Russia’s biggest airstrike in weeks piles pressure on Ukraine power grid
Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters Russian missiles and drones struck nearly a dozen Ukrainian energy infrastructure facilities on Wednesday, causing serious damage at three Soviet-era thermal power plants and blackouts in multiple regions, officials said. Ukraine’s air force said it shot down 39 of 55 missiles and 20 of 21 attack drones used for the attack, which […]
Russian missiles pound power plants in central and western Ukraine
Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters Russian missiles pounded power facilities in central and western Ukraine on Saturday, increasing pressure on the ailing energy system as the country faces a shortage of air defences despite a breakthrough in US military aid. The air strike, carried out with long-range missiles, including cruise missiles fired by Russian strategic bombers based […]
Major Russian air strikes destroy Kyiv power plant, damage other stations
Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters Russian missiles and drones destroyed a large electricity plant near Kyiv and hit power facilities in several regions of Ukraine on Thursday, officials said, ramping up pressure on the embattled energy system as Kyiv runs low on air defences. The major attack more than two years since Russia’s full-scale invasion completely destroyed […]
Ukraine power firm hit by Russian attacks warns repairs could take 18 months
Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters The head of Ukraine’s largest private energy firm, DTEK, said on Saturday that five of its six plants had been damaged or destroyed with 80 per cent of its generating capacity lost after two weeks of Russian attacks and that repairs could take up to 18 months. Russian missile and drone attacks […]
Russia pounds Ukrainian power facilities, Kremlin embraces “war” rhetoric
Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters Russia pounded Ukrainian power facilities on Friday in an attack described by Kyiv as the largest airstrike on its energy infrastructure in two years of war, and portrayed by Moscow as revenge for Ukrainian attacks during its presidential election. The missile and drone attack hit a vast dam over the Dnipro river, […]
Cost of conflict: Ukraine’s economy stabilises after shock of war
OLENA HARMASH, of Reuters, reports on the impact of the ongoing war on Ukraine’s economy…
Ukraine will create its own Christmas miracle, Zelenskiy says in defiant message
Reuters Ukrainians will create their own miracle this Christmas by showing they remain unbowed despite Russian attacks that have plunged millions into darkness, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in a defiant message on Saturday. Speaking 10 months to the day since Russian launched a war that has killed tens of thousands and displaced millions more, Zelenskiy […]
Russian ‘kamikaze’ drones hit Kyiv, Putin has talks in ally Belarus
Kyiv, UkraineReuters Russian “kamikaze” drones hit key energy infrastructure in and around Kyiv on Monday and President Vladimir Putin visited Belarus for the first time since 2019, fuelling Ukrainian fears he will pressure his ally to open a new invasion front. But Ukraine was hardly mentioned by Putin and his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko after […]
Russia fires scores of missiles in one of its biggest attacks on Ukraine
Kyiv, UkraineReuters Russia fired more than 70 missiles at Ukraine on Friday in one of its biggest attacks since the start of the war, knocking out power in the second-biggest city and forcing Kyiv to implement emergency blackouts nationwide, Ukrainian officials said. Three people were killed when an apartment block was hit in central Kryvyi […]
Ukraine battles Russian push in east as Kyiv allies pledge $US1 billion in aid
Kostiantynivka, Ukraine Reuters Russia and Ukraine pounded each other’s forces in heavy fighting around the small eastern city of Bakhmut on Tuesday, as Kyiv’s allies pledged just over €1 billion ($US1.05 billion) to help Ukrainians survive the freezing winter. Invading Russian forces have fought to seize Bakhmut for months as part of a grinding battle […]