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☆ Russia-Ukraine war live updates: Moscow reports concert terror attack link to Kyiv; Zelenskyy says Ukraine stabilized battle positions
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-05 | by ( Natasha Turak | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky looks on during a press conference with French President at the presidential Elysee palace in Paris on February 16, 2024, after signing a bilateral security agreement. Ukraine has managed to "stabilize" its positions on the home battlefield, in "all those areas of the front where the Russian army expected to succeed at the moment," Ukrainian Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in his nightly address. Zelenskyy separately acknowledged four people were killed in Kharkiv in northeastern Ukraine on Thursday, following a Russian strike with an Iranian-make "Shahed" drone on a residential area. The toll included three rescuers from Ukraine's state emergency service. The Kyiv leader added he has spoken with the military to bolster air defense for Kharkiv, Sumy and the country's southern regions.

Persons: Volodymyr Zelensky, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Zelenskyy Organizations: French Locations: Paris, Ukraine, Kharkiv, Russian, Iranian, Sumy

☆ Ukraine takes out one of Russia's most feared drone aces, say reports
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-27 | by ( Rebecca Rommen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Reports from various sources, including messages posted by Moisey's wife, confirm the successful operation against the feared drone ace. A Ukrainian drone team, led by drone ace "Balu," successfully hunted down Moisey's team. Ukrainian FPV ace "Balu" published footage of the strike that led to the destruction of the Russian FPV ace "Moisey". However, analysts warn that Moisey and his team are replaceable, and a new drone team could come to terrorize the supply route. AdvertisementThis week, there were unconfirmed reports that Ukraine used US-supplied HIMARS to strike a group of Russian drone pilots who had assembled for training in the occupied part of the Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine.

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☆ Ukraine launched a barrage of attack drones at Crimea overnight, Russia says
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-05 | by ( Mia Jankowicz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Russia says Ukraine sent a wave of 41 drones over Crimea targets overnight on Monday. AdvertisementUkraine sent a wave of attack drones across Crimea overnight on Monday, Russian officials said, amid multiple unconfirmed reports of explosions on the peninsula. AdvertisementIn accounts cited across mainstream Ukrainian media, various prominent Telegram accounts reported explosions over eastern Crimea. The Kerch Bridge, which connects Russia to the Crimean peninsula, is a prime target for Ukraine. Meanwhile, Crimean Wind also reported explosions being heard there, and said that a Pantsir-S1 antiaircraft missile system was fired from the oil depot.

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CNN —At least 17 people have been killed, including a child, after a Russian missile struck a market in a town in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donetsk, officials said, one of the worst attacks in months. “Russian troops are terrorists who will not be forgiven and will not be left in peace,” Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal wrote on Telegram. “There will be a just retribution for everything.”Russian missile attacks regularly hit civilian areas but tolls this high are unusual. But footage of the attack shared by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky showed civilians walking along the market street before the missile struck on Wednesday afternoon. In a brief exchange with Ukrainian foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba, Blinken noted the “good progress” Ukraine has made in its counteroffensive.

Persons: Denys Shmyhal, Kostiantynivka, Volodymyr Zelensky, Zelensky, ” Zelensky, Utter, Antony Blinken, Dmytro Kuleba, Blinken, “, Rustem Umerov, Umerov Organizations: CNN, Dnipro, Ukrainian, Firefighters, Reuters, Ukrainian Defense Forces Locations: Russian, Ukrainian, Donetsk, Uman, Bakhmut, Ukraine, Kyiv, Russia, Kostiantynivka, Denmark

CNN —Ukrainian forces have retaken the village of Urozhaine in the eastern Donetsk region, Kyiv said on Wednesday, after days of punishing battles as part of its counteroffensive against Russia. It lies near the village of Staromaiorske, which Ukrainian soldiers liberated earlier this month. Troops were seen in video released by Kyiv's forces raising the Ukrainian flag in Urozhaine after reclaiming the village. Russian forces inside Urozhaine had been in a precarious situation for some time. It is about saving the lives of Ukrainian soldiers, minimizing losses… And most importantly, it is about de-escalation,” he added.

Persons: Andrii Kovalov, ”, Hanna Maliar, Urozhaine, ” Kovalov, Russia “, Lyman, Mykhailo Podolyak, “, Podolyak Organizations: CNN, Ukrainian, Wednesday, Troops, Kyiv's, Marine Brigade, Brigades, Urozhaine, Ukrainian Armed Forces Locations: Urozhaine, Donetsk, Russia, Ukrainian, Russian, Staromaiorske, ”, Ukraine, Bakhmut, Marinka, Azov, Crimea

☆ Moscow Says It Shot Down Two Ukrainian Missiles Over Russian Cities
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-28 | by ( Gaya Gupta | Paulo Motoryn | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Video Russian officials said a Ukrainian missile was shot down over the port city of Taganrog and exploded, injuring several people. The Russian Defense Ministry said the explosion was caused by one of two Soviet-era missiles fired into Russian territory by Ukraine and shot down by Russian air defenses. A top Ukrainian security official, Oleksiy Danilov, cast blame for the blast in Taganrog on the Russian air defense system. Earlier Friday, Russia’s Defense Ministry said it had shot down a drone aimed at the Moscow region; several recent strikes in Moscow were orchestrated by Ukraine using Ukrainian-made drones, according to senior Ukrainian officials. Shortly afterward, President Volodymyr Zelensky said that a high-rise and a security service building had been hit in the city of Dnipro, blaming “Russian missile terror.”Show more

Persons: Vasily Golubev, Golubev, Oleksiy Danilov, Mr, Danilov, ”, Dmitri S, Vladimir V, Putin, Volodymyr Zelensky, “ Organizations: Credit, Reuters, Russian Defense Ministry, ” Russia’s Defense Ministry, Russia’s Defense Ministry Locations: Ukrainian, Taganrog, Reuters Moscow, Russia, Ukraine, Azov, Russian, Odesa, Soviet, St . Petersburg, Moscow, Dnipro

☆ Latest news on Russia's war in Ukraine, Kyiv drone attack repelled
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-25 | by ( Chris Lau | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Ukrainian forces have made gains along the southern front, according to Kyiv military officials and battlefield reports. Ukrainian forces are "entrenching themselves in the reached positions,” he said, adding that Russian troops were "resisting strongly." In an update Tuesday, the general staff said Russian forces continued to focus on preventing Ukraine’s advances along the southern front, indicating stiff resistance. “They managed to force units of the armed forces of the Russian Federation to retreat to more advantageous positions,” Russian military blogger War Gonzo said. In the east: Ukrainian forces drove back the Russians near Andriivka, just south of the embattled city of Bakhmut, spokesperson Kovalov also claimed.

Persons: Andrii Kovalov, “, ”, Gonzo, Kovalov Organizations: Ukrainian, Ukrainian Defense Forces, Russian Federation Locations: Staromaiorske, ”, Velyka Novosilka, Russian, Melitopol, Orikhiv, Ukraine, Robotyne, Ukrainian, Andriivka, Bakhmut

☆ Why the Crimean Bridge is so important to Vladimir Putin
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-17 | by ( Lauren Kent | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Also known as the Kerch Bridge, it holds personal value for Russian President Vladimir Putin. Here’s what you need to know:Why is the bridge so important to Russia? The Kerch Bridge is strategically important because it links Russia’s Krasnodar region with Crimea, which was illegally annexed by Russia from Ukraine in 2014. Rail traffic across the Crimea bridge is continuing to operate on Monday, albeit with delays, according to video on social media, a Russian official and Russian state media. A widely circulating video, which appears to have been captured this morning from a train passing on the parallel rail bridge, shows significant damage to one of the bridge’s road spans.

Persons: Vladimir Putin, Putin, Staff, ” Vladimir Konstantinov, Boris Rozhin, “, ” Putin, Dmitry Peskov, Marat Khusnullin, Ukraine Andrii Yusov, ”, ” Yusov Organizations: CNN, CNN Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukrainian military’s, State Council of, Novosti, TASS, Russian, Ukraine’s Security, Defense Intelligence Locations: Russia, Ukrainian, Ukraine, Moscow, Kerch, Crimea, Russian, Kyiv, Krasnodar, Europe, Kherson, Republic of Crimea

The Kerch Strait Bridge that links the Crimean Peninsula to mainland Russia, in March. Russian officials blamed Ukraine for the attack on the Kerch Strait Bridge. Ukrainian officials offered no comment on the incident. Video and photographs verified by The Times showed damage to both sides of the road bridge, with the most significant being along a span of the bridge heading into Russia. The attack came as Ukrainian forces were engaged in an ambitious and grinding counteroffensive aimed at driving Russian forces from southern Ukraine.

Persons: Yusov, ”, Vladimir Rogov, Vladimir Konstantinov, Sergei Aksyonov, —, Vyacheslav Gladkov, Aksyonov, Mazaeva, Ivan Nechepurenko Organizations: The Times, Ministry, Transport, Russian Federation, Ukrainian, Crimean Locations: Kerch, Crimean, Russia, Ukraine, Russian, Moscow, Crimea, Sevastopol, Belgorod

☆ Live updates: Russia's war in Ukraine, fresh attacks on Kyiv
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-16 | by ( Tara Subramaniam | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

There’s been little change on the front lines in Ukraine over the past day, according to the Ukrainian military — but plenty of shelling. “Ukrainian defense forces repelled numerous enemy attacks near the town of Mariinka,” it said. The General Staff said the Russians had launched more attacks with S-300 missiles against the town of Kostiantynivka, which lies west of Bakhmut. Geolocated social media video also shows Russian attacks in the Kharkiv region, where the two sides are separated by the river Oskil in some areas. The General Staff said that in Russian-occupied areas, civilians were still being pressured to take Russian citizenship.

☆ Wagner Group can only afford to throw soldiers into Bakhmut's 'meat grinder' for another 2 months before it runs out of men, Ukrainian commander says
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-12 | by ( Mia Jankowicz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The Wagner Group will exhaust itself in Bakhmut within two months, a Ukrainian commander said. An unnamed NATO official told CNN in March that Russians were dying at five times the rate of the defending Ukrainian forces in the city. On Friday, UK military intelligence said it is "highly likely" that Russian forces had advanced to the city center. "I can confidently state that the Ukrainian defense forces control a much larger percentage of the territory of Bakhmut," the Ukrainian commander told CNN, without specifying a figure. The Institute for the Study of War estimated that, as of Tuesday, Russian forces controlled 76.5% of the territory.

☆ An elite Russian brigade of 5,000 soldiers has been destroyed and reformed as many as 8 times after heavy losses, report says
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-26 | by ( Alia Shoaib | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The same Russian brigade has been destroyed and reconstituted 8 times since the start of the war. The Russian 155th Naval Infantry Brigade suffered heavy losses in attempts to take Vuhledar. At one point the entire brigade, which consisted of 5,000 troops, was reported to be destroyed near Vuhledar. Dmytrashkivskyi estimated at the time that Russian forces were losing 150-300 marines a day near the coal-mining town. Some of these military bloggers have criticized the Russian military command for ordering ineffective human-wave style frontal assaults in Vuhledar, according to ISW.

☆ How US-supplied shells crammed with anti-tank mines helped defeat a brigade of Russian marines in the battle for Vuhledar
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-25 | by ( Alia Shoaib | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Ukraine's unexpected use of remote mines helped give it the upper hand in fighting in eastern Ukraine. Ukraine has been using US-supplied remote anti-armor mines fired in shells to destroy Russian tanks. The US has sent Ukraine at least 7,200 RAAM shells in its aid packages. Russian forces have struggled to counter Ukraine's mines, particularly RAAM shells raining from above. Despite multiple assaults, Russian forces appear to be floundering and facing mounting losses as Ukraine continues to push back.

☆ A Russian marine who survived bitter fighting in Vuhledar says soldiers left alive are being treated like deserters: 'It would have been better if I had been captured'
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-16 | by ( Sinéad Baker | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A Russian marine who survived a major battle in Vuhledar said survivors are treated as deserters. There were just eight survivors in one company, he told Russian media outlet 7x7. The marine, part of the 155th Marine Brigade of the Pacific Fleet, told Russian media outlet 7x7 that "it would have been better if I had been captured and never returned." So far things have not gone to plan, according to Russian military bloggers, Ukrainian officials, and reports of the battle. Ukrainian military drones have also captured the scenes of chaos, including Russian tanks running into minefields and being blown up, CNN reported.

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