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Russian missiles kill six, including girl of 10, in Kryvyi Rih – officials

A view shows an apartment building heavily damaged by a Russian missile strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, on 31st July, 2023.

Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine Reuters A Russian missile strike on the southern Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih on Monday killed at least six people, including a 10-year-old girl and her mother, and wounded dozens of others, Ukrainian officials said.  A video posted by President Volodymyr Zelenskiy showed smoke billowing from a gaping hole smashed in the […]

Russian missile attack kills 11 in Ukrainian President’s hometown

A rescuer works at the site of a residential building heavily damaged by a Russian missile strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukraine, on 13th June, 2023.

Kryvyi Rih, UkraineReuters Eleven civilians were killed in a Russian missile attack that struck an apartment building and warehouses in Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s hometown of Kryvyi Rih on Tuesday, local officials said. Emergency services said four were killed in the apartment block and seven at the warehouses, where officials said a private company stored […]

Russia destroys power and water infrastructure across Ukraine

Ukraine Mykolaiv Russian missile strike

Mykolaiv, Ukraine/Washington DCReuters Russia has destroyed almost a third of Ukraine’s power stations in the past week, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday, as Moscow rained more missiles down on infrastructure in what Kyiv and the West call a campaign to intimidate civilians. Missiles struck power stations in the capital Kyiv where they killed three […]

Six months into the war, Ukrainian refugee agonises about returning

Poland Poznan Ukrainian refugee Tatiana Afanasieva1

Poznan, PolandReuters Tatiana Afanasieva dreams of returning to Ukraine from her life of exile in Poland, but even though her neighbours back home in Kryvyi Rih tell her Russian shelling there has stopped, she is too afraid. “People tell me that it looks normal, life goes on, people go to work,” Afanasieva, 34, told Reuters […]