UN experts say North Korea missile landed in Ukraine’s Kharkiv
United Nations Reuters The debris from a missile that landed in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv on 2nd January was from a North Korean Hwasong-11 series ballistic missile, United Nations sanctions monitors told a Security Council committee in a report seen by Reuters on Monday. In the 32-page report, the UN sanctions monitors concluded that […]
Ukraine pulls back from three villages in east, Zelenskiy pleads for weapons
Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters Ukraine’s top commander said on Sunday Kyiv’s outnumbered troops had fallen back to new positions west of three villages on the eastern front where Russia has concentrated significant forces in several locations. The statement by Colonel General Oleksandr Syrskyi reflected Ukraine’s deteriorating position in the east that Kyiv hopes it can stabilise […]
Russian air strike took out TV tower in Ukraine’s Kharkiv, Zelenskiy says
Kharkiv, Ukraine Reuters A Russian missile strike that broke in half a 240-metre television tower in Kharkiv on Monday is part of a deliberate effort by Moscow to make Ukraine’s second largest city uninhabitable, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said. Dramatic footage obtained by Reuters showed the main mast of the television tower breaking off and falling […]
“Catastrophic”: Kharkiv’s civilians under fire as Ukraine faces air defence shortage
TOM BALMFORTH, of Reuters, reports…
Russian forces stage deadly attacks in southern, northern Ukraine
Reuters Russian forces launched deadly attacks on Wednesday on frequent targets in the south and north of Ukraine, in Kharkiv and Odesa regions, killing seven people and injuring many more, officials said. In Odesa district in the south, an early evening missile attack killed four people, including a 10-year-old girl, and injured 14 more, regional […]
Ukraine’s Zelenskiy warns of dwindling air defence missiles
Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters Ukraine could run out of air defence missiles if Russia keeps up its intense long-range bombing campaign, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy warned in remarks aired on Saturday. The Ukrainian leader’s starkest warning to date of the deteriorating situation faced by his country’s air defences follows weeks of Russian strikes on the energy system, […]
Russian drone attack kills at least four in Ukraine’s Kharkiv, officials say
Reuters Russian drones hit high-rise apartment blocks and private homes early on Thursday in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city, killing at least four people, including rescue workers in a repeat strike at the site of one attack, officials said. Kharkiv Regional Governor Oleh Synehubov, writing on the Telegram messaging app, put the death toll at […]
Ukraine electricity imports soar after Russian attacks
Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters Ukraine’s daily electricity imports will reach their highest this year on Tuesday after a series of Russian missile strikes on critical infrastructure caused blackouts in many regions, the energy ministry said. The attacks, the biggest of which came on Friday, have caused major damage to generating and transmission facilities, forcing Kyiv to […]
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, […]
Ukraine’s Zelenskiy says world must make global rule of law “work again”
Seoul, South Korea Reuters Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged world leaders on Wednesday to make a rules-based international order “work again” by standing up to Russian use of force. In a video address to a global conference hosted by South Korea, Zelenskiy – whose country was invaded by Russia in 2022 – said many nations […]