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☆ Thousands of Ukrainians have been sent to Russian prisons. Ukraine says they’re being held as bargaining chips
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-05 | by ( Ivana Kottasová | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +22 min

The Ukrainian government says there are thousands of people like Dima, civilians arrested by Russia who have been held in arbitrary detention for years. In the early weeks of the war, Russian troops took over their home, parking their tank in the garden and stealing anything of value. Following the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia opened a second pre-trial detention facility in Simferopol, SIZO No. Detained civilians, however, are stuck in limbo. Mariana Checheliuk's photos were among those displayed by relatives of detained civilians at a recent protest in Kyiv.

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☆ Lukashenko undermines Putin’s Ukraine claim on Moscow concert hall attack
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-26 | by ( Christian Edwards | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko appears to have cast doubt on Russia’s claims that Ukraine was involved in the brutal attack at a Moscow concert hall last week. Putin on Saturday claimed that a “window” had been prepared for the attackers to escape to Ukraine, which Kyiv has denied. But Lukashenko, one of Putin’s most loyal allies, on Tuesday appeared to contradict the Kremlin’s claims, saying that the attackers initially intended to enter Belarus rather than Ukraine. Putin lights a candle on Sunday in memory of victims of the Crocus City Hall attack. Shamil Zhumatov/ReutersA total of 11 people have been arrested in connection with the attack on the concert hall, Russian officials said.

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“Special services and law enforcement agencies in the Bryansk region, near the border with Ukraine, detained four suspects from among those who committed a terrorist attack in the Crocus City Hall concert hall,” the committee said. The terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall was carefully planned.”Neither agency specified the nature of the alleged contacts. Suspects detainedVideo footage from the Crocus City Hall showed the vast complex, which is home to both a music hall and shopping center, on fire with smoke billowing into the air. A person places flowers at a makeshift memorial in front of the Crocus City Hall. On Friday, following reports of the Crocus City Hall attack, it advised US citizens not to travel to Russia.

Persons: Vladimir Putin, “, ”, ” “, Maria Zakharova, Andrey Vorobyov, Rescuers, Putin, Stringer, Adrienne Watson, Washington Organizations: CNN, ISIS, Crocus City, Novosti, FSB, Security Service, Russian Federation, RIA Novosti, Tass, Russian Foreign Ministry, Renault, CNN State, ”, Telegram, Russian Emergencies Ministries, Kremlin, Getty, US National Security, State Department Locations: Moscow, Ukraine, Bryansk, Crocus, Crocus City, responsibiliity, Russia, ” Moscow, AFP, Russian, ”, Khorasan, Afghanistan

☆ Ukraine targets more Russian oil refineries a day after reports said the US had warned them not to
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-23 | by ( Rebecca Rommen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewUkraine attacked Russia's oil infrastructure after US officials advised them against targeting Russian oil refineries, Bloomberg reports. Russia's oil infrastructure took another hit as drones targeted refineries in the Samara region. The targeted refineries, both part of Rosneft PJSC's Samara region group, play a crucial role in Russia's oil production landscape. The strikes have targeted refineries, storage depots, and other key sites, exacerbating economic pain and raising fears of further escalation. Indeed, the refineries targeted in the Samara oblast last night are over 800 miles from Kyiv.

Persons: —, Dmitry Azarov, … Organizations: Service, Bloomberg, Business, US, Financial Times Locations: Ukraine, Samara, Russia, Rosneft, Russian

☆ Ukraine says it will hit Russia's precious oil refineries even if the US tells it not to
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-22 | by ( Chris Panella | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The US has urged Ukraine not to strike Russian oil refineries, fearing it could drive up prices and prompt retaliation, reports say. Ukraine has ramped up its attacks in recent months, targeting Russia's energy infrastructure. Ukraine has ramped up its attacks on Russia's energy infrastructure in recent months, conducting long-range drone strikes on some of its biggest oil refineries. Russian Emergencies Ministry/ReutersShortly after the Financial Times report, a Ukrainian government official responded publicly, saying that Ukraine would continue to strike oil refineries. More than 10 major refineries and depots have been damaged, and oil prices have spiked in recent weeks.

Persons: —, Biden, Olga Stefanishyna, Diego Herrera Carcedo, Torbjörn Törnqvist Organizations: US, Service, Financial Times, Russian Emergencies Ministry, Reuters, Anadolu Agency, Getty, Gunvor Locations: Ukraine, Washington, Russia, Ukrainian, Klintsy, Bryansk Region, Bakhmut, Donetsk Oblast, Dnipro

☆ Lysychansk: At least 28 killed in strike on Russian-occupied town in eastern Ukraine
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-04 | by ( Maria Kostenko | Alex Stambaugh | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —At least 28 have been killed in an attack on a building in the town of Lysychansk in the Russian-occupied region of Luhansk in eastern Ukraine, the region’s Moscow-installed head said Sunday. Ukraine’s defense ministry has not commented on the incident. Lysychansk was taken over by Russian forces in July 2022, becoming the last town in the key region of Luhansk in eastern Ukraine to fall. Last month, the Russian Defense Ministry said it stopped Ukrainian drones headed toward Moscow and St Petersburg. In December, Ukraine launched an attack on the Russian border city of Belgorod, killing at least 24 and wounding 108 others.

Persons: Republic Leonid Pasechnik, Pasechnik, Lysychansk, Chasiv Yar Organizations: CNN, Luhansk People’s, Russian, Russian Defense Ministry, St Locations: Lysychansk, Russian, Luhansk, Ukraine, Moscow, Republic, Ukrainian, Luhansk People’s Republic, Russia, Crimea, St Petersburg, Russia’s Bryansk, Belgorod, Kharkiv, Bakhmut, Avdiivka

A Ukrainian drone struck an oil storage depot in western Russia on Friday, causing a massive blaze, officials said, as Kyiv’s forces apparently extended their attacks on Russian soil ahead of the war’s two-year anniversary. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has vowed to hit more targets inside Russian border regions this year. The Russian city of Belgorod, also near the Ukrainian border, canceled its traditional Orthodox Epiphany festivities on Friday due to the threat of Ukrainian drone strikes. The Mash news outlet had earlier reported that a Ukrainian drone fell on the plant’s premises Thursday but caused no damage. The same depot was struck by a Ukrainian drone in May last year, but the damage apparently was less significant.

Persons: Vladimir Putin’s, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Maxim Yegorov, Alexander Bogomaz Organizations: Ukrainian, Ukraine’s Intelligence Service, RBC, Gov Locations: Ukrainian, Russia, Ukraine, Russian, Belgorod, Tambov, Moscow, Bryansk, russia, ukraine

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia fired 11 Shahed drones against Ukrainian targets, reaching deep into Ukraine while falling debris damaged power lines near a nuclear power plant in the country's west, officials said Wednesday. Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his country's air defenses are preparing for another winter of Russian attacks on energy infrastructure as the war enters its 21st month. “Russia appears to be increasingly supplementing the use of Shahed … drones with cheaper and lighter domestically produced drone variants during strikes on Ukrainian infrastructure,” it said in an assessment late Tuesday. It also said that four Ukrainian drones were shot down over Russia’s western Bryansk region early Wednesday. ___Follow AP’s coverage of the war in Ukraine at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine

Persons: Volodymyr Zelenskyy, ” Zelenskyy, Russia “, Sergei Shoigu, Andrei Kuzmenko, Yuras Karmanau Organizations: —, Ukraine’s Ministry of Energy Infrastructure, Ukraine, Russian, Associated Press Locations: KYIV, Ukraine, — Russia, Ukrainian, Khmelnytskyi, Poland, Russia, Washington, Donetsk, Bryansk, Sevastopol, Crimea, Tallinn, Estonia, russia, ukraine

☆ Russia mistakenly doxed its own spies and secret bases by uploading their addresses on a public city hall website: investigative outlet
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-03 | by ( Matthew Loh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Russia accidentally exposed the locations of its secret bases and spy homes, per the Dossier Center. AdvertisementAdvertisementMoscow's city hall accidentally leaked the addresses of government safehouses, undercover facilities, and the homes of state operatives, the Dossier Center reported on Monday. When Insider checked the Moscow city hall website on Monday, the document was no longer available online. In one case, the document even included the apartment numbers of two homes used by spies in Moscow, the Dossier Center reported. Many of these locations have already been identified as Russian intelligence facilities by investigative outlets such as Bellingcat, the Dossier Center noted.

Persons: —, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Sergey Sobyanin Organizations: Service, Federal Protective Service, Foreign Intelligence Service, Federal Security Service, Kremlin Locations: Russia, Moscow's, Russian, Moscow, Leningrad, Primorsky, St, Petersburg, Bryansk

☆ Putin marks anniversary of annexation of Ukrainian regions as drones attack overnight
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-30 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday insisted that the residents of four Ukrainian regions that Moscow illegally annexed a year ago "made their choice — to be with their Fatherland." A concert was held in Red Square on Friday to mark the anniversary, but Putin did not participate. Serhii Borzov said that air defenses shot down 20 drones over his central Ukrainian region, but that a "powerful fire" broke out in the town of Kalynivka when a drone struck an unspecified infrastructure facility. Russia's Defense Ministry said Saturday that it had shot down nine Ukrainian rockets fired at its southern Belgorod region, which borders Ukraine. Drone strikes and shelling in the Russian border regions are a regular occurrence.

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☆ 'The war is coming home to Russia': Ukraine turns the tables on Moscow as drone warfare intensifies
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-01 | by ( Holly Ellyatt | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

"The war is coming home to Russia," Timothy Ash, emerging markets strategist at BlueBay Asset Management, said in emailed comments Wednesday. Alexander Nemenov | Afp | Getty ImagesAerial assaults have intensified in recent days with strikes occurring further into Russian territory. Drone warfareRussia blamed Ukraine for the latest drone attacks while Ukraine remained characteristically tight-lipped about these, and previous, assaults. Ukraine has been targeted with thousands of Russian drone attacks during the 19-month-long conflict, with its energy, defense and civilian infrastructure pummeled by swarms of Iranian-made UAVs. Experts agree that Ukrainian forces direct attempts to attack Russian territory and are likely to be assisted by disaffected anti-war Russians at times.

Persons: Vladimir Putin, Alexey Nikolsky, Timothy Ash, Putin, Ash, Alexander Nemenov, Mikhail Razvozhaev, Vladimir Putin's, Kirill Shamiev, Shamiev, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Zelenskyy Organizations: Afp, Getty, Russian, BlueBay Asset Management, Police, Moscow International Business, Reuters, Russian Ministry of Defense, European Council, Foreign Relations, CNBC, Kremlin, Kyiv, Ukrainian Armed Forces Locations: Orenburg, Russia, Moscow, Russian, Crimea, Ukraine, Kerch, Bryansk, Sevastopol, Kyiv

CNN —A Russian official claimed Thursday that a Ukrainian sabotage operation had been foiled in Bryansk, southwestern Russia, with several Ukrainians killed or captured. Alexander Bogomaz, governor of the Bryansk region that borders both Ukraine and Belarus, said on his Telegram channel that two of the group had died and five were detained in the Navlinsky district on Wednesday. Bryansk neighbors northern Ukraine and eastern Belarus, Moscow’s close ally that helped facilitate Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year. This marks the second alleged sabotage attempt by Ukraine in the region this month. Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) claimed on August 16 that it had stopped an attempt by a Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance group to enter Bryansk.

Persons: Alexander Bogomaz, “, ” Bogomaz, Moscow’s, ” Organizations: CNN, Ukrainian Security Service, Main Intelligence Directorate, NATO, TASS, Russian National Guard, RIA Novosti, Federal Security Service, Ministry of Defense, Russian Federation Locations: Ukrainian, Bryansk, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Navlinsky, Russian

☆ Ukraine tells critics of slow counteroffensive to 'shut up'
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-31 | by ( Tom Balmforth | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

[1/2] Ukrainian servicemen put out burning grass near their positions, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, near a front line, in Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine August 31, 2023. Nearly three months since launching a much vaunted counteroffensive using hundreds of billions of dollars of Western military equipment, Ukraine has recaptured more than a dozen villages but has yet to penetrate Russia's main defences. "I would recommend all critics to shut up, come to Ukraine and try to liberate one square centimetre by themselves," he said at a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Spain. DRONE ATTACKS WITHIN RUSSIAUkraine has also stepped up attacks using drones on targets deep within Russia itself and in Russian-controlled territory in Ukraine. While Ukraine rarely comments directly on specific attacks inside Russia, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy appeared to boast of the Pskov attack on Thursday.

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☆ Live updates: Russia's war in Ukraine, attacks on Pskov airport and Kyiv
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-30 | by ( Jessie Yeung | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

Russian air defenses thwarted a Ukrainian drone attack on a television tower in the southwestern Bryansk region bordering Ukraine, a local official said Wednesday. Aleksandr Bogomaz said a fire had been extinguished and emergency services were working at the site of the alleged attack. Earlier Wednesday, Russia's defense ministry said Ukrainian drones were intercepted over the regions of Bryansk, Oryol and Kaluga. Andrey Klychkov said two drones were shot down over the western region. The reports come a day after four Russian aircraft were damaged in a drone attack at an airport in the western city of Pskov, officials said.

Persons: Aleksandr Bogomaz, Bogomaz, Andrey Klychkov, Vladislav Shapsha Organizations: Bryansk Gov, Oryol Gov Locations: Ukrainian, Bryansk, Ukraine, Oryol, Kaluga, Moscow, Sukhinichsky, Pskov

☆ Russia sees biggest drone assault on its own territory since invading Ukraine, as Kyiv strikes back through the skies
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-30 | by ( Rob Picheta Anna Chernova Olga Voitovych | Rob Picheta | Anna Chernova | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

“Kyiv has not experienced such a powerful attack since spring,” Serhii Popko, the head of the city’s Military Administration, said on Telegram. The governor of Bryansk, which borders Ukraine, said air defenses thwarted a Ukrainian drone attack on a television tower early on Wednesday. Russian state news agency TASS reported that “as a result of drone attacks four Il-76 aircraft were damaged,” in Pskov. Ukraine stepped up its evacuations of children from the frontline town of Kupiansk on Tuesday, as Russian forces continued to bear down on the battered city. The Ukrainian military says that its forces have made further progress in a part of the southern front, towards the villages of Novodanylivka and Verbove.

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☆ Russia says it foiled major Ukrainian drone attack
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-30 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/file photo Acquire Licensing RightsAug 30 (Reuters) - Russia said it foiled one of the biggest Ukrainian drone attacks to date on western Russia on Wednesday, shooting down unmanned aircraft over at least six regions, and destroyed a Ukrainian naval attack on the annexed Crimean peninsula. Russian military aircraft were damaged and civilian aviation was disrupted in the drone attacks, said Russian officials, citing Pskov, Bryansk, Kaluga, Orlov, Ryazan and Moscow regions as targeted. Ukraine, which has yet to achieve a major success in its summer ground counteroffensive, has struck deep into Russia in recent months, including an attack on the Kremlin in May and numerous drone attacks on civilian targets in Moscow. Russia said Ukrainian drones tried to attack a TV tower over the Bryansk region. A Russian aircraft also destroyed four Ukrainian fast-attack boats carrying up to 50 paratroopers in an operation on the Black Sea, the military said.

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WASHINGTON, Aug 23 (Reuters) - The United States does not encourage or enable attacks inside Russia, a U.S. State Department spokesperson said after Russian authorities said they downed drones that tried to attack Moscow early on Wednesday. Drone strikes deep inside Russia have increased since two unmanned aircraft were destroyed over the Kremlin in early May. The United States, which has supplied Ukraine with massive assistance in the form of weapons and other military equipment to combat the Russian invasion, has consistently said it does not support attacks inside Russia. One drone hit a building under construction in central Moscow early on Wednesday, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said on his channel on Telegram, a messaging app. Moscow airports suspended flights early on Wednesday, Russia's TASS news agency reported.

Persons: Sergei Sobyanin, Kanishka Singh, Tom Hogue, Stephen Coates Organizations: U.S . State Department, State Department, Kremlin, Moscow, Russia's TASS, Defence Ministry, Thomson Locations: United States, Russia, U.S, Moscow, Ukraine, Russian, Bryansk, Washington

☆ Two Ukrainian drones shot down over Moscow region, flights briefly disrupted - Russia
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-22 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

REUTERS/Stringer Acquire Licensing RightsMOSCOW, Aug 22 (Reuters) - Russia shot down two Ukrainian drones over the Moscow region with no casualties and brought down a further two drones over the Bryansk region that borders Ukraine, the Russian Defence Ministry said on Tuesday. A Reuters reporter in the town of Krasnogorsk in the Moscow region, seat of the Moscow regional government, saw minor damage to tiling on a high-rise residential building and shattered glass exterior window panes in a few of its apartments. At least two people were injured a day earlier when parts of a Ukrainian drone destroyed by Russian air defences fell on a house in the Moscow region, the regional governor said. The Russian defence ministry said that nobody had been hurt in the latest attack. "Two drones were detected and destroyed by air defence systems over the territory of the Moscow region."

Persons: Stringer, GUR, Andriy Yusov, Andrew Osborn, Maria Tsvetkova, Jacqueline Wong, Michael Perry, Angus MacSwan Organizations: REUTERS, Rights, Russian Defence Ministry, Reuters, Police, Kremlin, TASS, Russian, Thomson Locations: Krasnogorsk, Russia, Moscow, Bryansk, Ukraine, Ukrainian, Odintsovo, Chastsy, Russian, Kyiv, Moscow's, Kaluga, New York

☆ Russia repels Ukrainian drone attack on Druzhba oil pipeline station, governor says
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-17 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

June 17 (Reuters) - Russian air defence units repelled a Ukrainian drone attack overnight on a pumping station on the Druzhba oil pipeline in the Bryansk region adjoining Ukraine, the region's governor said on Saturday. Three Ukrainian military drones were destroyed in the attack in the Novozybkov district, Alexander Bogomaz wrote on Telegram. Drone attacks inside Russia have been increasing in recent weeks, frequently targeting energy facilities. Russia blames Ukraine although Kyiv does not publicly acknowledge responsibility for them. The southern branch of the Soviet-era Druzhba pipeline crosses Ukraine and, despite the conflict there, continues to supply crude oil to Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic.

Persons: Alexander Bogomaz, Kevin Liffey, Frances Kerry Organizations: Reuters, Thomson Locations: Ukrainian, Bryansk, Ukraine, Novozybkov, Russia, Kyiv, Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Republic

☆ Russian TV airs apparent deepfake video of Putin ordering martial law amid reports Ukraine is on the attack
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-05 | by ( Sam Fellman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A fake Putin declared in a video address that Ukraine's army invaded Russia and he's ordering martial law. The fake video was aired, due to a reported hacking, in border areas where anxiety is already high. Russian sources reported increased Ukrainian attacks at positions along the front lines on Monday. The message delivered by fake Putin via television and radio seemed to play to these anxieties. The timing of the fake broadcast is also notable because Russian sources reported increased Ukrainian attacks at multiple positions along the long front lines on Monday.

Persons: Putin, —, Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Peskov Organizations: Service, Radio Mir, Putin Russian, NATO, New York Times Locations: Russia, Russia's, Ukrainian, Washington, Kursk, Belgorod, Bryansk

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke in Finland Friday about peace talks in Ukraine. "The prerequisite for meaningful diplomacy and real peace is a stronger Ukraine," he said. Blinken described the Russian invasion of Ukraine as a catastrophic strategic failure for Moscow that had strengthened NATO, the European Union and Ukraine. Ukrainian officials acknowledged their forces were responsible and claimed Russian ships were evacuating the port. The U.K. Ministry of Defense said the incursions could be a Ukrainian strategy to disperse Russian forces before a counteroffensive.

Persons: Antony Blinken, —, Blinken, Potemkin, Grigory Potemkin, Vladimir Putin, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Zelenskyy, Putin, Dmitry Peskov, Washington, Valerii Zaluzhnyi, Serhii Popko, Denis Pushilin, Vyacheslav Gladkov, Roman Starovoit, Alexander Bogomaz Organizations: Service, —, Kremlin, NATO, European Union, General's, Gov, Russia Legion, Air, Ministry of Defense Locations: Finland, Ukraine, United States, Russia, China, Moscow, Kyiv, Crimean, Sweden, Baltic, Beijing, Brazil, Western, Azov, Berdyansk, Russian, Zaporizhzhia, Ukrainian, Ukraine's, Donetsk province, Russia's Belgorod, Belgorod, Kursk, Russia's Bryansk, Russia's, Smolensk, Belarus

☆ Russia says two killed after Ukraine shelled border regions
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-02 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Governor of Russia's Belgorod Region Vyacheslav Gladkov via... Read moreJune 2 (Reuters) - The governor of Russia's Belgorod region said that two people were killed and two others injured on Friday after Ukraine shelled a town near the border, while officials in nearby regions reported overnight drone attacks. The Defence Ministry said its forces had repelled on Thursday three cross-border attacks by what it said were Ukrainian "terrorist formations" into the Belgorod region. Ukraine denies its military is involved in the incursions and says they are conducted by Russian volunteer fighters. Gladkov said on Friday at least one incident of shelling had been reported overnight in the Shebekino district, and over 2,500 people were being evacuated from the area. Russia denies targeting civilians or committing war crimes but its forces have devastated Ukrainian cities and repeatedly hit residential areas.

Persons: Read, Vyacheslav Gladkov, Gladkov, Vladimir Putin, Putin, Gareth Jones Organizations: Ukraine, Telegram, The Defence Ministry, Russian, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Russia, Ukraine, Shebekino, Belgorod, Russia's Belgorod, Maslova, Ukraine's, Kharkiv, Bryansk, Kursk, Smolensk, Russia's Kaluga, Ukrainian, Moscow

The incidents come one day after a drone attack on Moscow, for which Russia has blamed Ukraine. Kyiv has not yet commented on the drone attack or on Wednesday’s incidents in Belgorod and Krasnodar. Elsewhere on Wednesday, a drone attack was launched on Russia’s Bryansk region, state news agency RIA Novosti reported. Five people were killed and 19 injured in Ukrainian shelling of the village of Karpaty, in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian territory of Luhansk, the acting head of the self-declared Luhansk People’s Republic said on Telegram. Measures are being taken.”A damaged multi-storey apartment following a reported drone attack in Moscow on Tuesday.

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☆ Belarus president and Putin ally Alexander Lukashenko appears to confirm that 4 Russian military aircraft were shot down. The Kremlin has not yet acknowledged the downed aircraft.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-16 | by ( Azmi Haroun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko claimed that the four downed Russian aircraft were "shot down." According to Reuters, Lukashenko addressed Belarusian troops on Monday at the border with Ukraine. The Belarusian leader decisively claimed that the four aircraft were shot down — but did not say by whom. "Three days after the events near us — I mean in the Bryansk region, when four aircraft were shot down, we are forced to respond," Lukashenko said, according to Reuters. The crash signified the most Russian aircraft lost in a single day since March 2022, according to the pro-Russia Telegram channel Fighterbomber.

☆ 4 Russian military aircraft 'ambushed' and shot down near Ukrainian border, Russian media reports
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-14 | by ( Alia Shoaib | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Four Russian aircraft have been shot down near the Ukrainian border, per a Russian news outlet. It may be the most Russian aircraft lost in a single day during the war, a pro-Russia blog said. Kommersant did not provide evidence that the four aircraft had been downed, but several Russian pro-war military bloggers made the same claim, Reuters reported. Regional Russian authorities have confirmed the crash of one helicopter, per Russian state news agency Tass. A pro-Russia Telegram channel with close links to Russia's air force, called Fighterbomber, said it was the highest number of Russian aircraft lost in a single day "since March last year."

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