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CNN —A Russian missile strike killed at least 51 people in a village near the eastern Ukrainian city of Kupiansk on Thursday, officials say, in what would be one of the deadliest attacks against civilians since the conflict began. Moscow’s forces targeted a cafe and a shop in Hroza, in the Kharkiv region, soon after midday local time (5 a.m. Hroza is located about 40 kilometers from the frontlines of the war near Kupiansk, the city in Kharkiv that Russian forces seized early on in the war before losing it a year ago. The Ukrainian military has since been trying to resist advances from Moscow. The UN’s humanitarian coordinator in Ukraine said images arriving from the scene of the attack “are absolutely horrifying,” accusing Russian forces of carrying out a war crime.

Persons: Ihor Klymenko, Dmytro Chubenko, Oleh Synehubov, Vyacheslav Madiyevskyy, Klymenko, ”, “, Rustem Umerov, Volodymyr Zelensky, ” Zelensky, Europe’s, Denys Shmyhal, ” Shmyhal, ” Denise Brown Organizations: CNN, Ukrainian, Ukrainian Defense, NATO, “, Ukranian, Russian Locations: Russian, Ukrainian, Kupiansk, Hroza, Kharkiv, Kramatorsk, Hrova, Ukraine, Pervomaiske, Moscow, Russia, Kyiv, Granada, Spain, “ Russia

☆ Russian missile strike on cafe and shop kills 51 in Ukraine, Kyiv says
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-05 | by ( Olena Harmash | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Firefighters work at a site of a Russian military strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in the village of Hroza, in Kharkiv region, Ukraine October 5, 2023. The attack was the deadliest in the Kharkiv region since Russia's invasion more than 19 months ago, a spokesperson for the Kharkiv regional military administration told Ukrainian public broadcaster Suspilne. It also appeared to be one of the biggest civilian death tolls in any single Russian strike since the start of the war. UKRAINIAN OFFICIAL CONDEMN ATTACKKlymenko cited preliminary information that he said showed the attack was carried out with an Iskander ballistic missile. He said the strike was clearly very targeted and that Ukrainian security services had launched an investigation into the matter.

Persons: Kharkiv Regional Military Administration Oleg Syniehubov, Zelenskiy, Oleh Synehubov, Ihor Klymenko, Klymenko, Rustem Umerov, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Olena Harmash, Timothy Heritage, Andrew Heavend Organizations: Kharkiv Regional Military Administration, REUTERS Acquire, Kharkiv, Suspilne, Thomson Locations: Russian, Ukraine, Hroza, Kharkiv region, Kyiv, Spain KYIV, Kupiansk, Kharkiv, Ukrainian, UKRAINIAN, Spain, Russia, Moscow

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine, Poland and Lithuania have agreed on a plan they hope will help expedite Ukrainian grain exports, officials said Tuesday, with needy countries beyond Europe potentially benefitting from speedier procedures. The move seeks to facilitate the transit of Ukrainian exports through Polish territory, the statement said, without providing further details. While the stated goal is to hasten Ukrainian grain exports, the agreement may also help defuse tensions over grain prices between Ukraine and Poland a time when some international support for Kyiv's efforts to throw back Russia's invasion may be fraying. That has left more expensive overland routes through Europe as the main path for Ukraine’s exports. Sealed freight has helped combat that problem, and sending Ukrainian grain straight to the Lithuanian port may also be an answer.

Persons: ___ Monika Scislowska, Yuras Organizations: —, Farmers, European Union, World Trade Organization, EU Locations: KYIV, Ukraine, — Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania, Europe, Lithuanian, Baltic, Klaipeda, Russia, Hungary, Slovakia, Dnipropetrovsk, Mykolaiv, Kherson, Warsaw, Tallinn, Estonia, russia, ukraine

☆ Russia Ramps up Output of Some Military Hardware by More Than Tenfold - State Company
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-19 | by ( Sept. | At A.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +1 min

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has ramped up the production of some military hardware by more than tenfold to supply its army in Ukraine, significantly increasing the output of missiles, drones, combat vehicles and artillery, Russia's biggest weapons producer said on Tuesday. And for some types of hardware, output had been boosted "by tens of times," said Ozdoev. Rostec, which is sanctioned by the West, is run by Sergei Chemezov, a close Putin ally. It controls 800 Russian civilian and defence entities and is by far Russia's biggest arms producer. The U.S. Treasury calls Rostec "the cornerstone of Russia’s defense, industrial, technology, and manufacturing sectors."

Persons: Vladimir Putin, Ozdoev, Sergei Chemezov, Putin, Rostec, Guy Faulconbridge, Andrew Osborn Organizations: U.S . Treasury Locations: MOSCOW, Russia, Ukraine, Moscow, Rostec, Russian, U.S

☆ Russian attack kills one, causes fire in west Ukrainian city of Lviv - officials
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-19 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/4] Firefighters work at a site of an industrial warehouse damaged by a Russian drone strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Lviv, Ukraine September 19, 2023. Lviv governor Maxim Kozitsky said firefighters were tackling the blaze and that a 26-year-old man had been taken to hospital. "I want to emphasise that these are ordinary industrial warehouses. He said Russian forces had launched 18 drones in the attack and that 15 had been shot down, including seven that were directly over the Lviv region. At least seven people were killed in July when a Russian missile slammed into a residential building in Lviv, which is far from front lines.

Persons: Maxim Kozitsky, Andriy Sadovyi, Kozitsky, Lidia Kelly, Anna Pruchnicka, Christopher Cushing, Michael Perry, Timothy Organizations: Press, State Emergency Service of Ukraine, REUTERS Acquire, Rights, Lviv, Russian, Timothy Heritage, Thomson Locations: Russian, Ukraine, Lviv, Russia, Ukrainian, Moscow, Melbourne

Finland is a European Union member that supports sanctions on Russia and the most recent to join NATO. Both Turkey and the UAE have condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine but have not joined Western sanctions and sought to maintain ties with Russia. The latest sanctions package targets Russian companies that repair, develop and manufacture weapons, including the Kalibr cruise missile. Turkey, meanwhile, has tried to balance its close ties with both Russia and Ukraine, positioning itself as a mediator. Including the latest sanctions, the U.S. has targeted almost 3,000 businesses and people since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, according to State.

Persons: Vladimir Putin’s, ” James O’Brien, Putin, O’Brien, “, ” O’Brien, ”, Richard Connolly, Alexander, Lukashenko, ” Connolly, Denis Manturov, Connolly, Tom Keatinge, Andrei Bokarev, Sergei Shoigu, Iskander Makhmudov, Alexei Krivoruchko, Wagner, Otar, Partskhaladze, Antony Blinken, Suzan Fraser, Jon Gambrell, Antony Blinken’s Organizations: United Arab, State, Treasury, NATO, State Department’s Office, Associated Press, State Department, European Union, The State Department, Russia’s Ministry of Defense, Oxford, Western, Russian Industry, Trade, Centre for Financial, Security, Royal United Services Institute, “, U.S, Russian Defense, Russian, Federal Security Service Locations: States, Russia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Georgia, Ukraine, U.S, UAE, Russia’s, Moscow, Finland, European, Belarus, Russian, ”, London, North Korea, Georgian, State, Ankara, Dubai

☆ Russia says it's using a new jet to launch Kinzhal 'hypersonic' missiles in Ukraine
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-05 | by ( David Cenciotti | The Aviationist | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Russian state media says an Su-34 aircraft launched Kinzhal missile against a target in Ukraine. Until now, only MiG-31K aircraft were known to have employed the Kinzhal missile in combat. Russia touts the Kinzhal as a hypersonic weapon but it's really a conventional air-launched ballistic missile. "The Su-34 fighter jet used the Kinzhal hypersonic missile in the special military operation. Since then, Ukraine has reported downing Kinzhal missiles at least four more times, the last one last month.

Persons: Su, Russian Aerospace Forces Su, Alexander Zemlianichenko, Kinzhal, Fullback wasn't Organizations: Service, Russian Aerospace Forces, TASS, Russian State, Russian Air Force, 47M2, AP, Observers, Russian, U.S . Air Force, Kinzhal, Fullback Locations: Ukraine, Russia, Wall, Silicon, Russian

☆ A possible future mission for the US's secretive Phoenix Ghost and Switchblade drones? Hunting Russian nukes
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-28 | by ( Stavros Atlamazoglou | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

The tense environment has been punctuated by Russian threats of nuclear strikes against the West in response to NATO's military support for Ukraine. In a future war, the secretive drones the US has supplied to Ukraine — the Phoenix Ghost and Switchblade — could get a new mission: hunting Russian nukes in Kaliningrad. NATO forces could use loitering munitions — drones designed to linger near a target before crashing into and destroying it — for such a mission in Kaliningrad. "A focus should also be on the training of these forces with the Phoenix Ghost and Switchblade drones to assist them in their search and destroy efforts," DiRubbio writes. The US has provided a few hundred of those two drones to Ukraine, including both version of the Switchblade.

Persons: Vladimir Putin's, nukes, Vitaly Nevar, William DiRubbio, DiRubbio, Sarah Pysher, Stavros Atlamazoglou Organizations: Service, NATO, Russian, Ukraine, Baltic Fleet, REUTERS, US Air Force, Royal United Services Institute, Russian Defense Ministry, US Army's Delta Force, Special Air Service, Phoenix, Delta Force, Lejeune, US Marine Corps, Hellenic Army, 575th Marine Battalion, Army, Johns Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins, School, International Locations: Russia, Ukraine, Kaliningrad, Europe, Wall, Silicon, Moscow, Russia's, Baltic, Vitaly Nevar Kaliningrad, Lithuania, Poland, British, Russian, North Carolina, Johns

☆ 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

☆ A video shows terrified Ukrainian children ducking and screaming as a Russian missile roars over their heads and strikes a hotel nearby
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-12 | by ( Alia Shoaib | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A video shows the moment a missile struck a hotel in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine. Children can be seen ducking and crying as the Russian missile flies overhead. The video shows the missile flying overhead, striking its target and causing a large explosion. Screen grab of Russian missile striking a hotel in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, August 10, 2023. The strike was the second attack on the city in two days, with three people killed and nine wounded in a separate Russian missile attack on Wednesday.

Persons: Denise Brown Organizations: Service, Reuters, Ministry of Defense, United Nations Locations: Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Russian, Wall, Silicon

☆ Russian missile hits hotel used by UN in Zaporizhzhia -officials
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-10 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

[1/5] A view shows a site of a Russian missile strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine August 10, 2023. REUTERS/Viacheslav RatynskyiLVIV, Ukraine, Aug 10 (Reuters) - A Russian missile struck a hotel in the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia on Thursday evening, leaving one dead and 16 injured, Ukrainian officials said. National police said an Iskander missile hit the city at 7:20 p.m. (1620 GMT). A fire broke out in a civilian building after the occupiers hit it with a missile," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said. Two young women and a man were killed and nine other people were wounded in a Russian missile attack on Wednesday.

Persons: Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Yuriy Malashko, Denise Brown, Maria Starkova, Maria Tsvetkova, Leslie Adler, Cynthia Osterman, Chris Reese Organizations: REUTERS, National, United Nations, Thomson Locations: Russian, Ukraine, Zaporizhzhia, Viacheslav, LVIV, Ukrainian, Dnipro, Lviv, New York

☆ Two dead after Russian attack on Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia -minister
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-09 | by ( Vladyslav Smilianets | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

[1/4] A view shows the site of a Russian missile strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine August 9, 2023. National Police/Handout via REUTERSZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine, Aug 9 (Reuters) - Two people were killed and seven injured in an apparent missile attack by Russia on the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia on Wednesday, Ukrainian officials said. Zaporizhzhia city council secretary Anatoliy Kurtev earlier said that Russia had hit a residential area of the city. Ukraine suspects that an Iskander missile was used in the attack, Yermak said. Reporting by Vladyslav Smilianets in Zaporizhzhia, editing by Bernadette Baum, Andy Sullivan and Grant McCoolOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Vyacheslav, Ihor Klymenko, Anatoliy Kurtev, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Andriy Yermak, Yermak, Vladyslav Smilianets, Bernadette Baum, Andy Sullivan, Grant McCool Organizations: National Police, Handout, REUTERS, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Russian, Ukraine, Zaporizhzhia, REUTERS ZAPORIZHZHIA, Russia, Ukrainian

☆ 'Unusual' numbers of a massive Russian missile built to sink aircraft carriers are hammering a port city in southern Ukraine, intelligence says
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-25 | by ( Ryan Pickrell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Russia is launching "unusual" numbers of carrier killer missiles, among others, at urban areas in southern Ukraine. The Kh-22 missile is inaccurate when used this way and exceptionally dangerous. The Tupelov Tu-22M supersonic bomber can carry up to three Kh-22 missiles, an anti-ship weapon that Russia has been using against Ukraine's urban areas. An aerial view of the damaged building after Russian missile attacks in Odessa, Ukraine on July 25, 2023. In an aerial view, the Transfiguration Cathedral heavily damaged by Russian missile on July 23, 2023 in Odesa, Ukraine.

Persons: Ercin, Zelenskyy, Yan Dobronosov, Viacheslav Onyshchenko, Yuriy Ihnat Organizations: Service, NATO, AS, Russian Defence Ministry, UNESCO, Heritage, Anadolu Agency, Getty, Russian, Workers, Command, Onyx, The New York Times, Intelligence Locations: Russia, Ukraine, Odesa, Wall, Silicon, Odessa, Odessa ., Russian, Dnipro, Ukrainian, Kremenchuk

☆ Russia's attack on Odesa kills one, damages city's largest cathedral
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-23 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

"Odesa: another night attack of the monsters," Oleh Kiper, governor of southern Ukraine's Odesa region, said on the Telegram messaging app. Odesa's military administration said that the Spaso-Preobrazhenskyi Cathedral of the Moscow-linked Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC), was severely damaged. The Spaso-Preobrazhenskyi Cathedral, or the Transfiguration Cathedral, is Odesa's largest Orthodox church building. Ukraine has accused the UOC of maintaining links to the pro-invasion Russian Orthodox Church, which used to be its parent church but with which the UOC says it broke ties in May last year. Social media videos showed a distressed man walking inside the dark cathedral repeating, "The church is no longer .... Lord, have mercy."

Persons: Kiper, God, Gleb Garanich, Lidia Kelly, Paul Simao, Richard Chang Organizations: Sunday, Church, Odesa, Reuters, Russia, Onyx, Thomson Locations: Odesa, Ukraine's, Russia, Preobrazhenskyi, Moscow, Ukraine, Russian, Crimea, Ukrainian, Kyiv, Melbourne

☆ Live updates: Russia's war in Ukraine, Odesa strikes
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-20 | by ( Kathleen Magramo | Brad Lendon | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

A firefighter works at a site of a residential building heavily damaged by a Russian missile strike in Mykolaiv, Ukraine on July 20. Russian forces attacked “ports, piers, residential buildings and retail chains” in the southern cities of Odesa and Mykolaiv, it added. Ukraine's air defense destroyed 18 of the projectiles, it said, including 13 Shahed drones, two sea-launched Kalibr cruise missiles and three Iskander-K land-based cruise missiles, according to the statement. The Ukrainian Air Force also said Russia launched 19 Shahed-136/131 attack drones from Crimea and Kursk. Ukraine fires back: The Ukrainian Air Force also said it carried out more than 20 air strikes on "objects, places of concentration of equipment and personnel of the Russian occupiers” in recent days, the statement said.

Persons: ” Organizations: Emergency Service of, Reuters, Ukrainian Air Force, Russian, Russia Locations: Russian, Mykolaiv, Ukraine, Emergency Service of Ukraine, Reuters Russia, Odesa, Crimea, Kursk

☆ Russia has been scrambling to find missiles to fire at Ukraine, but it's not going to run out of them
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-18 | by ( Benjamin Brimelow | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Russia has had to dig deep into its arsenal to find missiles to fire at targets in Ukraine. ReutersBy far, most missiles fired by Russia into Ukraine have been launched from aircraft — mainly Tu-95, Tu-22M, and Tu-160 bombers and Su-24 and Su-35 fighter-bombers. Other air-to-surface missiles used by Russia include the Kh-25, Kh-29, Kh-31, Kh-58, and Kh-59. Russia has also fired interceptor missiles from S-300 and S-400 air-defense batteries at targets in Ukraine. Remnants of Russian missiles and shells at a collection site in Kharkiv in December.

Persons: Ian Williams, Kinzhal, Alexander Zemlianichenko, Oleksii, Valentyna, Williams, Yan Dobronosov, Russia's Organizations: Service, Russian, Missile Defense, Center for Strategic, International Studies, Army, Reuters, CSIS, Russia, AP, Getty, Kharkiv Regional, reallocating, Ukraine Locations: Russia, Ukraine, Wall, Silicon, Moscow, Russian, Ukrainian, Belarus, Kyiv, Alexandra, Alexander Zemlianichenko Russian, Kharkiv, United States

NUCLEAR WEAPONS? Amid today's Ukraine war, the biggest land war in Europe since 1945, the town is again being enclosed by the tentacles of distant tumult. "No one is ever going to tell you where the tactical nuclear weapons are stationed - you should understand that," Kasinsky said. He repeatedly refused to confirm or deny whether the nuclear weapons were outside Osipovichi. "You should not try to make some sort of horror story out of the tactical nuclear weapons," said Kasinsky.

Persons: Wagner, Vladimir Putin, Mikhail Gorbachev, Alexander Lukashenko, Yevgeny Prigozhin, Prigozhin, Leonid Kasinsky, Kasinsky, Osipovichi, Hans Kristensen, Vladimir Lenin, Ilya Petrov, Lukashenko, Guy Faulconbridge, Mark Heinrich Our Organizations: Putin, Town, Bolshevik, Foreign, Belarus OSIPOVICHI, Red Army, U.S . Central Intelligence Agency, Federation of American Scientists, CIA, Communist, Thomson Locations: Belarus, Belarusian, Russia, Osipovichi, Tsel, Russian, Minsk, Ukrainian, Grand Duchy, Lithuania, Nazi Germany, Ukraine, Europe, Moscow, West

☆ Donetsk region school suffers direct hit, two dead, say Ukraine police
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-30 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

June 30 (Reuters) - A Russian missile attack on Friday on a village school near the frontline in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region killed two women, including a teacher, and injured six, Ukrainian police said. The 56-year-old primary school teacher and a chief accountant, 44, died in the strike on the village of Serhiivka, Ukrainian police said. "Russian troops, in a direct hit, destroyed a school where civilians were located," Ukraine's national police said in a statement. The Donetsk region prosecutor's office said four men aged 54 to 69 and two women aged 24 and 34 were injured and taken to hospital, and that it had launched an investigation into the attack. Groups of men, some in civilian clothing, others emergency workers in helmets, and uniformed police, walked atop the ruins, searching for survivors.

Persons: Elaine Monaghan, Cynthia Osterman Organizations: Reuters, Police, Thomson Locations: Russian, Ukraine's, Donetsk, Serhiivka

☆ Ukraine says it caught a sleeper agent who sent video of a crowded restaurant to Russia before a deadly missile strike blew it apart
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-28 | by ( Jake Epstein | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

A Russian missile strike in the Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk left several dead and dozens injured. Kyiv said it caught a Russian sleeper agent who was monitoring the restaurant before the strike. This photograph shows a restaurant in Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine, after a missile strike hit it on June 27, 2023. Photo by GENYA SAVILOV/AFP via Getty Images'The russian agent will undoubtedly stand trial in a Ukrainian court. Search and rescue efforts continue after a Russian missile attack hit Ria Restaurant, popular place of meeting in the city of Kramatorsk, Ukraine on June 27, 2023.

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☆ Ukraine builds layered air defences as Russia ramps up strikes
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-20 | by ( Tom Balmforth | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

[1/5] Ukrainian serviceman prepares an AN/TWQ-1 Avenger mobile air defence missile system for work during his combat shift, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, outside of Kyiv, Ukraine June 16, 2023. "When they arrive in one night, both (drones) and cruise missiles fly by, that's the most difficult." On Friday, Ukraine said it shot down all six cruise missiles and six hypersonic Kinzhal missiles fired at targets in and around the capital. "One of our top priorities, when it comes to transforming our armed forces and building up our air defence capability is creating a three-layered air defence system," said Sak. By contrast in April, the Air Force said it had shot down 73 drones and 21 cruise missiles.

Persons: Anna Voitenko, Volodymyr Zelenskiy's, Yuriy Sak, Sak, Tom Balmforth, Angus MacSwan Organizations: REUTERS, U.S, TIME, Patriots, Patriot, Air Force, Thomson Locations: Ukraine, Kyiv, KYIV, U.S, Russia, Europe, Odesa, West, Washington, Australia

He has also said that there could be "nuclear weapons for everyone" who joined the Russia-Belarus union. Putin said Russia would remain in control of the weapons just as the United States controls its own tactical nuclear weapons deployed in Europe. Putin has repeatedly raised concerns about the 200 U.S. B61 tactical nuclear warheads deployed at bases in Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy and Turkey. Russia's nuclear weapons are controlled and transported by the 12th Main Directorate of the defence ministry (12th GUMO). By putting nuclear weapons back in Belarus, Putin is showing that the architecture of post-Cold War nuclear arms control is crumbling.

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[1/3] Russian President Vladimir Putin and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko speak during a meeting at the Bocharov Ruchei residence in Sochi, Russia June 9, 2023. Putin announced in March he had agreed to deploy such weapons in Belarus, pointing to U.S deployment of tactical nuclear weapons in a host of European countries over many decades. It is still unclear where the Russian nuclear warheads - which will remain under Russian control - will be kept in Belarus. RANGEPutin, who is the ultimate decision maker on any nuclear launch, said Iskander mobile short-range ballistic missiles, which can deliver nuclear warheads, had already been handed over to Belarus. Putin has repeatedly raised the issue of U.S. B61 tactical nuclear warheads deployed at bases in Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy and Turkey.

Persons: Vladimir Putin, Alexander Lukashenko, Lukashenko, Putin, Moscow's, Vladimir Vladimirovich, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Su, Guy Faulconbridge, Kevin Liffey, Andrew Osborn, Frances Kerry Organizations: Belarusian, Sputnik, NATO, United, Sukhoi, B61, Cuban Missile Crisis, Thomson Locations: Sochi, Russia, Kremlin, Belarus, Europe, Putin MOSCOW, Soviet Union, Russian, Black, United States, Ukraine, Moscow, China, Washington, Minsk, Berlin, Stockholm, Soviet, Kazakhstan, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Turkey, Nevada

☆ 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

KYIV, Ukraine — Russia targeted the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, yet again with a missile attack in the early hours of Thursday, killing three people, including a mother and child who were not able to get into a shelter, officials said. Ukraine’s general staff headquarters said Kyiv had been attacked by a volley of 10 Iskander ballistic missiles, all of which were shot down. “For 15 months, Russian aggression and terror have been destroying not just buildings, but fundamental human rights — the fundamental rights of our children,” he said. Officials in Kyiv said that some Children’s Day events scheduled for Thursday had been canceled. Andrew E. Kramer and Nicole Tung reported from Kyiv, Ukraine, and Victoria Kim from Seoul.

Persons: Kyiv’s, Vitali Klitschko, Ukraine’s, Klitschko, ”, Volodymyr Zelensky, Andrew E, Kramer, Nicole Tung, Victoria Kim, Marc Santora, Juston Jones Organizations: Police Locations: KYIV, Ukraine, Russia, Kyiv, Seoul, New York

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