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 […]
Russia attacks in east Ukraine, appears to scale back war aims; Griner released in prisoner swap
Near Bakhmut, Ukraine Reuters Russian forces attacked settlements in eastern Ukraine from the ground and air, officials said on Thursday, in support of the Kremlin’s apparently scaled-back ambition to secure only the bulk of Ukrainian lands it has claimed in the war. Fighting was under way along the entire line of demarcation in the Donetsk […]
Ukraine’s schools race to build bomb shelters before term starts
Kyiv, UkraineReuters Svitlana tears up thinking of the bombing that leveled her son Illia’s school in Lysychansk, a city in the eastern Ukrainian region of Luhansk now occupied by Russian forces, but she is determined to ensure the eighth-grader continues his studies. “My son’s school is not there anymore. It was bombed completely – and […]
Ruined Lysychansk eerily silent, residents remain in bomb shelters, after fall to Russia
Reuters Lysychansk was once a city of a 100,000 people in Ukraine’s eastern Luhansk region, but it now lies in ruins after its fall to Russian forces with many residents still living in bomb shelters and basements. The city was eerily quiet on Tuesday with scorched buildings, overturned vehicles and rubble a testament to the […]
Russia pounds Ukraine’s Donetsk region after seizing Luhansk
Sloviansk/Kyiv, UkraineReuters Russian forces struck targets across Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region on Tuesday, a day after President Vladimir Putin declared victory in the neighbouring province of Luhansk after months of gruelling attritional warfare in which both sides lost many men. Donetsk and Luhansk comprise the Donbas, the industrialised eastern part of Ukraine that has seen […]
Zelenskiy says Ukrainian forces undeterred; Russia hails Luhansk victory
Kyiv, UkraineReuters Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday his armed forces were undeterred in their efforts to “break” Moscow’s will to pursue a nearly five-month war, while Russia’s Vladimir Putin hailed his military’s victory in the grueling battle of Luhansk. Russia captured the city of Lysychansk in eastern Ukraine on Sunday, bringing an end […]
Fighting intensifies for Ukraine’s last bastion in eastern Luhansk province
Kyiv, Ukraine/Konstyantynivka, Ukraine Reuters Fighting intensified on Saturday for Lysychansk, Ukraine’s last bastion in the strategic eastern province of Luhansk, while blasts shook a southern city after the civilian toll from Russian strikes climbed in towns well behind the front lines. Rodion Miroshnik, ambassador to Russia of the pro-Moscow self-styled Luhansk People’s Republic, told Russian […]
Russia abandons Black Sea outpost of Snake Island in victory for Ukraine
Kyiv, UkraineReuters Russian forces abandoned the strategic Black Sea outpost of Snake Island on Thursday in a victory for Ukraine that could loosen the grip of Russia’s blockade on Ukrainian ports. Russia said it had decided to withdraw from the outcrop off Ukraine’s south-western coast as a “gesture of goodwill” to show Moscow was not […]
Updated: Russian missile strike kills 16 in shopping mall, Ukraine says
Updated: 12:30pm (AEST)Kremenchuk, Ukraine Reuters Two Russian missiles slammed into a crowded shopping centre in the central Ukrainian city of Kremenchuk on Monday, killing at least 16 people and wounding 59, officials said. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said more than 1,000 people were in the mall at the time of the attack, which witnesses said caused […]
Sievierodonetsk falls to Russia after one of war’s bloodiest fights
Kyiv/Pokrovsk, Ukraine Reuters Russian forces seized full control of the eastern Ukrainian city of Sievierodonetsk on Saturday, both sides said, confirming Kyiv’s biggest battlefield setback for more than a month following weeks of some of the war’s bloodiest fighting. Ukraine called its retreat from the city a “tactical withdrawal” to fight from higher ground in […]