8 d. ago Ukrainian attack damaged 10% of Russia’s strategic bombers, Germany says

A Ukrainian drone attack last weekend likely damaged around 10% of Russia’s strategic bomber fleet and hit some of the aircraft as they were being prepared for strikes on Ukraine, a senior German military official said. “According to our assessment, more than a dozen aircraft were damaged, TU-95 and TU-22 strategic bombers as well as […]

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8 d. ago Three killed in Russian attack on Ukraine’s Kharkiv; Ukrainian drones injure two near Moscow

Overnight missile and bomb strikes by Russia on the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv left three people dead and 22 hurt, while a Ukrainian drone attack in the Moscow region wounded two people, officials from both countries said separately on Saturday. Russian forces used high-precision long-range weapons and drones to hit designated military targets in Ukraine […]

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8 d. ago Ukraine denies postponing prisoner swaps as Russian strike on Kharkiv kills three

Ukraine denied Russian allegations on Saturday that it had indefinitely postponed prisoner swaps, accusing Moscow of “playing dirty games” after overnight Russian missile and bomb strikes on Kharkiv left three people dead and 22 injured. Separately, Russian officials said a Ukrainian drone attack in the Moscow region wounded two people. At a second round of […]

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1 week ago Russia says it will respond to Ukrainian attacks as and when it sees fit

Russia will respond to Ukraine’s latest attacks as and when its military sees fit, the Kremlin said on Thursday, accusing Kyiv of state terrorism and confirming that President Vladimir Putin had told Donald Trump that Moscow was obliged to retaliate. Ukraine used drones to strike Russian heavy bomber planes at air bases in Siberia and […]

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1 week ago Ukraine attack on Russian nuclear bombers overshadows peace talks in Turkey

Peace talks between Russia and Ukraine in Istanbul ended barely an hour after they began on Monday, a day after a massive Ukrainian drone attack on Russia’s nuclear-capable strategic bombers. The talks – the second such direct contacts between the sides since 2022 – had already begun nearly two hours later than scheduled with no […]

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2 w. ago Ukraine stages major attack on Russian aircraft with drones, security official says

Ukraine conducted a large drone attack on Russian military aircraft on Sunday, a security official told Reuters, saying 40 Russian warplanes were struck. If confirmed, the strikes would be the most damaging Ukrainian drone attack of the war, and would be a significant setback for Moscow. The official said that the strikes were conducted by […]

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2 w. ago Russia ‘playing with diplomacy’, says Zelenskiy after 900 strikes

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday that mass Russian air attacks on Ukrainian targets were the “political choice” of Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin and he called for intensified pressure on Moscow. “There is no military sense in this, but it is an obvious political choice — a choice by Putin, a choice by Russia […]

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2 w. ago Russia launches war’s largest air attack on Ukraine, Trump ‘not happy’ with Putin

U.S. President Donald Trump said he is considering more sanctions on Moscow after Russia launched a barrage of 367 drones and missiles at Ukrainian cities overnight, including the capital Kyiv, in the largest aerial attack of the war so far. The strikes killed at least 12 people, including three children in the northern region of […]

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3 w. ago Russia launches largest aerial assault of war on Ukraine, killing 12

Russian forces launched a barrage of 367 drones and missiles at Ukrainian cities overnight, including the capital Kyiv, in the largest aerial attack of the war so far, killing at least 12 people and injuring dozens more, officials said.The dead included three children in the northern region of Zhytomyr, local officials there said. Ukrainian President […]

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3 w. ago Ukraine says 15 people hurt in ‘massive’ Russian attack on capital

Russia launched dozens of drones and ballistic missiles at Kyiv overnight in one of the biggest combined aerial attacks on the Ukrainian capital of the three-year war, damaging several apartment buildings and injuring 15 people. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in a social media post it had been a “tough night” for Ukraine and called […]

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