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☆ State of emergency imposed in Russia-controlled parts of Kherson
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-07 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

June 7 (Reuters) - A state of emergency has been imposed in Russian-controlled parts of Ukraine's Kherson region following the destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam and the flooding of large area, Russia's TASS state news agency reported on Wednesday. The agency, citing emergency services, said about 2,700 houses were flooded after the destruction of the dam on Tuesday and almost 1,300 people had been evacuated. The destruction of the Moscow-controlled Nova Kakhvovka dam on the Dnipro River flooded a large part of the frontline in the Kherson region. More than 900 people were evacuated on Tuesday from the Russian-controlled city of some 45,000 people on the left bank of the Dnipro River. Ukrainian officials said that some 80 communities in the overall Kherson region were at risk of flooding.

Persons: Vladimir Leontiev, Oleksandr Prokudin, Prokudin, Olena Hamash, Lidia Kelly, Himani Sarkar, Michael Perry, Guy Faulconbridge Organizations: TASS, United Nations, Nova, Russian, Thomson Locations: Ukraine's Kherson, Nova, Moscow, Dnipro, Kherson, Ukraine, Russia, Ukrainian, Russian, Crimea, Kyiv, Melbourne

☆ Air India to send replacement plane for passengers stranded in Russia
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-07 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

NEW DELHI, June 7 (Reuters) - Air India said on Wednesday a reserve plane would take off from Mumbai on Wednesday for passengers whose flight on Tuesday was forced to land at an airport in Russia's Far East because of engine trouble. The airline said its ferry flight would leave Mumbai at 0730 GMT and head to Magadan in Russia, carrying food and other essentials for the passengers stranded there. Russian aviation authority Rosaviatsia had said that a reserve Air India plane was scheduled to land at 0300 GMT. Air India did not immediately respond to a request to share the nationalities of the passengers. The airline said it had moved passengers to makeshift accommodations, citing infrastructure limitations around the airport.

Persons: Rosaviatsia, Vedant Patel, Patel, Tanvi Mehta, Lidia Kelly, Krishna N, Gerry Doyle Organizations: Air, Boeing, Air India, NDTV, U.S . State Department, Thomson Locations: DELHI, Air India, Mumbai, Russia's Far, Delhi, San Francisco, Magadan, Russia, Air, Indian, U.S, United States, New Delhi, Melbourne

☆ Russia says West trying to confuse the world over Nord Stream culprits
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-07 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

June 7 (Reuters) - The Russian embassy in the United States said on Wednesday that a report the United States knew of a Ukrainian plan to attack the Nord Stream natural gas pipelines was part of a coordinated Western attempt to confuse the world over the truth. "The coordinated campaign of the West, led by the United States, to confuse the international community is sewn with white threads," Russian diplomat Andrey Ledenev was quoted as saying in a post on the embassy's Telegram messaging channel. Several underwater explosions ruptured the Nord Stream 1 and the newly built Nord Stream 2 pipelines that link Russia and Germany across the Baltic Sea in September 2022. Russia has repeatedly said the West was behind the blasts affecting the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines last September - multibillion-dollar infrastructure projects that carried Russian gas to Germany. Reporting by Lidia Kelly in Melbourne; editing by Guy FaulconbridgeOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Andrey Ledenev, Lidia Kelly, Guy Faulconbridge Organizations: Washington Post, CIA, White House, Thomson Locations: Russian, United States, Russia, Germany, Baltic, Sweden, Denmark, U.S, Melbourne

☆ Zelenskiy says awaits final agreements on 'powerful' F16 jets offer
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-07 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

June 7 (Reuters) - Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday he received "a serious, powerful" offer from leaders of countries ready to provide Kyiv with F-16 fighter jets and is awaiting final agreements with key allies. "Our partners know how many aircraft we need," Zelenskiy was quoted as saying in a statement on his website. Kyiv now awaits a final agreement with its allies, including "a joint agreement with the United States," Zelenskiy said. Zelenskiy has long appealed for the F-16 jets, saying their appearance with Ukrainian pilots would be a sure signal from the world that Russia's invasion would end in defeat. Russia said on Tuesday that U.S.-built F-16 fighter jets can "accommodate" nuclear weapons and warned that supplying Kyiv with them will escalate the conflict further.

Persons: Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Zelenskiy, Joe Biden, Jake Sullivan, Lidia Kelly, Michael Perry Organizations: Washington, Ukrainian, National Security, Thomson Locations: Kyiv, United States, Ukraine, Washington, Russia, Melbourne

☆ Russia says U.S.-built F-16s could 'accommodate' nuclear weapons if sent to Ukraine
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-06 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

June 6 (Reuters) - Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday that U.S.-built F-16 fighter jets can 'accommodate' nuclear weapons and warned that supplying Kyiv with them will escalate the conflict further. "We must keep in mind that one of the modifications of the F-16 can 'accommodate' nuclear weapons," Lavrov said in a speech at a military base in Dushanbe in Tajikistan, according to a transcript on the ministry's website. "If they do not understand this, then they are worthless as military strategists and planners." But U.S. National Security adviser Jake Sullivan said there was no final decision on Washington sending aircraft. Reporting by Lidia Kelly in Melbourne; Editing by Michael PerryOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Sergei Lavrov, Lavrov, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Joe Biden, Jake Sullivan, Lidia Kelly, Michael Perry Organizations: Russia's, U.S, Washington, Ukrainian, National Security, Thomson Locations: Dushanbe, Tajikistan, Washington, Melbourne

☆ Russia launches air strike on Kyiv, city official says attack repelled
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-06 | by ( Valentyn Origenko | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

[1/4] An explosion of a missile is seen in the city during a Russian missile strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine June 6, 2023. REUTERS/Gleb GaranichKYIV, June 6 (Reuters) - Russia launched a new wave of overnight air strikes on Kyiv, with officials at the Ukrainian capital saying that air defence systems downed more than 20 cruise missiles on their approach. "All were shot down, there were no hits," Serhiy Popko, head of Kyiv's military administration, said on the Telegram messaging app. Reuters' witnesses reported hearing several blasts that sounded like air defence systems while the city was under air raid alerts for more than four hours, starting soon after midnight on Tuesday. Falling debris hit road surfaces and damaged power lines to the trolley system in Kyiv's Desnianskyi district, the military said.

Persons: Gleb Garanich KYIV, Serhiy Popko, Lidia Kelly, Kim Coghill, Christian Organizations: REUTERS, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Russian, Ukraine, Kyiv, Russia, Kyiv's Desnianskyi, Dnipro, Melbourne

☆ Russian forces repeatedly shell ammonia pipeline in Ukraine's Kharkiv region -governor
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-06 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

June 7 (Reuters) - Russian forces repeatedly fired at an ammonia pipeline in Ukraine's Kharkiv region, a local governor said on Tuesday, a conduit potentially crucial for the extension of a deal allowing the safe export of grains and fertilizers from Black Sea ports. The extension next month of the Black Sea Grain initiative, a pact struck in July 2022 to help tackle a global food crises, could hinge on the reopening of the pipeline. The ammonia pipeline, the world's longest, stretches about 2,470 kilometres (1,534 miles) from Russia's Togliatti on the Volga River to three Black Sea ports. There was no recorded leakage from the late Tuesday shelling that hit the pipeline near the village of Masiutivka and an overnight shelling near the village of Zapadne, said Oleh Sinehubov, the governor of Ukraine's Kharkiv region. Reporting by Lidia Kelly in Melbourne; Editing by Jamie FreedOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Oleh Sinehubov, Sinehubov, Lidia Kelly, Jamie Freed Organizations: Reuters, Thomson Locations: Ukraine's Kharkiv, Russia's Togliatti, Ukraine, Masiutivka, Zapadne, Melbourne

☆ Nova Kakhovka dam in Kherson region blown up by Russian forces - Ukraine's military
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-06 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

KYIV, June 6 (Reuters) - The Nova Kakhovka dam in the Russian-controlled parts of Ukraine's Kherson region was blown up by Russian forces, the South command of Ukraine's Armed Forces said on Tuesday. "The scale of the destruction, the speed and volumes of water, and the likely areas of inundation are being clarified," the command said on its Facebook page. Reporting by Valentyn Ogirenko in Kyiv and Lidia Kelly in Melbourne; Editing by Edmund KlamannOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Valentyn Ogirenko, Lidia Kelly, Edmund Klamann Organizations: Ukraine's Armed Forces, Thomson Locations: Russian, Ukraine's Kherson, Kyiv, Melbourne

☆ Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine is blown, unleashing flood of water
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-06 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

MOSCOW, June 6 (Reuters) - A vast Soviet-era dam in the Russian controlled part of southern Ukraine was blown on Tuesday, unleashing a flood of water across the war zone, according to both Ukrainian and Russian forces. Unverified videos on social media showed a series of intense explosions around the Kakhovka dam. Other videos showed water surging through the remains of the dam with bystanders expressing their shock, sometimes in strong language. "The Kakhovka (dam) was blown up by the Russian occupying forces," the South command of Ukraine's Armed Forces said on Tuesday on its Facebook page. Russian news agencies said the dam, controlled by Russian forces, had been destroyed in shelling while a Russian-installed official said it was a terrorist attack - Russian shorthand for an attack by Ukraine.

Persons: Valentyn Ogirenko, Lidia Kelly, Edmund Klamann, Guy Faulconbridge Organizations: Ukraine's Armed Forces, Russian, Reuters, Thomson Locations: MOSCOW, Soviet, Russian, Ukraine, Dnipro, Russia, Kyiv, Melbourne

☆ Russia says it thwarts big attack in Ukraine
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-05 | by ( Pavel Polityuk | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

Asked to comment, a Ukrainian military spokesperson said: "We do not have such information and we do not comment on any kind of fake." Further north, near the long-contested city of Bakhmut, Ukrainian forces were reported to have been "moving forward" by the commander of Ukraine's ground forces, Oleksandr Syrskyi. Russia has launched hundreds of drones and missiles on Ukraine since early May, chiefly on Kyiv, with Ukraine saying it was targeting military facilities but also hitting residential areas. Russia now controls at least 18% of what is internationally recognised to be Ukrainian territory, and has claimed four regions of Ukraine as Russian territory. Ukraine vows to eject every last Russian soldier from its territory and casts the invasion as an imperial-style land grab by Russia.

Persons: Oleksiy Danilov, Oleksandr Syrskyi, Yevgeny Prigozhin, Wagner, Bakhmut, Oleksii Reznikov, Semyon Pegov, Gonzo, Staff Valery Gerasimov, William Burns, Vladimir Putin's, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, UKRAINE Putin, Guy Faulconbridge, Lidia Kelly, David Ljunggren, Philippa Fletcher, Nick Macfie Organizations: Ukraine's Security, Defence Council, Reuters, Ukraine's General Staff, Strategic Communications, Ukrainian Defence, Twitter, Staff, Russian, CIA, Wall Street, UKRAINE, Kremlin, Thomson Locations: Russia, Ukraine, KYIV, Moscow, Ukraine's Donetsk, Bakhmut, Donetsk, South Donetsk, Ukrainian, Berkhivka, Luhansk, Russia's Belgorod, Velyka, Vuhledar, Russian, Kyiv

☆ Russia says it thwarts another major attack in Ukraine, inflicting heavy losses
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-05 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

On Monday, Russia said Ukrainian forces over the weekend had begun a major offensive in the southern part of the Donetsk region, which it had also thwarted. The latest Russian defence ministry statement said Russian forces had inflicted huge personnel losses on attacking Ukrainian forces and destroyed 28 tanks, including eight Leopard main battle tanks and 109 armoured vehicles. It said total Ukrainian losses amounted to 1,500 troops. Russia and Ukraine have often made claims of inflicting heavy human losses on each other which could not be independently verified. In a promotional video released on Sunday and urging silence in regards to any military actions, Ukraine's defence ministry said: "Plans like silence - the beginning will not be announced."

Persons: Zelenskiy, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Vladimir Putin, Bakhmut, John Kirby, I'm, Dmytro Kuleba, Hanna Maliar, Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, Reuters bureaux, Lidia Kelly, Ron Popeski, David Brunnstrom, Rosalba O'Brien Organizations: Defence Ministry, Sunday Ukraine, KYIV, Kremlin, Ukrainian, Reuters, Washington Post, White House, Monday Ukraine, Ukraine's, Staff, Ukraine, Thomson Locations: Moscow, Ukrainian, Donetsk, Russia, Ukraine, Bakhmut, Crimean, Kiev, Kyiv, Crimea

☆ Russia starts naval exercises in Japan and Okhotsk Seas waters
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-05 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

June 5 (Reuters) - Russia's Pacific Fleet forces have started operational exercises in the waters of the Sea of Japan and the Sea of Okhotsk that will last until June 20, Russia's Defence Ministry said on Monday. "More than 60 warships and support vessels, about 35 naval aviation aircraft, coastal troops and more than 11,000 military personnel are involved in the exercise of the Pacific Fleet forces grouping," the ministry said on the Telegram messaging app. Reporting by Lidia Kelly in Melbourne; Editing by Kim CoghillOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Lidia Kelly, Kim Coghill Organizations: Pacific Fleet, Russia's Defence, Thomson Locations: Japan, Melbourne

☆ Two drones fall on highway in Russia's Kaluga region - governor
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-05 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

June 5 (Reuters) - Two drones fell on a highway in Russia's Kaluga region that borders with the Moscow region to its north, with the local governor saying on Monday there was no detonation of explosives. "The area has been cordoned off," the governor of the region, Vladislav Shapsha, said on the Telegram messaging app. Based on the information provided by Shapsha, the drones fell some 280km-300km (174 miles-186 miles) from Moscow. Last week, Russia said Ukrainian drones struck wealthy districts of Moscow, which Kyiv denied. Reporting by Lidia Kelly in Melbourne; Editing by Edmund Klamann and Lincoln FeastOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Vladislav Shapsha, Lidia Kelly, Edmund Klamann Organizations: Shapsha, Kyiv, Thomson Locations: Russia's Kaluga, Moscow, Russia, Ukrainian, Melbourne, Lincoln

☆ Russia says it thwarted major Ukrainian offensive, killed hundreds
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-04 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Summary Russia: thwarted a major Ukrainian offensiveUkraine silent on Russian statementRussia says killed more than 250 UkrainiansRussia says has destroyed tanksMOSCOW, June 5 (Reuters) - Russian forces have thwarted a major Ukrainian offensive in the southern Ukrainian region of Donetsk and killed hundreds of pro-Kyiv troops, the defence ministry in Moscow said on Monday. In a statement, the ministry said Ukraine had launched the attack on Sunday using six mechanised and two tank battalions. The ministry also released video of what it said showed several Ukrainian armoured vehicles in a field blowing up after being hit. Russian forces killed 250 Ukrainian troops as well as destroying 16 tanks, the infantry fighting vehicles and 21 armoured combat vehicles, the ministry said. Russian Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov, who is in charge of Moscow's military operation in Ukraine, was in the area of the Ukrainian attack, the ministry said.

Persons: Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Zelenskiy, Staff Valery Gerasimov, Gerasimov, Sergei Shoigu, Yevgeny Prigozhin, Wagner, Prigozhin, Lidia Kelly, David Ljunggren, Guy Faulconbridge, Diane Craft Organizations: Kyiv, Reuters, Staff, Thomson Locations: Russia, Ukraine, MOSCOW, Ukrainian, Donetsk, Moscow, South Donetsk, Russian, Russia's Belgorod, Kyiv, Bakhmut

☆ Drone shot down in Crimea's Dzhankoi, says Moscow-installed official
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-04 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

June 4 (Reuters) - A drone was shot down in Dzhankoi in Crimea, a Russian-installed official in the peninsula that Moscow annexed from Ukraine in 2014, said on Sunday. "There is damage to windows in several houses in a residential district" from the overnight incident, Oleg Kryuchkov, an adviser in the Moscow-installed administration of Crimea, posted on the Telegram messaging app. Russia has a military air base near Dzhankoi. Ukrainian officials have long said the city and surrounding areas have been turned into Moscow's largest military base in Crimea. Reporting by Lidia Kelly in Melbourne; Editing by William MallardOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Oleg Kryuchkov, Lidia Kelly, William Mallard Organizations: Reuters, Thomson Locations: Dzhankoi, Crimea, Russian, Moscow, Ukraine, Russia, Melbourne

☆ Russian air strikes repelled over Kyiv, but hit regional airfield
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-04 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

KYIV, June 4 (Reuters) - Russia launched a fresh wave of air strikes against Ukraine early on Sunday, striking an airfield in a central region but failing to hit the capital Kyiv, Ukrainian authorities said. Air force spokesman Yuriy Ihnat told local television that four of six cruise missiles had been shot down by air defences but that two had struck an "operational airfield" near the central city of Kropyvnytskyi. He added that two of the five Iranian-made drones launched by Russia had struck infrastructure in the northern Sumy region. Kyiv officials said air defences had downed all projectiles that had been aimed at the capital before they reached the city. Separately, a 2-year-old girl was killed and 22 people were wounded in an earlier Russian missile strike on Sunday near the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro, the regional governor said.

Persons: Yuriy Ihnat, Serhiy Popko, Gleb Garanich, Dan Peleschuk, Lidia Kelly, Daniel Wallis, William Mallard, Nick Macfie Organizations: Ukraine, Air, Telegram, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Russia, Kyiv, Kropyvnytskyi, Sumy, Russian, Ukrainian, Dnipro, Ukraine, Melbourne

☆ Ukraine shelling continues in Russia's Belgorod as thousands relocated - governor
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-04 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

MOSCOW, June 4 (Reuters) - Shelling by Ukrainian forces on Russia's Belgorod region continued overnight on Sunday after two people were killed the previous night and hundreds of children were evacuated away from the border, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said on Sunday. "Overnight, it was quite restless," Gladkov said on the Telegram channel, adding that the Shebekino and Volokonovsky districts suffered "lots" of damage from shelling during the night. More than 4,000 people were relocated to temporary accommodation in the region, which borders Ukraine to its south and west, Gladkov said. Ukraine denied attacking Moscow last week and has also denied that its military is involved in the incursions into Belgorod. On Saturday, Gladkov escorted about 600 children from the region's Shebekino and Graivoron districts to Yaroslavl and Kaluga.

Persons: Vyacheslav Gladkov, Gladkov, Lidia Kelly, Guy Faulconbridge, Frances Kerry Organizations: Telegram, Moscow, Russian, Reuters, Thomson Locations: MOSCOW, Ukrainian, Russia's Belgorod, Ukraine, Russia, Moscow, Russian, Belgorod, Yaroslavl, Kaluga, Kyiv, Melbourne

☆ Clashes near Bakhmut continue despite easing, Ukraine's military says
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-04 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

[1/2] An aerial view shows destructions in the frontline town of Bakhmut, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Donetsk region, Ukraine, in this handout picture released on May 21, 2023. "The enemy continues to suffer significant losses in the Bakhmut direction," Syrskyi said on the Telegram messaging app after what he said was a visit to troops around Bakhmut. Bakhmut, once home to 70,000 people, has no strategic value, according to military analysts. British defence intelligence said on Saturday that Russia continued to redeploy regular military units to the Bakhmut sector, replacing Wagner fighters. Russia now controls nearly all of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions as well as swaths of Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions.

Persons: Wagner, Oleksandr Syrskyi, Syrskyi, Bakhmut, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Zelenskiy, Lidia Kelly, William Mallard Organizations: Press Service, Brigade, Ukrainian Armed Forces, REUTERS, Wagner Group, Defence, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Bakhmut, Ukraine, Donetsk region, Moscow, Donbas, Hiroshima, Donetsk, Luhansk, Russia, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, Melbourne

☆ Russia's air attack repelled on approach to Kyiv, Ukraine says
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-04 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

KYIV, June 4 (Reuters) - Russia launched a wave of air attacks on Ukraine early on Sunday, with air defence systems repelling all missiles and drones on their approach to Kyiv, the capital's military officials said. "Air defence destroyed everything that was heading towards the city already at their distant approaches." Russia has repeatedly attacked Kyiv since May, chiefly at night, ahead of a long-expected Ukrainian counteroffensive to reclaim territory, in what Ukrainian officials say is an attempt to inflict psychological distress on civilians. Reuters witnesses reported hearing several blasts in the Kyiv region, but not in the city, from what sounded like air defence systems hitting targets. All of Ukraine was under air raid alerts for nearly three hours.

Persons: Serhiy Popko, Gleb Garanich, Lidia Kelly, Daniel Wallis, William Mallard Organizations: Reuters, Thomson Locations: Russia, Ukraine, Kyiv, Rih, Kropyvnitskyi, Sumy, Melbourne

☆ Ukraine shelling kills two in Belgorod, children evacuated
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-03 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

MOSCOW, June 3 (Reuters) - Shelling and strikes by Ukrainian forces on Russia's Belgorod region killed two people on Saturday as hundreds of children were evacuated away from the border, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said. Ukraine has denied attacking Moscow last week and that its military is involved in the incursions into Russia's Belgorod. Two people were killed and two injured overnight in the village of Sobolevka and Ukraine continued with shelling and striking the region during the day, Gladkov said, including on Shebekino, damaging buildings. Five people were killed, 16 injured in Ukrainian shelling attacks on Belgorod region on Friday, Gladkov said in an earlier update. Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin, whose Wagner Group has spent months fighting in Bakhmut in Ukraine before leaving the besieged city last week, said on Saturday that his troops may go to Belgorod.

Persons: Vyacheslav Gladkov, Gladkov, Yevgeny Prigozhin, Wagner, Lidia Kelly, Guy Faulconbridge, Nick Zieminski Organizations: Telegram, Moscow, Russian, Reuters, Thomson Locations: MOSCOW, Ukrainian, Russia's Belgorod, Yaroslavl, Kaluga, Russian, Ukraine, Russia, Moscow, Graivoron district, Sobolevka, Belgorod, Bakhmut, Melbourne

☆ Russian missile attack on Dnipro kills 2-year-old, injures 22: governor
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-03 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

June 3 (Reuters) - A 2-year-old girl was killed and 22 people injured, including five children, when a Russian missile struck near the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro, the regional governor said on Sunday. "Overnight, the body of a girl who had just turned two was pulled from under the rubble of a house," Serhiy Lysak wrote on the Telegram messaging channel. Seventeen people were being treated in hospital after the attack on a residential area by Iskander short-range cruise missiles, Lysak said. Following the attack in Dnipro, Russia launched a new wave of overnight air strikes on the country. Ukraine's air force said on Sunday it destroyed more than half of the air targets.

Persons: Serhiy Lysak, Lysak, Mykola Lukashuk, Lukashuk, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Ron Popeski, Oleskander Kozhukhar, Lidia Kelly, Daniel Wallis, William Mallard Organizations: Telegram, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Russian, Ukrainian, Dnipro, Moscow, Dnipropetrovsk, Russia, Ukraine, Kyiv's

☆ Ukrainian drone sparks fire at Russian refinery - governor
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-31 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

MOSCOW/KYIV, May 31 (Reuters) - A Ukrainian drone sparked a fire at an oil refinery in southern Russia and shelling hit a Russian town close to the border for the third time in a week, damaging buildings and setting vehicles ablaze, Russian officials said on Wednesday. The Afipsky refinery is not far from the Black Sea port of Novorossiisk, near another refinery that has been attacked several times this month. There was no immediate information on who launched the drone but Moscow has accused Kyiv of increased attacks inside Russia in recent weeks, while Russia has repeatedly pounded Ukrainian cities with drones and missiles. Russian drone attacks killed one person and wounded four in Kyiv on Tuesday, according to Ukrainian officials. Civilian targets in Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities have since the earliest days of the war been struck repeatedly by Russian drones and missiles.

Persons: Veniamin Kondratyev, Vyacheslav Gladkov, Mykhailo Podolyak, Vladimir Putin, Putin, Karine Jean, Pierre, Rafael Grossi, Grossi, David Ljunggren, Guy Faulconbridge, Max Hunder, Olena Harmash, Pavel Polityuk, Valentyn Ogirenko, Gleb Garanich, Lidia Kelly, Trevor Hunnicutt, Steve Holland, Stephen Coates, Robert Birsel Organizations: Kyiv, Residents, Civilian, Washington, Russian, International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, . Security, Thomson Locations: MOSCOW, KYIV, Ukrainian, Russia, Ukraine, Moscow, Russia's Krasnodar, Novorossiisk, Russian, Kyiv, Shebekino, Ukraine's Kharkiv, Ukraine's, Washington, United States, Zaporizhzhia

☆ Fire at oil refinery in Russia's Krasnodar likely caused by drone -governor
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-31 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

May 31 (Reuters) - A fire that broke out at the Afipsky oil refinery in Russia's Krasnodar region was likely caused by a drone, the region's governor said early on Wednesday. The fire was soon extinguished and there were no casualties, Governor Veniamin Kondratyev said on the Telegram messaging app. The Afipsky refinery lies not far from the Black Sea port of Novorossiisk in Krasnodar. Ukraine almost never publicly claims responsibility for attacks inside Russia or on Russian-controlled territory in Ukraine. Reporting by Lidia Kelly and David Ljunggren; Editing by Christian Schmollinger and Tom HogueOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Veniamin Kondratyev, Lidia Kelly, David Ljunggren, Christian Schmollinger, Tom Hogue Organizations: Thomson Locations: Russia's Krasnodar, Novorossiisk, Krasnodar, Russia, Ukraine, Moscow

☆ Russia accuses Washington of encouraging Ukraine in its attacks
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-31 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Putin on Tuesday cast the assault, which brought the 15-month war in Ukraine to the heart of Russia, as a terrorist act. Ukraine also accuses Russia of terrorism for its bombing of Ukrainian civilians, allegations Moscow denies. Russia has long accused what it calls the "collective West" of staging a proxy war against Moscow by supporting Ukraine with military and financial aid. Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, devastating cities, forcing millions of people to flee their homes and costing thousands of lives. Moscow calls the war a "special military operation" to "denazify" Ukraine and protect Russian speakers.

Persons: Vladimir Putin, Putin, Anatoly Antonov, Lidia Kelly, Christian Schmollinger, Stephen Coates Organizations: Telegram, Kyiv, Moscow, Thomson Locations: Washington, Moscow, United States, Ukraine, Russia, Ukrainian, Kyiv, Melbourne

[1/5] A view shows an apartment building damaged during a massive Russian drone strike, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine May 30, 2023. One person died and four were injured when debris from a destroyed Russian projectile hit a high-rise apartment building sparking a fire, Ukrainian officials said. Russian state-owned news agency RIA cited the defence ministry as saying more than one air base had been hit. Moscow said it invaded Ukraine to "denazify" its neighbour and protect Russian speakers. Russia said on Monday the grain deal would no longer be operational unless a U.N. agreement with Moscow to overcome obstacles to Russian grain and fertiliser exports was fulfilled.

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