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Russia fired a combined 100 missiles and drones at Ukraine overnight, in a barrage that targeted energy sites across the country, Ukrainian officials said on Saturday. Russia has launched hundreds of aerial attacks at Ukraine's power facilities throughout the two-year war, causing significant damage and energy shortages as Ukraine's stretched air defenses struggle to repel the waves of drones and missiles. "The enemy launched 53 missiles of various types and 47 attack drones," Ukraine's Air Force said, adding that it shot down 35 of the missiles and all but one of the drones. Two thermal power...
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Ukrainian shelling attacks killed five people in Russian-occupied areas of the eastern Donetsk region on Friday, Moscow-installed authorities said. The Kremlin often accuses Kyiv of indiscriminate attacks on civilians. Ukraine denies the claims, saying it bombs only military targets responsible for deadly strikes on its own civilians. "Five people were killed," Russian-installed top official of the occupied Donetsk region, Denis Pushilin, said on social media, adding that three more were wounded. "As a result of the mass attack in the morning on the village Staromykhailivka of the Kirov region...
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Russia on Friday labeled a women's organization campaigning for the return of mobilized men from Ukraine and a former pro-peace presidential candidate "foreign agents." Moscow uses the label, heavy in Soviet-era connotations, on Kremlin critics to silence dissent. Russia's Justice Ministry included the Put’ Domoi (Way Home) movement, which has organized women-led protests in Moscow to bring mobilized men back from Ukraine, in its list of "foreign agents." Put’ Domoi has been made up of wives of Russian men mobilized to fight in Ukraine. The Justice Ministry said it had worked to create a "nega...
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The United States on Thursday finally joined a growing number of its NATO allies in allowing Ukraine to use weapons donated by the West to strike military targets on Russian territory. Officials said Ukraine would only be allowed to defend the embattled Kharkiv region, which is under bombardment by missiles and glide bombs launched inside Russia. Furthermore, an anonymous official explained Kyiv would only be able to hit “Russian forces hitting them or preparing to hit them.” Though Volodymyr Zelensky’s spokesman welcomed the move, the Ukrainian president himself was more critical, saying the ...
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G7 foreign ministers said Friday they were "gravely concerned" about deepening cooperation between Russia and North Korea, particularly arms transfers from Pyongyang to Moscow for use on the battlefield in Ukraine. "We are gravely concerned by the deepening DPRK-Russia cooperation in flagrant violation of multiple United Nations Security Council resolutions," they said in a statement issued by this year's G7 president, Italy. "We call on the DPRK [North Korea] and Russia to cease unlawful arms transfers," read the statement, which was also issued on behalf of ministers from South Korea, Austra...
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Moscow and Kyiv have traded 150 prisoners of war with the help of mediators from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Russia’s Defense Ministryannounced Friday, the first such exchange after months of stalled talks between the two warring sides. “As a result of negotiations, 75 Russian servicemen, who were in mortal danger in captivity, were returned from the territory controlled by the Kiyv regime,” the Defense Ministry said, adding that 75 Ukrainian soldiers were also sent home. “The United Arab Emirates provided humanitarian mediation during the return of Russian servicemen from captivity,” it s...
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Berlin has given Ukraine permission to fire German-delivered weapons at targets in Russia, Chancellor Olaf Scholz's spokesman said Friday, matching a move by the United States. Kyiv has the "right under international law to defend itself" against attacks coming from inside Russia, Steffen Hebestreit said in a statement. Attacks from Russian territory have increased in recent weeks, in particular around the northeastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, where Russia's forces launched a surprise ground offensive earlier this month. Germany and other Western allies backing Kyiv are "convinced that Ukrai...
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An overnight Ukrainian drone strike in southern Russia’s Krasnodar region sparked a large fire and injured at least two workers at an oil depot, regional authoritiessaid Friday. Russia’s Defense Ministrysaid its air defense systems destroyed 29 Ukrainian drones and five missiles over the region. Krasnodar region Governor Venyamin Kondratyevsaid an aerial attack set three tanks filled with petroleum products on fire in the Temryuk district, which lies just east of annexed Crimea. “The fire has been assigned a high category of complexity,” Kondratyev wrote on Telegram. Two workers sustained mino...
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President Joe Biden has lifted restrictions on Ukraine using weapons supplied by the United States against targets on Russian territory, but only to defend the under-fire Kharkiv region, U.S. officials said Thursday. Biden has come under increasing pressure from a desperate Ukraine to ease his ban but had so far resisted amid fears it could drag NATO into direct conflict with Moscow. "The president recently directed his team to ensure that Ukraine is able to use U.S.-supplied weapons for counter-fire purposes in the Kharkiv region so Ukraine can hit back against Russian forces that are attacki...
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Denmark’s Foreign Minister said Ukraine would be allowed to attack targets inside Russia with F-16 fighter jets it sends as part of military support for Kyiv, Ukrainian mediareported Thursday. “The short answer is yes,” Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen was quoted as saying in Brussels by the news website European Pravda when asked whether Ukrainian pilots would be allowed to strike targets on Russian territory with the U.S.-made warplanes. “We made it clear from the very beginning… that this is part of self-defense so that it would also be possible to attack military targets on the...
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