With Russian troops focusing on Ukraine's east, residents outside Kyiv begin the grisly clean-up
2 years, 7 months ago

With Russian troops focusing on Ukraine's east, residents outside Kyiv begin the grisly clean-up

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Lidia Zaika heard the Russians coming well before they arrived in her town. Staff at Irpin's Polyclinic hospital are already replacing the shattered windows and crumbling walls that were blown out by Russian shelling. "Some were missing limbs, others had shrapnel wounds to their heads," Andriy Levkivski, the head of the hospital, said. A confronting clean-up In an effort to make places like Irpin liveable again, authorities have built a new river crossing in Kyiv, replacing the bridge that Ukrainian forces blew up to stop Russia's advance. "I came back to see what our building looks like and to clean up," he said.

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Russia intensifies attacks on liberated Kherson and front lines in eastern Ukraine
1 year, 11 months ago

Russia intensifies attacks on liberated Kherson and front lines in eastern Ukraine

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Russian forces have stepped up mortar and artillery attacks on the recently liberated city of Kherson in southern Ukraine, Ukraine's military says, while also exerting constant pressure along front lines in eastern regions of the country. Key points: Ukraine says Russia fired 33 missiles at civilian targets in Kherson in the 24 hours to early Wednesday Heavy fighting persists around …

Volodymyr Zelenskyy accuses Russians of stealing Ukraine's medical gear, as Moscow says mobilisation campaign is over
2 years, 1 month ago

Volodymyr Zelenskyy accuses Russians of stealing Ukraine's medical gear, as Moscow says mobilisation campaign is over

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Russian forces in the occupied Ukrainian region of Kherson are engaged in mass theft of medical equipment and ambulances in a bid to make the area uninhabitable, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says. Key points: Ukrainian officials have accused retreating Russian troops of widespread looting Russia said on Friday it had finished calling up reservists to fight in Ukraine More than …

Timeline: Week 13 of Russia’s war in Ukraine
2 years, 6 months ago

Timeline: Week 13 of Russia’s war in Ukraine

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The 13th week of Moscow’s war on Ukraine saw Russian forces respond to Ukraine’s recent counteroffensives by mounting a series of attacks and military advances in the east of the country. May 21 Ukraine says Russian forces are launching an offensive from Donetsk to encircle the rest of the Luhansk region from the west. May 22 The Ukrainian general staff …

Russia bombards Kyiv during UN Chief's visit, one killed
2 years, 7 months ago

Russia bombards Kyiv during UN Chief's visit, one killed

India TV News  

Highlights The attack happened barely an hour after Zelensky held a news conference with Antonio Guterres Guterres surveyed the destruction in small towns outside the capital Kyiv during his visit Ukraine has also reported intense Russian fire in the Donbas - the eastern industrial heartland UN Chief in Ukraine: Russia pounded a wide area of Ukraine on Thursday, including Kyiv, …

Russia bombs Kyiv factory after Moskva warship sinks in Black Sea
2 years, 8 months ago

Russia bombs Kyiv factory after Moskva warship sinks in Black Sea

India Today  

Powerful explosions shook the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv on Friday—the 50th day of fighting since the conflict began—as Russian forces claimed to have attacked a missile manufacturing plant there. READ | A journey from Mariupol to Zaporizhzhia in war-torn Ukraine | Ground report The attack came just one day after Ukrainian officials announced that forces had sunk Russia's flagship, the …

Bodies with hands tied, gunshot wounds found strewn on streets as Russian troops withdraw from Kyiv
2 years, 8 months ago

Bodies with hands tied, gunshot wounds found strewn on streets as Russian troops withdraw from Kyiv

India TV News  

Highlights Ukraine's troops found brutalized bodies with bound hands, gunshot wounds to head, signs of torture. Ukraine's troops found brutalized bodies with bound hands, gunshot wounds to the head and signs of torture after Russian soldiers withdrew from the outskirts of Kyiv, authorities said Sunday, sparking new calls for a war crimes investigation and sanctions against Russia. Oleksiy Arestovych, an …

Photos: Destruction in Ukraine as Russia’s attacks intensify
2 years, 9 months ago

Photos: Destruction in Ukraine as Russia’s attacks intensify

Al Jazeera  

Russia’s military forces have kept up their punishing campaign to capture Ukraine’s capital with fighting and artillery fire in Kyiv’s suburbs, even as Russian and Ukrainian negotiators held a new round of talks on Monday. The attacks around Kyiv came a day after Russia escalated its offensive by shelling areas close to the Polish border. The surrounded southern city of …

Photos: Kyiv after a night of explosions and street fighting
2 years, 9 months ago

Photos: Kyiv after a night of explosions and street fighting

Al Jazeera  

Russian troops pressed towards Ukraine’s capital on Saturday, after a night of explosions and street fighting that sent Kyiv residents seeking shelter underground. Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said a missile hit a high-rise building on the city’s southwestern outskirts. Saturday’s street clashes followed two days of massive air and missile strikes that Russian officials said targeted Ukrainian military facilities as …

Photos from Ukraine as Russia declares war, shelling cities and towns
2 years, 10 months ago

Photos from Ukraine as Russia declares war, shelling cities and towns

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As Russia invades Ukraine, images of the horrors of war have started being beamed around the world. The Donetsk region was one of the first parts of Ukraine infiltrated by Russian troops. The Ukrainian State Border Guard Service site was damaged by shelling in the capital Kyiv. Many women and children have left their homes in the Donetsk region in …

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