Ukraine Conflict - Page 2

A blaze tore through a Russian arms depot deep inside the country, triggering explosions and the closure of a major highway, after Ukraine overnight launched over 100 drones at Russia and occupied Crimea, Russian news reports and the Defense Ministry said.

The head of NATO’s military committee said Saturday that Ukraine has the solid legal and military right to strike deep inside Russia to gain combat advantage.

Russian air defenses intercepted and destroyed 158 Ukrainian drones overnight, including two over Moscow, the defense ministry said.

Ukrainian President Zelensky fired the commander of the air force Friday after a Russian bombardment destroyed an F-16 and killed the pilot.

Five people died in Ukrainian shelling in Russia’s border region of Belgorod, officials said Sunday, while Russian forces struck a hotel in eastern Ukraine, leaving one journalist missing and two others injured.

Ukraine admitted that it is actively using American-made bombs to strike within Russia’s Kursk region amid its counter-invasion.

Czech President Petr Pavel said that attacking the partially German-owned Nord Stream pipelines would have been a “legitimate” target for Ukraine.

Moscow came under one of the largest attacks yet by Ukrainian drones since the start of fighting in 2022, Russian authorities reported.

Ukraine has destroyed a bridge in Russia’s Kursk region and struck a second one nearby, less than two weeks into its cross-border incursion.

Germany is planning to halt future aid to Ukraine amid Berlin’s budget struggles, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper reports.

A Russian missile strike sparked a blaze in the Ukrainian city of Sumy Saturday, while Ukrainian forces continued to push into Russian territory.

Authorities in the eastern Ukrainian town of Pokrovsk on Friday urged civilians to speed up their evacuation because the Russian army is quickly closing in.

Thousands of Ukrainian troops are taking part in a major incursion into Russian territory, aiming to destabilise the country.

Moscow on Saturday mounted a “counter-terror operation” to halt Kyiv’s biggest cross-border offensive in the two-and-a-half-year conflict.

Ukraine’s newly arrived F-16 fighter jets were put on display by President Zelensky, who said the planes will boost the country’s war effort.

Ukraine has sunk a Russian submarine and hit a Russian airfield in the past 24 hours amid a surge in long-range attacks on Russian targets.

Ukraine on Sunday said it struck an oil depot in southern Russia that supplies the Kremlin’s troops as Russia struck Ukraine’s Donetsk region.

The European Union, enraged over Viktor Orbán’s diplomatic efforts for peace in Ukraine, has punished Hungary by cancelling a series of meetings in Budapest

Vitali Klitschko suggested that Zelensky hold a referendum to secure “popular legitimacy” for either ending or continuing the war with Russia

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky expressed his country’s thanks to President Joe Biden after he withdrew from the 2024 presidential race.

A Ukrainian former lawmaker, Iryna Farion, has died after being shot in the street by an unknown assailant in a suspected assassination.

At least six people were killed and three more injured in Ukraine after continued Russian missile strikes.

Donald Trump said Friday he had spoken by telephone with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky and pledged to end the European country’s war with Russia.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged Britain’s new government to help Ukrainian forces attack deeper inside Russia.

Ukraine’s army has pulled out from the village of Urozhaine in the eastern Donetsk region, surrendering another front-line position to Russia.

Ukraine and Russia exchanged 95 prisoners of war each, officials in both countries said Wednesday, three weeks after their last swap.

The Kremlin on Saturday warned that the deployment of US missiles in Germany could make European capitals targets for Russian missiles.

An oil depot caught fire in Russia’s southwestern Rostov region Saturday following a Ukrainian drone attack in the early hours, officials said.

Russian missile strikes in Ukraine killed at least 28 people, injured almost 100, and damaged a children’s hospital in Kyiv, officials said.

A Russian village was evacuated following a series of explosions after debris from a downed Ukrainian drone set fire to a nearby warehouse.

Russian strikes overnight left over 100,000 households without power in northern Ukraine and cut off the water supply to a regional capital.

Russia summoned the American ambassador on Monday to protest the alleged use of U.S.-made advanced missiles in a Ukrainian attack on Crimea.

Russia’s Defense Ministry said both Ukraine and the U.S. bore “responsibility for a deliberate missile strike on civilians.”

Russia said over 30 drones were shot down in the West of the country overnight into Sunday, just hours after a Russian attack on Kharkiv.

The British political establishment went into full meltdown on Friday as Reform UK leader Nigel Farage suggested that Western expansionist policies in Ukraine “provoked” the Russian invasion.

Western leaders backed Ukraine’s demands that Russia return all occupied territories as the basis for any potential peace agreement.