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Time of India
03-08-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
Putin's Missiles TORCH Kyiv, Mykolaiv; Russia's Revenge As Ukraine Drone Attack ‘SHUTS' Gas Pipeline
/ Aug 03, 2025, 01:00PM IST Russia has launched retaliatory missile strikes on Ukraine's capital Kyiv and the southern city of Mykolaiv following a deadly Ukrainian drone offensive that reportedly hit key Russian military and energy infrastructure. Explosions rocked both nations over two days of intense escalation, including an attack that shut down the Central Asia-Center gas pipeline. Ukraine's drones are believed to have struck a military airfield storing Iranian-built Shahed drones and the Elektropribor defence company in Penza. Meanwhile, Moscow claims to have intercepted 112 Ukrainian drones and responded with 53 of its own. The tit-for-tat attacks came just hours after Ukraine mourned 31 dead in a Russian drone strike in Kyiv.
Hindustan Times
02-08-2025
- Politics
- Hindustan Times
Ukraine hits military targets and pipeline in Russia
Ukraine said Saturday it hit military targets and a gas pipeline in drone attacks in Russia, where local authorities said three people were killed and two others wounded. President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy attends the parliament session in Kyiv, Ukraine Thursday, July 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Vadym Sarakhan)(AP) Ukraine's SBU security service said the strikes, carried out Friday night by long-distance drones, hit a military airfield in the southwestern town of Primorsko-Akhtarsk. They caused a fire in an areas where Iranian-built Shahed drones -- relied on by Russia to attack Ukraine -- were stored, the SBU said. It said the strikes also hit a company, Elektropribor, in Russia's southern Penza region, which it said "works for the Russian military-industrial complex", making military digital networks, aviation devices, armoured vehicles and ships. The governor for the Penza region, Oleg Melnichenko, said on Telegram that one woman had been killed and two other people were wounded in that attack. Russia's defence ministry said its air-defence systems had destroyed 112 Ukrainian drones over Russian territory -- 34 over the Rostov region -- in a nearly nine-hour period, from Friday night to Saturday morning. An elderly man was killed inside a house that caught fire due to falling drone debris in the Samara region, governor Vyacheslav Fedorishchev posted on Telegram. In the Rostov region, a guard at an industrial facility was killed after a drone attack and a fire in one of the site's buildings, acting Rostov governor Yuri Sliusar said. "The military repelled a massive air attack during the night," destroying drones over seven districts, Sliusar posted on Telegram. Heavy use of drones Ukraine has regularly used drones to hit targets inside Russia as it fights back against Moscow's full-scale invasion, launched in February 2022. Russia, too, has increasingly deployed the unmanned aerial devices as part of its offensive. An AFP analysis published on Friday showed that Russia's forces in July launched an unprecedented number of drones, 6,297 of them. The figure included decoy drones sent into Ukraine's skies in efforts to saturate the country's air-defence systems. In Ukraine's central-eastern Dnipropetrovsk region, Russian drone attacks Friday night wounded three people, governor Sergiy Lysak wrote on Telegram. Several buildings, homes and cars were damaged, he said. Russian forces have claimed advances in Dnipropetrovsk, recently announcing the capture of two villages there, part of Moscow's accelerated capture of territory in July, according to AFP's analysis of data from the US-based Institute for the Study of War (ISW). Kyiv denies any Russian presence in the Dnipropetrovsk area. Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has consistently rejected calls for a ceasefire in the more than three-year conflict, said Friday that he wanted peace but that his demands for ending Moscow's military offensive were "unchanged". Those demands include that Ukraine abandon territory and end ambitions to join NATO. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, meanwhile, said only Putin could end the war and renewed his call for a meeting between the two leaders. "The United States has proposed this. Ukraine has supported it. What is needed is Russia's readiness," he wrote on X.
Al-Ahram Weekly
02-08-2025
- Politics
- Al-Ahram Weekly
Ukraine says hit military targets and pipeline in Russia - War in Ukraine
Ukraine said Saturday it hit military targets and a gas pipeline in drone attacks in Russia, where local authorities said three people were killed and two others wounded. Ukraine's SBU security service said the strikes, carried out Friday night by long-distance drones, hit a military airfield in the southwestern town of Primorsko-Akhtarsk. They caused a fire in an areas where Iranian-built Shahed drones -- relied on by Russia to attack Ukraine -- were stored, the SBU said. It said the strikes also hit a company, Elektropribor, in Russia's southern Penza region, which it said "works for the Russian military-industrial complex", making military digital networks, aviation devices, armoured vehicles and ships. The governor for the Penza region, Oleg Melnichenko, said on Telegram that one woman had been killed and two other people were wounded in that attack. Russia's defence ministry said its air-defence systems had destroyed 112 Ukrainian drones over Russian territory -- 34 over the Rostov region -- in a nearly nine-hour period, from Friday night to Saturday morning. An elderly man was killed inside a house that caught fire due to falling drone debris in the Samara region, governor Vyacheslav Fedorishchev posted on Telegram. In the Rostov region, a guard at an industrial facility was killed after a drone attack and a fire in one of the site's buildings, acting Rostov governor Yuri Sliusar said. "The military repelled a massive air attack during the night," destroying drones over seven districts, Sliusar posted on Telegram. Heavy use of drones Ukraine has regularly used drones to hit targets inside Russia as it fights back against Moscow's military offensive, launched in February 2022. Russia, too, has increasingly deployed the unmanned aerial devices against Ukraine. An AFP analysis published on Friday showed that Russia's forces in July launched an unprecedented number of drones, 6,297 of them. The figure included decoy drones sent into Ukraine's skies in efforts to saturate the country's air-defence systems. In Ukraine's central-eastern Dnipropetrovsk region, Russian drone attacks Friday night wounded three people, governor Sergiy Lysak wrote on Telegram. Several buildings, homes and cars were damaged, he said. Russian forces have claimed advances in Dnipropetrovsk, recently announcing the capture of two villages there, part of Moscow's accelerated capture of territory in July, according to AFP's analysis of data from the US-based Institute for the Study of War (ISW). Kyiv denies any Russian presence in the Dnipropetrovsk area. Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has consistently rejected calls for a ceasefire in the more than three-year conflict, said Friday that he wanted peace but that his demands for ending Moscow's military offensive were "unchanged". Those demands include that Ukraine abandon territory and end ambitions to join NATO. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, meanwhile, said only Putin could end the war and renewed his call for a meeting between the two leaders. "The United States has proposed this. Ukraine has supported it. What is needed is Russia's readiness," he wrote on X. Follow us on: Facebook Instagram Whatsapp Short link:
Yahoo
26-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Trump suffering ‘emotional overload', says Russia
Credit: US Network Pool / Reuters Russia has suggested Donald Trump is suffering from 'emotional overload' as it deflected his criticism of its record drone strikes against Ukraine at the weekend. In response to the US president calling Vladimir Putin 'crazy', spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the Russian leader was 'taking the decisions that are necessary to ensure the security of our country'. 'We are really grateful to the Americans and to President Trump personally for their assistance in organising and launching this negotiation process,' the Kremlin spokesman told reporters. 'Of course, at the same time, this is a very crucial moment, which is associated, of course, with the emotional overload of everyone absolutely and with emotional reactions.' Peskov spoke on Monday after Russia launched another wave of missiles at Ukraine overnight, in what Kyiv said was Moscow's largest drone assault on Ukraine since the beginning of the war. Russian forces fired nine cruise missiles and over 350 Iranian-built Shaheds and decoy drones as part of the assault, which a Ukrainian defence official confirmed was the largest drone attack yet since the beginning of the full-scale invasion in February 2022. Credit: State Emergency Service of Ukraine Speaking early on Sunday, Mr Trump said he remained 'not happy' with Putin and his latest attacks on Ukraine, and that he would 'absolutely' consider increasing sanctions on Moscow. 'I'm not happy with what Putin's doing. He's killing a lot of people. And I don't know what the hell happened to Putin,' Mr Trump told reporters at the airport in Morristown, New Jersey, as he prepared to return to Washington. 'I've known him a long time, always gotten along with him, but he's sending rockets into cities and killing people and I don't like it at all. ' Later on Sunday Mr Trump wrote on his Truth Social site that Putin had 'gone absolutely crazy' and that he was considering more sanctions on Moscow. 'I've always had a very good relationship with Vladimir Putin of Russia, but something has happened to him. He has gone absolutely CRAZY!' he wrote. 'I've always said that he wants ALL of Ukraine, not just a piece of it, and maybe that's proving to be right, but if he does, it will lead to the downfall of Russia!' Mr Trump also criticised president Volodymyr Zelensky, posting that the Ukrainian leader 'is doing his country no favours by talking the way he does. Everything out of his mouth causes problems, I don't like it, and it better stop'. The Ukrainian air force said that it shot down 233 drones and all nine cruise missiles, while 55 drones were redirected by electronic warfare. Ukraine reported that some civilians were injured. No deaths were immediately reported. Kyiv was among the targets of the barrage. Windows were blown out from a residential building, and debris fell on the territory of a garage co-operative on the river Dnipro, said Tymur Tkachenko, the head of the city's military administration. The assault comes after what Ukraine described as a 'weekend of terror' in which Russia intensified its air strikes, leading to 13 deaths and dozens of injuries on Sunday. Emmanuel Macron, the French president, said on Monday that he hoped Mr Trump's anger at Moscow 'translates into action'. 'President Trump realises that when president Putin said on the phone he was ready for peace, or told his envoys he was ready for peace, he lied,' he said. 'We have seen once again in recent hours Donald Trump express his anger. A form of impatience. I simply hope now that this translates into action.' Meanwhile, Russia has signalled that it doesn't see the Vatican as a serious venue for peace talks with Ukraine after Mr Trump had proposed the papal state as a neutral venue. 'The Vatican definitely is not seen in Russia as a serious force capable of resolving such a complex conflict,' one senior Russian source acquainted with top-level Kremlin thinking told Reuters. Russia's reluctance is because the Holy See is the seat of Catholicism and is surrounded by Italy, a Nato and EU member, three senior Russian sources told the agency. They also pointed out that many Russian officials could not even fly there due to Western restrictions. Broaden your horizons with award-winning British journalism. Try The Telegraph free for 1 month with unlimited access to our award-winning website, exclusive app, money-saving offers and more.
