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☆ Kharkiv: Life goes on as Russian advance menaces city
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-19 | by ( Andrew Carey | Daria Tarasova-Markina | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +17 min

Kharkiv, Ukraine CNN —Thirty miles to the north, Russian forces are invading again. 00:41 - Source: CNNHotel manager Olha SokolenkoOlha Sokolenko, director of Kharkiv Palace Hotel, was in the hotel at the moment of the strike. This is my homeland.”Kharkiv’s mayorKharkiv's mayor, Ihor Terekhov, was elected just a few months before the Ukraine war broke out. To send signals both to Kharkiv residents who stay here that life goes on, and signals to those outside of Kharkiv that Kharkiv is a Ukrainian city and people live here.”Lomako explains that he and his partners traveled across the country to collect local recipes and techniques. Kharkiv theater goes undergroundThis theater in Kharkiv is one of several city institutions forced underground by the war.

Persons: Yuriy Sapronov, Sapronov, Chasiv Yar, ”, Yuriy, Daria Tarasova, ” Sapronov, Olha Sokolenko, Sokolenko, Olha, “, Kolotay, Cristiano Ronaldo, Matviy, Mikhaylo Galushko, ” Galushko, Ihor Terekhov, Volodymyr Zelensky, ” Terekhov, Borys Lomako, “ It’s, ” Lomako, Lomako, Dmytro Gurov’s, Dmytro Gurov, CNN Gurov, Gurov, it’s, Oksana Stetsenko, ” Stetsenko, Neda Nezhdana Organizations: CNN, Ukraine CNN, Emergency Service, Soviet, Kharkiv, CNN Hotel, Hotel, ” FC Metalist Kharkiv Matviy Kolotay, FC Metalist Kharkiv, Hirnyk Sport, Coaches, FC Metalist, English, Everton, UEFA, Kharkiv's, Russia, Hyundai, Russian, Employees, Schools Locations: Kharkiv, Ukraine, Russian, Ukraine’s, Che, Russia, “, Kaliningrad, Soviet Union, Soviet, Kyiv, Kremenchuk, Uzhhorod, Poltava, Ukrainian, Dnipro

☆ Zelenskyy fires more aides in a reshuffle as Russia launches drones and missiles across Ukraine
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-30 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine is speaking during a joint briefing with Prime Minister of Greece Kyriakos Mitsotakis outside the Transfiguration Cathedral, which was destroyed by Russian shelling, in Odesa, Ukraine, on March 6, 2024. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dismissed a longtime aide and several advisers on Saturday in a continuing reshuffle while Russia unleashed fresh attacks overnight. Zelenskyy dismissed top aide Serhiy Shefir from his post of first assistant, where he had served since 2019. Ukraine's air force said Saturday that Russia launched 12 Shahed drones overnight, nine of which were shot down, and fired four missiles into eastern Ukraine. Russia has escalated its attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure in recent days, causing significant damage in several regions.

Persons: Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Zelenskyy, Serhiy Shefir, Oleksii Danilov, Valerii Zaluzhnyi, Centrenergo, Serhiy Lisak Organizations: Greece Kyriakos Mitsotakis, National Security and Defense Council, Russia, Gov Locations: Ukraine, Greece, Odesa, Russia, United Kingdom, Kharkiv, Poltava, Kherson, Dnipropetrovsk

☆ Heading platoons, repairing machines and doing twice as much: How the war has changed Ukrainian women
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-09 | by ( Svitlana Vlasova | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Before the war, having a young woman in charge of an all-male Ukrainian military unit might have given the troops pause. She works in a repair department of the Ukrainian Railways in the Poltava region. With women making up 40% of Ukrainian Railways’ employees, she is likely not the only one. Halyna Shevchenko, left, is among the Ukrainian women stepping up during the war to do what have traditionally been seen as "men's jobs." The company has also started training women to be boiler operators – a job women didn’t tend to do before the war.

Persons: Oksana Rubanyak’s, Rubanyak, It’s, ”, “, Halyna Shevchenko, Shevchenko, Natalia Teryakhina, didn’t Organizations: CNN —, CNN, Armed Forces of, ”, National Bank of Ukraine, Ukrainian Railways, Department of Information, Public Strategic Communications Locations: Ukrainian, Ukraine, Russia, Armed Forces of Ukraine, Bakhmut, –, Poltava

☆ 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

☆ Russia says it hit air defence HQ in Ukraine's Dnipro
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-03 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

MOSCOW, Dec 3 (Reuters) - Russian forces hit a fortified commander post of Ukraine's "East" air defence and alerting centre in the central city of Dnipro, the Russian defence ministry said on Sunday. It said that it inflicted combined strikes by operational-tactical and army aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles, missile forces and artillery. Earlier on Sunday, Ukraine's air force said Russia launched 12 drones and a cruise missile at Ukraine overnight, with air defence systems destroying 10 drones before they reached their targets. Russia's defence ministry also said it its daily dispatch that it hit fuel depots in the areas of Myrhorod, Poltava region and the city of Khmelnytskyi, an ammunition arsenal in the Mykolaiv region as well as manpower and equipment in 107 various districts. Reporting by Vladimir Soldatkin; editing by Guy FaulconbridgeOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Vladimir Soldatkin, Guy Faulconbridge Organizations: Reuters, Thomson Locations: MOSCOW, Dnipro, Russia, Ukraine, Myrhorod, Poltava, Khmelnytskyi, Mykolaiv

☆ Russian drone hits oil refinery, frontline attacks repelled -Ukraine military
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-01 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Firefighters work at an oil refinery which was hit during Russia's drone attacks in Kremenchuk, Poltava region, Ukraine November 1, 2023. "The focus of the attack was Poltava region, it was attacked in several waves," Air Force spokesperson Yuriy Ihnat told national television. A video posted by the Ukrainian military showed its forces destroying a Russian flamethrower system near Avdiivka, an attack it said could be observed for dozens of kilometres. Russian forces shell the river's western bank almost daily. In Poltava region, three villages lost electricity after power lines and an unnamed infrastructure facility were damaged, the Energy Ministry said on Telegram.

Persons: Administration Filip Pronin, Filip Pronin, Yuriy Ihnat, Oleksandr Kovalenko, Kovalenko, Natalia Khomeniuk, Andriy Raikovych, Pavel Polityuk, Lidia Kelly, Ron Popeski, Alison Williams, Gareth Jones, Grant McCool Organizations: Poltava Regional, Administration, REUTERS Acquire, Rights, Ukraine's Air Force, Air Force, General Staff, Energy Ministry, Telegram, Railway, Reuters, Russian Defence, Thomson Locations: Kremenchuk, Poltava region, Ukraine, Poltava, Handout, Russian, Moscow, Russia, Ukrainian, Kupiansk, Bakhmut, Avdiivka, Kherson, Dnipro, Kirovohrad, Odesa, Kyiv, Melbourne

☆ Russia launches overnight missile, drone attacks on Ukraine - Kyiv
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-16 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Rescuers work at the site of vegetable oil factory destroyed by Russian missile strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Poltava region, Ukraine August 28, 2023. Head of Ukraine's Presidential Office Andriy Yermak via Telegram/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsKYIV, Oct 16 (Reuters) - Russia launched five missiles and 12 kamikaze drones at Ukraine in an overnight attack, Ukraine's air force said early on Monday, with officials reporting further artillery and air strikes. The governor of the eastern region of Poltava, Filip Pronin, said the region had been attacked by drones and missiles, and that three civilians had been hospitalised as a result. However, missile fragments damaged several private homes," he wrote on the Telegram messaging service. Russia also carried out artillery shelling and air strikes in the Zaporizhzhia region, damaging several residential buildings and infrastructure and injuring one elderly woman, the governor there said.

Persons: Andriy, Filip Pronin, Max Hunder, Lidia Kelly Organizations: Russian, REUTERS, Rights, Thomson Locations: Ukraine, Poltava region, Russia, Poltava, Zaporizhzhia

☆ Russia hits Ukrainian Kremenchuk oil refinery in drone attack - governor
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-20 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

Sept 20 (Reuters) - Russia struck the Kremenchuk oil refinery in the central Poltava region of Ukraine in an overnight drone attack, causing a fire, Governor Dmytro Lunin said on Wednesday. "Last night, Russians repeatedly attacked Poltava region. Our air defence system did a good job against enemy UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles)," he said. The refinery has been attacked repeatedly by Russia since it invaded Ukraine last year. Ukraine's air defence systems shot down 17 out of 24 drones that Russia launched on Ukraine overnight, the military said.

Persons: Dmytro Lunin, Anna Pruchnicka, Jacqueline Wong, Kim Coghill Organizations: Reuters, Thomson Locations: Russia, Poltava, Ukraine

☆ Two killed in Russian missile strike on Ukraine's Poltava region
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-28 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

KYIV, Aug 28 (Reuters) - Two people were killed in an overnight Russian missile attack that hit a vegetable oil plant in central Ukraine's Poltava region, Governor Dmytro Lunin and a presidential official said on Monday. Ukraine's presidential chief of staff Andriy Yermak said on Telegram the missiles struck a vegetable oil factory in Myrhorod district, killing two people and injuring five others. The Ukrainian military said Russia launched four missiles from the Black Sea overnight, two of which were shot down. The military reported that the Kryvyi Rih region, also in central Ukraine, was hit by missiles as well. Reporting by Pavel Polityuk; editing by Neil Fullick, Michael Perry and Mark HeinrichOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Dmytro Lunin, Lunin, Andriy Yermak, Yermak, Pavel Polityuk, Neil Fullick, Michael Perry, Mark Heinrich Our Organizations: Telegram, Thomson Locations: Ukraine's Poltava, Myrhorod district, Russia, Ukraine

☆ Ukraine war live updates: Russian investigators say genetic test proves Prigozhin death; Billionaire Yandex co-founder pleads for sanctions relief
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-28 | by ( Natasha Turak | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Two people were killed and five injured after a Russian missile strike on the Poltava region in central-eastern Ukraine, state authorities said. Russian officials reported that their air defense forces shot down a drone approaching Moscow, resulting in the halting of some flights in the Moscow region. Kyiv says it has liberated the southeastern village of Robotyne, claiming a victory in terms of territorial gains as it pushes on with its grinding counteroffensive into Russian-held land. Elsewhere, the Russian billionaire co-founder of tech giant Yandex is reportedly appealing EU sanctions against him after he vocally criticized Russia's war in Ukraine. The request to lift sanctions will be discussed by EU officials in September, the Financial Times reported.

Organizations: EU, Financial Times Locations: Russian, Poltava, Ukraine, Moscow, Kyiv, Robotyne

☆ Ukraine says it liberates strategic southeastern settlement
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-28 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Ukrainian soldiers of the Separate Assault Battalion 'Skala' enter the embattled village of Robotyne, Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine, in this screengrab taken from a handout video released on August 25, 2023. Separate Assault Battalion 'Skala' of the Ukrainian Armed Forces/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsKYIV, Aug 28 (Reuters) - Ukraine said on Monday its troops had liberated the southeastern settlement of Robotyne and were trying to push further south in their counteroffensive against Russian forces. The Ukrainian military said last week that its forces had raised the national flag in the strategic settlement, but were still carrying out mopping-up operations. She said Russian troops were gathering new forces there and regrouping, and Moscow was aiming to deploy its best troops there. She added that in the past week Ukrainian forces had retaken 1 square km (0.39 square mile) around Bakhmut, and Russian troops had not made any advances.

Persons: Robotyne, Hanna Maliar, Maliar, Tom Balmforth, Anna Pruchnicka, Timothy Organizations: Separate, Ukrainian Armed Forces, REUTERS, Rights, Russian, Reuters, NATO, Timothy Heritage, Thomson Locations: Robotyne, Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Orikhiv, Tokmak, Russian, Azov, Mala Tokmachka, Russia, Moscow, Bakhmut, Poltava, Ukrainian

☆ German Chancellor Scholz says he plans to speak to Putin soon
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-10 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

FRANKFURT, June 10 (Reuters) - German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Saturday he planned to speak to Russian President Vladimir Putin on the phone soon to urge him to withdraw Russia's troops from Ukraine. Addressing a convention of the German Protestant church in Nuremberg, Scholz said he had spoken to Putin by telephone in the past. "I plan to do it again soon," he said. Moscow and Kyiv both reported heavy fighting in Ukraine on Friday, but it remained uncertain whether Ukraine's long-anticipated counterattack was under way. Reporting by Andreas Rinke Writing by Ludwig Burger Editing by Helen PopperOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Olaf Scholz, Vladimir Putin, Scholz, Putin, Andreas Rinke, Ludwig Burger, Helen Popper Our Organizations: NATO, Thomson Locations: FRANKFURT, Russian, Ukraine, Nuremberg, Moscow, Kyiv, Germany, Russia, Black, Odesa, Poltava

☆ Canada's Trudeau visits Kyiv in show of support
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-10 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

[1/5] Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks with Ukrainian soldiers as he visits the Wall of Remembrance to pay tribute to killed Ukrainian soldiers, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine June 10, 2023. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko/PoolKYIV, June 10 (Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited Kyiv on Saturday in a gesture of support as Ukraine braces for a major counteroffensive against Russian forces and grapples with regular air strikes. Trudeau paid his respects at a memorial site in central Kyiv to Ukrainian soldiers who have been killed fighting pro-Russian forces since 2014. "Welcome to Ukraine Mr. Prime Minister," Ukrainian Deputy Foreign Minister Andriy Melnyk tweeted, alongside a photograph of them shaking hands on the platform of a train station. The Canadian prime minister was accompanied by Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, a Ukrainian speaker.

Persons: Justin Trudeau, Valentyn, Trudeau, Andriy Melnyk, Chrystia Freeland, Tom Balmforth, Mike Harrison, Alex Richardson Organizations: Canadian, REUTERS, Russian, NATO, Thomson Locations: Ukraine, Kyiv, KYIV, Ukrainian, Russian, Canada, Russia, Odesa, Poltava, Kharkiv

☆ Zelenskyy says 'counteroffensive, defensive actions' taking place in Ukraine
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-10 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy holds a press conference during the European Political Community (EPC) Summit in Bulboaca, on June 1, 2023. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Saturday that counteroffensive and defensive actions were underway against Russian forces, asserting that his top commanders were in a "positive" mindset as their troops engaged in intense fighting along the front line. Zelennsky said that "the counteroffensive, defensive actions are taking place in Ukraine. This is a nuclear power plant's safest operating mode. Energoatom employees are still working at the power plant, although it remains controlled by the Russians.

Persons: Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Justin Trudeau, Vladimir Putin's, Zelennsky, Trudeau, Energoatom, Natalia Humeniuk, Oleh Syniehubov, Dmytro Lunin, Lunin, Ruslan Strilets, Oleksandr Prokudin, Prokudin, Martin Griffiths, Olaf Scholz, Putin —, —, Scholz, Putin Organizations: Political, Russian, Canadian, Putin, Ukraine, Ukraine's, Staff, International Atomic Energy Agency, Emergency Service, Gov, Associated Locations: Ukraine, Bulboaca, Canada, Moscow, Ukraine's, Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Ukrainian, Russian, Odesa, Kharkiv, Poltava, Russia

☆ Counting central Ukraine’s military losses, with a spreadsheet
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-08 | by ( Dan Peleschuk | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +7 min

Reuters has not been able to independently verify widely varying claims of battlefield losses on both sides of the conflict. But the spreadsheet offers a glimpse into the human cost of the war in one of Ukraine's 27 regions. Ukraine's defence ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment about Ukraine's losses. According to his spreadsheet, at least 25 soldiers from the 116th Territorial Defence Brigade were killed there that month. "The entire region felt these losses," Tkachenko said.

Persons: Denys Bondarev, Dan Peleschuk, Viktor Tkachenko, Tkachenko, Kyiv's, Poltava's, Istomin, Andriy Karpov, Tetiana, Bondareva, Mike Collett, White, Alex Richardson Organizations: REUTERS, Reuters, Facebook, 116th Territorial Defence Brigade, Thomson Locations: Poltava, Ukraine, Dan Peleschuk POLTAVA, Sumy, Kharkiv, Russia, Poltava city, Russia's, Soledar, Bakhmut

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