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Russia Steps Up Aerial Strikes On Ukraine, At Least 6 Killed Amid Kyiv Counteroffensive
Regional Ukrainian officials said that early Wednesday morning, Russian forces fired cruise missiles at the city of Odesa in the south of Ukraine and shelled the Donetsk region in the east. At least six people were killed and dozens of homes were damaged. A Ukrainian military official said that Russian forces have recently increased the number of airstrikes in their nearly 16-month war. In the early stages of a counteroffensive…
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Russia Launches Massive Missile Attack On Kryvyi Rih In Central Ukraine
Overnight, Russia launched a “massive missile” attack on the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih, Ukrainian officials said early Tuesday. The attack killed and hurt people and damaged civilian infrastructure, they said. Serhiy Lisak, governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region where Kryvyi Rih is located, said on the Telegram message app, “There are dead and injured.” “A massive missile attack on Kryvyi Rih.”Oleksandr Vilkul, the mayor of Kryvyi Rih, said earlier…
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Massive Dam Destroyed In Russia-Ukraine War Zone
Both Ukrainian and Russian forces say that a huge dam broke on Tuesday in the part of southern Ukraine that is held by Russia. This caused a flood of water to spread across the war zone. Both groups said that the dam was broken because of the other side. The Kherson regional government in Ukraine said that the water level would rise to a dangerous level, so people were moved…
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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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