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Updated: Russia says 20 killed, 10 injured in Ukraine attack on bakery in occupied east

Updated: 4:30pm (AEDT) Reuters Russia’s emergencies ministry said its workers had retrieved the bodies of 20 people from the rubble following a Ukrainian attack on a building housing a bakery in the city of Lysychansk in the occupied eastern Ukrainian region of Luhansk on Saturday. The ministry shared video of emergency workers lifting two bloodied […]

Thousands of Ukrainian children taken to Belarus – Yale research

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko attends the Commonwealth of Independent States leaders' summit in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on 13th October, 2023.

Amsterdam, The NetherlandsReuters More than 2,400 children from Ukraine aged between six and 17 years old have been taken to 13 facilities across Belarus since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in early 2022, research published by Yale University said on Thursday. Ukraine’s prosecutor general said in May that he was investigating the alleged role of […]

Four Russian military aircraft shot down near Ukraine, Russian daily reports

Smoke rises on the site of a helicopter crash in the town of Klintsy in the Bryansk Region, Russia, in this still image taken from video released on 13th May, 2023.

Reuters Russian news outlet Kommersant said two Russian fighter jets and two military helicopters had been shot down on Saturday close to the Ukrainian border, in what would be a spectacular coup for Kyiv if confirmed. Kommersant said on its website that the Su-34 fighter-bomber, Su-35 fighter and two Mi-8 helicopters had made up a […]

Putin visits two regions in Ukraine, Russia presses assault on Bakhmut

Russian President Vladimir Putin disembarks a helicopter as he visits the headquarters of the Dnieper army group in the Kherson Region, Russian-controlled Ukraine, in this still image taken from handout video released on 18th April, 2023.

Kyiv, Ukraine/Moscow, Russia Reuters Russian President Vladimir Putin has met his commanders in two regions of Ukraine that Moscow claims to have annexed, while Russian forces stepped up heavy artillery bombardments and air strikes on Tuesday on the devastated Ukrainian city of Bakhmut. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, meanwhile, visited troops in the eastern town of […]

UN tally of confirmed civilian deaths in Ukraine approaches 8,500

A destroyed car from recent shelling during heavy fighting at the frontline of Bakhmut and Chasiv Yar, is pictured in Chasiv Yar, Ukraine, on 10th April, 2023.

Kyiv, UkraineReuters Nearly 8,500 civilians are confirmed to have been killed in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a UN body said on Tuesday, with many thousands more unverified deaths still feared. The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said it had recorded 8,490 people killed and 14,244 injured between the launch of the […]

Russia declares battlefield gains as Ukraine urges faster military aid

A man is rescued by firefighters after an apartment block was heavily damaged by a missile strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Pokrovsk, Donetsk region, Ukraine, February 15, 2023. REUTERS/Marko Djurica

Kyiv, UkraineReuters Russia said on Wednesday it had broken through two of Ukraine’s fortified defence lines in the east and Kyiv spoke of relentless Russian attacks making it “difficult for us”, as Western allies announced more military aid for Kyiv including artillery rounds. Bolstered by tens of thousands of reservists drafted in December after months […]

Russian reinforcements pour into eastern Ukraine, says governor

Ukraine - Donetsk - Ukrainian servicemen near Bakhmut

Kyiv, UkraineReuters Russia was pouring reinforcements into eastern Ukraine ahead of a new offensive that could begin next week along a front where there have been relentless battles for months, a Ukrainian governor said. Desperate for Western military aid to arrive, Ukraine anticipates a major offensive could be launched by Russia for “symbolic” reasons around […]

Russia steps up artillery attacks on liberated Kherson and eastern Ukraine

Ukraine Bakhmut ruined building

Kyiv/Bakhmut, UkraineReuters Russian forces stepped up mortar and artillery attacks on the recently liberated city of Kherson in southern Ukraine on Wednesday, Ukraine’s military said, while also exerting pressure along frontlines in the east. Russia fired 33 missiles from multiple rocket launchers at civilian targets in Kherson in the 24 hours to early Wednesday, the […]