Ukraine
Residents of Lithuania’s capital told to shelter as drone alarm underlines NATO’s eastern jitters
VILNIUS, Lithuania | Residents of Lithuania’s capital were told to take shelter and the country’s president and prime minister were taken to safe locations Wednesday because of an alarm over drone activity near the border with Belarus, underlining jitters on NATO’s eastern flank over incursions related to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. An emergency announcement from […]
Ukraine conducts large-scale drone strikes on Russia, killing 4 and wounding a dozen others
KYIV, Ukraine | One of Ukraine’s largest drone strikes on Russia killed at least four people, including three near Moscow, and wounded a dozen others, local authorities said Sunday. Debris fell on Russia’s largest airport without causing damage. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed the drone strikes, saying that they were “entirely justified.” Russia has repeatedly […]
Russia hammers Ukraine for a 3rd straight day, flattening a Kyiv apartment block and killing 5
KYIV, Ukraine | Russia on Thursday unleashed a third straight day of massive drone and missile attacks on Ukraine, demolishing an apartment building in Kyiv where five people were killed and dozens injured, authorities said. More strikes elsewhere in the country wounded more than two dozen civilians. As dawn broke on a clear day in […]
Russia presses its barrages of Ukraine as Trump talks of possible peace and Kyiv is emboldened
KYIV, Ukraine | More than 100 Russian drones targeted areas of Ukraine on Wednesday, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, hours after another barrage of civilian areas killed at least eight people. “Russia continues its strikes and is doing so brazenly — deliberately targeting our railway infrastructure and civilian sites in our cities,” Zelenskyy said in a […]
Russia and Ukraine trade blame for continued fighting as US-brokered ceasefire nears its end
A U.S.-brokered ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine was due to expire Monday with both sides accusing each other of breaching the 72-hour arrangement, as American and European officials considered how they might steer the warring countries into further talks. Ukrainian authorities said Monday that Russian drones, bombs and artillery shelling struck civilian areas of the […]
Russia and Ukraine trade blame for continued fighting as US-brokered ceasefire nears its end
A U.S.-brokered ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine was due to expire Monday with both sides accusing each other of breaching the 72-hour arrangement, as American and European officials considered how they might steer the warring countries into further talks. Ukrainian authorities said Monday that Russian drones, bombs and artillery shelling struck civilian areas of the […]