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 […]
Ukraine has lost over 40 per cent of Russia’s Kursk region to counter-attacks, Kyiv military source says
Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters Ukraine has lost over 40 per cent of the territory in Russia’s Kursk region that it seized in a surprise incursion in August as Russian forces have mounted waves of counter-assaults, a senior Ukrainian military source said. The source, who is on Ukraine’s General Staff, said Russia had deployed 59,000 troops to […]
Zelenskiy says Ukrainian forces holding positions in Russia’s Kursk region
Reuters President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday that Russian forces had tried to oust Ukrainian troops from positions in Russia’s Kursk border region, but that Kyiv’s forces were holding their lines. “Regarding the Kursk operation, Russia tried to push back our positions, but we are holding the designated lines,” Zelenskiy said in his nightly video […]
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 […]
Russian missile attack on Ukrainian town kills seven, officials say
Reuters Russian forces on Saturday fired missiles at the town of Vilniansk, outside the south-eastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia, killing seven people, including two children, and injuring 31 others, officials said. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy repeated his appeal to allies to provide Ukraine with more long-range weapons and enhanced air defences to stop what he said […]