his seat in parliament following a crushing election defeat this month, instead focusing on rebuilding his far-right political community, he said on Saturday.

“Our task now is not in parliament,” Mr Orban declared, but in the “reorganisation” of the “national side.”