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India Today
11 hours ago
- Politics
- India Today
Russia halts flights at Moscow airports after wave of Ukrainian drone attacks
Russia's civil aviation authority, Rosaviatsia, on Tuesday, said that it temporarily suspended flights at all four major airports serving Moscow to ensure safety, after the defence ministry said Ukraine was carrying out a drone attack on response, Russian systems shot down 76 Ukrainian drones over Russia in just two hours late Monday, Russian agencies reported. This comes after Russia's biggest drone assault on LAUNCHES WAR'S LARGEST DRONE ATTACKOn Monday night (local time), Russia carried out the biggest drone assault since the conflict began, the Ukrainian air force said in a statement. Moscow fired cruise and ballistic missiles in a relentless attack across multiple locations in Ukraine. According to Ukraine's air force, Russian forces deployed 479 drones designed to self-destruct, but Ukrainian defences managed to shoot down or disrupt 460 of them using electronic countermeasures, a statement on social media Koval, the military administration chief for Ukraine's western Rivne region, described the night as extremely challenging due to a powerful enemy airstrike. He confirmed one person was injured in the Russian forces claimed that they are advancing toward Ukraine's southeastern Dnipropetrovsk region — an area that has been heavily bombarded but has avoided ground SWAP HAPPENING AT SAME TIMEAmid this unfolding security crisis, Russia and Ukraine also exchanged prisoners of war under the age of 25 on Monday. Hundreds of soldiers returned home in emotional reunions -- part of a wider deal announced during direct talks in Istanbul on June 2, which calls for exchanging at least 1,200 POWs from each side and repatriating bodies of the InMust Watch
Miami Herald
20 hours ago
- Politics
- Miami Herald
22 injured as Russia launches 499 drones, missiles at Ukraine
June 9 (UPI) -- Russia launched 499 drones and ballistic and cruise missiles against seven provinces across Ukraine, of which the Ukrainian Air Force claimed to have downed all but 22. At least 22 people were injured in provinces from the frontline regions of Sumy and Kharkiv in the east, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia in the south and Rivne in the northwest, which Gov. Oleksandr Koval said had sustained the heaviest bombardment since Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022. "According to preliminary information, one civilian was injured. Huge gratitude for the professionalism of our air defense forces, which destroyed a large number of enemy targets," Koval wrote in a post on X. Kyiv and the surrounding area also came under sustained attack with air raid warnings sounding for more than 10 hours, but no casualties were reported. The Ukrainian Air Force said Russian forces launched 479 attack and decoy drones from multiple directions, four ballistic missiles, 11 cruise missiles and five air-launched cruise and anti-radar missiles from above the Black Sea. The air force said its fighter aircraft, air defense and electronic warfare units and mobile fire groups were able to destroy or otherwise "neutralize" 460 of the drones and all but three of the missiles, two of which never made it to their targets. However, some made it through with explosions heard in at least 10 locations and debris from downed projectiles falling in 17 places. Most of the cruise missiles came from Russia's Saratov region, where air bases have twice sustained attacks from Ukrainian UAV assaults in the past week. Ukrainian special forces claimed another strike overnight on an airfield deep inside Russian territory in Nizhny Novgorod region, 260 miles east of Moscow, damaging two fighter jets on the ground. "According to preliminary information, two units of enemy aircraft were hit (probably MiG-31 and Su-30/34 aircraft). The results of the combat operation are being clarified," said the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The Guardian said Savasleyka airfield was home to MiG-31K warplanes used to deploy air-to-surface ballistic missiles of a type that have been used to attack Ukrainian cities and Ukrainian forces. Footage was also circulating online of a drone strike even further afield in Cheboksary in the Chuvashia Republic on an industrial facility producing guidance systems parts used in motorized howitzers, short-range ballistic missiles and both loitering and attack drones. Regional Gov. Oleg Nikolayev, issued a statement confirming production at the VNIIR Progress factory had been paused but that there had been no injuries. The plant is under U.S., European Union and British sanctions targeting military industrial facilities and Russia's ability to evade Western efforts to target its war machine. The operating company was sanctioned by the United States in 2023, followed by the EU and Britain in 2024. Copyright 2025 UPI News Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
Yahoo
21 hours ago
- Politics
- Yahoo
22 injured as Russia launches 499 drones, missiles at Ukraine
June 9 (UPI) -- Russia launched 499 drones and ballistic and cruise missiles against seven provinces across Ukraine, of which the Ukrainian Air Force claimed to have downed all but 22. At least 22 people were injured in provinces from the frontline regions of Sumy and Kharkiv in the east, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia in the south and Rivne in the northwest, which Gov. Oleksandr Koval said had sustained the heaviest bombardment since Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022. "According to preliminary information, one civilian was injured. Huge gratitude for the professionalism of our air defense forces, which destroyed a large number of enemy targets," Koval wrote in a post on X. Kyiv and the surrounding area also came under sustained attack with air raid warnings sounding for more than 10 hours, but no casualties were reported. The Ukrainian Air Force said Russian forces launched 479 attack and decoy drones from multiple directions, four ballistic missiles, 11 cruise missiles and five air-launched cruise and anti-radar missiles from above the Black Sea. The air force said its fighter aircraft, air defense and electronic warfare units and mobile fire groups were able to destroy or otherwise "neutralize" 460 of the drones and all but three of the missiles, two of which never made it to their targets. However, some made it through with explosions heard in at least 10 locations and debris from downed projectiles falling in 17 places. Most of the cruise missiles came from Russia's Saratov region, where air bases have twice sustained attacks from Ukrainian UAV assaults in the past week. Ukrainian special forces claimed another strike overnight on an airfield deep inside Russian territory in Nizhny Novgorod region, 260 miles east of Moscow, damaging two fighter jets on the ground. "According to preliminary information, two units of enemy aircraft were hit (probably MiG-31 and Su-30/34 aircraft). The results of the combat operation are being clarified," said the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The Guardian said Savasleyka airfield was home to MiG-31K warplanes used to deploy air-to-surface ballistic missiles of a type that have been used to attack Ukrainian cities and Ukrainian forces. Footage was also circulating online of a drone strike even further afield in Cheboksary in the Chuvashia Republic on an industrial facility producing guidance systems parts used in motorized howitzers, short-range ballistic missiles and both loitering and attack drones. Regional Gov. Oleg Nikolayev, issued a statement confirming production at the VNIIR Progress factory had been paused but that there had been no injuries. The plant is under U.S., European Union and British sanctions targeting military industrial facilities and Russia's ability to evade Western efforts to target its war machine. The operating company was sanctioned by the United States in 2023, followed by the EU and Britain in 2024.
Yahoo
a day ago
- Yahoo
Person injured in Russian attack on Rivne Oblast
One person has been injured in a Russian nighttime attack on Rivne Oblast. Source: Oleksandr Koval, Head of Rivne Oblast Military Administration, on Telegram Quote: "A tough night for Rivne Oblast. Our oblast came under a powerful aerial strike by the enemy. Early reports indicate that one civilian has been injured." Details: Koval said air defence forces had destroyed "many enemy targets". "Representatives from defence forces and other services are working at the scene. Further details on the aftermath of the nighttime attack will be provided later," he wrote. Support Ukrainska Pravda on Patreon!
Reuters
7 days ago
- Business
- Reuters
Ukraine plans to boost food processing as preferential EU trade ends
KYIV, June 3 (Reuters) - Ukraine plans to change its policy on agricultural exports to adapt to the expected end of free access to the lucrative EU market, potentially reducing raw material exports while stepping up domestic food processing, its farm minister told Reuters. Agricultural goods accounted for about 60% of Ukraine's total exports of $41.6 billion last year, with the European Union buying around 60% of those goods, worth about $15 billion. The EU temporarily waived duties and quotas on Ukrainian agriculture after Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022, but that arrangement is due to expire on June 5. With EU farmers lobbying hard for restrictions to be placed on cheap Ukrainian competition, the free trade regime is set to be replaced by quotas, the final volume of which should be agreed between Ukraine and the EU by the end of July. A senior Ukrainian lawmaker said last month that the end of EU preferential trade could deprive Kyiv of 3.5 billion euros in annual revenue, a hole other markets will be unable to fill. Asked how Kyiv would cope, farm minister Vitaliy Koval said in an interview: "There will definitely be changes in export policy, and they will be driven by cold calculation, as we understand that we will suffer losses if the trade regime (with the EU) changes." He did not specify what measures might be taken, but said domestic production was a "matter of national interest" and the government's strategy. Currently, Ukrainian farm exports are not taxed, but oilseed processors have already proposed that the government limit the export of oilseeds in order to increase domestic production of vegetable oil. That could boost exports of processed oils, which are more profitable than raw material oilseeds. Koval said Ukrainian oilseed processing plants were working at only about 65% of capacity and his ministry was "exploring all ways to utilise our Ukrainian processing plants in order to create additional value and processing products". Ukraine traditionally exports about half of its soybean harvest and the major part of its rapeseed harvest. Koval said Ukraine needed to do more to take advantage of its own raw materials. "If someone thinks that we can be forced by certain methods into becoming a natural resource-supplying colony, which will supply the raw materials that are favourable to someone - that will not happen," he said. Koval added that Ukraine was pushing for an agreement with the EU on better terms than it had before the war. "There will definitely be quotas, we hope there will be an expansion of quotas compared to 2021," he said. ($1 = 0.8780 euros)
