3 h. ago At least four killed in Russian strikes overnight on Ukraine

Attacks come after Volodymyr Zelenskyy appeals to US for long-range missiles and urges allies to expand sanctions on Russian oilRussian missile and drone attacks on Ukraine overnight killed at least four people and wounded 17 others, local officials said.In the capital, Kyiv, two people were killed and 13 wounded in a ballistic missile attack in the early hours of Saturday, Timur Tkachenko, head of Kyiv’s city military administration, said. Three of the wounded were hospitalised, according to Ukraine’s state emergency service. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Russian strikes on Ukraine kill at least 4 people and wound 16

Russian missile and drone attacks on Ukraine have killed at least four people and wounded 16 others, according to local officials

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5 h. ago At least three killed in Russian strikes overnight on Ukraine

Attacks come after Volodymyr Zelenskyy appeals to US for long-range missiles and urges allies to expand sanctions on Russian oilRussian missile and drone attacks on Ukraine overnight killed at least three people and wounded 17 others, local officials said.In the capital, Kyiv, one person was killed and 10 wounded in a ballistic missile attack in the early hours of Saturday, Timur Tkachenko, head of Kyiv’s city military administration, said. Three of the wounded were hospitalised, according to Ukraine’s state emergency service. Continue reading...

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10 h. ago Six metres below ground, a hospital treats Ukrainian soldiers injured by Russian drones

Doctors at the secret facility are able to perform amputations while others monitor zigzagging drones overheadScrubby trees hide the entrance. A sloping wooden tunnel descends to a brightly lit reception area. There is a surgery unit, equipped with beds, cardiac monitors and ventilators. And shelves full of medical equipment, drugs and neat piles of spare clothes. In a staff room with a washing machine and kettle, doctors keep an eye on a screen. It shows the movements of Russian spy drones as they zigzag in the sky above.Welcome to Ukraine’s secret underground hospital. The facility opened in August and is the second of its kind, located in eastern Ukraine not far from the frontline and the city of Pokrovsk, in Donetsk oblast. “We are 6 metres below the earth. It’s the safest way of providing help to our injured soldiers. And it keeps medical personnel safe,” said the clinic’s surgeon, Maj Oleksandr Holovashchenko. Continue reading...

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10 h. ago Six metres below ground: inside the secret hospital treating Ukrainian soldiers injured by Russian drones

Doctors at the secret facility are able to perform amputations while others monitor zigzagging drones overheadScrubby trees hide the entrance. A sloping wooden tunnel descends to a brightly lit reception area. There is a surgery unit, equipped with beds, cardiac monitors and ventilators. And shelves full of medical equipment, drugs and neat piles of spare clothes. In a staff room with a washing machine and kettle, doctors keep an eye on a screen. It shows the movements of Russian spy drones as they zigzag in the sky above.Welcome to Ukraine’s secret underground hospital. The facility opened in August and is the second of its kind, located in eastern Ukraine not far from the frontline and the city of Pokrovsk, in Donetsk oblast. “We are 6 metres below the earth. It’s the safest way of providing help to our injured soldiers. And it keeps medical personnel safe,” said the clinic’s surgeon, Maj Oleksandr Holovashchenko. Continue reading...

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50 h. ago West Bank olives and Russian drone attacks: photos of the day – Thursday

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54 h. ago Horror moment children rush from nursery after deadly Putin drone strike on school

Dozens of crying children were carried away from the burning building in Kharkiv after a flurry of Russian drone strikes destroyed a nursery in the northeastern Ukrainian city

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3 d. ago Russian soldier 'is deliberately blown up by one of Putin's drones after he was spotted trying to surrender'

In shocking footage shared on Telegram, the soldier can be seen in the crosshairs of what appears to be an aerial surveillance camera, walking on a lonely road.

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3 d. ago Children among six killed in Kyiv after Russian missile and drone attack

Explosions heard across Ukrainian capital after ballistic missile strikes, with further blasts reported in other regionsRussian drones and missiles have pounded the Ukrainian capital and other cities, killing six people in the Kyiv region, including a six-month-old baby, a 12 -year-old girl and a woman, and damaging key energy facilities and several high-rise residential buildings.The attacks lasted most of Tuesday night and into Wednesday morning as Kyiv was hit by at least four ballistic missiles. A series of loud explosions could be heard across the city. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago British troops to shoot down drones over military bases to thwart Kremlin incursions in UK airspace

British troops to shoot down drones over bases amid fears of Russian invasions of UK airspace. New powers will be drafted following Kremlin incursions into Polish and Estonian airspace.

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5 d. ago Ukrainian drones strike major Russian gas plant as Trump says Kyiv may have to trade land for peace

Ukrainian drones have struck a major gas processing plant in southern Russia, causing a fire

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6 d. ago Bonobos transformed how we think about animal societies. Can we save the last of the ‘hippy apes’?

They are peaceful, female-led and use sex in everyday interactions. Now a new conservation scheme could offer a lifeline to our critically endangered close relatives living on the Congo riverA few dozen large nests appear in the mist of equatorial dawn, half-hidden behind a tangle of vines and leaves. That is where the bonobos sleep, 12 metres above the ground. But it has rained all night, and the primates are in no hurry to get up. It is 6.30am when the first head emerges. It gives a cry, a sharp bark, and another silhouette unfolds from its cocoon of branches. And then another. Within five minutes, the whole group is awake – yawning, stretching, straightening. Their features are fine, their limbs long and delicate, their build less stocky than that of chimpanzees, their closest cousins.Bonobos live on the left bank of the Congo River Continue reading...

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8 d. ago ‘The key to success is in the sky’: the Ukrainian defenders struggling to stem Russia’s air assault

War in the air is becoming increasingly significant as conflict on the ground becomes bogged downFirst came the sound of drones. Then a boom that rattled windows. Shortly after that, two columns of black smoke rose over the Shebelinka gas processing plant in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region. Towering flames threatened storage tanks.A refinery worker emerged from the site. Russian drones and missiles had struck the plant at 4.30am, he said. For now there was nothing for the fire crews to do but to stand back and watch. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Travel chaos after massive blaze breaks out near London train station as dozens of firefighters battle inferno

The fire (pictured) began at around 6.30pm on Thursday evening, just metres from a railway station. It began in a ground floor shop, which has flats situated above.

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9 d. ago Russia bombards Ukraine’s gas sites as Zelenskyy flies to US for Trump meeting

Strikes cause outages in eight regions before Washington talks to discuss US providing Kyiv with cruise missilesA massive Russian drone and missile strike has hit gas facilities in eastern Ukraine as the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, flew to Washington for a meeting with Donald Trump to discuss the US providing Kyiv with long-range Tomahawk cruise missiles.Russia launched hundreds of drones, dozens of missiles, as well as glide bombs early on Thursday, sparking outages in eight regions in another large-scale bombardment targeting Ukraine’s energy network. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Bella Hadid takes to Victoria’s Secret runway after health scare

Bella Hadid returned to the Victoria’s Secret catwalk just weeks after sharing images of herself in the hospital, which sparked concern over her health.

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1 week ago Russian drone incursion ‘tactically stupid and counterproductive’ says Polish minister

Radosław Sikorski says Putin consolidated western opinion against him with the incursion into PolandEurope live – latest updatesPoland’s foreign minister has accused Russia of a “tactically stupid and counterproductive” escalation of the war in Ukraine, saying its drone incursion into Poland last month appeared to be deliberate.Radosław Sikorski, on a visit to London, said all Vladimir Putin had achieved with the incursion was a consolidation of western opinion against him. He also dismissed Russian concerns that supplying US Tomahawk cruise missiles to Ukraine would be unnecessarily provocative. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Ukraine 'will use Tomahawks to destroy huge Russian drone factory where 20,000 North Koreans build weapons once Trump gives the green light'

Ukraine will use long range Tomahawk missiles to destroy a vast Russian drone manufacturing plant employing tens of thousands of North Korean slave labourers.

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1 week ago Ukraine has relied on trains during the war. Russia is creating new technology to target them

Deadly Russian drones smashed into the Shostka train station in northeastern Ukraine earlier this month

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1 week ago Nato is in talks about new rules 'that will make it easier to shoot down Russian drones'

According to a source briefed on the close-door discussions, the 'weaponry and trajectory' of an aircraft would determine whether it poses a threat.

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