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Al Jazeera
a day ago
- Politics
- Al Jazeera
Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,245
Here is how things stand on Wednesday, July 23: Fighting A Ukrainian drone strike on a private bus killed three people in the Russian-occupied region of Kherson, Russian-appointed local official Vladimir Saldo said. 'Three more civilians were injured and are in serious condition,' Saldo added in a Telegram post. A Ukrainian attack killed a man in Russia's Belgorod border region, the local governor said. A Russian glide bomb attack killed a 10-year-old boy in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk, the head of the city's military administration, Oleksandr Honcharenko, said. The bomb, which caused a fire in an apartment building, also wounded five others, Honcharenko added. Russia launched multiple waves of attacks on Ukraine's Sumy region, including two separate drone attacks on a petrol station in the town of Putyvl, which injured 11 people, local officials said. The Russian army claimed that it captured the village of Novotoretske in the Donetsk region of Ukraine. Ukraine's military said that a French-supplied Mirage 2000 fighter jet crashed after experiencing equipment failure during an assignment, with the pilot ejecting safely. A 'massive' Russian drone attack damaged Ukrainian gas production infrastructure, said Sergii Koretski, the CEO of Ukraine's state energy firm Naftogaz. 'Such attacks occur regularly. These objects are of no military significance,' Koretski wrote on Facebook. Ceasefire Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that there is 'no reason to expect' any 'miracles' in ceasefire negotiations, as Moscow has yet to confirm if it will participate in peace talks in Istanbul on Wednesday, which were proposed by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy last week. The Kremlin said it hoped talks could be held 'this week', with Peskov adding: 'As soon as we are ready, we will make an announcement regarding the dates.' Outlining potential topics for discussion with Moscow in Istanbul, Zelenskyy said that Kyiv was ready to 'secure the release of our people from captivity and return abducted children, to stop the killings, and to prepare a leaders' meeting'. Ukraine said its ex-defence minister and current secretary of the security council, Rustem Umerov, will head Kyiv's delegation to the proposed talks. Two Russian soldiers in need of medical care were handed over by Ukrainian authorities to be returned home, the Russian Ministry of Defence said. In a statement, the ministry said the release was undertaken on the basis of agreements reached in Istanbul last month. Politics Zelenskyy signed a bill revoking the autonomy of two anticorruption agencies, after it was approved by a vote of 263 to 13 in Ukraine's parliament. The European Union's Commissioner for Enlargement Marta Kos called the decision a 'serious step back' for Kyiv and added that independent bodies were 'essential for Ukraine's EU path'. Thousands of people gathered in Kyiv and other cities across Ukraine to protest against the bill, marking the first major protest against the government in more than three years of war against invading Russian troops. The bill came a day after Ukraine's domestic security agency detained two National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine officials on suspicion of links to Russia.
Free Malaysia Today
7 days ago
- Politics
- Free Malaysia Today
Moscow, Kyiv trade deadly attacks
Russia's strikes on Ukraine killed one person in the central city of Dnipro. (Ukrainian emergency service/AP pic) KYIV : Russia and Ukraine traded another wave of drone strikes overnight, both sides said today, in attacks that killed and wounded people on either side of the frontline. Moscow has carried out nightly drone and missile barrages on Ukraine since launching its invasion in February 2022, with Kyiv responding with increasingly long-range strikes inside Russia as well as its own attacks on border areas. Russian President Vladimir Putin has rejected calls for a ceasefire and escalated his army's strikes, defying US President Donald Trump's pledge of fresh weapons for Ukraine and harsh sanctions if a peace deal is not struck soon. Russia's defence ministry said its air defences shot down 122 drones overnight, most of them in border regions. In Russia's Belgorod border region, 'a woman was killed when an explosive device was dropped from a drone onto a private house', governor Vyacheslav Gladkov wrote on Telegram. He said three civilians had been killed a day earlier. And in the Voronezh region, which also borders Ukraine, three teens were wounded when falling drone debris struck a building, regional governor Alexander Gusev wrote on Telegram. Russia's strikes on Ukraine killed one person in the central city of Dnipro, governor Sergiy Lysak said. Russia launched 64 drones, mostly targeting the central Dnipropetrovsk region, which includes Dnipro, according to Ukraine's air force. It said it had shot down or disabled 41 of them. That was far down on recent nights, where hundreds of self-exploding attack drones have been fired at the country. Ukraine also said three people were killed and at least 27 wounded in a Russian airstrike on the frontline town of Dobropillia a day earlier.
Al Arabiya
7 days ago
- Politics
- Al Arabiya
Russia says Ukraine drone strikes kill one, wound four
Russia said on Thursday that it had intercepted 126 Ukrainian drones in attacks that killed one person and left four civilians wounded. Air defenses shot down 122 drones overnight and four others early in the morning, most of them over regions in Russia's southwest that border Ukraine but also three over the Moscow region, the defense ministry said in a post on Telegram. The strikes killed one woman and wounded a civilian man in the border region of Belgorod, its governor, Vyacheslav Gladkov, wrote on Telegram. In the border region of Voronezh, three teens were wounded when falling drone debris struck a building, regional governor Alexander Gusev wrote on Telegram. On Wednesday, Russia fired hundreds of drones, artillery and a ballistic missile at Ukraine, defying US President Donald Trump's calls for Moscow to end the three-year conflict. Trump on Monday called on Russia to reach a peace deal within 50 days or face severe sanctions.
Al Arabiya
7 days ago
- Politics
- Al Arabiya
Russian air defenses down three drones headed for Moscow: Mayor
Russian air defense units downed three Ukrainian drones headed for Moscow early on Thursday, the capital's mayor Sergei Sobyanin said on Telegram. Sobyanin made no mention of casualties or damage. He said specialists were examining drone fragments at the sites where they hit the ground. Air defenses were in action in other parts of Russia. A Ukrainian drone attack killed one person and injured six in Russia's southern city of Belgorod, regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said. Gladkov said all six injured were being treated in hospital for shrapnel wounds. Six homes suffered damage. Gladkov later reported another drone had injured a resident of a village northeast of Belgorod. Russia's defense ministry said Russian air defense units had destroyed 48 Ukrainian drones over a three-and-a-half-hour period ending at 11:30 p.m. (8:30 p.m. GMT). Twenty-nine of the drones were destroyed over Belgorod region on the Ukrainian border, with a further 16 over Bryansk region, another border region to the west. The governor of Voronezh region, also on the border, said several Ukrainian drones had been downed, and the governor of Smolensk region in western Russia said air defenses had downed one drone. One person was injured. Russia and Ukraine have accused each other of targeting civilians, something both sides deny, in the course of the war, now well into its fourth year.
Reuters
16-07-2025
- Politics
- Reuters
Ukrainian drone kills one in Russia's Belgorod, governor says
July 17 (Reuters) - A Ukrainian drone attack killed one person and injured six in Russia's southern city of Belgorod, regional Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said early on Thursday. Gladkov said all six injured were being treated in hospital for shrapnel wounds. Six homes suffered damage. Russia's Defence Ministry said Russian air defence units had destroyed 48 Ukrainian drones over a 3-1/2-hour period ending at 11.30 p.m. (2030 GMT). Twenty-nine of the drones were destroyed over Belgorod region on the Ukrainian border, with a further 16 over Bryansk region, another border region to the west. Russia and Ukraine have accused each other of targeting civilians, something both sides deny, in the course of the war, now well into its fourth year.
