Rostov

The Volgograd hostage-taking is the second such incident this summer, after six prisoners who pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group captured two guards at a facility in the neighbouring Rostov region.

More than 500 firefighters have been tackling the giant blaze at the Proletarsk oil storage facility in Rostov region.

Oil storage facilities were also targeted in the Rostov, Kursk and Belgorod regions.

At half past six on the twenty-first of June 1922, when Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov was escorted through the gates of the Kremlin onto Red Square, it was glorious and cool.

The defense ministry also said that three drones were destroyed over the Rostov region, both in southern Russia.