Inflection point: Ukraine struggles to hold eastern front as Russians advance on cities
DAN PELESCHUK, of Reuters, reports from Donetsk in the eastern Donbas region of Ukraine…
EU leaders back security commitments for Ukraine; man accused of treason over Kramatorsk attack
Brussels, BelgiumReuters European Union leaders declared on Thursday they would make long-term commitments to bolster Ukraine’s security as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged them to start work on a new round of sanctions against Russia. At a summit in Brussels, the leaders restated their condemnation of Russia’s war against Ukraine and said the EU and its […]
Death toll rises to 10 in Russian attack on Ukraine’s Kramatorsk
Kramatorsk, Ukraine Reuters The death toll rose to 10 on Wednesday from a Russian missile strike on a crowded restaurant in Ukraine’s eastern city of Kramatorsk the previous evening, with two more bodies including a fourth child pulled out of the wreckage. Police said at least 61 people were wounded in Tuesday’s missile strike, which […]
Russian missiles hit restaurant in Ukraine’s Kramatorsk, four dead
Updated: 8:40am (AEST)Kramatorsk, Ukraine Reuters Two Russian missiles on Tuesday struck the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk and killed at least four people, local officials and police said, as rescue crews combed through a shattered restaurant in search of casualties. The dead included a child while 42 people were injured at the restaurant, according to […]
Ukraine conflict: North of Bakhmut, another key battle tests Ukraine’s defences
MIKE COLLETT-WHITE, of Reuters, reports from the frontline near Kreminna…
Zelenskiy wants tougher Europe, Putin evokes victory over Nazis
Kyiv, Ukraine/Volgograd, Russia Reuters Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged European leaders visiting Kyiv on Thursday to pile more sanctions on Russia, where President Vladimir Putin evoked a famous World War II victory over the Nazis to rally his nation. The West has imposed sweeping punitive measures since Russia’s nearly year-old invasion of Ukraine that has […]
Russian missile destroys Ukrainian apartment building; three dead, say police
Reuters A Russian missile destroyed an apartment building and damaged seven more in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk on Wednesday night, killing at least three people and injuring 20, regional police said. Local authorities initially said Russia had fired a rocket but the police force later said an Iskander-K tactical missile had struck at […]
Russia intensifies assaults on Ukrainian salt mining town and eastern front
Kyiv/Siversk, Ukraine Reuters Russia has stepped up a “powerful assault” led by the Wagner contract militia on Soledar in eastern Ukraine, Kyiv said on Monday, describing a difficult situation for forces repelling waves of attacks around the salt mining town and nearby fronts. Soledar, in the industrial Donbas region, lies a few miles from Bakhmut, […]
No sign of casualties after Russia claims revenge attack on Ukrainian soldiers
Kramatorsk, Ukraine Reuters A Russian missile attack on the Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk missed its targets and there were no obvious signs of casualties, a Reuters reporter said on Sunday, after Moscow claimed the strike killed 600 Ukrainian soldiers. A Reuters team visited two college dormitories that Moscow said had been temporarily housing Ukrainian personnel […]
More shelling raises nuclear fears as Kyiv, Moscow await UN report
Kyiv, UkraineReuters Power at a critical nuclear plant in Ukraine was all but cut off on Monday for the second time in two weeks as Kyiv accused Moscow of pushing the war to the brink of nuclear catastrophe, one day before the UN nuclear watchdog was due to issue an assessment of the Zaporizhzhia power […]