Ukraine says Russian missile attack kills one, injures eight in Mykolaiv
Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters A man was killed and at least eight people were wounded in a Russian missile attack on the Black Sea port city of Mykolaiv on Sunday, Ukrainian officials said, after an overnight strike on Odesa on the last day of Russia’s presidential election. Mykolaiv’s regional governor, Vitaliy Kim, said on Telegram that […]
Ten people die in Ukraine snowstorms; German authorities urge people to stay home
Kyiv, UkraineReuters Ten people have died in snowstorms in Ukraine, Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said on Tuesday, after icy winds and storms swept the country since Sunday, cutting power and blocking roads. Southern Ukraine was the worst affected, particularly the Black Sea region of Odesa. Cars and buses slid off frozen roads into fields and […]
Habitat at risk as Ukrainians crowd river seeking respite from war
Tylihul Estuary, Ukraine Reuters Kite surfers bounce along the gentle waves. A speedboat pulls children on an inflatable raft. Families soak up sunshine on a narrow beach. With most of Ukraine’s Black Sea Coast either occupied by Russian troops or in their line of fire, families seeking respite from life in a war zone are […]
Russia bombs Ukraine ports, threatens ships, as Kyiv deploys cluster munitions
Mykolaiv/Near Kupiansk Ukraine Reuters Russia jolted world grain markets with an escalation in the Black Sea, mounting a third straight night of air strikes on Ukrainian ports and issuing a threat against Ukraine-bound vessels to which Kyiv responded in kind. At least 27 civilians were reported hurt in the air strikes on the ports, which […]
Russia strikes Ukraine grain ports after pulling out of export deal
Kyiv, UkraineReuters Russia struck Ukrainian ports on Tuesday, a day after pulling out of a UN-backed deal to let Kyiv export grain, and Moscow claimed gains on the ground in an area where Ukrainian officials said Russian forces were going back on the offensive. Russia said it hit fuel storage in Odesa and a plant […]
Russia kills 25 in biggest Ukraine air strikes for nearly two months
Updated: 10:45am, 29th April, 2023 (AEST)Kyiv, UkraineReuters Russia hurled missiles at cities across Ukraine as people slept on Friday, killing at least 25 civilians in the first large-scale air strikes in nearly two months, as Kyiv said it was nearly ready to launch a huge assault to retake occupied land. Firefighters tackled a blaze at […]
Moscow’s ‘big revenge’ has begun, Zelenskiy says, as Russia claims Ukraine gains
Kyiv, UkraineReuters Russia has begun its “big revenge” for Ukraine’s resistance to its invasion, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday, as Russian forces claimed a series of incremental gains in his country’s east. Zelenskiy has been warning for weeks that Moscow aims to step up its assault on Ukraine after about two months of […]
Russia orders wider evacuation of occupied southern Ukraine
Kyiv/Mykolaiv, Ukraine Reuters Russia told civilians on Tuesday to leave an area along the eastern bank of the Dnipro River in the Ukrainian province of Kherson, a major extension of an evacuation order that Kyiv says amounts to the forced depopulation of occupied territory. Russia had previously ordered civilians out of a pocket it controls […]
How water has been weaponised in Ukraine
Mykolaiv, Ukraine Reuters Sveta has no doubt about why the Ukrainian-held southern city of Mykolaiv, a ship-building centre that is home to a half a million people, has gone without fresh water for the past six months. “They [the Russians] are committing genocide against us,” she growled as she waited this week with dozens of […]
Russia hits Ukraine homes, evacuates Kherson, warns of escalation
Mykolaiv, Ukraine Reuters Under pressure in the south of Ukraine, Russia fired missiles and drones into Ukrainian-held Mykolaiv on Sunday, destroying an apartment block in the ship-building city near the front and said the war was trending towards “uncontrolled escalation”. Mykolaiv lies roughly 35 kilometres nort-west of the front line to occupied Kherson, the southern […]