Russia launched 45 drones over Ukraine in a five-and-a-half-hour attack on Sunday, just days after Kyiv began to shake up its war cabinet. The Ukrainian Air Force said in a statement that it had shot down 40 Iranian-made Shahed drones in nine different regions of Ukraine, including near Kyiv. The Associated Press reported that the […]
The death toll from the morning Russian missile attack on Kyiv has risen to four, with one more body recovered from the rubble in a high-rise residential building in the capital’s Holosiivskyi District, Ukraine’s Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko reported on Telegram on Feb. 7. Three women aged 31, 66 and 73, as well as a […]
Russia is “clearly ahead” of Ukraine in the supply of artillery ammunition, in particular because Moscow receives it from North Korea, Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said in an interview with Bild on Jan. 24. Read also: North Korea now aiding overstretched Russia, stepping into role as top weapons provider — intel head “No matter […]
Dragan Stanojević, leader of the Serbian branch of Viktor Medvedchuk’s Russian civic organization “Another Ukraine”, rejects Kyiv’s demands to halt the branch’s activities in Belgrade, he said in an interview with RFE/RL on Jan. 20. Medvedchuk is a personal friend of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin and former Ukrainian MP, accused of treason. The Ukrainian Embassy in Belgrade sent a protest to the Serbian Foreign Affairs […]
Dragan Stanojević, the head of Serbian office of the Drugaya Ukraina (Another Ukraine), an NGO founded by Viktor Medvedchuk, pro-Russian politician of Ukrainian descent, has rejected the demands by the Ukrainian embassy in Belgrade to ban the office of the movement due to violating the local law. Source: European Pravda with reference to Stanojević’s commentary […]
Ukraine’s SBU security service has arrested a member of Russia’s Wagner mercenary group as the latter attempted to plant GPS trackers on power transmission towers, the SBU said on Telegram on Jan. 15. The saboteur was likely aiming to disrupt power supplies to Kyiv, the SBU said, by helping Russian forces coordinate airstrikes via these […]
The building of Kyiv’s Lukianivska metro station was damaged during Russia’s largest coordinated missile and drone attack on Ukraine since the war began, said Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko. The station was being used as a shelter at the time. The station remained operational throughout the attack. Read also: Russian overnight attack: ‘We’ve never seen so […]
Following Russia’s massive missile attack on Ukraine, a warehouse caught fire in the Podilskyi district of Kyiv, where 10 people are trapped under the rubble, the city military administration reported on Dec. 29. Earlier reports indicated that a warehouse in the Podilskyi district caught fire spreading over an area of approximately 3,000 square meters. Read […]
Police in Kyiv have arrested a man who desecrated a monument erected on the capital’s Independence Square to commemorate the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, the United Jewish Community of Ukraine (UJCU) said on Telegram on Dec. 19. In a video posted by the UJCU, the man refers to the menorah as “rakes.” He then approaches […]