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DNIPRO/KYIV, Aug 24 (Reuters) - At least one person was killed and 16 people were wounded in Russian attacks across Ukraine on Thursday, local officials said, as Kyiv marked 32 years of independence from Moscow. A Russian missile strike on a bus terminal in Dnipro wounded 10 people, regional governor Serhiy Lysak said. [1/4]Communal workers clean at the site of a area destroyed during a Russian military strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Dnipro, Ukraine August 24, 2023. REUTERS/Mykola Synelnykov Acquire Licensing RightsKHERSON ATTACKEDIn the southern region of Kherson, three people were wounded in addition to the farmer who was killed, officials said. A seven-year-old girl was injured by Russian shelling of the centre of the city of Kherson, Prokudin also said.

Persons: Serhiy Lysak, Serhiy, Lysak, Mykola Synelnykov, Oleksandr Prokudin, Prokudin, Mykhailo Moskalenko, Dan Peleschuk, Max Hunder, Anna Pruchnicka, Timothy Organizations: Reuters, REUTERS, Regional, Timothy Heritage, Thomson Locations: DNIPRO, KYIV, Ukraine, Kyiv, Moscow, Kherson, Dnipro, Kurakhove, Russian, Russia, KHERSON, Shyroka, Donetsk

☆ Russia hits grain facilities at Ukrainian Danube River port
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-23 | by ( Pavel Polityuk | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Odesa Authorities/via REUTERS Acquire Licensing RightsSummary Ukraine says Russia carried out drone attacks overnightRussia quit Black Sea grain export deal in JulyGrain facilities hit at Danube River port of IzmailKYIV, Aug 23 (Reuters) - Russian drones struck Ukrainian grain facilities at the Danube River port of Izmail overnight in what a senior official said on Wednesday was a systematic attempt by Moscow to prevent Kyiv exporting grain to the world. Grain facilities in the Odesa region on the Black Sea also came under fire in the eighth wave of attacks on Ukrainian port infrastructure since Russia quit a U.N.-brokered deal last month that had allowed Kyiv to ship its grain via the Black Sea. He said the grain that was destroyed had been destined for Egypt and Romania, and that a total of 270,000 tons of grain had now been destroyed in attacks since Russia quit the Black Sea grain deal. Russia did not immediately comment on the attacks, but blames Ukraine and its Western allies for the collapse of the Black Sea grain deal. Ukraine's Danube ports accounted for around a quarter of Ukrainian grain exports before Russia pulled out of the deal to provide safe passage for the export of Ukrainian grain via the Black Sea in July.

Persons: Oleksandr Kubrakov, Kubrakov, Oleh Kiper, Kiper, Reni, Izmail, Anna Pruchnicka, Pavel Polityuk, Timothy Organizations: Odesa, REUTERS Acquire, Russia, Timothy Heritage, Thomson Locations: Ukraine, Russia, Black, Izmail KYIV, Russian, Moscow, Odesa, Kyiv, Romania, Izmail, Egypt

☆ Ukraine says it gains foothold in strategic southeastern village
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-22 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

KYIV, Aug 22 (Reuters) - Ukraine said on Tuesday its troops had entered the strategic southeastern village of Robotyne, a potentially significant advance in its counteroffensive against Russian forces. "Our soldiers in the village of Robotyne," General Oleksandr Tarnavskyi, commander of Ukrainian forces in the south, wrote on Telegram under a picture of a soldier in a tank. Tokmak's capture would be a milestone as Ukrainian troops press southwards towards the Sea of Azov, a military push intended to split Russian occupying forces. The Institute for the Study of War, an American research group and think tank, has described the Ukrainian attacks on Robotyne as "tactically significant". Russia, which sent tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine in February 2022, did not immediately comment on the reports from Robotyne.

Persons: Hanna Maliar, Oleksandr Tarnavskyi, Anna Pruchnicka, Timothy Organizations: Russian, Deputy, Reuters, Robotyne, Timothy Heritage, Thomson Locations: Ukraine, Robotyne, Orikhiv, Zaporizhzhia, Tokmak, Russian, Azov, American, Ukrainian, Russia, Kyiv

☆ Ukraine says it will pay people who report corruption and bribery 10% of the cash that gets recovered
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-22 | by ( Mia Jankowicz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Ukraine is offering a 10% reward to whistleblowers who report corruption, local media reported. Ukrainians rank corruption as the country's biggest problem after the war, surveys have found. The country's National Agency of Corruption Prevention announced on Tuesday that it is to launch a public platform, providing a digital portal for people to report suspected corruption. This reward — up to a maximum of 14 million hryvnias ($380,000) — would be the first-ever whistleblower reward offered in Ukraine, the outlet reported. The European Union has long emphasized that tackling corruption is a key condition to Ukraine being able to join.

Persons: Ukrinform, Oleksandr Novikov, That's, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Zelenskyy Organizations: Service, National Agency of Corruption, Guardian, European Union, EU Locations: Ukraine, Wall, Silicon

☆ Alongside modern Western arms, Ukraine uses custom-built 'mini-Grads'
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-22 | by ( Vladyslav Smilianets | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

ZAPORIZHZHIA REGION, Ukraine, Aug 22 (Reuters) - Ukraine has an arsenal of high-tech Western arms to fight Russian forces, but is also deploying custom-built mini-rocket launchers that use parts taken from a Soviet-era system. [1/3]Ukrainian servicemen of the 108th Separate Brigade of Territorial Defence fire small multiple launch rocket systems toward Russian troops, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, near a front line in Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine August 19, 2023. It is rather ineffective to fire 10, eight or two rockets at one target," he said. He said the development of such weaponry was designed to "give an advantage to units which typically do not have this type of weapon." Reporting by Vladyslav Smilianets, Writing by Timothy Heritage; Editing by Bernadette BaumOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Gall, Viacheslav, Luka, Yurii Osokolanskyi, Oleksandr Musiyenko, Vladyslav Smilianets, Timothy Heritage, Bernadette Baum Organizations: Reuters, Territorial Defence Brigade, 108th, Brigade, Territorial Defence, REUTERS, Thomson Locations: Ukraine, Russian, Soviet, Ukrainian, Zaporizhzhia, United States, Zaporizhzhia region

☆ Ukraine may use new Black Sea route for grain shipments - producers
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-21 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsKYIV, Aug 21 (Reuters) - Ukraine is considering using its newly-tested wartime Black Sea export corridor for grain shipments after other cargo ships follow the first successful evacuation of a vessel on the route last week, a senior agricultural official said on Monday. Russia has blockaded Ukrainian ports since it invaded its neighbour in Feb. 2022 and threatened to treat all vessels as potential military targets after pulling out of a U.N.-backed safe passage deal last month. A Hong Kong-flagged container ship stuck in Odesa port since the invasion travelled the route last week without being fired upon. The Financial Times said Kyiv was finalising a scheme with global insurers to cover grain ships travelling to and from its Black Sea ports, citing Ukraine's Deputy Economy Minister Oleksandr Gryban. To attract ship owners to Ukrainian ports which have come under fire from Russian forces, Marchuk said Ukraine had already allocated 20 billion hryvnias ($547 million) for ship insurance.

Persons: Dado Ruvic, Denys Marchuk, Oleksandr Gryban, Marchuk, Pavel Polityuk, Philippa Fletcher Organizations: REUTERS, Rights, Agrarian Council, Financial Times, Kyiv, Thomson Locations: Ukraine, Russia, Ukrainian, Romania, Bulgaria, Hong Kong, Odesa, Mykolaiv

Work on an insurance mechanism follows Russia’s withdrawal from the Black Sea Grain Initiative last month, which threatens the safe passage of ships carrying grain to and from Ukrainian ports. To keep grain shipments moving, Ukraine’s government will share potential losses with insurers, which should make cover for travel through risky Ukrainian waters more affordable for commercial shipping companies. Russia’s withdrawal from the grain deal has had a chilling effect on merchant shipping around Ukraine’s three Black Sea ports as the Kremlin warned that ships leaving these ports might come under attack. And earlier this month a Russian warship fired warning shots and boarded a cargo ship in the Black Sea it claims was headed to Ukraine. Last week, the Hong Kong-flagged Joseph Schulte container ship became the first vessel to depart from any of Ukraine’s Black Sea ports since the grain deal broke down on July 17.

Persons: —, ” Oleksandr Hryban, Marsh McLennan, Marsh, Oliver Wyman —, Hryban, Marcus Baker, ” Baker, Crispin Ellison, Oliver Wyman, ” Marsh McLennan, Joseph Schulte, Volodymyr Zelensky, ” Organizations: Kyiv CNN —, United Nations, “, CNN, Initiative, Kremlin, ” Locations: Kyiv, Kyiv CNN — Ukraine, Ukrainian, Turkey, London, Marsh, Russia, Ukraine, Russian, Hong Kong, Odesa, ” Ukraine

☆ A 6-year-old girl in Ukraine died in an air strike. A Russian Telegram post mocking her memory got 45,000 'laughing' reacts.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-21 | by ( Mia Jankowicz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A viral Russian social media post appears to mock a little girl killed in Ukraine on Saturday. A picture of a memorial to 6-year-old Sophia attracted thousands of 'laughing' emojis in a Russian post. Six-year-old Sophia was among seven people killed and 144 injured in the strike on Chernihiv, northern Ukraine, per officials. But the post has been taken as a macabre joke, with more than 45,000 "laughing" emojis in Rushton's screenshot, shared on Sunday. Though neither the Ukrainian MOD post nor the pro-Russian account named the girl, they appear to both refer to Sophia, the young victim.

Persons: Sophia, Saviano Abreu, Jimmy Rushton, Ernest Hemingway, Chernihiv's, Oleksandr Lomako, —, Yuriy Belousov, Ihor Klymenko Organizations: UN, Service, Ukraine's Ministry of Defense, —, Russian Telegram, Ukrainian MOD, BBC Locations: Ukraine, Chernihiv, Wall, Silicon, Ukrainian, Russian

☆ Video captures the terrifying moment a Russian ballistic missile slammed into a theatre in the Ukrainian city of Chernihiv killing 7, wounding 144
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-20 | by ( Rebecca Rommen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A Russian missile struck a central square in Chernihiv, a city in northern Ukraine. Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko wrote on Telegram said that most victims were crossing the road, returning from church, or in vehicles when a missile hit the city's landmark Drama Theatre. A video posted by UNITED24Media shows the terrifying moment the powerful Russian Iskander ballistic missile hit the civilian building. A view shows an ambulance near the site of a Russian missile strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Chernihiv, Ukraine August 19, 2023. "I understand that their aim was a military event taking place in the building of the drama theatre and that it was their target," he said.

Persons: Sofia, Ihor Klymenko, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Oleksandr Lomako, Savenok Lomako, Denise Brown Organizations: Service, Russian, Telegram, UNITED24Media, REUTERS, BBC, UN Locations: Russian, Chernihiv, Ukraine, Wall, Silicon, Ukrainian, Russia

CNN —Ukrainian pilots have started joint training on F-16 fighter jets with US instructors in Ukraine, according to Kyiv. It landed at our airfields, we conducted joint training with F-16 pilots … A day ago two of my pilots were tested by US instructors,” Ukrainian Air Force Commander Oleksandr Oleshchuk told Ukrainian state TV on Saturday. An F-16 fighter jet performs at an air show in Houston, the United States, on Oct. 10, 2020. Denmark and the Netherlands have taken the lead in preparing a program to train Ukrainian pilots on the American jet, but the US is still working with other countries to see who may provide F-16s to the Ukrainian Air Force. Denmark said Ukrainian pilots would begin training on F-16 jets later this month, part of a coalition of 11 countries that will be involved in the training program.

Persons: …, Oleksandr Oleshchuk, Oleshchuk, Oleksii Reznikov, Reznikov, ”, Lao Chengyue, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Ulf Kristersson, Jonas Ekstromer, Reuters Archer, Volodymyr Zelensky, “ Archer, ” Zelensky, Archer, “, Zelensky Organizations: CNN, Ukrainian, Ukrainian Air Force, Ukrainian Defense, Getty, NATO, Swedish, TT, Agency, Reuters, Sweden Ukrainian, Archer, Sweden’s, Swedish Archers, Gripen Locations: Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukrainian, Houston, United States, Xinhua, Denmark, Netherlands, Harpsund, Sweden, Swedish

CNN —At least seven people died including a six-year-old girl and 90 others were injured after a Russian missile strike hit a central square in the northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv, Ukrainian officials said. Saturday’s strike – in a city close to the Russian border and far from the frontlines – hit a theater and a university. An emergency service worker stands at the site of a Russian missile strike in Chernihiv. Vladyslav Savenok/ReutersThe aftermath of a Russian missile strike. Vladyslav Savenok/ReutersUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the attack turned “an ordinary Saturday… into a day of pain and loss.”“A Russian missile hit right in the center of the city, in our Chernihiv.

Persons: Ihor Klymenko, “, Klymenko, Vladyslav Savenok, Volodymyr Zelensky, ”, Oleksandr Lomako, Putin, Vladimir Putin, Valery Gerasimov, Wagner, Zelensky, Ulf Kristersson, King Carl XVI, Queen Silvia, Kristersson, ” Zelensky Organizations: CNN, Internal, Reuters, Kremlin, Staff, Russian Armed Forces, Swedish, Gripen, “ Locations: Russian, Ukrainian, Chernihiv, Vladyslav, Reuters Ukrainian, Russia, Ukraine, Rostov, Sweden, Zelensky, ”

☆ ‘We Pray’: Frontline Villagers in Ukraine Hunker Down as Shells Rain
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-17 | by ( Oleksandr Chubko | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

When the shelling starts, Alla Viktorivna usually hides in her cellar in a village in southern Ukraine. “But sometimes in the night, you don’t have time,” she said. You hear it whistling and smashing.”Ms. Viktorivna lives in Stepnohirsk, part of a buffer area between Ukrainian and Russian positions on the Zaporizhzhia front. But despite the barrage of Russian strikes, she has no intention of leaving. “I never thought to leave,” she said.

Persons: Alla Viktorivna, ”, “, Ms, Viktorivna Locations: Ukraine, Stepnohirsk

☆ Fighting Intensifies in Northeast as Russia Presses on Kupiansk
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-17 | by ( Gaya Gupta | Oleksandr Chubko | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

Svitlana, right, traveled several hours from her village of Kamianske to Stepnohirsk to receive humanitarian aid alongside two other women, Lesya and Natasha. Vitya, a resident of the village of Stepnohirsk, which sits on the front line of the Zaporizhzhia region. Svitlana’s village, Kamianske, sits in a gray zone between Russian and Ukrainian forces in the Zaporizhzhia region. Image Members of Ukraine’s State Emergency Service loading animal food and other supplies into a van in Stepnohirsk, Ukraine, fire station this month. He said his home, along with almost every building in Kamianske, had been destroyed by Russian shelling.

Persons: Svitlana, Stepnohirsk, Lesya, Natasha, Vitya, Svitlana’s, “, ” Lesya, ”, ” Natasha, “ I’m, ” Svitlana, Diego Ibarra Sanchez, Serhii, ’, Vladimir V, Alla Viktorivna Organizations: Ukraine’s, Emergency Service, The New York Times Local, “, The New York Times Locations: Kamianske, Stepnohirsk, Svitlana’s, Ukrainian, Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Russia, Russian, Stepnohirsk .

☆ Villages on Ukraine’s Front Line Face Constant Threat of Bombardment
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-17 | by ( Oleksandr Chubko | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Braving Russian shelling, three women walked for several hours from their homes on the front line in the southern Ukrainian village of Kamianske on a recent morning to collect supplies from a humanitarian drop-off point in the village of Stepnohirsk, about five miles away. Svitlana, Lesya and Natasha live in the so-called gray zone, a buffer area between the Ukrainian and Russian positions on the Zaporizhzhia front in southern Ukraine. The front line has changed little since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, when Kyiv’s forces stopped the Russian advance by blowing up a bridge in Kamianske. Russian troops are ranged south of the village, and trade artillery shells day and night with Ukrainian troops positioned to the north and east. The front line area has come under increasingly heavy bombardment since January as Russian forces prepared to defend against the long-anticipated Ukrainian counteroffensive.

Persons: Lesya, Natasha Locations: Ukrainian, Kamianske, Stepnohirsk, Ukraine, Russia

☆ As Russia Threatens Ships in the Black Sea, a Romanian Route Provides a Lifeline
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-16 | by ( Andrew Higgins | More About Andrew Higgins | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Mr. Grindeanu said Romania “is not trying to make money” out of Ukraine’s pain. “We invested a lot of money in Galati,” the minister said in an interview in Bucharest. “But they don’t use it. A move to Romanian ports would mean that Ukraine would forfeit considerable loading fees and other revenue. With entry to the Sulina channel so congested, Ukraine has sought to open a second route to the north by dredging the Bystroye Canal, a Ukrainian waterway connected to another branch of the Danube.

Persons: Grindeanu, Romania “, Oleksandr Kubrakov, ” Organizations: Ukraine — Locations: Romania, Galati, Ukraine, Ukraine — Romania, ”, Bucharest, Romanian, Ukrainian

☆ Container ship leaves Russian-blocked Ukrainian port of Odesa - Kyiv
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-16 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

[1/3] Hong Kong-flagged container ship Joseph Schulte leaves the sea port, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Odesa, Ukraine, in this handout picture released August 16, 2023. "A first vessel used the temporary corridor for merchant ships to/from the ports of Big Odesa," Deputy Prime Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov said on Facebook. He identified the container ship as the Hong-Kong-flagged JOSEPH SCHULTE and said it had been in the port since Feb. 23, 2022, the day before the invasion. He said the ship was carrying more than 30,000 metric tons of cargo in 2,114 containers. "The corridor will be primarily used to evacuate ships that were in the Ukrainian ports (Chornomorsk, Odesa and Pivdennyi) at the time of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation," the deputy prime minister said.

Persons: Joseph Schulte, Oleksandr Kubrakov, JOSEPH SCHULTE, Pavel Polityuk, Jacqueline Wong, Philippa Fletcher Organizations: Facebook, REUTERS Acquire, Rights, Russian Federation, Thomson Locations: Hong Kong, Ukraine, Odesa, Ukrainian, Russia, Moscow, Big, Hong, Kong

☆ Ukraine says it has no hope of using F-16 fighter jets this year
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-16 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

A F-16 fighter jet takes off during a media day of NATO's "Air Defender 23" military exercise at Spangdahlem U.S. Air Base near the German-Belgian border in Spangdahlem, Germany June 14, 2023. REUTERS/Jana Rodenbusch/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsKYIV, Aug 17 (Reuters) - Ukraine will not be able to operate U.S.-built F-16 fighter jets this coming autumn and winter, air force spokesperson Yuriy Ihnat told Ukrainian television late on Wednesday. "It's already obvious we won't be able to defend Ukraine with F-16 fighter jets during this autumn and winter," Ihnat told a joint telethon broadcast by Ukrainian channels. "We had big hopes for this plane, that it will become part of air defence, able to protect us from Russia's missiles and drones terrorism," Ihnat said. Reporting by Oleksandr Kozhukhar in Kyiv, writing by Maria Tsvetkova in New York, editing by Sandra MalerOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Jana Rodenbusch, Yuriy Ihnat, Ihnat, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Joe Biden, Oleksandr Kozhukhar, Maria Tsvetkova, Sandra Maler Organizations: Air, U.S . Air Base, REUTERS, Rights, U.S, Ukrainian, NATO, Thomson Locations: German, Belgian, Spangdahlem, Germany, Ukraine, Ukrainian, Russia, Moscow, Kyiv, New York

☆ Ukraine reports new attack on grain silos but cargo ship sets sail
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-16 | by ( Pavel Polityuk | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +7 min

[1/2] Hong Kong-flagged container ship Joseph Schulte leaves the sea port, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Odesa, Ukraine, in this handout picture released August 16, 2023. Russia has made regular air strikes on Ukrainian ports and grain silos since mid-July, when it pulled out of the U.N.-backed deal for Ukraine to export grain. Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement (BSM), which owns the ship jointly with a Chinese bank, confirmed that the ship was en route to Istanbul. Kubrakov said it was carrying more than 30,000 metric tons of cargo in 2,114 containers, adding that the corridor would primarily be used to evacuate ships from the Black Sea ports of Chornomorsk, Odesa and Pivdennyi. DANUBE PORTSUkraine turned to its Danube river ports after Russia pulled out of the Black Sea grain deal seeking better terms for exports of its own food and fertilizer.

Persons: Joseph Schulte, Oleksandr Kubrakov, Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement, Kubrakov, Urozhaine, Hanna Maliar, Izmail, Lidia Kelly, Gus Trompiz, Matthias Inverardi, Gabrielle Tétrault, Farber, Philippa Fletcher, Angus MacSwan Organizations: Facebook, REUTERS Acquire, Benchmark, United Nations, Reuters, United Nations Conference, Trade, Development, Thomson Locations: Hong Kong, Ukraine, Odesa, Russia, KYIV, Russian, Hong, Kong, Reni, Moscow, Big, Istanbul, Chornomorsk, Pivdennyi, Ukrainian, Urozhaine, Azov, Constanta, Romania, Black, Turkey, Nairobi

A battered worker’s van whizzed back and forth along a village road near the front line in southern Ukraine, searching. It screeched to a halt, and three men unloaded heavy equipment and disappeared into the undergrowth. What they were looking for, dug in and hidden under the trees, were three hulking British-made armored vehicles known as Mastiffs. Supplied to the Ukrainian Army for its attempt to retake Russian-occupied territory in southern Ukraine, the Mastiffs were in need of a service. Behind the thousands of Ukrainian troops assembled along the 100-mile front line for the counteroffensive is a small army of mechanics, engineers and weapon technicians responsible for keeping Ukraine’s growing fleet of Western-made tanks, armored vehicles and other equipment in working order.

Persons: van, ” Serhii Ivanov Organizations: Ukrainian Army, Huskies, Wolfhounds Locations: Ukraine, Russian

☆ Ukraine's counteroffensive would fall apart without all the Russian vehicles it has captured, frontline mechanic says
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-15 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Ukrainian mechanics are working on the frontlines to rapidly fix and convert captured vehicles. One mechanic told The New York Times that Russian vehicles have been vital in the counteroffensive. "Without the Russian captured vehicles, we would not manage to keep going," he told The Times. "Without the Russian captured vehicles, we would not manage to keep going," he told The Times. He said the brigade captured more than 20 Russian vehicles in the past six weeks of Ukraine's counteroffensive.

Persons: —, Hammer, Oleksandr Saruba, Michael Kofman, Kofman Organizations: New York Times, Times, Service, 35th Marine Brigade, Deutsche Welle, Carnegie Locations: Russian, Wall, Silicon, Ukraine, Russia, Ukrainian

☆ Ukraine military reports progress in south
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-13 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

A church ruined after a Russian missile attack on Aug. 9, in Zaporizhzhia, southeastern Ukraine. Ukrainian military officials said on Saturday that Kyiv's forces had made progress in the south, capturing unspecified territories and claiming partial success near the key village of Robotyne. "Tavria direction," General Oleksandr Tarnavskyi, commander of Ukrainian forces in the south, wrote on Telegram, referring to the southern front. He did not specify where or when the advances were made. Separately, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said they had "partial success in the Robotyne area of the Zaporizhzhia region."

Persons: Oleksandr Tarnavskyi Organizations: Staff of, Armed Forces, Reuters Locations: Russian, Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Robotyne

☆ Russian Shelling Kills 7 in Ukrainian Region Hit With Ongoing Bombardment
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-13 | by ( Cassandra Vinograd | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Russian shelling ripped into homes in the Kherson region of southern Ukraine on Sunday morning, officials said, an assault that killed at least seven people, including a family of four, in an area that had already borne a heavy toll from relentless Russian bombardment. Calling it “another tragic day” for the region, Mr. Prokudin said that shelling had also killed two men and injured a woman in the village of Stanislav. The claims about the attacks in the Kherson region on Sunday could not be independently verified, and Russia’s Ministry of Defense did not immediately comment. But it has been under nonstop shelling since November, when Russian forces retreated from the regional capital, the city of Kherson, across the Dnipro River. From their new positions on the river’s eastern bank, Moscow’s troops have launched regular and deadly attacks on the city they once occupied and the towns around it.

Persons: Shyroka Balka, Oleksandr Prokudin, Prokudin Organizations: Russia’s Ministry of Defense Locations: Kherson, Ukraine, Shyroka, Stanislav, Russian, Dnipro

☆ Russian shelling kills seven, including a baby, in Ukraine's Kherson region
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-13 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

KYIV, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Russian shelling killed seven people, including a 23-day-old infant, and wounded 20 in Ukraine's southern region of Kherson on Sunday, prompting local officials to declare Monday a day of mourning. Kyiv reclaimed part of Kherson from Russian occupation last November but Kremlin troops have continued shelling the regional capital and areas around it from across the Dnipro River. A couple, their 23-day-old child and another man were killed in the village of Shyroka Balka, Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said. Two people, including the pastor of a church, were killed in the neighbouring village of Stanislav, according to Governor Oleksandr Prokudin. Kherson, Veletenske, Zolota Balka, Stanislav, Komyshany, Shyroka Balka..." Prokudin wrote on Telegram, listing the settlements hit in Sunday's attacks.

Persons: Ihor Klymenko, Klymenko, Oleksandr Prokudin, Zolota Balka, Stanislav, Komyshany, Shyroka, Prokudin, Dan Peleschuk, Nick Macfie, Frances Kerry Organizations: Thomson Locations: Ukraine's, Kherson, Dnipro, Shyroka, Stanislav, Kherson city, Beryslav, Veletenske

☆ Ukraine's Odesa opens a few beaches for the first time since Russian invasion
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-12 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/2] People relax at a Black Sea beach that was reopened after being closed down last year following sea mines laid around the ports of Odesa and Mykolaiv by Russia and Ukraine, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Odesa, Ukraine August 10, 2023. REUTERS/Serhii Smolientsev/File photoODESA, Ukraine, Aug 12 (Reuters) - Several beaches in Ukraine's Black Sea city of Odesa have officially opened for swimming for the first time since the start of the Russian invasion, although bathing is banned during air raid alerts, local officials said on Saturday. Odesa, Ukraine's largest port and naval base, was repeatedly attacked with missiles and drones and the sea was littered with hundreds of sea mines following the invasion in February last year. For the safety of residents and after incidents of mines exploding on beaches, the coast was closed. The decision to open the beaches was made jointly by the city's civilian and military administrations, Odesa Governor Oleh Kiper said on Telegram messaging app.

Persons: Serhii, Oleh Kiper, Iryna, Pavel Polityuk, Frances Kerry Organizations: REUTERS, Thomson Locations: Odesa, Mykolaiv, Russia, Ukraine, Black, Ukraine's

CNN —Beaches officially opened for swimming in Ukraine’s largest port city of Odesa for the first time since the Russian invasion began in February 2022, local officials announced Saturday. Bathing during air raid alerts, however, remains banned in the Black Sea city. Kiper said lifeboats and mesh fences to protect against explosive ordnance would be required in open swimming areas, adding divers would be sent to inspect the Black Sea waters if necessary. I dont want to think about it.”“I have been dreaming of going to the beach and inhaling salty air. But safety is a top priority,” Svitlana, a resident of the Odesa region, told Reuters.

Persons: Oleh Kiper, Kiper, Oleksandr, ”, Hennadii Trukhanov Organizations: CNN, Reuters, Odesa Locations: Odesa, Black, Russia, Odesa’s, Mykolaiv, Russian

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