Russian strikes kill 12 in eastern Ukraine
- 08-Mar-2025
KYIV: Russian strikes overnight had killed at least 12 people in eastern Ukraine as of Saturday morning, the country’s emergency service said, days ahead of talks in Saudi Arabia between US and Ukrainian negotiators aimed at a truce. A Russian assault hit the centre of Dobropillia in Ukraine’s Donetsk region late Friday, killing 11 people […]
Ukraine hit by overnight Russian strikes across country
- 28-Jan-2024
KYIV: Russia carried out overnight drone and missile attacks on four regions of Ukraine, wounding at least three people, the Ukrainian armed forces said on Sunday. According to the air force, eight Shahed-type explosive drones, two Iskander missiles and three S-300 missiles were launched, four of which were shot down. The air force said that […]
‘Massive’ Russian strikes kill at least 30 across Ukraine
- 30-Dec-2023
Russia launched a massive air attack over Ukraine on Friday, killing at least 30 people and wounding over a hundred across the country in the fiercest assault since the first days of the war nearly two years ago. Schools, a maternity hospital, shopping arcades and blocks of flats were among the buildings hit in the […]
Russian strikes kill 4 in Ukraine’s Kherson
- 24-Dec-2023
Russian bombardment killed four people and injured nine over 24 hours in the frontline southern Ukrainian city of Kherson, a regional official said Sunday. Russian forces fired 71 shells at Kherson from Saturday to Sunday morning, hitting the city centre, residential areas, medical and educational institutions and “critical infrastructure facilities”, the region’s governor Oleksandr Prokudin […]
Ukraine faces power cuts after Russian strikes, more flee Kherson
- 23-Oct-2022
KYIV: More than a dozen Russian missiles pounded critical infrastructure across Ukraine on Saturday, the Ukrainian air force said, with several regions reporting strikes on energy facilities and power outages. At the same time, Russian authorities in the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson urged civilians to leave immediately citing what they called a tense military […]
Death toll rises to 19 in Russian strikes on Ukraine
- 11-Oct-2022
KYIV: Ukraine said Tuesday that at least 19 people were killed and more than 100 wounded as a result of Russian strikes across the country a day earlier. “According to preliminary data, 19 people were killed and 105 more were injured,” Ukraine’s emergency services said on Facebook. The emergency services previously reported a figure of […]
Evacuation trains blocked by Russian strikes in east Ukraine
- 07-Apr-2022
KYIV, Ukraine: Trains evacuating residents from eastern Ukraine were halted by Russian strikes Thursday on the only line still under Kyiv’s control, the head of the Ukrainian rail operator Oleksandr Kamychin said. “The enemy carried out strikes on the rail line next to the station in Barbenkovo on the Donetsk line,” he said in a […]
Once landed in Pakistan, world’s largest plane destroyed in Ukraine
- 28-Feb-2022
KYIV: Once landed in Pakistan last year, the world’s largest Antonov-225 cargo plane was destroyed by Russian strikes outside Kyiv on the fourth day of Moscow’s invasion Ukraine’s state-owned Ukroboronprom group said Sunday, “Russian invaders destroyed the flagship of the Ukrainian aviation, the AN-225” at the Antonov airport in Gostomel near Kyiv. The aircraft was […]