IAEA chief, in Kyiv, warns of nuclear risk from attacks on Ukraine grid; five killed in Russian missile attack on Izium
Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Rafael Grossi arrived in Kyiv on Tuesday and inspected an electricity distribution substation, warning that attacks on Ukraine’s power grid could pose a risk of a nuclear accident by disrupting supply. “I’m at Kyivska electrical substation – an important part of Ukraine’s power grid essential for […]
Russian strike on apartment block in Kharkiv injures 12
Reuters Russian forces struck a multi-storey apartment building in Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, on Saturday evening, injuring at least 12 people and prompting an evacuation of some of its residents, Mayor Ihor Terekhov said. Kharkiv, 30 kilometres from the Russian border, has been a frequent target of Moscow’s attacks since the Kremlin’s troops launched their […]
Ukraine’s missing: A woman’s harrowing quest to find her family
CLODAGH KILCOYNE, of Reuters, reports on the plight of those who are seeking news of loved ones who have gone missing in the midst of the conflict in Ukraine…
Ukraine’s Zelenskiy says two more burial sites found in liberated Izium
Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters Ukraine has discovered two more mass burial sites containing the bodies of hundreds of people in the north-eastern town of Izium, which Kyiv recaptured from Russia this month, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said. Zelenskiy made his comment in an interview with CBS published late on Sunday in which he also called for […]
Ukrainian ex-serviceman claims Russians tortured him in eastern city of Izium
Izium, Ukraine Reuters Alexander Glushko says he spent the last fortnight of the Russian occupation of his hometown of Izium in northeast Ukraine jailed by Russian soldiers in the dank ruins of a police station where he was tortured with electric wires. He said he was also beaten during an earlier five-day stint in […]
Ukraine marches farther into liberated lands, separatist calls for urgent referendum
Izium, Ukraine Reuters Ukraine said its troops have marched farther east into territory recently abandoned by Russia, paving the way for a potential assault on Moscow’s occupation forces in the Donbas region as Kyiv seeks more Western arms. In a sign of nervousness from a Moscow-backed administration in Donbas about the success of Ukraine’s recent […]
Ukraine allies see risk in Russia’s response to battlefield setbacks
Izium, Ukraine Reuters The top US general warned on Sunday it was unclear how Russia would react to its battlefield setbacks in Ukraine, as Britain said Moscow’s forces had widened strikes on civilian infrastructure and were likely to expand their targets further. Ukraine’s General Staff said Ukrainian forces repelled attacks by Russian troops in the […]
Ukraine says hundreds of bodies found in recaptured territory evidence of war crimes
Kyiv/Izium Ukraine Reuters Ukrainian officials said on Friday they had found hundreds of bodies, some with their hands tied behind their backs, buried in territory recaptured from Russian forces, in what President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called proof of war crimes by the invaders. Zelenskiy told Reuters in an interview many corpses were also interred in other […]
Updated: Mass grave of more than 440 bodies found in Izium, Ukraine – police
Updated: 9:30am (AEST) Reuters Ukrainian authorities found a mass grave of more than 440 bodies in the north-eastern town of Izium that was recaptured from Russian forces days ago, a regional police official said, adding some of the people had been killed by shelling and air strikes. Thousands of Russian troops fled Izium last weekend […]
Russia loses control of key north-east towns as Ukrainian troops advance
Kyiv/Hrakove, Ukraine Reuters Moscow abandoned its main bastion in north-eastern Ukraine on Saturday, in a sudden collapse of one of the war’s principal front lines after Ukrainian forces made a rapid advance. The swift fall of Izium in Kharkiv province was Moscow’s worst defeat since its troops were forced back from the capital Kyiv in […]