Russia stages major airstrike on Ukraine; one missile enters Polish airspace
Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters Russia struck critical infrastructure in Ukraine’s western region of Lviv with missiles early on Sunday, Kyiv said, in a major airstrike that saw one Russian cruise missile briefly fly into Polish airspace according to Warsaw. Moscow launched 57 missiles and drones in the attack that also targeted the capital Kyiv, two days […]
Postcards: Twice displaced, Crimean Tatar woman longs for home 10 years after annexation
ALINA SMUTKO and ANDRIY PERUN, of Reuters, report…
Ukraine’s Lviv becomes first region to remove all Soviet-era monuments
Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters The Ukrainian region of Lviv has become the country’s first to remove all its Soviet-era monuments, the Governor said on Tuesday, part of a broader wartime push to erase all traces of Russian rule. Ukraine launched a “decommunisation” campaign after a 2014 revolution toppled a pro-Moscow president and has continued the effort […]
Russia’s biggest drone strike in weeks hits Ukrainian infrastructure
Kyiv, UkraineReuters Russia launched a massive drone attack early on Friday, hitting critical infrastructure in the west and south of Ukraine and destroying private houses and commercial buildings in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city, officials said. The air force said it shot down 24 “Shahed” drones out of 40 launched by Russia, the biggest drone […]
Russian attacks kill nine in Ukraine, Lviv warehouses set ablaze – officials
Kyiv, UkraineReuters Nine people were killed in Russian attacks across Ukraine on Tuesday, including a drone strike that set ablaze industrial warehouses and destroyed humanitarian aid supplies in the western city of Lviv, officials said. Six of the victims were killed by a guided bomb that hit the northeastern town of Kupiansk, Regional Governor Oleh […]
Wave of Russian air strikes hits western Ukraine, far from front lines
Lviv, Ukraine Reuters Russian air strikes hit two western regions of Ukraine bordering NATO member Poland and other areas on Tuesday, killing three people in a factory and wounding more than a dozen, Ukrainian officials said. Local media said the attacks were the largest air assault on the Lviv region since the Russian invasion in […]
Updated: Lviv clears up after Russian missile strike in western Ukraine – seven dead
Updated: 11am (AEST)Lviv, Ukraine Reuters A Russian missile slammed into a residential building in Lviv in western Ukraine on Thursday, killing at least seven people in a city that is far from frontlines and home to thousands displaced by war. The roof and top floor of the building were destroyed in what Lviv’s mayor called […]
Church accused of Moscow ties expelled from two parishes in western Ukraine
Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters A Ukrainian branch of the Orthodox church accused of ties with Russia was expelled from the premises of two places of worship on Wednesday amid rising public anger against the organisation 14 months into Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. Ukrainian police officers stand next to St George’s Cathedral of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, […]
Russia kills civilians in first huge missile wave for weeks
Updated: 8am, 10th March, 2022 (AEDT)Kyiv, UkraineReuters Russia fired a huge wave of missiles across Ukraine on Thursday as people slept, killing at least nine civilians and knocking out power in an attack Kyiv said included six Kinzhal hypersonic cruise missiles, one of Moscow’s most valuable weapons. The mass strikes on targets far from the […]
Essay: Many Ukrainians are fleeing to the Greek Catholic Church in Lviv, which has a long and complex history in the Orthodox faith
In an article first published on The Conversation, J EUGENE CLAY, a scholar who has spend 30 years exploring the role of religion in Eastern Europe, looks at the role the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, both historically and in the nation today…