An AFP analysis of data from a leading conflict monitor shows a striking surge in strikes against Ukraine’s infrastructure in recent months. Russian strikes intensify on Kyiv warehouses: AFP analysis Russia has struck twice as many warehouses in the Kyiv region over the past three months as in all previous years of the war combined, … Read more
The Novoshakhtinsk oil refinery in Russia’s southern Rostov region was also damaged in the attacks. Two people were killed in separate Ukrainian drone attacks across Russia overnight, Russian officials said, as the strikes damaged an oil refinery, industrial sites and a passenger train.Russia’s defence ministry said its air defences destroyed 592 Ukrainian drones during the … Read more
By Gleb Garanich and Valentyn Ogirenko Russian strikes kill eight in Ukraine, damage maternity clinic KYIV, Sept 24 – Russian drone and missile strikes on Ukraine’s capital Kyiv and its northeast killed eight people on Thursday in attacks that included a maternity hospital and a farm, officials said. Moscow has stepped up its air war … Read more
Russian strikes across Ukraine killed at least seven people on Wednesday, including two in a new barrage on Kyiv, as it vowed there would be no “pause” in Europe’s worst conflict since World War II. Russian strikes kill seven in Ukraine, Zelensky vows winter campaign The attacks came as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told the … Read more
US invites Putin to G20 amid fresh diplomatic push over Ukraine war US secretary of state Marco Rubio has said Russian President Vladimir Putin has been invited to the G20 summit in the United States in December, describing the gathering as an opportunity for him to engage with US President Donald Trump and other world … Read more
EU countries on Tuesday took oligarchs Alisher Usmanov and Mikhail Fridman off a renewed Russia sanctions list in a move condemned by Ukraine as “shameful”. Ukraine anger as EU lifts sanctions on Russian oligarchs Usmanov, Fridman A deal to extend the sanctions against some 3,000 individuals and entities, including President Vladimir Putin, was agreed just … Read more
File photo: US President Donald Trump US President Donald Trump on Friday defended a Russian oligarch’s role in funding celebrations around his son Donald Trump Jr’s wedding in the Bahamas, saying the arrangement was “totally allowed” but that his son had told him he was paying the money back.Trump said he had previously asked his … Read more
President Donald Trump said his eldest son, Donald Trump Jr.has paid back Russian oligarch Umar Kremlev after Kremlev covered hundreds of thousands of dollars in costs linked to the Trump son’s wedding celebrations in the Bahamas. Trump said Friday that Don Jr. did not want to keep the money. “It’s totally allowed, and a lot … Read more
Researchers in Russia hung bags of moss beside three busy highways to see how much traffic pollution the plants would soak up. Published in the Journal of Hazardous Materials, the study exposed moss collected from a clean background site to roadside air along the Leningradskoye, Yaroslavskoye, and Dmitrovkoye highways in central Russia. After analysing the … Read more
File photo: An Iranian Shahed exploding drone. Ukraine has expanded its fight against Russia beyond the battlefield at home, deploying drone specialists to Africa and military teams to the Middle East to train forces fighting Russian- and Iranian-made drones, according to a CNN report.CNN, citing Ukrainian soldiers, officers and a Ukrainian Defense Intelligence source, reported … Read more