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☆ Russia's brutal missile strike on a Ukrainian children's hospital just before the big NATO summit appears to be backfiring
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-10 | by ( Sinéad Baker | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

AdvertisementEmergency officials and civilians conduct search and rescue operations among the rubble of Okhmatdyt Children's Hospital on Monday. The deadly Russian missile attack saw child cancer patients evacuated and moved with medical tubes still in their bodies. Women hold patients at Ohmatdyt Children's Hospital that was damaged during Russian missile strikes in Kyiv, Ukraine on Monday. He said that "when you hit not just a hospital or a children's hospital —and not just a children's hospital, but a children's hospital in which there are children were being treated for cancer — it doesn't get much worse than that in terms of brutality." A UN investigation found the children's hospital likely took a direct hit from a Russian missile, likely a Kh-101.

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Around the same time, Russia unleashed an aerial assault on at least three regions of Ukraine, officials in Ukraine said, including one of the most significant barrages the Kyiv region has experienced in months. Ukraine’s air force said it had shot down 43 of 44 incoming missiles and drones. Explosions and the roar of air-defense missiles shook Kyiv, the capital, around 5 a.m. Serhiy Popko, head of the Kyiv regional military administration, said that two people in the city had been killed by falling debris. The assault in Russia came after months of Moscow’s deadly missile and drone strikes on Ukrainian cities, infrastructure and military targets. While Ukrainian officials did not claim responsibility for the overnight strikes on Russian soil, in keeping with standard practice, they have made it increasingly clear that they view taking the war to ordinary Russians as a legitimate tactic against Moscow’s invasion.

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☆ Russia Attacks Odesa for a Second Night: Ukraine War Live Updates
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-19 | by ( Victoria Kim | Marc Santora | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Several waves of missiles and drones were launched at cities across Ukraine overnight, but the assault was particularly concentrated on infrastructure targets in Odesa, according to Ukraine’s Air Force. “It was a hellish night,” Serhiy Bratchuk, a spokesman for the Odesa regional military administration, said in a video message posted on social media. At least 30 cruise missiles and 32 attack drones were fired at targets across the country, primarily from the Black Sea, the air force said. Ukraine said the assault on Odesa, the country’s largest port, was Russia resuming its blockade of Ukrainian grain ships passing through the Black Sea. The Kremlin issued threats on Tuesday against Kyiv attempting to continue shipments of food through the Black Sea.

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☆ Helicopter crash near Kyiv kindergarten kills at least 18, including Ukraine's interior minister
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-18 | by ( Chantal Da Silva | Chantal Da Silva Is A Breaking News Editor For Nbc News Digital Based In London. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +1 min

A helicopter crashed near a kindergarten outside Kyiv on Wednesday morning, killing least 18 people including Ukraine's interior minister and three children, authorities said. The cause of the crash, which comes as the country's war with Russia approaches the 11-month mark, was not immediately clear. The dead included Ukraine's interior minister, Denys Monastyrsky, his deputy, Yevhen Yenin, and state secretary, Yurii Lubkovych, Klymenko said. Ukraine's interior minister, Denys Monastyrsky. Kuleba said the helicopter fell near a kindergarten and a residential building.

Ukraine's capital Kyiv woke to blasts and air raid sirens on Wednesday, according to reports from local officials who said the city had been attacked by Iranian-made "Shahed" drones. Oleksii Kuleba, the head of the Kyiv regional military administration, warned residents that the air alert remained in place and that civilians should take shelter. "The air alert continues. Stay in shelters," he said. It's unknown what structures the drone attacks were targeting but Kuleba said "Russia continues the energy terror of the country."

☆ Ukraine races to restore power knocked out by Russian air strikes
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-24 | by ( ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

KYIV, Ukraine — Power was gradually being restored to Ukrainian cities including the capital Kyiv on Thursday, a day after Russian missile strikes caused Kyiv’s biggest outages in nine months of war. In a big improvement from Wednesday, when authorities said power was lost across the entire Kyiv region, public transport was operating in the capital, with buses replacing trams to save power. The southern Ukrainian city of Odessa fell into darkness following Russian attacks on energy networks across the country on Wednesday. Mourners gather at the funeral of Ukrainian serviceman Sergii Myronov in Kyiv on Wednesday, as Russian missiles rained down on targets across the country. GENYA SAVILOV / AFP - Getty ImagesKyrylo Tymoshenko, deputy chief of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s staff, said power supplies had been restored in the Kirovohrad and Vinnytsia regions.

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