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☆ Russia's drones, missiles target Ukraine's critical infrastructure, Kyiv says
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-28 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Ukrainian sappers load the remains of an undetonated rocket into a truck following a missile attack in Kyiv on January 23, 2024. (Photo by Genya SAVILOV / AFP) (Photo by GENYA SAVILOV/AFP via Getty Images)Russia launched drone and missile attacks targeting civilian and critical infrastructure across wide areas of Ukraine, Kyiv's Air Force said on Sunday. Preliminary information did not show any casualties in the attacks, the air force said on the Telegram messaging app. Russia and Ukraine have increased their air attacks on each other's territory in recent months, targeting critical military, energy and transport infrastructure. Ukraine's air defense systems destroyed four of eight Russia-launched drones overnight, the air force said.

Persons: Genya SAVILOV, GENYA SAVILOV, Filip Pronin, Yuri Malashko, Malashko Organizations: Getty Images, Kyiv's Air Force, Reuters Locations: Kyiv, Ukraine, AFP, Russia, Poltava, Donetsk, Kremenchuk, Zaporizhzhia

☆ Russian Missiles Hit Industrial Target in Central Ukraine -Governor
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-27 | by ( Jan. | At P.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: 1 min

(Reuters) -Russian missiles struck an industrial site in the central Ukrainian city of Kremenchuk on Saturday, sparking a fire, the local governor said. Filip Pronin, governor of Poltava region, wrote on the Telegram messaging app that two Russian ballistic missiles had hit the target in the city. Pictures posted online showed emergency crews battling a blaze. Further southeast in Zaporizhzhia region, local governor Yuri Malashko said an infrastructure site had been hit in a drone attack. Emergency crews were at the site, but Malashko gave no details of damage or casualties.

Persons: Filip Pronin, Yuri Malashko, Malashko, Ron Popeski, Maria Starkova, Andrea Ricci Organizations: Reuters Locations: Russian, Ukrainian, Kremenchuk, Poltava, Zaporizhzhia

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian attacks in Ukraine wounded at least 14 civilians over the past day, officials said Saturday, as the president of the European Union's executive arm returned to the Ukrainian capital to meet with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Overall, 26 cities and settlements in the region came under attack over the past day, he said. He said that attacks in the region came from artillery, mortars, drones, warplanes and tanks. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen arrived in Kyiv on Saturday morning and was met by Zelenskyy at the train station. This is impressive to see,” von der Leyen said after the meeting with Zelenskyy.

Persons: Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Malashko, Oleksandr Prokudin, Serhii Lysak, Ursula von der Leyen, Zelenskyy, von der Leyen, ” von der Leyen, “ Organizations: Gov, EU Locations: KYIV, Ukraine, Russian, Zarichne, Kherson, Dnipropetrovsk, Kyiv, russia, ukraine

☆ Russian Missile Attack on Apartment Block Kills 2, Ukrainian Officials Say
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-18 | by ( Constant Méheut | More About Constant Méheut | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Two people were killed and three others wounded when a Russian missile hit an apartment building in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia early Wednesday, the local authorities said. The strike was part of a larger attack in which six Russian missiles damaged transportation infrastructure and homes in Zaporizhzhia overnight, according to Yuri Malashko, the head of the regional military administration. “People were sleeping peacefully,” Mr. Malashko said in a statement accompanied by photographs showing a gutted building with part of its facade collapsed. Mr. Malashko said that three people were still missing. Early this month, a missile strike on a village cafe in northeastern Ukraine killed nearly 60 people, one of the biggest losses of civilian life since the war began.

Persons: Yuri Malashko, ” Mr, Malashko Organizations: “ Locations: Russian, Ukrainian, Zaporizhzhia, Russia, Ukraine

☆ Russian attacks on Ukraine kill five civilians, damage power grid - Kyiv
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-18 | by ( Serhiy Chalyi | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/5] Local residents stand in front of a residential building damaged by a Russian missile strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine October 18, 2023. REUTERS/Stringer Acquire Licensing RightsZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Russian attacks overnight and on Wednesday killed at least five civilians in Ukraine and damaged the power grid in the northeastern city of Kharkiv, Ukrainian officials said. Officials in Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-biggest city, said the local power grid was damaged in a Russian air strike and that outages were possible. A Moscow-installed official in part of the Zaporizhzhia region controlled by Russia since soon after last year's invasion blamed the strikes on Ukrainian forces. He also reported seven drone attacks on nearby villages and Russian artillery fire on settlements near the front line.

Persons: Stringer, Oleksandr Prokudin, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Yuriy Malashko, Olena Harmash, Pavel Polityuk, Lidia Kelly, Timothy Organizations: REUTERS, Reuters, Timothy Heritage, Thomson Locations: Russian, Ukraine, Zaporizhzhia, Kharkiv, Obukhivka, Dnipropetrovsk, Kherson, Ukraine's, Moscow, Russia, Kyiv, Melbourne

☆ 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.

Persons: Vladimir Putin, Putin, Josep Borrell, Borrell, Malashko, Serhii Borzov, Vyacheslav Gladkov Organizations: Senezh, Russia's, Commission, Russia's Defense, Ukraine, EU Foreign Affairs, Security, Gov, Romania's Ministry of National Defense, Romanian Army, NATO, Belgorod Gov, Local Locations: Russia, Solnechnogorsk, Moscow region, Moscow, Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, Red Square, Ukraine, EU, Odesa, Russian, Ukraine's, Matviivka, Mykolaiv, Vinnytsia, Ukrainian, Kalynivka, Romania, Galati, Tulcea, Belgorod, Russia's Bryansk, Pogar

☆ Ukraine targets a key Crimean city a day after striking Russia's Black Sea Fleet headquarters
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-23 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Ukraine on Saturday morning launched another missile attack on Sevastopol on the occupied Crimean Peninsula, a Russian-installed official said, a day after an attack on the headquarters of Russia's Black Sea Fleet left a serviceman missing and the main building smoldering. The Russian Defense Ministry initially said that Friday's strike killed one service member at the Black Sea Fleet headquarters, but later issued a statement that he was missing. It said the air force conducted 12 strikes on the Black Sea Fleet headquarters, targeting areas where personnel, military equipment and weapons were concentrated. Crimea has served as the key hub supporting Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Sevastopol, the main base of Russia's Black Sea Fleet since the 19th century, has had particular importance for navy operations since the start of the war.

Persons: Sevastopol Mikhail Razvozhaev, Razvozhaev, Mikhail Razvozhayev, Vladimir Putin, Read, Biden, Kyrylo Budanov, Alexander Romanchuk, couldn't, Yuri Malashko, Malashko, Oleksandr Prokudin, Prokudin Organizations: Saturday, Fleet, Ukraine Telegram, Ukrainian, America, Black, Russian Defense Ministry, Institute for, Military, Russia, Gov Locations: Sevastopol, Sevastopol Shipyard, Crimea, Ukraine, Crimean, Russian, Vilne, Russia, Dnipropetrovsk, Kherson

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine on Saturday morning launched another missile attack on Sevastopol on the occupied Crimean Peninsula, a Russian-installed official said, a day after an attack on the headquarters of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet that left a serviceman missing and the main building smoldering. Ukraine's intelligence chief, Kyrylo Budanov, told Voice of America on Saturday that at least nine people were killed and 16 others wounded as a result of Kyiv's attack on the Black Sea Fleet on Friday. The Russian Defense Ministry initially said that the strike killed one service member at the Black Sea Fleet headquarters, but later issued a statement that he was missing. It said the air force conducted 12 strikes on the Black Sea Fleet headquarters, targeting areas where personnel, military equipment and weapons were concentrated. Sevastopol, the main base of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet since the 19th century, has had a particular importance for navy operations since the start of the war.

Persons: Mikhail Razvozhayev, Vladimir Putin, Kyrylo Budanov, Alexander Romanchuk, couldn't, Joe Biden, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Yuri Malashko, Malashko, Oleksandr Prokudin, Prokudin, Matthew Lee Organizations: —, Saturday, Fleet, Ukraine Telegram, Ukrainian, America, Black, Russian Defense Ministry, Institute for, Military, White, Army Tactical Missile, Russia, Gov Locations: KYIV, Ukraine, — Ukraine, Sevastopol, Crimean, Russian, Vilne, Crimea, Russia, U.S, Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Kherson, Washington, russia, ukraine

CNN —Signs are growing that Ukrainian forces have penetrated the first line of Russian defenses along part of the southern front lines in Zaporizhzhia region, and are expanding a wedge in the direction of the strategic town of Tokmak. “Otryady Kadyrovtsy” [Kadyrov Detachments] painted a similar picture, saying: “Heavy fighting continues in the Robotyne area. On Thursday, the spokeswoman for Ukraine’s southern command, Nataliya Humenyuk, said Russian forces were bringing more forces to the Zaporizhzhia area from Kherson to the south, due to the heavy casualties among units already there. Yurii Malashko, head of Zaporizhzhia region military administration, said there were almost no buildings left standing in Robotyne after weeks of fighting in the area. “The Ukrainian forces’ ability to advance to the outskirts of Robotyne – which Russian forces have dedicated significant effort, time, and resources to defend – remains significant even if Ukrainian gains are limited at this time,” the ISW said.

Persons: Valerii, ” Ukraine’s, “, ”, Ratynskyi, “ We’re, Nataliya Humenyuk, Yurii Malashko, ” ISW Organizations: CNN, Ukrainian, Staff, General Staff, Reuters Ukrainian, Russian, Combined Arms Army, ”, Reuters, Kadyrov, Washington DC, Ukraine Locations: Zaporizhzhia, Tokmak, Novoprokopivka, Ocheretuvate, Robotyne ., Robotyne, Russia, Verbove, Ukrainian, Ukraine, Mala Tokmachka, Russian, Kherson, Azov, Crimea, Donetsk

☆ Russian missile hits hotel used by UN in Zaporizhzhia -officials
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-10 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

[1/5] A view shows a site of a Russian missile strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine August 10, 2023. REUTERS/Viacheslav RatynskyiLVIV, Ukraine, Aug 10 (Reuters) - A Russian missile struck a hotel in the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia on Thursday evening, leaving one dead and 16 injured, Ukrainian officials said. National police said an Iskander missile hit the city at 7:20 p.m. (1620 GMT). A fire broke out in a civilian building after the occupiers hit it with a missile," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said. Two young women and a man were killed and nine other people were wounded in a Russian missile attack on Wednesday.

Persons: Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Yuriy Malashko, Denise Brown, Maria Starkova, Maria Tsvetkova, Leslie Adler, Cynthia Osterman, Chris Reese Organizations: REUTERS, National, United Nations, Thomson Locations: Russian, Ukraine, Zaporizhzhia, Viacheslav, LVIV, Ukrainian, Dnipro, Lviv, New York

CNN —Three drones were intercepted in “Moscow City” in an attempted attack on Sunday on the business and shopping development in the west of the Russian capital, Russia’s Ministry of Defense said. Russian state news agency TASS reported the attack, attributing it to security sources. Second drone attack in a weekSunday’s drone attack was the second reported in Moscow in the past week. Ukrainian forces carried out drone strikes on July 24, Ukrainian officials confirmed with CNN, adding that security forces were responsible for the strike. Russian officials said it was a “terrorist attack of the Kiev regime.”Ukrainian Minister Mykhailo Fedorov whose Digital Transformation Ministry oversees the country’s “Army of Drones” procurement plan, said there would be more strikes to come.

Persons: “, ”, Yurii Malashko, Mykhailo Fedorov, Stringer, Vladimir Putin, Putin Organizations: CNN, ”, Russia’s Ministry of Defense, Defense Ministry, Russia’s Defense Ministry, TASS, Interior Ministry, Transformation Ministry, “ Army, Drones Locations: “ Moscow, Russia’s, Odintsovo, Moscow, Moscow City, Russia, Crimea, Ukraine, Russian, Ukrainian, Sumy, Zaporizhzhia, Kiev, Russian Africa, St . Petersburg

☆ Russia hits grain terminals in southern Ukraine - governor
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-21 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Press service of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine/Handout via REUTERSKYIV, July 21 (Reuters) - Russian missiles hit grain terminals at an agricultural enterprise in the Odesa region in a fourth successive night of air strikes on southern Ukraine, the regional governor said on Friday. Odesa's regional governor, Oleh Kiper, said two people had been hurt in the attack on an agricultural enterprise but did not say where in the region the enterprise was located. "Unfortunately, the grain terminals of an agricultural enterprise in Odesa region were hit. He said two missiles hit the grain storage facilities, causing a fire. Yuriy Malashko, the governor of the southern region of Zaporizhzhia, reported 80 Russian attacks on settlements in the region in the previous 24 hours, and said that four people had been killed.

Persons: Oleh Kiper, Kiper, Yuriy Malashko, Anna Pruchnicka, Kim Coghill, Timothy Organizations: Press, State Emergency Service of, REUTERS, Timothy Heritage, Thomson Locations: Russian, Ukraine, Odesa region, State Emergency Service of Ukraine, Handout, REUTERS KYIV, Odesa, Moscow, Russia, Zaporizhzhia, Kostiantynivka, Donetsk

☆ Russia hits Ukraine's grain for fourth day, practises seizing ships
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-21 | by ( Olena Harmash | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

Moscow has described the attacks as revenge for a Ukrainian strike on a Russian-built bridge to Crimea - the Ukrainian Black Sea peninsula illegally annexed by Moscow in 2014. Russia's defence ministry on Friday said its Black Sea fleet had practised firing rockets at "floating targets" and apprehending ships. The president of Turkey, which brokered the deal alongside the U.N. said, he hoped planned talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin could lead to the restoration of the initiative. Western leaders have accused Russia of seeking to loosen sanctions imposed over its invasion of Ukraine, which already exempt exports of Russian food. Russian grain has moved freely through the Black Sea to market throughout the conflict and traders say Russia is pouring wheat onto the market.

Persons: Oleh Kiper, Vladimir Putin, Tayyip Erdogan, Putin, WAGNER, Russia's Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, Wagner, Yuriy Malashko, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Joe Biden's, Zelenskiy, Anna Pruchnicka, Philippa Fletcher, Peter Graff Organizations: Press Service, Operational Command, Ukrainian Armed Forces, NATO, Poland KYIV, UN, Washington, . Security, Ukraine, United, U.S, West, Thomson Locations: Russian, Ukraine, Odesa region, Russia, Poland, Odesa, Moscow, Crimea, Ukrainian, Washington, Turkey, Gulf, Cyprus, POLAND, Polish, Belarus, People, Zaporizhzhia, Kostiantynivka, Donetsk, Iranian, United States, Russia's, Kyiv, KYIV

☆ Russia has 'sufficient stockpile' of cluster bombs, says Putin, as Ukraine gets U.S. cluster bombs
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-16 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Russian President Vladimir Putin tours an exhibition of promising Russian companies during the forum "Strong ideas for the new time" in Moscow, Russia June 29, 2023. Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview published Sunday that Russia has a "sufficient stockpile" of cluster munitions, and warned that Russia "reserves the right to take reciprocal action" if Ukraine uses the controversial weapons. In his first comments on the delivery of cluster munitions to Ukraine from the U.S., Putin said that Russia has not used cluster bombs in its war in Ukraine so far. The Pentagon said Thursday that cluster munitions provided by the United States had arrived in Ukraine. Proponents argue that Russia has already been using cluster munitions in Ukraine and that the weapons the U.S. is providing have been improved to leave behind far fewer unexploded rounds.

Persons: Vladimir Putin, Putin, Pavel Zarubin, Joe Biden, Pavlo Kyrylenko, Oleksandr Prokudin, Yurii Malashko, Mikhail Razvozhaev, Vyacheslav Gladkov Organizations: The Associated Press, Telegram, Pentagon, United, U.S, Ukrainian, Staff, Gov, Russian, General's, Regional Gov Locations: Moscow, Russia, Ukraine, U.S, United States, Donetsk, Kherson, Kherson region, Yurii, Zaporizhzhia, Stepnohirsk, Russian, Crimea, Sevastopol, Russia's Belgorod, Shebekino

☆ One killed in Russian attacks on Ukraine as Zelenskiy talks to NATO
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-12 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

KYIV, July 12 (Reuters) - Russia launched a drone strike on Kyiv early on Wednesday, and an old man was killed in Russian shelling in southern Ukraine as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy met NATO leaders in Lithuania, Ukrainian officials said. But an 81-year-old man was killed and his 82-year-old wife wounded in shelling of the southern city of Kherson, Kherson region governor Oleksandr Prokudin said. The Russian shelling and heavy fighting did not stop as Zelenskiy was meeting NATO leaders to discuss security threats posed by Moscow, which denounced the Western military alliance's summit in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius. On Tuesday, Russia drones also attacked Kyiv and the southern port of Odesa, and Kherson came under artillery fire. Russia's TASS news agency cited military groupings as saying they had repelled several Ukrainian attacks in the Luhansk region of eastern Ukraine over the past day.

Persons: Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Oleksandr Prokudin, Yuriy Malashko, Zelenskiy, Olena Harmash, Anna Pruchnicka, Lidia Kelly, Timothy Organizations: NATO, Kyiv, Reuters, TASS, Timothy Heritage, Thomson Locations: Russia, Ukraine, Lithuania, Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Russian, Moscow, Lithuanian, Vilnius, Kyiv, Cherkasy, Odesa, Ukrainian, Bakhmut, Luhansk

☆ Russia launches overnight air attack on Ukraine from east to west
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-20 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/2] An explosion of a drone is seen in the sky over the city during a Russian drone strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine June 20, 2023. REUTERS/Gleb GaranichJune 20 (Reuters) - Russia launched a widespread overnight air attack on Ukraine targeting the capital and cities from east to west as most of the country spent the night with air raid sirens blasting for several hours. "Another massive air attack on the capital," Popko said. Yuriy Malashko, head of the military administration of the Zaporizhzhia region in southeast Ukraine, said on the Telegram messaging app that Russia's raid targeted telecommunication infrastructure and agriculture and farming properties. The top military command said that Russia launched seven missiles in the attack on Zaporizhzhia, according to preliminary reports.

Persons: Gleb Garanich, Serhiy Popko, Popko, Yuriy Malashko, Lidia Kelly, Kim Coghill, Michael Perry Organizations: REUTERS, General, of Ukraine's Armed Forces, NATO, Russia, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Russian, Ukraine, Kyiv, Russia, Lviv, Poland, Zaporizhzhia, Melbourne

☆ Explosions heard in Kyiv, other Ukrainian cities - authorities
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-04 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

May 4 (Reuters) - Explosions were heard in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and other cities in the early hours of Thursday morning, officials and media outlets said, with some local authorities reporting that anti-aircraft defences were at work. The latest blasts were reported less than 24 hours after Kyiv said 21 people died in a Russian strike on the city of Kherson. "Air defences are working in the Kyiv region," the regional military administration said on Telegram. Ukrainian public broadcaster Suspilne reported explosions in the southern city of Zaporizhzhia. Yuri Malashko, the head of the Zaporizhzhia regional military administration, said on Telegram that anti-aircraft defences were at work.

☆ Ukrainian forces reportedly cross a key river, raising hopes
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-23 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

Ukrainian military forces have successfully established positions on the eastern side of the Dnieper River, according to a new analysis, giving rise to speculation Sunday that the advances could be an early sign of Kyiv's long-awaited spring counteroffensive. In the south, the Dnieper has for months marked the contact line in the Kherson region, where its namesake capital is regularly pummeled by shelling from Russian forces stationed across the river. The think tank cited comments from financier Yevgeniy Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner Group — a private Russian military company whose fighters have spearheaded the offensive on Bakhmut. Russian forces on Saturday and overnight also dropped five guided aerial bombs over the Kherson region, Ukraine's Operational Command South said in a Facebook post Sunday. In the neighboring Zaporizhzhia region, Russian shelling wounded a 56-year-old man in Stepnohirsk, a town on the banks of the Dnieper river, local Gov.

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