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Ukraine and allies set up coalition to tackle Russia ballistic missile threat
13+ hour, 2+ min ago (823+ words) Ukraine and key Western allies on Monday announced an air-defence coalition that would include jointly developing a new anti-ballistic missile system as an alternative and cheaper solution to the US Patriot system. With Ukraine increasingly exposed to Russian ballistic missiles,…...
Ukraine awaits new government after Prime Minister's shock dismissal
8+ hour, 26+ min ago (642+ words) Ukrainian lawmakers were getting ready to vote on another government this week after the President dismissed his Prime Minister in a move he said would bring fresh thinking, but critics warned could stoke disorder at a key point in the…...
Clashes in Ukraine's Lviv highlight wartime tensions over draft
4+ day, 7+ hour ago (372+ words) Authorities in Ukraine launched inquiries on Thursday into violent clashes in the western city of Lviv a day earlier over the country’s military draft, the latest sign of wartime tensions over the call-up in the fifth year of the war…...
Russia attacks Kyiv for third time in a week, kills three
5+ day, 9+ hour ago (430+ words) Russia fired ballistic missiles at Kyiv overnight and sent jet-powered drones over the city throughout Wednesday, killing at least three people, officials said, as Moscow exploits Ukraine’s critical shortage of US-made interceptors. The attacks coincided with a NATO summit in…...
Sleepless Ukrainians wonder when Russia will strike next
6+ day, 7+ hour ago (603+ words) Kyiv resident Diana Bobrovska was so nervous about a new Russian air attack on her neighbourhood after a devastating strike on Monday that she spent a second night sheltering with her two-year-old son. “Two nights without sleep is very difficult,…...
Russian strikes kill 28, exposing Ukraine air-defence shortages
1+ week, 10+ hour ago (843+ words) Russia hammered Ukraine with missiles and drones early on Monday, killing at least 28 people and exposing Kyiv’s critical shortage of US-made interceptors, officials said, just days after the deadliest attack on the Ukrainian capital this year. Rescuers were digging bodies…...
Rescuers scour rubble as Kyiv mourns deadliest Russian attack this year
1+ week, 3+ day ago (480+ words) Rescuers sifted through rubble in a search for survivors in Kyiv on Friday as the Ukrainian capital observed a day of mourning, a day after a Russian missile and drone attack killed at least 30 people in the deadliest strike on…...
Russian drones attack Ukrainian capital, set central district hotel on fire
1+ week, 5+ day ago (446+ words) Russian forces attacked the Ukrainian capital Kyiv with drones late on Wednesday, triggering a fire in a hotel on a central boulevard and leaving debris scattered in two city districts. People take shelter inside a metro station during an overnight…...
Postcards: Bird nests of fibre-optic cables show war's impact on Ukraine
1+ week, 6+ day ago (526+ words) DARIA SMETANKO and ANNA VOITENKO, of Reuters, reports on how the war’s impact is being seen in an unusual way… Woven from fibre-optic cable and grass, a small bird’s nest found near the front line of the war in Ukraine…...
Ukraine hits Moscow refinery in major drone attack on Russian capital
3+ week, 4+ day ago (749+ words) Ukraine launched a major drone attack on Moscow on Thursday, hitting the Russian capital’s oil refinery for the second time this week in what Kyiv cast as a response to an attack that damaged a nearly 1,000-year-old monastery in the…...