Russian forces attack Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, striking on new front
Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters Russian forces launched an armoured ground attack on Friday near Ukraine’s second city of Kharkiv in the north-east of the country and made small inroads, opening a new front in a war that has long been waged in the east and south. Ukraine sent reinforcements as fighting raged in the border areas […]
Seventeen killed in Ukraine’s Chernihiv in Russia’s deadliest air strike in weeks
Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters Three Russian missiles slammed into the city centre of Chernihiv in northern Ukraine on Wednesday, killing at least 17 people, wounding dozens more and damaging civilian buildings, officials said. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called on Kyiv’s allies to rush in air defence support after the city, which had a pre-war population of 300,000, […]
Ukrainian soldiers, engineers toil round the clock to build defences
Chernihiv region, Ukraine Reuters Ukraine is working round the clock to build defensive fortifications to stop Russia’s troops advancing any further 26 months into their full-scale invasion. The Ukrainian Government has allocated $US509 million this year to fortify both its border with Russia and the front line with Russian forces across its east and south; […]
Ukraine attacked overnight by 40 Russian missiles, drones – air force
Reuters Ukraine suffered a large Russian missile attack in the early hours of Saturday, while its air defences were able to down a far lower proportion of them than usual. According to Ukraine’s air force, Russia launched 37 missiles and three drones. Eight missiles were downed, it said in a statement on social media. A […]
Fear recedes for Ukraine’s volunteers, for whom war is “just a job”
On the frontline in the Donetsk Region, Ukraine Reuters After months of living in trenches and bunkers near Ukraine’s south-eastern frontlines, Artem and his fellow soldiers have lost the fear they once felt. The war ebbs and flows for the 30-year-old volunteer from a small town near Chernihiv, in the north of the country, that […]
French experts collect evidence of possible war crimes in Ukraine’s Chernihiv
Kyiv, UkraineReuters Weapons experts from France are helping their Ukrainian counterparts collect evidence of possible Russian war crimes in the northern region of Chernihiv, Ukraine’s prosecutor general said on Friday. The French Gendarmerie’s experts, including specialists in drone modelling, ballistics and weapons of mass destruction, have been collecting evidence at sites of destruction from Russian […]
Russia bombards Kyiv outskirts as it regroups for offensive in east Ukraine
Mala Rohan/near Irpin, UkraineReuters Russian forces bombarded the outskirts of Kyiv and a besieged city in northern Ukraine on Wednesday, a day after promising to scale down operations there in what the West dismissed as a ploy to regroup by invaders suffering heavy losses. Nearly five weeks into an invasion in which Russia has failed […]
Russian strike on base brings Ukraine war close to NATO’s border
Lviv, Ukraine Reuters Russian missiles hit a large Ukrainian base near the border with NATO member Poland on Sunday, killing 35 people and wounding 134, a local official said, in an escalation of the war to the west of the country as intense fighting was reported elsewhere. Russia’s defence ministry said the air strike had […]
Ukraine says Russian forces kill seven civilians in evacuation convoy
Lviv, UkraineReuters Ukraine accused Russian forces on Saturday of killing seven civilians in an attack on women and children trying to flee fighting near Kyiv, and France said Russian President Vladimir Putin had shown he was not ready to make peace. With Russia’s invasion in its third week, the Ukrainian intelligence service said the seven, […]