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Ukraine’s Strike On Moscow-Controlled Village Kills 5, Injures 19
On Wednesday, a coordination center set up by Moscow said that Ukrainian shelling of a town in the Russian-controlled area of Luhansk in east Ukraine killed five people and hurt 19. The center said on the messaging service Telegram that Ukrainian troops had attacked a chicken farm in the village of Karpaty with HIMARS rocket launchers. Reuters was not able to check the story on its own. Nearly all of…
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Russia’s ‘Biggest Drone Attack’ Shakes Kyiv On The Eve Of Kyiv Day; President Zelenskyy Vows Retaliation
Local officials say that Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, was hit by the biggest drone attack since Russia’s war began. This happened as Kyiv was getting ready to celebrate the anniversary of its founding on Sunday. At least one person died, but officials said that dozens of drones were shot down, showing how good Ukraine’s air defense is. Serhii Popko, a top military official in Kyiv, said that Russia used Shahed drones…
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Kyiv Accuses Putin Of Planning Nuclear Radioactive Leak To Halt Ukraine’s Counteroffensive
Ukraine’s military intelligence says that Russia is planning a “large-scale provocation” at a nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhia that it controls. Kyiv said that the Kremlin was trying to stop Ukraine’s counteroffensive and that Russian forces would attack the biggest nuclear power station in Europe, which is in the southeast of Ukraine. This comes two days after a top friend of Russian President Vladimir Putin said the war in Ukraine…
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Unsettling Transfer: Wagner Claims Bakhmut Joins Russian Army
Yevgeny Prigozhin has said that the Russian army will be in charge of the city by June 1, but Kyiv says it is still in charge of some parts of the city. He said that his troops were ready to come back if the normal Russian army couldn’t handle the situation. The war’s longest and bloodiest fight has been for the city. On the Russian side, Wagner mercenaries have led…
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Bloodstained Battlefields: Russia’s Private Army Boss Laments Heavy Losses In Bakhmut
The head of a Russian private army has again disagreed with the Kremlin’s position on Ukraine. He said that the Kremlin’s goal of demilitarizing the country has backfired. He also said that Russian troops have killed civilians and agreed with Western estimates that his Wagner Group has lost more than 20,000 men in the battle for Bakhmut. Yevgeny Prigozhin said that about half of the people who died in the…
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Intrigue In Skies: US Intelligence Suspects Ukrainian Involvement In Kremlin Drone Attack
US officials have heard Ukrainian officials talking about how they blame each other for a drone attack on the Kremlin earlier this month. This has led the US to think that a Ukrainian group may have been behind the attack. Some members of Ukraine’s military and intelligence agencies think that the operation was done by Ukrainian special operations troops, according to the intercepts. The talk, along with other intercepted messages…
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The Battle Unleashed: Russia ‘Crushes’ Ukraine Incursion In Intense 24-hour Clash
Russia’s military said on Tuesday that it had stopped what seemed to be one of the worst attacks from Ukraine across the border since the war started. They said that more than 70 attackers were killed in a fight that lasted about 24 hours. Moscow said that people in the Ukrainian military were behind the attack that started on Monday. Kyiv made it sound like Russian supporters were rising up…
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Ukraine War: Russia Launches Ninth Wave Of Missile Attacks On Kyiv This Month
Authorities in Kyiv said it looked like all incoming rockets had been destroyed, but falling debris caused some damage in two neighborhoods. Officials say that a missile attack on the Black Sea town of Odesa killed one person and hurt two others. Blasts were also heard in Vinnytsia, Khmelnytsky, and Zhytomyr, which are all in the central-western part of Ukraine. The Ukraine’s Air Force said in a statement that 29…
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Russian Cruise Missile Attack Targets Kyiv, Resulting In Casualty In Odesa
Again, Russia has hit Ukraine with missiles, killing one person in the city of Odesa in the south and setting fires in two parts of the capital, Kyiv, with rubble from destroyed missiles. Serhiy Bratchuk, a spokesman for Ukraine’s military government, said on Thursday that two more people were hurt in the attack in Odesa. “The Air Defence Forces shot down most of the enemy’s rockets over the sea. “Unfortunately,…
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Explosions In Kyiv And Other Ukrainian Cities After Kremlin Drone Attack
Explosions were heard in the early hours of Thursday morning in Kyiv and other places in Ukraine, according to officials and the media. Some local officials said that anti-aircraft defenses were in use. Since October of last year, Russia has regularly bombed Ukraine, hitting a wide range of targets. The latest explosions happened less than 24 hours after Kyiv said that a Russian attack on the city of Kherson killed…
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