A Russian missile strike that broke in half a 240-metre (787-foot) television tower in Kharkiv on Monday is part of a deliberate effort by Moscow to make Ukraine's second largest city uninhabitable, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said.
A police officer checks an area during an evacuation of local residents between shelling, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in the village of Novomykhailivka, in Donetsk region, Ukraine May 29, 2022. Picture taken May 29,
Russia said yesterday its forces had gained territory near the key battleground of Chasiv Yar in east Ukraine, taking control of Bogdanivka, a small village less than three kilometres (two miles) northeast of the town.
A new U.S. package of military aid to Ukraine will not change the situation on the front lines, where Russia has the upper hand, the Kremlin said on Monday. The U.S. House of Representatives on Saturday approved more than $60 billion in new aid for Ukraine which has been held up in Congress for months,
Russia said on Monday that U.S., British and French military support for Ukraine has pushed the world to the brink of a direct clash between the world's biggest nuclear powers that could end in catastrophe.
Ukraine's military said on Sunday it had struck and damaged a long-serving Russian rescue vessel in Sevastopol, the headquarters in occupied Crimea of Moscow's Black Sea Fleet. Navy spokesperson Dmytro Pletenchuk said the vessel,
Russian forces have continued to attack the town of Chasiv Yar but have made no recent advances around the key battleground in the Donetsk region, according to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW),
"The people of Ukraine are sincerely grateful to the U.S. Congress," Andriy Yermak, the head of Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky's office, said on Saturday.
Two people have been killed as a result of Russian attacks on the Pokrovsk district in Donetsk Oblast. Source: Vadym Filashkin, Head of Donetsk Oblast Military Administration, on Telegram Quote: "The Pokrovsk district.
Russian attacks against five Ukrainian regions over the past day killed five people and wounded another 12, Ukrainian authorities reported early on April 23. In Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk Oblast, one civilian was killed in the village of Novooleksandrivka and another in Krasnohorivka,
Standing on the shores of a lake with a remote control, a Ukrainian soldier trained his eyes on a small and seemingly innocuous grey vessel as he guided it over
Russia launched a Shahed kamikaze drone attack at southern Ukraine and Ukraine's capital, with Ukraine's Air Defense destroying all drones approaching Kyiv and another four over Mykolaiv Oblast, Kyiv officials and the Ukrainian Navy reported on April 23.
Standing on the shores of a lake with a remote control, a Ukrainian soldier trained his eyes on a small and seemingly innocuous grey vessel as he guided it over the water's surfac
Nuclear terror has been the nightmare scenario ever since the Chernobyl and Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plants got caught up in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.The U.N. nuclear watchdog convened a meeting of Russian and Ukrainian officials last week to plead for sanity to prevail after drones struck Zaporizhzhia—Europe’s biggest nuclear power plant.
The Russians attacked Ukraine with two Iskander-M ballistic missiles and 16 Shaheds on the night of 22-23 April, and Ukrainian defenders managed to shoot down 15 of them. Source: Ukraineʼs Air Force on Telegram Quote from the Air Force: "Last night,
KYIV, Ukraine >> Ukraine launched a barrage of drones across Russia overnight, the Defense Ministry in Moscow said Saturday, in attacks that appeared to target the country’s energy infrastructure.
The city of Kyiv was bombarded from the southwest by Russian Shahed attack drones on the night of 22-23 April. All of the targets were destroyed. There was no damage or casualties in the capital. Source: Serhii Popko,
After several months of frustrating inaction due to a deadlock caused by a small number of lawmakers, the House passed the big foreign aid bill that will affect Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. Ukraine is slotted to receive over $60 billion in security aid with the new law,
Around 20,000 to 25,000 Russian soldiers are trying to storm Chasiv Yar and the settlements in the city's outskirts, the Khortytsia Group of Forces' spokesperson, Nazar Voloshyn, said on national TV on April 22.
The situation in Novomykhailivka in Donetsk Oblast is "tense but under control," Yaroslav Chepurnyi, spokesperson of the 79th Separate Airborne Assault Brigade told the Kyiv Independent on April 22, after Russia claimed to have captured the village earlier in the day.
The collapse of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure last year due to Russia’s war brought the entire country to its knees. Russia resumed missile and drone attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure in late March,
Kyrylo Budanov, Head of Defence Intelligence of Ukraine (DIU), has said that another assassination attempt on him is being planned in the interests of the Russians. Source: Budanov in an interview with BBC News Ukraine Quote: "They are planning something [an assassination attempt - ed.
The Russians launched an attack using seven Shahed-131/136 UAVs and three S-300/S-40 anti-aircraft guided missiles from the occupied part of Donetsk Oblast on the night of 21-22 April. Ukraine's air defence has managed to down five drones.
Ukrainian air defense units destroyed 5 of the 7 Shahed-type drones, as well as one Orlan-10 reconnaissance drone, that Russia launched overnight, the Air Force reported on April 22.
Experts at the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) have assessed that Ukraine's Defence Forces will be able to stop the Russian offensive if the US provides assistance quickly. Source: ISW Details: Mark Warner,
Over the past two months, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have lost 5 of the 31 Abrams tanks that the United States sent to Ukraine last fall. At least three more were damaged, The New York Times reported on April 20.
A Russian salvage ship, the Kommuna, caught fire in the port of the temporarily occupied city of Sevastopol, Crimea, due to an operation by the Ukrainian Navy on 21 April. Source: Captain 3rd Rank Dmytro Pletenchuk,
Russians have launched six missile strikes and 77 airstrikes and fired about 100 times from multiple-launch rocket systems on the positions of Ukrainian troops and populated areas over the past day, with 86 combat engagements taking place at the front.
A major TV tower in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv was broken apart on Monday, an AFP journalist saw, after officials reported a Russian strike on the city.
Russia said Monday it captured the village of Novomykhailivka in eastern Ukraine, while Ukrainian officials warned the situation on the front lines is likely to deteriorate in coming weeks.