NewsWorldEuropeRussian attacks towards the city of Pokrovsk in eastern Ukraine have proved successful in terms of territory gained but costly in terms of personnel losses
Russian military airbase left ablaze after drone attack
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Ukrainian president President Volodymyr Zelensky has touted a newly developed Ukrainian “drone missile” that he said would take the war back to Russia.
As Ukraine marked 33 years of post-Soviet independence, Mr Zelensky said the new weapon, Palianytsia, was faster and more powerful than the domestically made drones that Kyiv has so far used to fight back against Russia.
“Our enemy will … know what the Ukrainian way for retaliation is. Worthy, symmetrical, long-ranged,” he said.
The new class of Ukrainian weapon had been used for a successful strike on a target in Russia, he added.
Mr Zelensky also described Vladimir Putin as a “sick old man from Red Square”.
It comes as Russia’s defence ministry announced it sent more artillery to the Kursk region where Russian forces are fighting thousands of Ukrainian troops who pierced the Russian border on 6 August.
“Additional missile and artillery weapons have been supplied to the group,” the ministry said in a statement on supplies to troops in the Russian border regions.
Meanwhile, Russia launched several missiles and drones overnight targeting northern and eastern Ukraine, Kyiv’s military has said, with air defence systems destroying most of the weapons before they reached their targets.
1724577215Pictured: Russian strike in the town of Kramatorsk
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(POOL/AFP via Getty Images)Jabed Ahmed25 August 2024 10:13
1724575415Russia sends more artillery to troops fighting Ukraine in KurskRussia’s defence ministry has said it sent more artillery to the Kursk region where Russian forces are fighting thousands of Ukrainian troops who pierced the Russian border on 6 August.
“Additional missile and artillery weapons have been supplied to the group,” the ministry said in a statement on supplies to troops in the Russian border regions.
Jabed Ahmed25 August 2024 09:43
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1724572324Full report: Moscow and Kyiv swap prisoners of war as Ukraine marks Independence DayRussia and Ukraine have each exchanged more than 100 prisoners of war as Kyiv marked its third Independence Day since Moscow’s full-scale invasion.
Ukraine said the 115 Ukrainian servicemen who were freed were conscripts, many of whom were taken prisoner in the first months of Russia’s invasion.
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Jabed Ahmed25 August 2024 08:52
1724570944Five civilians die in Ukraine’s shelling of Russia’s Belgorod region, governor saysFive civilians died and 12 others were injured after Ukraine shelled the town of Rakitnoye in Russia’s Belgorod region, the governor of the region in the country’s southwest said on Sunday.
Among the injured are three children, Vyacheslav Gladkov, governor of the Belgorod region that borders Ukraine, said on the Telegram messaging app.
Nine of the injured were hospitalised, with six of them listed in a serious condition, including a 16-year-old girl who is in intensive care
“We will definitely help everyone who suffered,” Gladkov said on the Telegram messaging app. “Our task now is to endure, to overcome trials, to cope with trouble.”
There was no immediate comment from Ukraine.
Both Russia and Ukraine deny targeting civilians in the war, which Russia launched with a full-scale invasion on its smaller neighbour in February 2022.
Jabed Ahmed25 August 2024 08:29
1724569876Russia attacks Ukraine with missiles, drones, Ukraine military saysRussia launched several missiles and drones overnight targeting northern and eastern Ukraine, Kyiv’s military has said, with air defence systems destroying most of the weapons before they reached their targets.
The attack targeted Ukraine‘s frontline regions of Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv and Donetsk, Ukraine‘s air force said on the Telegram messaging app.
“Most of the missiles did not reach their targets,” the air force said, adding that Russia launched an Iskander-M ballistic missile, an Iskander-K cruise missile and six guided air missiles. It did not specify how many missiles were destroyed.
The air force said Russia launched nine attack drones, with Ukraine‘s air defence systems destroying eight of them over the Ukraine‘s Mykolaiv region.
Oleh Sinehubov, governor of the Kharkiv region in the east, posted on Telegram that seven people were injured in the Russian attacks, including a 4-year-old child.
Ihor Terekhov, mayor of Kharkiv city, said a gas pipeline was damaged in the city and at least two houses were destroyed and 10 damaged.
There was no immediate comment from Russia.
Both sides deny targeting civilians in the war that Russia launched with a full-scale invasion on Ukraine in February 2022.
Jabed Ahmed25 August 2024 08:11
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Zelensky has humiliated Putin, but what good can his ‘buffer zone’ do? After Ukraine’s audacious incursion into the Kursk region – which made Vladimir Putin the first Russian leader since 1941 to suffer a foreign invasion – establishing a fully demilitarised zone between the warring neighbours could yet prove useful in the event of Donald Trump’s re-election, says Sean O’Grady
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