Ukraine’s Navy says it destroyed Russian ferry in attack
Ukraine’s Navy confirmed on Friday that it had destroyed a ferry in the Russian port of Kavkaz that was used to deliver fuel and weapons to occupied Crimea.
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Ferry loaded with fuel sinks at Russian port after Ukrainian attack
A ferry loaded with fuel tanks sank in the Russian port of Kavkaz in southern Krasnodar region on Thursday after a Ukrainian attack, local authorities said.
The ferry carrying 30 fuel ...
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How Russia looked the wrong way as Ukraine invaded
In the hours before Ukrainian soldiers stormed across Russia’s western border, there was no sign from Moscow that anything was amiss.
At midnight at the start of Aug. 6, the ...
Russian priests bring icon to try to tame depot fire after drone attack
Orthodox priests brought an icon to the scene of a huge fuel depot fire in southern Russia sparked by a Ukrainian drone attack in the hope it would help tame ...
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Ukraine says it hits pontoon bridges in Russia, Moscow reports gains
By Tom Balmforth and Yuliia Dysa
Ukraine said on Wednesday it was destroying Russian pontoon bridges with U.S.-made weapons to defend its incursion into Russia’s Kursk region, ...
Ukraine adopts ‘historic’ law to ban Russia-linked minority church
Ukrainian lawmakers on Tuesday passed a law envisaging a ban on the activities of a Russia-linked branch of the Orthodox church, paving the way for a historic rupture with an ...
Ukraine repels fifth Russian missile attack on Kyiv in August
Russia launched its fifth missile attack on Kyiv this month, Ukraine’s military said on Tuesday, with preliminary data showing air defence systems were again successful in repelling the strikes.
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Russia says Ukraine has hit third bridge in assault on Kursk region
Moscow said on Monday Ukraine had struck a third bridge in an assault on Russia’s Kursk region which Kyiv says is aimed at carving out a buffer zone and ...
Belarus’ Lukashenko says nearly a third of army sent to Ukraine border, Belta reports
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Sunday that Ukraine had stationed more than 120,000 troops at its border with Belarus and Minsk had deployed nearly a third of its armed forces ...
North Korea condemns Ukraine’s incursion into Russia as act of terror
North Korea condemned Ukraine’s incursion into Russia as an unforgivable act of terror backed by Washington and the West, adding it would always stand with Russia as it seeks ...
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Russia launches third ballistic missile attack on Kyiv this month, Ukraine says
Russia on Sunday carried out its third ballistic missile attack on Kyiv this month but preliminary data indicated most of the projectiles wereshot down on approach, the military administration of ...
Russia says Ukraine used Western rockets to destroy bridge in Kursk region
Russia’s foreign ministry said Ukraine had used Western rockets, likely U.S.-made HIMARS, to destroy a bridge over the Seym river in the Kursk region, killing volunteers trying ...
Russia summons Italian ambassador over journalists reporting from Kursk
Russia’s Foreign Ministry said on Friday that it had summoned Italy’s ambassador in Moscow over what it said was “illegal border crossing” by a team of correspondents from ...
Kremlin aide says NATO and the West helped Ukraine attack Russia
An influential aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that the West and the U.S.-led NATO alliance had been directly involved in planning Ukraine’s surprise ...
Ukraine opens military office in occupied Kursk region, says it is still advancing
Ukraine’s top commander said on Thursday Kyiv had set up a military commandant’s office in the occupied part of Russia’s Kursk region where he said his forces ...
Putin says Ukraine trying to destabilise Russia with Kursk offensive
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday that Ukraine was trying to undermine Russian stability with its incursion into the south of the country, but it would not succeed.
“The ...
2.3 billion in US, Euro notes flow into Russia, bypassing sanctions
Around $2.3 billion in dollar and euro bills have been shipped to Russia since the United States and EU banned the export of their banknotes there in March 2022 following the invasion ...
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Russia evacuates another border region amid growing threat from Ukrainian units
Russia on Monday evacuated parts of another region next to Ukraine after Kyiv sharply increased military activity near the border just days after its biggest incursion into sovereign Russian territory ...
Zelenskiy says Ukraine’s shock Kursk attack to pressure Russia and ‘restore justice’
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Ukraine had launched an incursion into Russian territory to “restore justice” and pressure Moscow’s forces, in his first acknowledgement of Kyiv’s surprise offensive into ...
Cyprus extradites Russian national to US
A 33-year-old dual Russian and German national Artur Petrov appeared in court in New York for the first time on Friday after being extradited to the United States from Cyprus, ...
Zelenskiy acknowledges Ukraine’s military operation in Russia
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy acknowledged for the first time on Saturday that Ukrainian forces were fighting in the surprise offensive in Russia’s Kursk, as the border region’s authorities rushed ...
Russia fighting intense battles against major Ukrainian incursion
Russia was fighting intense battles on Saturday against thousands of Ukrainian troops as deep as 20 km (12 miles) inside the Kursk region after Ukraine’s biggest attack on Russian sovereign territory ...
Convict in Kremlin critic murder released from jail to fight in Ukraine
A man convicted in the killing of Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov has been discharged from jail after signing a contract to join the military operation in Ukraine, state-run news ...
Fighting continues in Kursk as video shows burnt-out Russian trucks
Video posted on social media on Friday and verified by Reuters showed a convoy of burnt-out Russian military trucks along a highway in the Kursk region of southern Russia, where ...