Russia intensifies assaults on Ukrainian salt mining town and eastern front
Kyiv/Siversk, Ukraine Reuters Russia has stepped up a “powerful assault” led by the Wagner contract militia on Soledar in eastern Ukraine, Kyiv said on Monday, describing a difficult situation for forces repelling waves of attacks around the salt mining town and nearby fronts. Soledar, in the industrial Donbas region, lies a few miles from Bakhmut, […]
No sign of casualties after Russia claims revenge attack on Ukrainian soldiers
Kramatorsk, Ukraine Reuters A Russian missile attack on the Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk missed its targets and there were no obvious signs of casualties, a Reuters reporter said on Sunday, after Moscow claimed the strike killed 600 Ukrainian soldiers. A Reuters team visited two college dormitories that Moscow said had been temporarily housing Ukrainian personnel […]
More shelling raises nuclear fears as Kyiv, Moscow await UN report
Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters Power at a critical nuclear plant in Ukraine was all but cut off on Monday for the second time in two weeks as Kyiv accused Moscow of pushing the war to the brink of nuclear catastrophe, one day before the UN nuclear watchdog was due to issue an assessment of the Zaporizhzhia […]
Ukraine on edge after Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, region’s towns shelled
Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters Russian artillery fired at Ukrainian towns across the river from the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant overnight, local officials said on Sunday, adding to residents’ anguish as reports of shelling around the plant fuelled fears of a radiation disaster. Russia’s defence ministry said there was more Ukrainian shelling of the plant over the […]
Outgunned but defiant, Ukrainian twin cities’ defenders ready for Russian attack
Kramatorsk/Sloviansk, Ukraine Reuters In the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk, mechanic-turned-soldier Artchk helps shore up defences against imminent Russian attack while, nearby, farmer Vasyl Avramenko laments the loss of crops supplanted by mines. Shells are raining down steadily on Kramatorsk and its twin, Sloviansk, and they are poised to become the next frontline in Moscow’s […]
Russia pounds Ukraine’s Donetsk region after seizing Luhansk
Sloviansk/Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters Russian forces struck targets across Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region on Tuesday, a day after President Vladimir Putin declared victory in the neighbouring province of Luhansk after months of gruelling attritional warfare in which both sides lost many men. Donetsk and Luhansk comprise the Donbas, the industrialised eastern part of Ukraine that has […]
Russia pounds Ukraine’s east as town buries dead in mass grave
Kyiv/Kramatorsk, Ukraine Reuters Russian forces on Wednesday pounded Ukrainian-held twin cities in the Donbas region that is now the focus of the three-month war, threatening to shut off the last main escape route for civilians trapped in the path of their advance. After failing to seize Ukraine’s capital Kyiv or its second city Kharkiv, Russia […]
Zelenskiy braces for “hard battle”, UK’s Johnson visits with aid
Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters Ukraine is ready for a tough battle with Russian forces amassing in the east of the country, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday, and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson offered fresh financial and military support during a surprise visit. At a meeting in Kyiv, Johnson told Zelenskiy that Britain would provide armoured […]
Ukraine and allies blame Russia for strike on station that killed over 50
Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters Ukraine and its allies blamed Russia for a missile attack that killed at least 52 people at a train station packed with women, children and the elderly fleeing the threat of a Russian offensive in the east. As regional authorities scrambled to continue evacuating the vulnerable, European Union leaders visited Kyiv to […]