Ukrainian shelling of the Russian city of Belgorod killed two people, officials said Saturday, while Russia claimed to have thwarted a new attempt by saboteurs to cross the border. Saturday’s attacks occurred as Russians entered the second day of voting in a presidential election that is all but certain to extend Vladimir Putin’s rule by … Read more
Moscow-installed officials say Ukrainian shelling killed at least 28 people at a bakery in the Russian-occupied city of Lysychansk. At least one child was among the dead Saturday, local leader Leonid Pasechnik wrote in a statement on Telegram. A further 10 people were rescued from under the rubble by emergency services, he said. Ukrainian officials … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave At least 27 people were killed Sunday when shells slammed into a Russian-controlled region of eastern Ukraine, local officials and Russia’s Foreign Ministry said. Authorities in the city of Donetsk blamed the strikes on Ukraine’s military, saying the shells landed in a busy shopping area in the … Read more
KYIV, Ukraine — At least 25 people were killed Sunday by shelling at a market on the outskirts of the city of Donetsk in Russian-occupied Ukraine, local officials reported Sunday. A further 20 people were injured in the strike on the suburb of Tekstilshchik, including two children, said Denis Pushilin, head of the Russian-installed authorities … Read more
KYIV, Ukraine — At least 18 people were killed Sunday by shelling at a market on the outskirts of the city of Donetsk in Russian-occupied Ukraine, local officials reported Sunday. A further 13 people were injured in the strike on the suburb of Tekstilshchik, said Alexei Kulemzin, the city’s Russian-installed mayor. He said that the … Read more
January 1, 2024 at 3:47 p.m. EST Medic Iryna Peshykova poses for a portrait at her base in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Monday. (Wojciech Grzedzinski) Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave KHARKIV, Ukraine — At a medic base an hour’s drive from the Russian border, Iryna Peshykova waited for the new year to arrive … Read more
Shelling in the center of the Russian border city of Belgorod Saturday killed 21 people, including three children, local officials reported. A further 110 people were wounded in the strike, said regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov, making it one of the deadliest attacks on Russian soil since the start of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine 22 months … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave TEL AVIV — Escalating tit-for-tat strikes along Israel’s northern border with Lebanon are renewing the long-simmering threat of a new front, even as Israel remains mired in bloody urban combat to the south as it seeks to destroy Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Barrages fired Wednesday by … Read more
KYIV, Ukraine — Russian shelling in southern Ukraine’s Kherson region killed four people Sunday, including an 87-year-old man and his 81-year-old wife who died after a strike on their apartment building. The barrage injured nine other people, including a 15-year-old, sparked fires in homes and at a private medical facility, and set a local gas … Read more
Syrian opposition activists say government forces’ shelling of a northwestern village has killed at least nine people, including six children ByThe Associated Press November 25, 2023, 6:40 AM BEIRUT — Syrian government forces’ shelling of a northwestern village Saturday killed at least nine people, including six children, as they picked olives, opposition activists said. The … Read more