Russian strikes kill six in Ukraine including in Kyiv, officials say
Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters Russian forces unleashed a combined drone and missile strike on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv early on Saturday, killing three people, while two other attacks in the country’s south killed three more, officials said. In Kyiv, explosions boomed across the pre-dawn sky as air defences activated against the attack, which also wounded three […]
Russia accelerates advance in Ukraine’s east
Moscow, Russia Reuters Russian forces are advancing in Ukraine at the fastest rate since the early days of the 2022 invasion, taking an area half the size of London over the past month, analysts and war bloggers said on Tuesday. Russian troops swept through swathes of Ukraine in early 2022 before being pushed back to […]
At least seven killed as Russia shells four Ukraine regions, governors say
Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters Russian shelling killed at least seven people in four attacks on the south, south-east and east of Ukraine on Saturday, regional Ukrainian governors said. In the Zaporizhzhia region in south-east Ukraine, Governor Ivan Fedorov said Russian shells struck an agricultural enterprise in the town of Huliaipole, killing three people. “All the dead […]
Putin decrees patriotic ‘Russia’ exhibition become a permanent landmark
Moscow, Russia Reuters It boasts a replica of the ‘Tsar Bomba’, the most powerful nuclear bomb ever tested, slick presentation stands extolling the virtues of four Ukrainian regions Russia says it has annexed, and artwork lionising the Russian army in Ukraine. After organisers said over 18 million people had flocked to Moscow’s “Russia” exhibition in […]
Relocated children: Posterchild for Russia’s removal of Ukraine orphans says he was coached, threatened
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Independent vote monitor says Russian elections are “most secret” ever
London, UK Reuters The head of an independent vote-monitoring group that Russia has labelled a “foreign agent” says the presidential election that began on Friday and is widely expected to re-elect Vladimir Putin is the least transparent the country has seen. Stanislav Andreichuk, co-chairman of Golos (Voice), said the use of electronic voting for the […]
Two dead in Ukraine city of Kherson as Russian soldiers celebrate Orthodox Christmas on front line
Kyiv, Ukraine AP The southern Ukrainian city of Kherson was subjected Sunday to numerous shelling attacks from Russian-occupied parts of the Kherson region, across the Dnieper River, local officials said. The head of the Kherson city administration, Roman Mrochko, said two people died in the shelling attacks and several others were wounded. Communal workers prepare […]
Russia presses on with drive on Ukrainian town of Avdiivka
Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters Russian forces pressed on with a long-running drive to capture the eastern Ukrainian town of Avdiivka on Tuesday and both sides said they had made gains. Russian attacks killed four people in eastern and southern regions, including strikes on an aid centre and a medical building in the southern city of Kherson, […]
Ukraine decries civilian deaths, injuries in new Russian shelling
Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters Fresh Russian shelling killed at least three people including an elderly man in a village garage and a woman beside a city bus stop, Ukrainian officials said, as President Volodymr Zelenskiy reported “intense battles” at dozens of frontline locations. “Russian occupiers once again shelled Kherson,” Zelenskiy said, referring to the southern, port […]
Thousands of Ukrainian children taken to Belarus – Yale research
Amsterdam, The Netherlands Reuters More than 2,400 children from Ukraine aged between six and 17 years old have been taken to 13 facilities across Belarus since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in early 2022, research published by Yale University said on Thursday. Ukraine’s prosecutor general said in May that he was investigating the alleged role […]