Russians lay flowers at improvised memorials to commemorate Dnipro dead
Reuters Russians in St Petersburg and Moscow have been laying flowers at improvised memorials to the victims of a Russian missile attack on a nine-storey apartment block in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro. Ukraine’s State Emergency Service said on Tuesday, after calling off search operations, that 44 people were confirmed dead from Saturday’s attack, including […]
Ukraine helicopter crash kills interior minister in Kyiv as fighting rages on in east
Updated: 8:20am, 19th January, 2022 (AEST)Brovary Ukraine Reuters Ukraine’s interior minister and a child were among at least 14 people killed on Wednesday when a helicopter crashed into a nursery and set it ablaze in a suburb of the capital Kyiv. Separately, Ukraine said its forces again blunted Russian attempts to advance on the frontline […]
Ukraine ends search for survivors in Dnipro, death toll hits 44
Kyiv, UkraineReuters Ukraine called off search and rescue operations on Tuesday at the rubble of an apartment building in the eastern city of Dnipro where at least 44 people were killed in a Russian missile attack. The State Emergency Service said 20 people were still unaccounted after Saturday’s attack and that the 44 confirmed dead […]
Death toll from strike on Ukraine apartment block rises to 40
Dnipro/Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters The death toll from a Russian missile strike in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro rose to 40 on Monday, with dozens more missing, making it the deadliest civilian incident of Moscow’s three-month campaign of firing missiles at cities far from the front. Ukraine says the mass civilian deaths, which it describes as […]
Updated: Rescue hopes fade after Russian attack in Ukraine’s Dnipro, dozens feared dead
Updated: 8am, 16th January (AEST)Kyiv, UkraineReuters Ukraine saw little hope of pulling any more survivors from the rubble of an apartment block in the city of Dnipro on Sunday, a day after the building was hit during a major Russian missile attack, with dozens of people expected to have died. The regional Governor’s adviser, Natalia […]
Russian missiles pound Ukraine power supply, fighting rages in east
Kyiv, UkraineReuters Missiles rained down on Ukrainian energy infrastructure on Thursday as Russian forces stepped up attacks in eastern Ukraine, reinforced by troops pulled from Kherson city in the south which Kyiv recaptured last week. Explosions resounded in cities including the capital Kyiv, the southern port of Odesa, the central city of Dnipro and the […]
Russia launches biggest air strikes since start of Ukraine war
Updated: 7:45am, 11th October, 2022Kyiv, UkraineReuters Russia rained cruise missiles on busy Ukrainian cities on Monday in what the United States called “horrific strikes”, killing civilians and knocking out power and heat with its most widespread air attacks since the start of the war. Missiles tore into intersections, parks and tourist sites in the capital […]
Russia vows to ramp up operations as rockets pound Ukraine
Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters Russia said on Saturday its forces would step up military operations in Ukraine in “all operational areas” as Moscow’s rockets and missiles pounded cities in strikes that Kyiv says have killed dozens in recent days. Rockets hit the north-eastern town of Chuhuiv in Kharkiv region overnight, killing three people including a 70-year-old […]
Food charity production line caters for displaced in Ukraine’s Dnipro
Dnipiro, Ukraine Reuters Alla Dubovyk, a single mother of six, is among thousands of Ukrainians who have been receiving meal packages from the charity set up by businessman Vladyslav Shtipelman and the World Central Kitchen in Dnipro since the Russian invasion started. “Unfortunately, we, Ukrainians, have been brought to a situation where we have to […]
Ukrainian hospital works overtime as trauma trains evacuate war-wounded
Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine Reuters Since Russia invaded Ukraine, doctors at a military hospital in the south-eastern city of Zaporizhzhia have stayed on the job for days at a time as waves of casualties are rushed to them for treatment from nearby frontline areas. On Wednesday, medics at the hospital prepped a wounded man for surgery to […]