Syrians are generally repelled by extreme religious rhetoric.

Prison governor John De Carteret said: "When a drone tries to breach the perimeter, it's repelled until it runs out of battery and then it slowly lowers itself down to the floor."

The video shows a convoy of Russian armour being repelled after making it to within 4km of the key bridge at Kupiansk, the last major road crossing in the area.

The headlines tolling doom have cast a shadow over the work of millions of dedicated mathematicians, entrepreneurs, engineers, artists, ecologists and community advocates and repelled onlookers, creating a profound missed opportunity to reshape philanthropy.

Israel said its missile-defense system repelled most of the incoming projectiles, but nonetheless declared it would retaliate.