Ukraine midfielder Sudakov says home destroyed in Russian drone strike on Kyiv
- 07-Sep-2025
Kyiv: An apartment building where Ukraine international Heorhiy Sudakov lives was damaged in a Russian drone strike on Kyiv, Sudakov and Ukrainian media said on Sunday. Russia launched its largest air attack of the war on Ukraine overnight, setting the main government building on fire in central Kyiv and killing at least four people, including […]
Russian drones hit apartment block in Ukraine’s Kharkiv, 46 hurt
- 03-May-2025
Russia launched a mass drone attack late on Friday in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, hitting a high-rise apartment block, triggering fires and injuring 46 people, officials said. Mayor Ihor Terekhov, writing on the Telegram messaging app, said there had been strikes in 12 locations in four central districts of the city, a repeated target of […]
Yaroslav Moskalik: Senior Russian military officer killed in car explosion
- 25-Apr-2025
MOSCOW: A senior Russian military officer named Yaroslav Moskalik was killed when a car exploded on Friday in the town of Balashikha just east of Moscow, Russia’s Investigative Committee said. It named the officer as Yaroslav Moskalik, deputy head of the Main Operations Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, and said […]
Russian military plane crashes while carrying Ukrainian POWs
- 24-Jan-2024
Russia said Wednesday that an IL-76 military transport plane carrying 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war crashed in the western Belgorod region, bordering Ukraine. “On board were 65 captured Ukrainian army servicemen being transported to the Belgorod region for exchange, six crew members and three escorts,” the defence ministry was quoted as saying by the RIA-Novosti […]
Russian, Chinese officials join Kim Jong Un at North Korea military parade
- 28-Jul-2023
SEOUL: Chinese and Russian officials stood shoulder to shoulder with Kim Jong Un as they reviewed North Korea’s latest nuclear-capable missiles and new attack drones at a military parade in Pyongyang, North Korean state media showed on Friday. The widely anticipated parade in the capital on Thursday night commemorated the 70th anniversary of the end […]
Russian, Turkish ministers talk after Turkey sends Ukrainian commanders home
- 10-Jul-2023
The foreign ministers of Russia and Turkey spoke by telephone on Sunday, a day after Ankara angered Moscow by sending five Ukrainian commanders home with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in what Russia called a violation of a prisoner exchange agreement. The Russian and Turkish foreign ministries said Sergei Lavrov and Hakan Fidan discussed the situation in […]
New Russian offensive underway in Ukraine, says NATO
- 14-Feb-2023
The eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut was facing heavy artillery fire as the NATO chief backed reports from local officials that a major new Russian offensive had begun, days before the first anniversary of Moscow’s invasion. Ukrainian defenders, who have already held out for months, were defending new ground attacks under heavy shelling, Ukrainian military […]
Ukraine says its forces repel constant Russian attacks in east
- 09-Jan-2023
Ukraine is strengthening its forces in the eastern Donbas region and repelling constant attacks on Bakhmut and other towns there by Russian mercenary group Wagner, Ukrainian authorities said on Monday. Reinforcements had been sent to Soledar, a small town near Bakhmut were the situation was particularly difficult, they said. “The enemy again made a desperate […]
Russian hackers targeted U.S. nuclear scientists
- 07-Jan-2023
A Russian hacking team known as Cold River targeted three nuclear research laboratories in the United States this past summer, according to internet records reviewed by Reuters and five cyber security experts. Between August and September, as President Vladimir Putin indicated Russia would be willing to use nuclear weapons to defend its territory, Cold River […]
Kyiv warns of long cuts after Russian missiles batter grid
- 17-Dec-2022
Ukraine was working Saturday to restore electricity to hospitals, heating systems and other critical infrastructure in major cities after Russia’s latest wave of attacks on the power grid prompted accusations of “war crimes”. The volley of missiles unleashed Friday pitched multiple cities into darkness, cutting water and heat and forcing people to endure below-freezing temperatures. […]