6 h. ago Kyiv mayor says Russian drones, missiles trigger fires, injure eight

Russia attacked Ukraine’s capital Kyiv early on Saturday with drones and missiles, triggering fires, strewing debris in districts throughout the city and injuring at least eight people, the city’s mayor said. Reuters witnesses saw and heard successive waves of drones flying over Kyiv, and a series of explosions jolted the city. Mayor Vitali Klitschko said […]

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6 d. ago Russia launches war’s largest drone attack after peace talks, Ukraine says

The largest known Russian drone attack since full-scale war began in 2022 killed a woman in the Kyiv region and injured at least three people, Ukrainian authorities said early on Sunday, as Moscow stepped up strikes following peace talks on Friday. Russia launched 273 drones by 8 a.m. local time (0500 GMT), targeting chiefly the […]

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2 w. ago Ukrainian drone attack disrupts Moscow airports as Xi visits

Ukraine attacked Moscow with drones for a third day on Wednesday forcing most of the Russian capital’s airports to close just as Chinese President Xi Jinping was due to arrive to mark the victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said that Russian air defence units destroyed at least 14 […]

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2 w. ago Ukraine targets Moscow with drones for second straight night, officials say

Russian air defence units destroyed a swarm of Ukrainian drones targeting Moscow in a second night attack in a row, prompting the closure of all airports in the capital for several hours, officials said early on Tuesday. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said on social media that at least 19 Ukrainian drones were destroyed on their […]

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2 w. ago Ukraine says it shot down Russian fighter jet from sea drone for first time

Ukraine destroyed a Russian Su-30 fighter jet using a missile fired from a seaborne drone, Ukraine’s GUR military intelligence agency announced on Saturday, in what it said was the world’s first downing of a combat plane by a maritime drone. Its statement on social media said the fighter had been shot down by a military […]

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3 w. ago Peace in exchange for land? For many Ukrainians, it’s too painful to contemplate

Vitali Klitschko, the former heavyweight boxer who is now mayor of Kyiv, ventured last month into hazardous political territory: he delicately suggested in an interview that Ukraine might need to cede land to end its battle against Russia. After a flood of angry online comments, he walked back his comments, saying on Facebook that “territorial […]

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3 w. ago Russian official accuses Ukraine of killing at least seven civilians in drone strike

At least seven people were killed and more than 20 wounded in a Ukrainian drone attack on a busy market in a Russian-controlled part of the Kherson region in southern Ukraine, Russian-installed governor Vladimir Saldo said on Thursday. The drones targeted the market in the town of Oleshky at around 0930 local time, Saldo wrote […]

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3 w. ago Russian drone attack kills two, injures 15 in Ukraine’s Odesa

Russian drones attacked Ukraine’s Black Sea port city of Odesa early on Thursday, killing two people and injuring 15 more, in addition to sparking fires and damaging infrastructure, emergency services said. “The enemy attack damaged residential high-rises, private houses, a supermarket, a school, and cars,” regional governor Oleh Kiper wrote on the Telegram messaging app. […]

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last month Drone, missile attack on Kyiv kills nine, injures more than 70, says State Emergency Service

An overnight Russian combined missile and drone attack triggered fires, smashed buildings and buried residents under rubble in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, killing nine people and injuring more than 70, the State Emergency Service said on Thursday. Six children were reported to be among the injured. “There has been destruction. The search is continuing for […]

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