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…
Russia fires barrage of missiles, Ukraine condemns “senseless barbarism”
Kyiv, UkraineReuters Russia fired scores of missiles into Ukraine early on Thursday, targeting Kyiv and other cities including Lviv in the west and Odesa in the south-west, sending people rushing to shelters and knocking out power in one of Moscow’s largest aerial assaults. “Senseless barbarism. These are the only words that come to mind seeing […]
Updated: Biden says missile that killed two in Poland may not have come from Russia
Updated: 2:50pm (AEST)Warsaw, Poland/Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters A missile that killed two people in Poland was probably not fired from Russia, US President Joe Biden said on Wednesday after an emergency meeting of NATO leaders called to discuss what Poland called a strike by a Russia-made projectile. The explosion on Tuesday at a grain facility near […]
Ukrainians brace for blackouts, hard winter after Russia pummels power grid
Kyiv, UkraineReuters Liubov Palii was sitting at her computer when the lights went off in her one-bedroom apartment after Russian strikes pummelled Ukraine’s energy network. She started to play with her four-month-old baby boy, Vova, by the light of her mobile phone. “When this happens, we just play together in the bed, lay together, I […]
Russia launches biggest air strikes since start of Ukraine war
Updated: 7:45am, 11th October, 2022Kyiv, UkraineReuters Russia rained cruise missiles on busy Ukrainian cities on Monday in what the United States called “horrific strikes”, killing civilians and knocking out power and heat with its most widespread air attacks since the start of the war. Missiles tore into intersections, parks and tourist sites in the capital […]
The Interview: Ukrainian priest on funerals, food aid and prayers for victory
MARIKA PROCTOR, of Religion News Service, speaks with Rev Oleksiy Zavada, a Greek Catholic priest living in Lviv, about about the many funerals he’s presided over, how the life of the church has changed – and stayed the same – since the war started, and why he plans to stay…
Ukraine’s Lviv symbolically votes to ban formerly Moscow-affiliated church
Kyiv, UkraineReuters The local council in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on Thursday became the first to ban a branch of the Orthodox church that was until last month directly affiliated with Moscow. According to Lviv mayor Andriy Sadovyi, the unanimous council vote to prohibit the activity of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – with […]
Ukraine rebases businesses from war front to shield vital producers
Kyiv, UkraineReuters Oleg Averyanov’s factory produced fire trucks and employed 600 people until it was forced to halt operations and close its doors as a Russian invasion force poured over the border into his region in north-eastern Ukraine on 24th February. Months later, the 44-year-old is gearing up to restart some of the plant’s operations […]
Ukraine’s Kalush Orchestra raises $US900,000 for military by auctioning Eurovision trophy
Reuters Ukraine’s Kalush Orchestra, which won the Eurovision Song Contest earlier this month, raised $900,000 for the country’s military battling the Russian invasion by selling the contest’s trophy. The group won Eurovision with their entry Stefania, surfing a wave of public support to claim an emotional victory that was welcomed by the country’s President. Oleh […]