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☆ 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

☆ 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

☆ 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

☆ Air raid alerts across Ukraine, military warns of strikes in Kyiv, other regions
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-18 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

May 18 (Reuters) - Air raid alerts were declared throughout the territory of Ukraine early on Thursday and the military warned of possible Russian missile strikes in a wide arc extending from Kyiv to central regions and the south. An hour after the warnings were issued, the Ukrainian Armed Forces Telegram channel told residents of the capital to remain in shelters. Warnings were issued for a range of other regions, including Zhytomyr west of the capital and Kirovohrad, Cherkassy and Dnipropetrovsk in central Ukraine. The warnings also extended north of Kyiv and to the south and west to Vinnystia, Khmelnitskyi and Chernivtsi regions. Other Telegram channels warned of possible strikes in the central region of Poltava and further south in Mykolaiv region.

☆ Ukraine authorities expose piles of cash in Supreme Court corruption probe
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-16 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/2] The Ukrainian Supreme Court building is seen in central Kiev, Ukraine, March 5, 2016. REUTERS/Valentyn OgirenkoMay 15 (Reuters) - Ukrainian anti-graft authorities said on Monday they were investigating large-scale corruption in the country's Supreme Court system and shared a photograph of piles of dollars neatly lined up on a sofa. The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) did not name anyone accused of corruption, but two local media organizations reported Supreme Court Chief Justice Vsevolod Kniaziev had been detained on suspicion of receiving a $3 million bribe. "NABU and SAP have exposed large-scale corruption in the Supreme Court, namely a scheme for the leadership and judges of the Supreme Court to receive bribes," the bureau said in the post. It said another 18 Supreme Court judges who heard the Ferrexpo case were now being searched.

☆ Russia kills 17 in biggest Ukraine air strikes for nearly two months
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-28 | by ( Sergiy Karazy | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Summary Russia carries out new wave of air attacksUkraine's president condemns 'Russian terror'The attacks are the first on such a scale for weeksKYIV, April 28 (Reuters) - Russia hurled missiles at cities across Ukraine as people slept early on Friday, killing at least 17 people in the first large-scale air strikes in nearly two months. Hours after the pre-dawn attacks, Kyiv said it was finishing preparations for a counteroffensive to try to take back territory occupied by Russian forces in 14 months of war. Moscow says it does not deliberately target civilians, but air strikes and shelling have killed thousands of people and devastated cities across Ukraine. Kyiv says strikes on cities far from the front lines have no military purpose apart from intimidating and harming civilians, a war crime. The war is coming to a juncture after a months-long Russian winter offensive that gained little ground despite the bloodiest fighting so far.

☆ Russia is using a new delivery of Iran's Shahed drones to strike Ukraine to make up for a lack of precision munitions, reports say
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-23 | by ( Isobel Van Hagen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Russia used Iranian Shahed exploding drones to strike Ukraine, an ISW report said. It is aiming to "offset the degradation" of its precision munition supply, the think tank said. The Russian military used drones to target Kyiv for the first time in 25 days. Iran is becoming a global leader in the production of deadly and effective drones, the Guardian reported in February, despite the country previously denying involvement in Ukraine. Iran's Shahed-136, and its smaller cousin, the Shahed-131, which Russia is also using, are loitering munitions that are a cross between a drone and a missile.

☆ UK, Poland to build new temporary villages in Ukraine
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-28 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

LONDON, March 28 (Reuters) - Britain and Poland will build two temporary villages in western and central Ukraine to provide housing for those forced from their homes by Russia's invasion, London said on Tuesday, pledging 10 million pounds ($12.3 million) in funding. Almost 118,000 Ukrainians have been hosted by British families as part of the government's response to Russia's February 2022 invasion, but some are finding it increasingly difficult to get permanent housing. Britain's government said the villages in Lviv in western Ukraine and Poltava in central Ukraine would be able to house more than 700 people, a fraction of the millions either displaced in Ukraine or who have fled the country. "This new UK-Poland partnership will help bring light, heat and homes to those most in need." ($1 = 0.8149 pounds)Reporting by Elizabeth Piper, Editing by Kylie MacLellanOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ To stay or go? The dilemma Ukrainians near front face every day
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-21 | by ( Mike Collett-White | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

KALYNIVKA, Ukraine, March 21 (Reuters) - It was finally time for Vasyl Kurlyshchuk to leave. She was going to stay in the settlement and wanted to know if Kurlyshchuk was taking his solar powered battery with him. What is now ordinary for the hundreds who remain in Chasiv Yar out of a pre-war population of some 13,000 would be extraordinary elsewhere. "Vera was evacuated to Poltava but a lot of people have stayed," said the 67-year-old, pointing to pictures on her smartphone of her friend, who had left Chasiv Yar for a safer place. That meant three fewer familiar faces for Olena and her friends as they carried on in Chasiv Yar.

☆ Russia strikes many Ukrainian regions, cutting off power
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-09 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/6] Emergency workers extinguish fire in vehicles at the site of a Russian missile strike, amid Russia?s attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine March 9, 2023. REUTERS/Gleb GaranichMarch 9 (Reuters) - Russian strikes hit a series of Ukrainian regions early on Thursday, including the capital Kyiv, the Black Sea port of Odesa and the second-largest city Kharkiv, knocking out power to several areas, regional officials said. Power supply has been cut pre-emptively to about 15% of Kyiv residents, he said. Kharkiv region Governor Oleh Synehubov said the city and region had been hit by about 15 strikes. According to Ukrainian news outlet Obozrevatel.ua, two people were injured by a missile strike in Kharkiv which landed near their house.

For much of the winter, the war in Ukraine settled into a slow-moving but exceedingly violent fight along a jagged 600-mile-long frontline in the southeast. Now, both Ukraine and Russia are poised to go on the offensive. They are looking for vulnerabilities, hoping to exploit gaps, and setting the stage for what Ukraine warns could be Moscow’s most ambitious campaign since the start of the war. Ukraine must now defend against the Russian assault without exhausting the resources it needs to mount an offensive of its own. President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia has given an order to take all of the Donbas region by March, Ukrainian intelligence says.

☆ Russia rains missiles on Ukraine, causes new power outages
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-16 | by ( Tom Balmforth | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

KYIV, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Russia pounded Ukraine with missiles on Friday, hitting critical infrastructure across the country and knocking out power as people took cover in shelters, Ukrainian officials said. Kharkiv, the central city of Poltava and parts of Kyiv were left without electricity and the northern Sumy region suffered power outages, regional officials said. Loud explosions echoed through Kyiv, Reuters witnesses in the capital said, and air defences systems were in operation across Ukraine. Russia was "massively attacking" Ukraine," said Oleksiy Kuleba, governor of the Kyiv region. Russia, which invaded Ukraine in February, has been attacking Ukrainian energy infrastructure since October, causing repeated power outages across the country at the start of winter.

☆ Russia appears to have restocked its supply of Iranian-made suicide drones as it unleashes fresh wave of attacks, reports say
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-10 | by ( Alia Shoaib | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Russia has unleashed a fresh wave of Iranian suicide drone attacks on Ukraine, suggesting a restock. This follows a three-week hiatus in the attacks, and it was suspected that their drone supply was low. It also appears that Russia has resolved issues that prevented the drones from working in cold weather. Reports suggested that Russia appeared to be running out of its supply of the deadly drones. The United Nations is looking into accusations that Iran supplied Russia with drones, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said this week.

☆ Reactors at Ukrainian nuclear power plants shut down after Russian strikes
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-16 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Nov 16 (Reuters) - Several reactors at two Ukrainian power plants automatically shut down as a result of Russian missile strikes on Tuesday, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said, adding that millions of people were left without electricity. Russia pounded cities and energy facilities across Ukraine on Tuesday, killing at least one person and causing widespread power outages in what Kyiv said was the heaviest wave of missile strikes in nearly nine months of war. "As a result of the strikes, automation today disabled several nuclear units at two stations - these are calculated consequences, and the enemy knew exactly what he was doing," Zelenskiy said in his nightly video address. "In many cities and regions of our country, there are again emergency power outages. read moreReporting in Melbourne by Lidia Kelly and Shivani Tanna in Bengaluru; Writing by Lidia Kelly; Editing by Stephen CoatesOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

[1/4] Firefighters work to put out a fire in a residential building hit by a Russian strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine November 15, 2022. REUTERS/Gleb GaranichKYIV, Nov 15 (Reuters) - Russia pounded cities and energy facilities across Ukraine in a new wave of missile strikes on Tuesday as leaders of the Group of 20 nations met in Bali for a summit dominated by Russia's war on Ukraine. "Russia responds to @Zelenskiy's powerful speech at #G20 with a new missile attack. But at the end of the day, terrorists always lose," Andriy Yermak, chief of the presidential staff, wrote on Twitter. Reporting by Max Hunder, Pavel Polityuk and Dan Peleschuk, Editing by Timothy HeritageOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Ukraine suffers power outages amid intense Russian attacks
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-06 | by ( Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +4 min

Hossein Amirabdollahian claimed, however, that Tehran didn’t know if its drones were used against Ukraine and stated Iran’s commitment to stopping the conflict. Moscow has said those came in response to what it alleged were Ukrainian attacks on Crimea, the region that Russia illegally annexed in 2014. A worker repairs damaged lines after a missile strike on a power plant in an undisclosed part of Ukraine. The Russian forces targeted the city and the areas around it with heavy artillery, as they have done repeatedly since July. Elsewhere in the region, Ukrainian forces shot down a drone and another projectile, according to Reznichenko.

☆ Blackouts after Russian strikes deepen Ukraine's concerns before winter
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-10 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

KYIV, Oct 10 (Reuters) - Russian missile strikes on Ukraine's power network caused blackouts in many parts of the country on Monday, deepening fears of outages this winter and prompting Kyiv to halt electricity exports. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterLong queues formed at petrol stations in some areas. He warned civilians that "you need to be prepared for the consequences of such shelling, up to rolling blackouts." GRIM WINTER AHEADWith no end in sight to the war, Ukrainian authorities had already been warning of Russian attacks on critical infrastructure and preparing for a grim winter. The war has wrought huge damage to the energy network, and the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine is in "cold shutdown" after being occupied by Russian forces.

☆ Vrei o vacanță frumoasă în Moldova? Opt locații pe care să le vizitezi în vara 2021
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-18 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: +4 min

Eco vilă și o rezervație naturală amplasată la nordul Moldovei. Aici este pagina de Facebook a pensiunii! Aici este pagina de Facebook a pensiunii! Berăria craft RockScor Brewery este amplasată în satul Ghindești, raionul Florești, la o distanță de 120 km de la Chișinău. Mai multe detalii vedeți pe pagina lor de Facebook: RockScor Brewery.

Persons: Eco, Ștefan Vodă, Pruncul, dulciu Organizations: Facebook Locations: Moldovei, Soroca, Costești, Duruitoarea, Moldova, Palanca, Ștefan, Brănești, Chișinău, Ghidighici, Poltava, Edineț, Berăria, Ghindești, Florești

☆ Grindină şi vijelie. Ploaia puternică face ravagii în Ucraina
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-14 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: 1 min

Vremea rea face ravagii în Ucraina. În diferite regiuni ale țării vecine plouă cu găleata, pe alocuri cu grindină şi furtună. În Poltava vântul puternic a doborât un copac, care a căzut pe terasa unei cafenele. În Kirovograd a plouat cu grindină. Potrivit Inspectoratului pentru Situaţii de Urgenţă din ţara vecină, trei localităţi din regiune au rămas fără curent electric.

Locations: Ucraina, Poltava, Zaporojie, ţara, Nikolaevsk

Șeful interimar al Direcției generale transport public și căi de comunicație, Vitalie Mihalache, a informat marți, în cadrul ședinței operative săptămânale, că lucrările sunt organizate în regim alert, pentru a acoperi gropile care erau periculoase pentru deplasarea autoturismelor. Poltava - cercul de la SUPRATEN, drumul spre localitatea Budești, aceste lucrări sunt deja finalizate”, a precizat șeful interimar al Direcției transport. La noapte, drumarii vor interveni prin injectarea gropilor pe strada Muncești și bulevardul Dacia. În context, precizăm că pe 29 aprilie, a.c., a fost finalizată licitația privind achiziționarea betonului asfaltic cald. Cetățenii vor fi informați periodic despre lucrările de reparație a drumurilor, inclusiv prin intermediul paginii web oficiale a Primăriei și a Direcției transport, a rețelelor de socializare etc., astfel ca să fie evitate străzile aflate în reparație și, respectiv formarea ambuteiajelor.

Persons: Vitalie Mihalache, Mihai Viteazul, Ion Organizations: Dacia, Ministerul Economiei Locations: Petricani, șos, Poltava, Budești, a.c .

☆ Ucraina, acoperită de zăpadă. În mai multe regiuni a nins abundent (VIDEO)
▼ + stars: | 2021-04-26 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: 1 min

Ucraina a fost acoperită de zăpadă. Potrivit presei din țara vecină, a nins în regiunile Kiev, Cerkassk, Poltava și Kirovograd, un fenomen neobişnuit pentru această perioadă a anului. La noapte se așteaptă temperaturi de până la minus 5 grade, iar vremea se va încălzi în a doua jumătate a săptămânii, până la 15 grade Celsius. În urmă cu 4 ani, în 20 și 21 aprilie în Moldova a nins abundent. Zăpada depusă a provocat ruperea firelor electrice şi prăbuşirea mai multor copaci în Capitală.

Locations: Ucraina, Kiev, Cerkassk, Poltava, Moldova, Capitală

☆ Accident violent pe șoseaua Poltava. Oamenii legii și ambulanța, pe loc (VIDEO)
▼ + stars: | 2021-04-20 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: 1 min

Un accident violent a avut loc cu puțin timp în urmă pe șoseaua Poltava. În urma impactului violent o mașină a fost făcută zob. La fața locului au intervenit oamenii legii, dar și ambulanța. Nu se cunoaște dacă cineva a avut de suferit. Revenim cu mai multe detalii...

Locations: Poltava

☆ Investiții de sute de milioane. Două segmente de drum care duc spre graniţa cu România şi Ucraina vor fi refăcute
▼ + stars: | 2021-03-22 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +2 min

Două segmente de drum de importanță internațională care duc spre graniţa cu România şi Ucraina vor fi refăcute. Administrația de Stat a Drumurilor vrea să înceapă lucrările la anul şi să le încheie în 2025. Drumarii vor să reproiecteze nodul rutier din apropierea comunei Stăuceni și să lărgească partea carosabilă pe segmentul Sângera-Anenii Noi. ", a spus vicedirectorul Administrației de Stat a Drumurilor, Iurie Pașa. ", a menționat vicedirectorul Administrației de Stat a Drumurilor, Iurie Pașa.

Persons: Drumarii, Iurie Pașa Organizations: Stat, Drumarii, M1 Locations: România, Ucraina, Stăuceni, Noi, Chișinăul, ucraineană, Odesa, Dubăsari, Poltava, Orhei

☆ Sheriff Tiraspol face transferuri din prima ligă a Rusiei
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-19 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +1 min

Sheriff Tiraspol face transferuri din prima ligă a Rusiei. Din 2012 până anul trecut a evoluat la tripla campioană a Luxemburgului FC Progrès Niederkorn. Abia în septembrie 2020 a ajuns la FC Tambov, primul său club dintr-o altă țară. Pentru gruparea rusă el a jucat șapte meciuri.Thill a evoluat și în 10 partide în tricoul naționalei Luxemburgului, marcând și un gol. Sheriff a revenit din vacanță pe 15 ianuarie și se antrenează sub comanda noului tehnician Iuri Vernidub.

Persons: Valeriu Ciupercă.Thill, Union Titus Petange, Olivier Thill, Sebastien, Iuri Vernidub Organizations: Sheriff Tiraspol, FC Tambov, Union, Luxemburgului FC Progrès Niederkorn, FC Ufa, Liga Națiunilor, Sheriff Locations: Rusiei, Moldovei, Luxemburgului, Rusia, Vorskla Poltava, Luxemburg, Tiraspol

☆ În Capitala Ucrainei a căzut prima zăpadă. Precipitațiile au provocat circa 50 de accidente rutiere
▼ + stars: | 2020-11-18 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: 1 min

Noaptea trecută, în Capitala Ucrainei a căzut prima zăpadă. Potrivit meteorologilor din ţara vecină, temperatura aerului la Kiev a scăzut până la minus 2 grade. Din această cauză, pe străzi s-a format polei, care a provocat mai multe accidente rutiere. Totodată, precipitațiile au provocat numeroase ambuteiaje şi aproape 50 de accidente rutiere în capitala Ucrainei. În acest sens, poliția din ţara vecină îi îndeamnă pe toți participanții la trafic să adapteze viteza la condițiile meteorologice.

Locations: Ucrainei, ţara, Kiev, Lugansk, Poltava, Harkov

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