Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sunday that Russian forces attacked Ukraine’s energy and power infrastructure with hundreds of drones and missiles, including Iranian-made weapons.
Two people died in a missile attack on Ukraine’s Odesa, local officials said, as Moscow and Kyiv exchanged drone and missile attacks.
Five people were killed and dozens injured in a missile strike on Ukraine’s third city, Odesa, with an ornate seafront building burnt out.
Three people were killed when a Russian drone hit an apartment block in the southern Ukrainian port city of Odesa overnight.
There is “no path to a military victory for Ukraine,” and further aid packages will have virtually no effect on the conflict’s outcome, according to retired Army Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis, who warned that American influence is waning as the Russia-Ukraine war enters its third year.
The first two cargo ships arrived in a Ukrainian port after Russia withdrew from an agreement on the transport of grain in the Black Sea.
Two people were hospitalised after a Russian drone barrage on a port in Ukraine’s Odesa region on Sunday, officials said.
Russia and Ukraine traded drone attacks early Wednesday, officials said, with Kyiv apparently targeting Moscow again.
Ukrainian President Zelensky called for the West to provide “full protective shield” of air defence systems to stop “Russian missile terror”.
Russia struck the Ukranian Black Sea city of Odesa again on Sunday, leaving one dead, dozens injured and a historic cathedral badly damaged.
Russian-controlled officials installed in occupied Crimea, which Moscow illegally annexed in 2014, said Wednesday that a massive fire at a military base in Kirovske forced thousands of people to evacuate and shut down a major highway nearby.
(AFP) – A fresh barrage of Russian missiles battered Ukraine on Thursday, wounding at least five people including a teenager and cutting electricity in the west.
Russian airstrikes inflicted more damage on Ukraine on Thursday, with the latest barrage smashing into energy infrastructure, apartment buildings and an industrial site.
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Russian defence ministry officials on Sunday insisted that an airstrike on the port of Odesa — less than a day after Russia and Ukraine signed an agreement on resuming grain shipments from there — had hit only military targets.
(AFP) – Russian missiles struck Ukraine’s key Black Sea port of Odessa Saturday, officials said, in an attack Kyiv described as a “spit in the face” of a deal signed by the warring neighbours a day earlier to resume grain exports blocked by the conflict.
(AFP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said his country’s forces were “doing everything” to stop the Russian offensive, with fierce battles in the east and the south.
The Catholic bishop of Odesa, Ukraine, said this week that if Russia attacks, it will fail because “people will fight ferociously to defend their city.”
WARSAW, Poland — On her first Shabbat away from the fighting in Ukraine, Rabbi Julia Gris twice led services to welcome the Jewish holy day.
