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☆ Russia-Ukraine war live updates: Russian drone attack kills rescue workers in Kharkiv; Russia says NATO dialog at 'zero' but does not seek conflict
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-04 | by ( Elliot Smith | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Military experts operate at the site of a Russian aerial bombing of a high-rise residential building in the Shevchenkivskyi district on March 27, 2024 in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Russian drone strikes on Kharkiv early Friday morning killed at least four people, including three rescue workers, and injured 12 more, according to Ukrainian officials. A repeat attack on a separate area of Ukraine's second-largest city killed three rescue workers who had arrived on the scene after the first strike, he added. As NATO foreign ministers gather in Brussels to mark the defense alliance's 75th anniversary, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko told state news agency RIA that dialog with Moscow had been reduced to a "critical zero" by Washington and Brussels. Grushko reportedly said relations were "predictably and deliberately" deteriorating, but that Russia has no intention of entering into open conflict with any NATO member.

Persons: Igor Terekhov, Alexander Grushko, Grushko Organizations: Kharkiv, NATO Locations: Shevchenkivskyi, Kharkiv, Ukraine, Russian, Brussels, Moscow, Washington, Russia

KYIV, Sept 10 (Reuters) - Russia launched an air attack on Kyiv early on Sunday, with blasts ringing out across the Ukrainian capital and its region for almost two hours and drone debris falling on several of the city's central districts, officials said. Reuters witnesses heard at least five blasts across Kyiv, and Ukrainian media footage showed a number of cars damaged. Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said that one person was injured in the historic Podil neighbourhood and a fire broke out near one of the city's parks. Debris from downed drones fell on the Darnytskyi, Solomianskyi, Shevchenkivskyi, Sviatoshynskyi and Podil districts, Klitschko and the city's military administration said. In the Shevchenkivskyi district, drone debris sparked a fire in an apartment, which was quickly distinguished.

Persons: Vitali Klitschko, Klitschko, Serhiy Popko, Tom Balmforth, Pavel Polityuk, Lidia Kelly, Elaine Monaghan, Daniel Wallis, William Mallard Organizations: Thomson Locations: Russia, Kyiv, Shevchenkivskyi, Moscow, Kostiantynivka, Melbourne, Washington

☆ Ukraine says Russia launches overnight drone attack on Kyiv
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-10 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Russia launched an air attack on Kyiv early on Sunday, with blasts ringing out across the Ukrainian capital and its region for almost two hours and drone debris falling on several of the city's central districts, Ukrainian officials said. Ukraine's Land Forces said that the country's air defense systems destroyed 25 out of 32 Russia-launched Iran-made Shahed drones, most of which targeted Kyiv and the Kyiv region. Reuters witnesses heard at least five blasts across Kyiv, and Ukrainian media footage showed a number of cars damaged. Debris from downed drones fell on the Darnytskyi, Solomianskyi, Shevchenkivskyi, Sviatoshynskyi and Podil districts, Klitschko and the city's military administration said. A Russian attack killed 17 on Wednesday in the eastern city of Kostiantynivka, according to Ukrainian officials.

Persons: Serhiy Popko, Vitali Klitschko, Klitschko, Popko Organizations: Ukraine's, Forces Locations: Russia, Iran, Kyiv, Shevchenkivskyi, Moscow, Kostiantynivka

☆ At Least Five Blasts Heard in Kyiv Early Sunday - Reuters Witnesses
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-09 | by ( Sept. | At P.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: 1 min

KYIV (Reuters) - At least five blasts were heard early Sunday across the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, Reuters witnesses reported, after Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko said air defence systems were engaged in repelling a Russian air attack. Klitschko wrote on the Telegram messaging app. He added that drone debris fell onto the Sviatoshynskyi, Shevchenkivskyi and Podil districts, sparking a fire near a park and hitting roads. According to preliminary information, there was one injury reported, Klitschko added. (Reporting by Tom Balmforth and Pavel Polityuk in Kyiv; Writing by Lidia Kelly; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)

Persons: Vitali Klitschko, Klitschko, Tom Balmforth, Pavel Polityuk, Lidia Kelly, Chizu Nomiyama Organizations: Reuters Locations: Kyiv

☆ At least five blasts heard in Kyiv early Sunday
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-09 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

KYIV, Sept 10 (Reuters) - At least five blasts were heard early Sunday across the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, Reuters witnesses reported, after Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko said air defence systems were engaged in repelling a Russian air attack. Klitschko wrote on the Telegram messaging app. He added that drone debris fell onto the Sviatoshynskyi, Shevchenkivskyi and Podil districts, sparking a fire near a park and hitting roads. According to preliminary information, there was one injury reported, Klitschko added. Reporting by Tom Balmforth and Pavel Polityuk in Kyiv; Writing by Lidia Kelly; Editing by Chizu NomiyamaOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Vitali Klitschko, Klitschko, Tom Balmforth, Pavel Polityuk, Lidia Kelly, Chizu Organizations: Reuters, Thomson Locations: Kyiv

CNN —One of Ukraine’s most powerful oligarchs has been arrested in a fraud investigation, state media in the country are reporting. A Kyiv court on Saturday ordered Ihor Kolomoisky, a key supporter of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s 2019 presidential campaign, to 60 days in pre-trial detention while authorities investigate fraud charges against him, reported Ukrinform. Kolomoisky’s media and banking businesses have made him one of the richest men in Ukraine. Video and photos showed Kolomoisky being led away from the district court in Kyiv. Earlier this year Zelensky fired a slew of senior Ukrainian officials over a corruption scandal linked to the procurement of war-time supplies.

Persons: Ihor Kolomoisky, Volodymyr Zelensky’s, Kolomoisky, Ukrinform, –, ”, Vasyl Maliuk, Zelensky, Arsen Avakov, Avakov Organizations: CNN, US State Department, State Department, Security Service of Ukraine, of Economic Security, General’s, Kolomoisky, “ Locations: Ukraine, Shevchenkivskyi, Kyiv, Europe, Russia

☆ One dead in drone attacks on Kyiv: Mayor
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-12 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

[1/3] A view of an explosion of a drone in the city during a Russian drone strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine July 13, 2023. Mayor Vitali Klitschko, writing on Telegram, said the body of one resident was recovered when emergency services put out a fire in the capital's historic Podil district. These included gains near the shattered city of Bakhmut, captured by Russian forces in May after months of battles. Maliar said Ukrainian forces had contained attempted Russian advances on towns to the north and west. Ukraine said this week its forces had control of elevated positions allowing for direct strikes on the city of Bakhmut.

Persons: Gleb Garanich, Vitali Klitschko, Klitschko, Serhiy Popko, Popko, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Hanna Maliar, Maliar, Ron Popeski, Sandra Maler, Michael Perry Organizations: REUTERS, Russian, Pictures, NATO, Deputy, Reuters, Russian Defence Ministry, Thomson Locations: Russian, Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukrainian, Podil, Bakhmut, Darnytskyi district, Shevchenkivskyi, Solomyanskyi district, Lithuania, Russia, Kherson, UKRAINE, BAKHMUT, Azov, Donetsk, Luhansk

☆ Explosion rocks court in Ukrainian capital, police on scene
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-05 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

KYIV, July 5 (Reuters) - Police rushed to a district court in Kyiv on Wednesday after receiving reports of an explosion which city authorities said may have been caused by a man detonating an explosive device. The Kyiv city military administration said the explosion took place at 5.20 p.m. (1420 GMT) in the Shevchenskivskyi court in the centre of the capital. It cited "preliminary information" that an explosive device had been detonated in a court toilet by a man who had been taken to a court hearing. "An extraordinary event took place in the Shevchenkivskyi Court of the city of Kyiv. The police received a report about the explosion," Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said.

Persons: Ihor Klymenko, Olena Harmash, Timothy Organizations: Police, Reuters, Timothy Heritage, Thomson Locations: Kyiv, Shevchenkivskyi, Russia, Ukraine

[1/4] Security forces operate at the site of a district court, where according to city authorities an explosive device was activated by a man inside a building, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine, July 5, 2023. REUTERS/Valentyn OgirenkoKYIV, July 5 (Reuters) - A man who detonated an explosive device at a court in the Ukrainian capital died on Wednesday after barricading himself inside part of the building, Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said, citing "preliminary information." Two members of a special rapid response security forces unit were hurt during attempts to bring the man under control at the Shevchenkivskyi court in the centre of the capital. Klymenko, briefing reporters at the scene, said the man had "presumably...died from the explosive device". After the hearing, he said the man had first locked himself into a bathroom and tossed an explosive device at two guards.

Persons: barricading, Ihor Klymenko, ., Klymenko, Ihor Humenyuk, Olena Harmash, Timothy Heritage, Ron Popeski, David Gregorio Our Organizations: Security, REUTERS, Ukrainian, Police, Thomson Locations: Ukraine, Kyiv, Valentyn, KYIV, Russia

KYIV, May 16 (Reuters) - Russia launched a fresh wave of air attacks on the Ukrainian capital early on Tuesday and Ukrainian officials said defence systems had shot down objects over several districts of Kyiv. It was not immediately known how many objects were shot down over the city and if any of them managed to hit their target. Kyiv's military administration said falling debris was reported in the capital's Obolonskyi, Shevchenkivskyi, Solomyanskyi and Darnytskyi districts. After a weeks-long hiatus, Russia in late April resumed its tactic of long-range missile strikes and has launched a flurry of attacks in recent days, often targeting Kyiv. Reporting by Gleb Garanich and Sergiy Karazy in Kyiv; Writing Lidia Kelly in Melbourne; Editing by Christopher CushingOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

May 9 (Reuters) - Russia launched about 15 cruise missiles at Ukraine's capital on Tuesday, the second attack in as many days, with air defence systems shooting all of them down, officials said, after air raid alerts blared over most of the country. "As at the front, the plans of the aggressor failed," Serhiy Popko, head of the Kyiv's city military administration, said in comments posted on the Telegram messaging app. Tuesday's attacks - the fifth in May - came a day after Russia launched its biggest drone swarm yet in a renewed air campaign unleashed 10 days ago after a lull since early March. "(They) try to kill as many civilians as possible - on this day," Popko said. Falling debris fell on a house in the Holosiivskyi district in the southwest of Kyiv, Kyiv's Mayor Vitalii Klitschko said on his Telegram messaging channel, adding there were no casualties or much damage.

☆ Russia launches new attack on Ukraine on Moscow's 'sacred' day
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-09 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

The attack - the fifth in May - came a day after Russia launched its biggest drone swarm yet in a renewed air campaign unleashed 10 days ago after a lull since early March. "Overnight into the 'sacred' May 9, (they) launched an attack on the territory of Ukraine," Ukraine's air force said on its Telegram messaging app. But Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin said he did not want to "spoil" Russia's Victory Day parade and would reveal more details later. Victory Day this year is even more emotionally charged as Russia mourns thousands of soldiers killed in the nearly 15-month war in Ukraine that shows no sign of ending. Putin has repeatedly likened the Ukraine war - which he casts as a battle against "Nazi"-inspired nationalists - to the challenge the Soviet Union faced when Hitler invaded in 1941.

KYIV, Dec 19 (Reuters) - Nine Iranian-made Shahed drones were shot down early on Monday in Kyiv's airspace in the latest attack by Russia on the city, the capital's military administration said on the Telegram messaging app. Several blasts were heard in the city and in the region surrounding the capital, Reuters witnesses reported. "The enemy is attacking the capital with 'Shahed' barrage ammunition," the administration said on the Telegram messaging app. A Reuters witness reported that there was a fire as a result of the attack in Kyiv's central - and often targeted - Shevchenkivskyi district. Reporting by Gleb Garanich and Valentyn Origienko; Writing in Melbourne by Lidia Kelly; Editing by Christopher Cushing & Shri NavaratnamOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Kyiv Hit by Drone Attacks as Russia Targets Infrastructure
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-17 | by ( Matthew Luxmoore | Isabel Coles | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

KYIV, Ukraine—Russia launched a fresh wave of Iranian-made drones to attack central Kyiv in the early hours of Monday, Ukrainian officials said, as Moscow presses a campaign targeting Ukraine’s energy infrastructure before the onset of winter. Rescue workers pulled 18 people from the rubble of a residential building that was damaged by a strike in the central Shevchenkivskyi district, said Kyiv’s mayor, Vitali Klitschko.

☆ Kyiv's central district rocked by blasts for the second time in week
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-17 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

The central Shevchenkivskyi district of Ukraine's capital was rocked by blasts early on Monday for the second time in a week, with Mayor Vitalii Klitshchko saying several residential buildings were damaged. "Rescuers are on the site," Klitshchko said on the Telegram messaging service, adding that as a result of what he said was a drone attack, a fire also broke out in a non-residential building. Shevchenkivskiy district, a busy hub with universities, student bars and restaurants, was hit by several explosions on Monday last week when Russia ordered the biggest aerial offensive against Ukrainian cities in retaliation for a blast on a bridge linking mainland Russia to Crimea. Andriy Yermak, head of the Ukrainian president's staff, said the attacks were carried out with so-called suicide drones. "Russians think this will help them, but such actions are just their convulsions," Yermak said on the Telegram messaging app.

☆ Explosions hit central Kyiv amid kamikaze drone strikes; heavy fighting rages in two hot spots in eastern Ukraine
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-17 | by ( Holly Ellyatt | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Residential buildings in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv have been damaged after drone attacks on a central district, according to the city's Mayor Vitali Klitschko and a senior government official. "As a result of the drone attack, a fire broke out in a non-residential building in the Shevchenkivskyi district of Kyiv. Several residential buildings were damaged," Klitschko said on Telegram. Russia has stepped up its use of attacks carried out by explosive-carrying drones in recent weeks, with various targets hit in Ukraine, particularly energy infrastructure. Heavy fighting is taking place in the eastern region of Donbas in Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Sunday, with Ukraine's military stating that Russian forces were on the offensive around Bakhmut.

Oct 17 (Reuters) - The central Shevchenkivskyi district of Ukraine's capital was rocked by blasts early on Monday for the second time in a week, with Mayor Vitalii Klitshchko saying several residential buildings were damaged. "Rescuers are on the site," Klitshchko said on the Telegram messaging service, adding that as a result of what he said was a drone attack, a fire also broke out in a non-residential building. read more1/2 People view the scene of Russian missile strikes, as Russia's attack continues, in Kyiv, Ukraine October 10, 2022. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko Read MoreAndriy Yermak, head of the Ukrainian president's staff, said the attacks were carried out with so-called suicide drones. "Russians think this will help them, but such actions are just their convulsions," Yermak said on the Telegram messaging app.

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