14 h. ago Ukraine drone sparks fire at one of Russia’s largest oil plants

Head of Bashkortostan region reports second drone shot down and minor damage to Bashneft’s Ufa refineryA Ukrainian drone crashed into one of Russia’s largest oil-refining complexes on Saturday, sparking a fire and causing minor damage, a Russian official said.The complex, which belongs to Russian oil company Bashneft, lies on the outskirts of the central Russian city of Ufa about 870 miles (1,400km) from the frontline in Ukraine. Continue reading...

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14 h. ago Ukraine drone starts fire at one of Russia’s largest oil plants

Head of Bashkortostan region reports second drone shot down and minor damage to Bashneft’s Ufa refineryA Ukrainian drone has crashed into one of Russia’s largest oil-refining complexes, sparking a fire and causing minor damage, a Russian official has said.The complex, which belongs to Russian oil company Bashneft, lies on the outskirts of the central Russian city of Ufa about 870 miles (1,400km) from the frontline in Ukraine. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago The house that could have sparked WW3: Images reveal inside Polish home hit by Russian drone where owners cheated death as Europe moves 'closest to war since 1945'

The owners survived by sheer luck, but had they been killed, their deaths could have triggered NATO's Article 5.

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3 d. ago Voices: Putin’s goading NATO: He’s gambling that all it can launch against him is fearsome rhetoric

The case for invoking an Article 5 collective response against Russia’s drone incursion into Poland isn’t as simple as it first looks for Nato, writes Mary Dejevsky. So what, then, is its least-worst option?

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4 d. ago Poland shoots down Russian drones after airspace was 'repeatedly violated' in first military clash since Ukraine invasion

The nation's military command said Polish airspace was repeatedly violated by 'drone-type objects' during the Russian attack across the border in Ukraine.

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4 d. ago Ukraine war briefing: Russian drone alert in Poland before Belarus border closure

Warplanes scrambled after warning from Ukraine; Poland to seal border over Russian and Belarus’s ‘very aggressive’ Zapad war games. What we know on day 1,295Warplanes were scrambled early on Wednesday after Ukraine’s air force warned that Russian drones had entered Nato-member Poland’s airspace. “Polish and allied aircraft are operating in our airspace, while ground-based air defence and radar reconnaissance systems have been brought to the highest state of readiness,” Poland’s operational command said. The Ukrainian air force said drones were heading west and threatening the city of Zamosc in Poland. Ukrainian media reported that one was heading towards the western Polish city of Rzeszow, and said airports were being temporarily closed.Poland will close its border with Belarus on Thursday as a result of the “very aggressive” Zapad military exercises taking place in Belarus involving Russia, Donald Tusk has announced. The Polish prime minister said it was also a response to a growin...

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5 d. ago ‘Putin wants us to panic’: Why Russia launched the largest aerial strike of the war so far

The Russian army launched a fresh drone assault on Kyiv on Sunday thought to be the largest of the war so far

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6 d. ago Russian drone attack kills four and hits government building in Kyiv

A mother and three-month-old child were among those killed

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6 d. ago Largest Russian air attack of war sets fire to Ukrainian cabinet building

Russia’s first strike on a key government building kills three, including a baby and an infantRussia has launched its largest ever air attack on Ukraine, hitting a key government building in Kyiv for the first time and leaving at least three people dead, including a baby and an infant, Ukrainian officials said.The bombardment of the capital with a large number of drones and missiles injured at least 18 people and set scores of buildings on fire. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Baby and woman killed during Putin's record 800 drone attack on Ukraine as NATO scramble warplanes

The 32-year-old woman and her two-month-old son died in the Sviatoshynskyi district of the capital, with dozens of people injured in the Russian terror.

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7 d. ago Child among three people killed in Russian attack on Kyiv that also sparked fire at government building

Drones and missiles rain down on Ukrainian capital in overnight strikes, leaving another 18 people injuredAn infant is among three people who have died in Russian attacks that injured 18 in Kyiv and set on fire scores of buildings in the capital, including a government building, Ukrainian officials say.Kyiv’s mayor, Vitali Klitschko, on Sunday said a fire had broken out at the government building in the city centre after the overnight attack, which began with drones raining down followed by missile strikes. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Largest Russian air attack of war sets fire to Ukrainian cabinet building and kills three including child

Unclear if fire at main Ukrainian government building the result of a direct strike or falling debrisRussia’s largest overnight air attack of the war has set the main building of the Ukrainian government in Kyiv on fire and left three people dead, including an infant, Ukrainian officials said on Sunday.Russia hit Ukraine’s capital with drones and missiles, injuring 18 people and setting scores of buildings on fire, including . Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Ukraine war briefing: Zelenskyy says nearly 60% of weapons are domestically made as role of drones increases

President says production of arms has already exceeded target set in July; one person killed in Russian strike. What we know on day 1,292Nearly 60% of weapons used by Ukraine’s military are domestically produced, Volodymyr Zelenskyy says, already exceeding a target he set two months ago. “During this war, Ukraine has reached the point where nearly 60% of the weapons we have, the weapons in the hands of our soldiers, are Ukrainian-made,” the Ukrainian president said on Saturday in his nightly video address. “And these are powerful weapons, with many advanced features.” In his address, he also pointed to a joint project to undertake weapons production in Denmark. The president in July called on his reshuffled government to take measures to boost production of weapons made in Ukraine to more than 50%, higher than at any other time since independence from Soviet rule in 1991.Ukraine has focused on drone production and on providing air defences to counter Russia’s intensive drone and mis...

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1 week ago All of Ukraine’s boldest attacks on Russia: Covert drone strikes, airport sabotage and nuclear plant fires

Experts have said that Ukraine has one of the best combat-ready armies in Europe

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2 w. ago Russian mass drone and missile attack on southern Ukraine kills 1 and wounds dozens

Russia has launched a mass attack on southern Ukraine, according to local officials

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2 w. ago Covert drone strikes, airport sabotage and nuclear plant fires: All of Ukraine’s boldest attacks on Russia

Experts have said that Ukraine has one of the best combat ready armies in Europe

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2 w. ago Russia sinks major warship in drone hit – but Ukraine gets revenge soon after

The Kremlin was thrilled to have taken out one of Ukraine's warships as the horrific war between the two goes on, but Kyiv had another trick up its sleeve as it retaliated

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2 w. ago Inside Putin’s campaign of ‘psychological terror’ in Kyiv: Why Russia keeps bombarding the capital

Kyiv lies hundreds of miles from the frontline but residents have been forced to adapt to an endless cycle of missile and drone strikes. Ukrainians tell Steffie Banatvala that they would ‘rather die than submit’

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2 w. ago Peace efforts in limbo as Ukraine's capital mourns 23 dead after Russian attack

Officials say the death toll in a major Russian missile and drone strike on the Ukrainian capital has risen to 23, including four children

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2 w. ago Shocking moment Russia strikes British Council building in Kyiv as Starmer accuses Putin of 'sabotaging peace'

The mass drone and missile attack marks the first significant attack on Ukraine’s capital since Donald Trump met with Vladimir Putin in Alaska

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