Russia launches several waves of drone attacks on Kyiv, Ukraine’s military says
Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters Russia launched several waves of drone attacks targeting Kyiv early on Monday, with air defence units engaged in repelling the strikes for several hours, Ukraine’s military said. Reuters’ witnesses heard numerous blasts in Kyiv in what sounded like air defence systems in operation and saw objects being hit in the air. Kyiv, […]
Ukraine targets Moscow in biggest drone attack yet
Moscow, Russia Reuters Ukraine targeted the Russian capital on Tuesday in its biggest drone attack so far, killing at least one and wrecking dozens of homes in the Moscow region and forcing around 50 flights to be diverted from airports around Moscow. Russia, the world’s biggest nuclear power, said it had destroyed at least 20 […]
Kharkiv struck by missiles after Ukraine launches mass drone attack on Russia
Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters At least 47 people, including five children, were injured on Sunday after Russian missiles struck a shopping mall and events complex in Ukraine’s north-eastern city of Kharkiv, officials said. Earlier in the day, Russia said Kyiv had launched one of the biggest drone attacks against it since the full-scale war began, targeting […]
Ukraine attacks Moscow in one of largest ever drone strikes on Russian capital
Updated: 8am, 27th August, 2024 Reuters Ukraine attacked Moscow on Wednesday with at least 11 drones that were shot down by air defences in what Russian officials called one of the biggest drone strikes on the capital since the war in Ukraine began in February 2022. The war, largely a grinding artillery and drone battle […]
Russia launches air attack on Ukraine’s Kyiv, mayor says
Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters Russia launched an air attack on Kyiv, with air defence systems engaged in repelling the strikes, Vitali Klitschko, mayor of the Ukrainian capital said early on Sunday. “Air defence units operating, air raid alert continues,” Klitschko wrote on the Telegram messaging app. Ukrainian service personnel use a searchlight as they search for […]
Ukraine keeps pounding Russia’s Kursk region with drones, Russian official says
Reuters Kyiv launched more than two dozen drones on the Russian region of Kursk in several waves of attacks that started Saturday night and damaged an oil depot, the acting governor of the region that borders Ukraine said late on Sunday. At least 13 drones launched from Ukraine were destroyed by Russia’s air defence systems […]
Russian drones knock out Ukrainian power facilities near Kyiv
Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters Russia attacked Ukrainian energy facilities in two regions between the capital Kyiv and the Russian border with drones overnight, leaving tens of thousands of people without power, Ukraine’s national power grid operator said on Friday. The governor of one of the regions, Chernihiv, told the national television at least 15 people were […]
US will not take part in any Israeli retaliatory action against Iran
Jerusalem/Dubai, United Arab Emirates/Washington DC, US Reuters President Joe Biden warned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the US will not take part in a counter-offensive against Iran, an option that Netanyahu’s war cabinet favors after a mass drone and missile attack on Israeli territory, according to officials. The threat of open warfare erupting between the arch […]
Myanmar militias revel after attempted drone attacks on junta’s stronghold capital
Reuters Anti-junta forces in Myanmar attempted coordinated drone attacks on military facilities in its capital on Thursday, army TV and a parallel government said, in a brazen challenge to a military struggling to govern and fighting battles on multiple fronts. Military-run Myawaddy TV said in its nighttime news bulletin an attempt by “terrorists” to destroy […]
Missile hits apartment buildings in Ukraine’s Kryvyi Rih, three dead, 38 hurt, as Ukraine knocks out Russian refinery in major attack
Reuters A Russian missile slammed into two apartment buildings in the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih on Tuesday, killing three people and injuring at least 38, with rescue teams sifting through rubble in a night-time search for survivors. Ten children were among the injured. A view shows a residential building heavily damaged in a […]