Russian air strikes wound eight in Odesa, damage museum, port, Ukrainian officials say
Odesa, Ukraine Reuters Russia launched a major air attack on the Ukrainian Black Sea port of Odesa late on Sunday, wounding at least eight people, setting ablaze trucks loaded with grain and damaging one of the city’s principal art galleries, officials said. About 20 multi-storey buildings and more than two dozen cars were damaged in […]
Postcards: Gaza graffiti artists bedeck houses destroyed by Israel in war
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Zelenskiy says Russia is evading sanctions on weapons; Ukraine’s military urges “silence” ahead of expected counter-offensive
Kyiv, UkraineReuters Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Sunday said that Russia was using a network of suppliers to evade international sanctions designed to prevent it from making missiles and other weapons. In a video address, Zelenskiy said unnamed countries and companies were helping Russia acquire technology with the emphasis on producing missiles. Russia has launched […]
One killed in Ukraine’s Odesa, missiles downed over Kyiv; Ukraine reports new advances near eastern city of Bakhmut
Reuters One person was killed by a Russian missile strike on an industrial facility in the southern Ukrainian city of Odesa, while falling debris during an air raid triggered two fires in the eastern districts of Kyiv, officials said on Thursday. Two more people were wounded in the Odesa attack, military administration spokesman Serhiy Bratchuk […]
Russian strikes kill two in Ukraine, damage dozens of buildings
Pavlohrad, Ukraine Reuters Russia unleashed a fresh volley of missiles on Ukraine overnight in a city in the east, killing two people, setting off huge blazes and damaging dozens of homes and other buildings. Firefighters work at the site of a residential area hit by a Russian military strike, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in […]
US accuses China of trying to hide North Korea atrocities
United Nations Reuters The United States accused China on Friday of attempting to hide North Korea’s atrocities from the world by blocking the webcast of an informal meeting of United Nations Security Council members on accusations of human rights abuses by Pyongyang. “Some council members are all too willing to shield the regime from accountability,” […]
Missiles pound Ukraine as Russia eyes Bakhmut’s capture by April
Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters Russia rained missiles across Ukraine on Thursday and struck its largest oil refinery, Kyiv said, while the head of the Wagner mercenary group predicted the long-besieged city of Bakhmut would take weeks if not months to fall. Following a pattern of heavy bombardments after Ukrainian battlefield or diplomatic gains, Russia launched 36 […]
North Korea fires two ballistic missiles, escalating tensions, says South Korea
Seoul, South Korea/Tokyo, JapanReuters North Korea fired two ballistic missiles towards the sea off the Korean Peninsula’s east coast on Sunday, said South Korea and Japan, prompting South Korea’s presidential office to “strongly condemned” Pyongyang for escalating tensions. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the two medium-range missiles flew about 500 kilometres. A man […]
Russian missiles pound Ukraine power supply, fighting rages in east
Kyiv, UkraineReuters Missiles rained down on Ukrainian energy infrastructure on Thursday as Russian forces stepped up attacks in eastern Ukraine, reinforced by troops pulled from Kherson city in the south which Kyiv recaptured last week. Explosions resounded in cities including the capital Kyiv, the southern port of Odesa, the central city of Dnipro and the […]
North Korea fires multiple ballistic missiles, residents in Japan told to shelter
Tokyo, Japan/Seoul, South KoreaReuters North Korea fired multiple ballistic missiles on Thursday, including one that triggered an alert to residents in parts of central and northern Japan to seek shelter, the latest in a record year of missile testing by the nuclear-armed North. The launches came a day after North Korea fired at least 23 […]