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Latest News on Russia-Ukraine War

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  • Zelensky to present 'victory plan' to its allies in Germany next weekend

  • Ukrainian forces target Russian official with car bomb at Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant

  • NATO's new leader prioritizes Ukraine support and pledges collaboration with any US President

  • Russia claims key city of Vuhledar in Ukraine ​

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September 2024​​

 

August 2024

  • The Ukrainian incursion into Russia’s Kursk region that began last week has been the largest cross-border raid by Kyiv’s forces in the war and has exposed Russia’s vulnerabilities

  • Ukrainian forces destroyed 53 out of 57 Russian attack drones.

  • A 35-year-old man and his four-year-old son were killed in the district of Brovary near the Ukrainian capital during an overnight attack.

  • A top Ukrainian pilot was killed when a US-made F-16 fighter jet crashed on Monday, just weeks after the planes arrived in the country.

  • Pilot Oleksiy Mes, known as “Moonfish,” was killed in the crash while “repelling the biggest ever aerial attack” by Russia against Ukraine. The death of Moonfish is a blow for Ukraine, as he was one of the few pilots trained to fly the new F-16 fighter jets.

  • Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed that the Ukrainian Air Force used the F-16 to destroy missiles and drones launched by Russia on Monday.

  • Ukraine’s strikes against Russian military targets and its recent ground offensive inside Russian territory appear to be yielding military and political results.

  • Russia has reportedly begun moving its aircraft back from airfields near the Ukrainian border to defend home turf. A White House official told the Politico news website that “90 percent of the planes that launch glide bombs” against Ukrainian front-line positions had been moved back inside Russia.

  • Russia launched a large-scale missile and drone strike on Ukrainian energy infrastructure, using over 100 missiles and 100 drones to attack at least 15 regions in Ukraine.

  • The attack resulted in at least six deaths, injuries to 30 people.

  • The attack also caused significant power outages in several cities, including Kyiv and Dnipro, and Ukraine’s national energy company, Ukrenergo, implemented emergency power cuts to stabilize the grid amid widespread outages. 

  • Russia’s Defense Ministry confirmed the strike, claiming it disrupted the transport of weapons and ammunition to the frontlines.

  • Ukraine has called on Western allies for greater support, including permission for long-range strikes on Russian targets and enhanced air defense capabilities, as it remains constrained by restrictions on the use of advanced weaponry and continues to rely on its air defenses.

  • Russian ground forces are advancing towards Pokrovsk, a strategically important city in eastern Ukraine, as part of their broader objective to capture Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

  • Ukraine launched at least 11 drones at Moscow, one of the largest drone strikes on the capital since the war      began. 

  •  Russian air defenses shot down all 11 drones targeting Moscow.

  •  Some drones were intercepted over Podolsk, a city 38 km (24 miles) south of the Kremlin.

  •  On August 6, Ukraine escalated the conflict by sending thousands of soldiers into Russia's Kursk region.

  •  Ukraine has been conducting damaging drone strikes against Russian refineries and airfields.

  •  Russian media reported drones being destroyed over Tula and a missile intercepted over Rostov, though these were not mentioned by the Russian defense ministry.

  •  Ukraine’s military claimed to have struck an S-300 anti-aircraft missile system in Rostov. 

  •  Ukrainian forces launched a surprise offensive in Russia's Kursk region during its second week, advancing 35 km   inside Russia, capturing 1,293 square kilometers (500 square miles) and 93 settlements as of Tuesday.

  •  Moscow's reinforcements failed to halt the Ukrainian advance. Options for Moscow include reallocating more         battalions from the invasion force in Ukraine to defend Russia or deploying new conscripts.

  • Russia has faced heavy casualties among special forces and other experienced units, prompting the recruitment of felons, immigrants, and non-ethnic Russians with incentives.

  • Ukraine's recent territorial gains and battlefield initiatives, using tactics such as counter-drone strategies, have surpassed Russian advances.

  • Ukraine has reportedly used US equipment, including cluster bombs and missiles, to disrupt Russian logistics and infrastructure in the Kursk region.

  •  Experts believe that increased pressure on Russia could lead to potential negotiations.

  • Ukrainian city of 1 million people hit by number of deadly aerial attacks seemingly aimed at terrorizing population.

  • Ukraine announced the mandatory evacuation of children and their guardians from areas in the eastern region of Donetsk, where Russia has been claiming advances.

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July 2024

  • Russia launches its biggest drone barrage against Ukraine in 7 months.

  • Ukraine’s military said fighting on the Pokrovsk front in Donetsk was the fiercest anywhere in the country’s east and that its soldiers had fought off 52 Russian assaults there in the previous 24 hours.

  • Russian attacks are continuing at a high rate northwest, west, and southwest of Avdiivka.

  • Russia has launched massive naval drills involving the majority of its fleet and personnel, including more than 300 vessels from four different fleets and flotillas and around 20,000 navy personnel.

  • Russia sentences U.S. dual national journalist Alsu Kurmasheva to prison for reporting amid Ukraine war.

  • Russia’s military said it had captured another tiny village in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, where its forces are grinding forward.

  • In Ukraine, a Russian overnight air attack damaged an energy facility in the northern Sumy region, cutting power to 50,400 consumers, officials said.

  • Russia’s last warship retreated from Crimea in win for Ukraine, but land war remains at an impasse.

  • Officials in Ukraine’s Kharkiv announced plans to build a series of schools underground to protect children amid near-daily Russian attacks on the northeastern city.

  • Shelling kills 4 in Ukraine as a drone attack sparks fire at an oil depot in Russia.

  • A Russian hypersonic missile struck the complex on Monday morning, hitting a two-storey toxicology department where children undergo dialysis, officials said.

  • A senior Russian diplomat says Putin is reviewing the country's nuclear doctrine - and warns the West it is "playing with fire". 

  • A Russian missile attack struck Ukraine’s southern city of Odesa, damaging an administrative building, regional governor Oleh Kiper said.

  • The Ukrainian air force said it shot down all 23 drones and five out of six missiles launched by Vladimir Putin’s forces.

 

June 2024

  • Russia launched 42 glide bombs on the northeastern Kharkiv region over a 24-hour period, according to local authorities. 

  • Over 100 people were injured and at least five people were killed after missile fragments scattered over beachgoers during a Ukrainian strike on the city of Sevastopol in Russia-occupied Crimea.

  • At least two people were injured and dozens of buildings were damaged in a Russian missile attack on the Kyiv region, according to Ruslan Kravchenko, the head of the region’s state administration.

  • At least one person was killed and 11 injured after Russia launched an apparent glide bomb attack on the northeastern city of Kharkiv, regional governor Oleh Syniehubov said.

  • Three people were killed and four others injured, including a 14-year-old boy, after Russia attacked the village of Rozkishne in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region. 

  • Russia obliterates Ukraine's frontline towns faster with hacked bombs and expanded airbase network.

  • At least 22 people, including three children, were injured in a Russian missile attack on Ukraine’s east-central Poltava region.

  • Ukraine will receive €1.5bn (£1.3bn) in Russian frozen assets revenue in July and €1.9bn (£1.6bn) under the Ukraine Facility already this month, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has said.

  • Children are being evacuated from border villages in the Kharkiv region amid fears of a renewed Russian offensive, local authorities have said. Six villages in the border districts of Zolochiv, located just a few hundred metres from the Russian border, have been subjected to a “mandatory evacuation.” Authorities have planned for 1,740 people to be taken out of the area. 

  • Kyiv warned of more power cuts following large-scale Russian attacks on Ukrainian power plants and energy infrastructure. “After six massive attacks on the power grid, there is a significant power shortage,” the Ukrainian Ministry of Energy said on social media.

  • Leaders of the United States and France have reaffirmed support for Ukraine in its battle against Russia’s invasion during a meeting in Paris, with President Joe Biden warning that Vladimir Putin would “not stop” at Ukraine.

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May 2024

  • As Russia presses forward with its offensive in northeastern Ukraine with an attack that has killed 18 so far, Ukraine’s President Zelenskyy has secured from Spain a pledge of additional air defense missiles to help fight the approximately 3,000 bombs he says Russia is launching at Ukraine each month.

  • Two Russian missiles hit a hardware hypermarket with about 200 people believed to be inside in the first attack on 27th May 2024. Four people were killed and at least 38 injured, two being store employees.

  • Russian strikes on the eastern Ukraine city of Kharkiv killed at least seven people, according to the regional governor, Oleg Sinegubov.

  • Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called on allies to get more directly involved in the war, such as by helping to intercept Russian missiles.

  • US secretary of state, Anthony Blinken announces $2bn in military aid as Russia claims to have taken more settlements. Blinken said new support from the US was coming at a “critical time.”

  • Ukraine has evacuated about 8,000 people from its northeastern Kharkiv region since Russia launched a major ground assault on the area last week.

  • US secretary of state says ammunition, armoured vehicles and missiles will be rushed to frontline as Moscow says it has captured more territory.

  • Under heavy Russian fire, Ukraine withdraws troops from parts of besieged Kharkiv region.

  • Putin to replace longtime defense minister in surprise move; Russia claims gains as fighting rages in northeast Ukraine.

  • Russia presses renewed border assault in northeast Ukraine as thousands flee.

 

April 2024

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March 2024

  • Germany’s defense minister, Boris Pistorius, said Berlin would send Ukraine 10,000 rounds of badly needed artillery shells, 100 armored infantry vehicles, and transport equipment in a new infusion of support worth 500 million euros, about $544 million.

  • A Russian ballistic missile attack blasted homes in the southern Ukrainian city of Odesa, followed by a second missile that targeted first responders who arrived at the scene, officials said. At least 16 people were killed and 10 houses in Odesa and some emergency service equipment were damaged in the strike. 

  • Russia does not intend to join a high-level peace conference that aims to bring an end to the war in Ukraine, even if it is formally invited, a spokesperson for the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

  • Denmark will provide a new military aid package including Caesar artillery systems and ammunition to Ukraine worth around 2.3 billion Danish crowns ($336.6 million).

  • The United States is preparing a new military aid package for Ukraine that could be worth as much as $400 million.

  • European Union countries are set to agree on a new 5 billion euro ($5.46 billion) top-up to a fund used to finance military shipments to Ukraine, the Financial Times reported. 

  • Ukrainian soldiers retreated from Avdiivka after a four-month battle under a relentless onslaught of Russian artillery and glide bombs that destroyed buildings and broke through deep concrete bunkers.

  • Russia has increasingly used warplanes near the front lines to drop powerful guided bombs on Ukrainian positions and clear a path forward for the infantry. The Ukrainian Army last week said it had shot down seven Su-34 fighter jets, nearly all operating in the east, just a few days after downing an A-50 long-range radar reconnaissance aircraft.

  • At least two civilians have been killed and another one injured in Kupiansk, a town in northeastern Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, in a Russian attack with guided bombs, according to the head of the Kharkiv regional military administration. 

  • The Russian Ministry of Defense claimed that Moscow’s forces have taken control of the settlement of Sieverne, west of the town of Avdiivka in the eastern Donetsk region. Pro-Ukrainian military bloggers have also reported the loss of the village.

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February 2024

  • Hundreds of Ukrainian troops may have been captured by advancing Russian units or disappeared during Ukraine’s chaotic retreat from the eastern city of Avdiivka, a devastating loss that could deal a blow to already weakening morale.

  • IAEA and Ukrainian officials are increasingly worried that attacks by Russian troops on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant -- the largest in Europe -- could cause it to be on the brink. Nuclear experts have identified three primary dangers: a military strike on the plant, a power outage that could trigger a meltdown, and staffing shortages.

  • Ukraine will need $9bn over 10 years for its culture and tourism sectors to recover, the United Nations’ cultural agency said on Tuesday, adding that the two-year war had so far cost the country over $19.6bn in tourism revenue.

  • Some parts of the eastern Ukrainian town of Avdiivka are in a “critical” condition as they fight off incessant Russian shelling and incursions.

  • European Union leaders agreed Thursday to more than $50 billion in aid for Ukraine. In emergency meetings in Brussels, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who has spent months railing against the aid, finally agreed to sign on — though the terms remain unclear.

  • Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has submitted a proposal to the Ukrainian parliament to extend martial law and general mobilization for another 90 days. The president first declared martial law and general mobilization on 24 February 2022, when Russia started its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

  • Olaf Scholz and four other European leaders have admitted that the EU has “fallen short” of its goals to supply Ukraine with artillery ammunition. On the eve of an emergency EU summit of EU leaders (to break the deadlock between member states and Hungary’s Viktor Orbán over a £50bn aid package), they have warned that Europe needs to intensify and accelerate its supplies to the frontline.

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January 2024

  • At least 17 people have been injured, two of them seriously, after two S-300 Russian missiles hit residential buildings in the city of Kharkiv. 14 people have been sent to hospital.

  • Ukraine's power grid operator has said severe winter weather has left more than 1,000 towns and villages without electricity in nine regions.

  • Residents in Dnipro held a memorial service yesterday for the 46 people killed in a Russian missile strike a year ago. Six children were among those who died and dozens of other people were injured. 

  • Russia launched another wave of missile strikes across Ukraine. Ukrainian officials detailed increasing numbers of casualties and ongoing rescue efforts, as well as damaged residential and non-residential buildings. Six people died and 73 others were

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