Russia strikes Ukraine’s critical infrastructure in war’s largest drone attack
Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters Russian forces staged their largest ever drone attack on Ukraine overnight, cutting power to much of the western region of Ternopil and damaging residential buildings in Kyiv region, Ukraine’s officials said on Tuesday. Intensified nightly drone attacks on Ukrainian cities are coinciding with a major push by Russia along frontlines in Ukraine’s […]
Russian attacks on hospital in Ukraine’s Sumy kill 10, Kyiv says
Updated: 9am, 29th September, 2024 (AEST) Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters Russia attacked a hospital in Sumy in north-eastern Ukraine early on Saturday, killing 10 people and injuring at least 22 others, Ukrainian officials said. Danielle Bell, head of the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine, said “loitering munitions” – or suicide drones – hit the […]
Russia attacks Ukraine geriatric centre and power grid
Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters Russian forces hit a geriatric centre in the Ukrainian city of Sumy and targeted its energy sector in a new wave of airstrikes on Thursday, killing at least one civilian, Ukrainian officials said. A UN monitoring body said attacks on the power grid probably violated humanitarian law while the International Energy Agency […]
Russian bomb hits high-rise building in Ukraine’s Kharkiv, killing seven
Reuters A Russian guided bomb attack on Ukraine’s north-eastern city of Kharkiv hit a residential building and a playground on Friday, killing seven people and injuring at least 77 more, local authorities said. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said a 14-year-old girl was among the dead. Ihor Terekhov, the city’s mayor, had earlier said on Telegram […]
Russian attacks on Ukraine kill four and injure 37, local authorities say
Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters Russia launched attacks on northern, eastern and southern Ukraine, killing at least four people and injuring 37, Ukrainian military and local authorities said on Sunday. Overnight attacks targeted Ukraine’s frontline regions of Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv and Donetsk, Ukraine’s air force said on the Telegram messaging app. People stand near the rubble of […]
Ukraine pulls back in two areas of Kharkiv region, warns of buildup near Sumy region
Near Vovchansk, Ukraine Reuters Ukraine’s military said on Tuesday its forces pulled back to new positions in two areas of the north-eastern Kharkiv region where Moscow is pressing an offensive, and warned of a Russian force buildup to the north near its Sumy region. A cross-border attack on a new flank in Sumy region would […]
Russian forces attack Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, striking on new front
Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters Russian forces launched an armoured ground attack on Friday near Ukraine’s second city of Kharkiv in the north-east of the country and made small inroads, opening a new front in a war that has long been waged in the east and south. Ukraine sent reinforcements as fighting raged in the border areas […]
Four killed in Russian attacks on Ukraine’s eastern regions, Kyiv says
Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters Four people were killed in overnight Russian drone and bomb attacks in Ukraine’s northeastern Sumy and eastern Donetsk regions, local officials said on Wednesday. Russian forces dropped a bomb on Myrnohrad town in Donetsk region, killing two and injuring five people, local Governor Vadym Filashkin said on the Telegram messaging app. A […]
Ukraine notes progress after “difficult’ week”, upsurge in Bakhmut fighting; Russian drones kill two in Sumy
Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters Ukraine said on Monday its troops had regained more ground along eastern and southern fronts in what President Volodymyr Zelenskiy described as progress in a “difficult” week for Kyiv’s counter-offensive against Russian forces. Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Maliar also noted a surge in fighting around the shattered eastern city of Bakhmut, captured […]
Ukraine’s stateless trapped in warzone with no proof they exist
Thomson Reuters Foundation When the air raid sirens sound at night, Svitlana Honcharova takes her two young sons to the cellar under their apartment in the Ukrainian city of Sumy and prays they will still be alive in the morning. Although thousands have fled Russia’s bombardment of Sumy in the far northeast, 31-year-old Honcharova dares […]