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Russian drones early on Sunday struck the Black Sea city of Mykolaiv, setting a hotel ablaze and damaging energy infrastructure, Ukrainian officials said, while the army chief warned of a worsening situation as his forces wait for much-needed arms from a huge US aid package to reach the front lines. Vitaliy Kim, the governor of Ukraine’s southern Mykolaiv province, said that Russian drones “seriously damaged” a hotel in its namesake capital, sparking a fire that was later extinguished. Kim also reported that the strike damaged heat-generating infrastructure in the city. He added that there wer...
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Ukrainian officials confirmed Saturday that Russian forces has gained control over a third of village of front-line village of Ocheretyne in the Donetsk region. Ocheretyne is located 15 kilometers from Avdiivka, a town captured by Russian forces in February 2024. The town has been one of the hottest sectors for Russia's offensive in Ukraine. "The part [of Ocheretyne] in which the enemy is located is under our fire control. All steps are being taken to push the enemy out of there," spokesperson for the Khortytsia group of forces, Nazar Voloshyn, said, according to local media. "Heavy battles ar...
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On 9 April, days after a dam burst caused disastrous flooding in southern Russia, Yulia Navalnya blasted the government’s handling of the crisis on X. “The authorities in our country never seem to be prepared for anything,” the widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny wrote in a damning thread. “In winter, they are unprepared for frost and snowstorms, in summer - for fires, and in spring - for floods.” Spring flooding is typical across the Ural region, as the Ural River - Europe’s third longest - fills with snowmelt from the Ural mountains. But the river hit record levels this April w...
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The United States has confirmed that it secretly sent long-range missiles to Ukraine for use on the battlefield against Russia. US President Joe Biden approved the delivery of the long-range Army Tactical Missile System, known as ATACMS, in February and March, and Ukraine has reportedly used them twice. Speaking at a press conference in Washington, national security adviser Jake Sullivan said the missiles had been shipped in response to Russia procuring weapons from other countries. “This followed Russia's procurement and use of North Korea's ballistic missiles against Ukraine, as well as Russ...
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Russia and Ukraine have held the first face-to-face negotiations to exchange children displaced by the war. Forty-eight children are set to be swapped under the deal agreed in Qatar, according to Moscow's children's rights commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova. She added the parties had agreed 29 children would go to Ukraine and 19 to Russia. Rostyslav was abducted near Kherson in Ukraine and managed to escape from Russian military training. He told reporters the "scariest thing was when I was locked in an isolation cell. I wanted to escape from there, but I realised that the consequences would be t...
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Ukraine is set to receive €57 billion in new military aid from the US, helping it to slow Russia's army's advances and block strikes on troops and civilians.
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Ukraine's National Police said Russian forces launched an air strike on the southern port city of Odesa in the early hours of Tuesday. Four children are among the civilians injured in the attack which also damaged houses, shops and cars. One house was partially destroyed. Emergency services personnel helped rescue residents from burning and damaged buildings. The Odesa regional governor said the strike involved the use of drones.
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A court in Russia on Monday convicted the spokesperson of US technology company Meta of justifying terrorism and sentenced him to six years in prison in a swift trial in absentia, Russia's independent news site Mediazona reported. According to the outlet, the charges against Meta communications director Andy Stone stem from his remarks in 2022 following Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24 that year. Meta is the parent company of Facebook and Instagram. Stone, who is based in the United States, announced temporary changes to Meta’s hate speech policy to allow for "forms of po...
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Ukraine estimates that it will need $4.67 billion (€4.38 billion) over 10 years to repair an overlooked but expensive casualty in the ongoing Russian invasion: its telecommunications network. Stanislav Prybytko, the Director-General of the Directorate for mobile broadband in Ukraine’s Ministry of Digital Transformation, told Euronews Next in a series of estimates that Russia has destroyed over 4,300 mobile base stations and a quarter of the country’s internet networks since February 2022. The country’s fibre optic network has also been impacted, with more than 30,000 km of cables spread out th...
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US President Joe Biden has told his Ukrainian counterpart that a $61 billion (€57 billion) military aid package will be released to Kyiv as soon as it's approved by the Senate. In a phone call Biden assured Volodymyr Zelenskiy that US economic assistance would help maintain financial stability and build back critical infrastructure. That phone call came a day after the military aid bill was finally passed by the House of Representatives after several delays. It’s expected to include air defence systems and artillery shells. It now goes to the Senate where it is expected to pass within days. Ze...
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