Civilian recruitment: Ukraine launches military charm offensive as conscription flags
DAN PELESCHUK, of Reuters, reports on the civilian recruitment push taking place in Ukraine…
US House passes $US95 billion Ukraine, Israel aid package, sends to Senate
Washington DC, US Reuters The US House of Representatives on Saturday with broad bipartisan support passed a $US95 billion legislative package providing security assistance to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, over bitter objections from Republican hardliners. The legislation now proceeds to the Democratic-majority Senate, which passed a similar measure more than two months ago. US leaders […]
Ukraine downs Russian strategic bomber after airstrike kills eight, Kyiv says
Kyiv/Dnipro, Ukraine Reuters Ukraine shot down a Russian strategic bomber 300 kilometres from its border on Friday after the warplane took part in an airstrike that killed at least eight people, including two children, in the central Dnipropetrovsk region, Kyiv said. Missiles rained down on the city of Dnipro and the surrounding region in the […]
Seventeen killed in Ukraine’s Chernihiv in Russia’s deadliest air strike in weeks
Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters Three Russian missiles slammed into the city centre of Chernihiv in northern Ukraine on Wednesday, killing at least 17 people, wounding dozens more and damaging civilian buildings, officials said. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called on Kyiv’s allies to rush in air defence support after the city, which had a pre-war population of 300,000, […]
Major Russian air strikes destroy Kyiv power plant, damage other stations
Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters Russian missiles and drones destroyed a large electricity plant near Kyiv and hit power facilities in several regions of Ukraine on Thursday, officials said, ramping up pressure on the embattled energy system as Kyiv runs low on air defences. The major attack more than two years since Russia’s full-scale invasion completely destroyed […]
UN records sharp rise in civilian deaths, injuries in Ukraine in March
Geneva, Switzerland Reuters United Nations monitors have recorded a sharp increase in civilian casualties in Ukraine last month as Russian forces have stepped up attacks, the UN Human Rights Office said on Tuesday. The toll included at least 57 children killed or injured in March, double the number from February, it said. Emergency workers carry […]
Ukraine’s Zelenskiy warns of dwindling air defence missiles
Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters Ukraine could run out of air defence missiles if Russia keeps up its intense long-range bombing campaign, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy warned in remarks aired on Saturday. The Ukrainian leader’s starkest warning to date of the deteriorating situation faced by his country’s air defences follows weeks of Russian strikes on the energy system, […]
Russian missile attack in Ukraine’s Dnipro injures 18, governor says, as Ukraine lowers draft age to 25
Reuters A Russian missile attack on Tuesday damaged an educational facility in Ukraine’s city of Dnipro and injured 18 people, local authorities said. Emergency workers stand in a front of a building damaged during a Russian missile strike, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Dnipro, Ukraine, on 2nd April, 2024. PICTURE: Reuters/Mykola Synelnykov Twelve people […]
Ukraine power firm hit by Russian attacks warns repairs could take 18 months
Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters The head of Ukraine’s largest private energy firm, DTEK, said on Saturday that five of its six plants had been damaged or destroyed with 80 per cent of its generating capacity lost after two weeks of Russian attacks and that repairs could take up to 18 months. Russian missile and drone attacks […]
Russians lower flags, lay flowers to honour concert hall attack victims
Moscow, Russia Reuters Russia lowered flags to half-mast on Sunday for a day of mourning and swiftly charged two suspects after gunmen killed scores of people at a concert outside Moscow in the deadliest attack inside Russia for two decades. President Vladimir Putin declared a national day of mourning after pledging to punish all those […]