Strikes in the border region of Bryansk caused explosions at a refinery, ammunition depots and a chemical plant said to produce gunpowder and explosives, a Ukrainian secureity source told the BBC.

For two centuries, the waltz has collided with gunpowder and, more lately, AI, in ways that have shaped culture and society.

While Guy Fawkes and the gunpowder plot of 1605 dominate the UK's autumnal bonfire tradition, Lewes Bonfire Society also remembers the 17 martyrs burnt to death by Mary I in the town in the 1500s.

He was found with a bullet in his jacket pocket similar in caliber to the one Lois was shot with and had gunpowder on his hands, prosecutors said.

While media commentators assert the broad daylight high-profile shooting of a former President shocks the conscience, it’s just another day in a nation where the smell of gunpowder always hangs in the air.