The attack was the first to hit Ukraine’s cabinet of ministers, a sprawling government complex at the heart of Kyiv. Drone strikes also damaged several high-rise buildings in Kyiv, according to emergency services. Russia has shown no sign of ending its three-and-a-half-year invasion of Ukraine, pushing hardline demands for ending the war, despite efforts by […]
“Pressure must be exerted on Russia for the sake of a fair peace. We must learn from the experience of Ukraine and our partners to prevent deception on the part of Russia,” Zelensky stated. “There are currently no signs that the Russians are preparing to end the war,” he added. Zelensky is due in Berlin […]
Ukrainian drone strikes killed three people and wounded two others overnight in western Russia, regional governors said on Saturday. One woman was killed and two other people were wounded in an attack on an enterprise in Penza, the region’s governor, Oleg Melnichenko, wrote on Telegram. An elderly man was killed inside a house that caught […]
A powerful magnitude 8.8 earthquake off Russia’s Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula triggered tsunami waves of up to 5 metres (16 feet) nearby and sparked evacuation orders as far away as Hawaii and across the Pacific on Wednesday. The shallow earthquake damaged buildings and injured several people in the remote Russian region, while much of Japan’s […]
Russia struck several regions of Ukraine overnight, officials said Saturday, reporting one person killed in Dnipro, while Moscow said two people died after a Ukrainian drone attack in the Rostov region. Dnipro Mayor Borys Filatov said one person was killed in a high-rise apartment complex. Across the border, Russia’s acting governor of Rostov said a […]
The plane was flying from the city of Blagoveshchensk to Tynda, a remote town and key railway hub in the Amur region near the Chinese border, when it disappeared from radar while preparing to land. Video footage circulating on social media showed that the Russian Antonov An-24 passenger plane had crashed in a densely forested […]
The capital Kyiv was hit hardest in the attack, where a ballistic missile struck a nine-story apartment building, killing 14 people and injuring 60 others while one person was killed and 10 others injured in the southern city of Odessa. The Interior Ministry also added that 27 locations in Kyiv, including apartment buildings, educational institutions, […]
Ukraine said on Sunday that a planned exchange of captured soldiers would start “next week”, after both sides accused each other of trying to thwart and delay the swap. “The start of repatriation activities based on the results of the negotiations in Istanbul is scheduled for next week,” the head of Ukraine’s defence intelligence Kyrylo […]
A Russian strike has killed four people in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, city officials said on Saturday, in what the country’s foreign minister called a “heinous” attack with ballistic missiles.
Deposed Syrian President, Bashar al-Assad, and his family have arrived in Moscow, where they have reportedly been granted asylum by Russia. The development follows the dramatic fall of Assad’s regime after a large-scale offensive by Syrian rebel forces. Opposition fighters had on Sunday advanced into Damascus, securing the capital and forcing government forces to retreat. […]