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Yahoo
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- Yahoo
Russian nighttime attack leaves some Kyiv residents without electricity
A Russian nighttime attack has left 2,167 households on the left bank of Kyiv without electricity. Source: DTEK, the largest private energy company in Ukraine Quote from the company: "We are doing everything possible to restore electricity to every home as soon as possible." Background: On the night of 5-6 June, the Ukrainian capital was subjected to another combined attack by Russia. Civilian infrastructure, residential buildings, cars and metro tracks were damaged as a result of falling debris and strikes. Four people were killed and 20 were injured. Support Ukrainska Pravda on Patreon!
CBC
25-05-2025
- Politics
- CBC
Russia's deadly air attack the largest of war so far, Ukraine says
Ukrainian officials say a massive Russian attack of drones and missiles targeted Kyiv and other regions in Ukraine early Sunday for a second consecutive night, killing at least 12 people and injuring dozens. At least four people were killed and 16 were injured in the capital itself, according to Ukraine's security service.
ABC News
25-05-2025
- Politics
- ABC News
Massive Russian aerial attack on Kyiv kills at least 12 as prisoner swap concludes
Russia has launched a massive drone-and-missile attack targeting the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and dozens of other regions for a second consecutive night, killing at least 12 people and injuring dozens more, local officials said. Ukraine was hit with 367 drones and missiles, making it the largest single attack of the more than three-years-long war, according to Ukrainian air force spokesperson Yuriy Ihnat. In all, Russia used 69 missiles of various types and 298 drones, including Iranian-designed Shahed drones, Colonel Ihnat told the Associated Press. There was no immediate comment from Moscow, however Russia's defence ministry said its air defences shot down 110 Ukrainian drones overnight. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called on the United States, which has taken a softer public line on Russia and its leader Vladimir Putin since President Donald Trump took office, to speak out against the attack and ramp up sanctions on Russia. "The silence of America, the silence of others in the world, only encourages Putin," he wrote on Telegram. "Every such terrorist Russian strike is reason enough for new sanctions against Russia." Mr Zelenskyy also wrote on X that more than 30 cities and villages across Ukraine had been targeted overnight, including Kyiv, Zhytomyr, Khmelnytskyi, Ternopil, Chernihiv, Sumy, Odesa, Poltava, Dnipro, Mykolaiv, Kharkiv and Cherkasy regions. "These were deliberate strikes on ordinary cities. Ordinary residential buildings were destroyed and damaged," he said. For Kyiv, the morning following the attack was particularly sombre as the city observed Kyiv Day, a national holiday commemorating the city's founding that falls on the last Sunday of May. The attack also preceded the third and final day of a planned prisoner swap with Ukraine, which saw the two countries complete the exchange of 1000 prisoners each in a rare example of cooperation that emerged from otherwise fruitless peace talks earlier this month. The sound of explosions boomed throughout the night in Kyiv and the surrounding area as Ukrainian air defence forces persisted for hours in their efforts to shoot down enemy drones and missiles. Fires broke out in homes and businesses, set off by falling drone debris, and at least four people were killed in the capital itself, according to Ukraine's security service. In the region of Zhytomyr, west of Kyiv, three children aged 8, 12 and 17 were killed, according to emergency services, while at least four people were killed in Khmelnytskyi and a man died in Mykolaiv, in southern Ukraine. Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko said a student dormitory in Holosiivskyi district was hit by a drone and one of the building's walls was on fire. In the village of Markhalivka, just outside Kyiv, the Fedorenkos watched their ruined home in tears. "The street looks like Bakhmut, like Mariupol, it's just terrible," said 76-year-old Liubov Fedorenko, comparing their village to some of Ukraine's most devastated cities in the war. She told an Associated Press reporter she was grateful her daughter had not visited the village for the weekend. "I was trying to persuade my daughter to come to us," she said. "After all, you live on the eighth floor in Kyiv, and here it's the ground floor," she said she had told her daughter. "She said, 'No, Mum, I'm not coming.' And thank God she didn't come, because the rocket hit [the house] on the side where the children's rooms were." Ivan Fedorenko, 80, said he regretted letting the family's two dogs into the house after the air raid siren went off. "They burned to death," he said. "I want to bury them, but I'm not allowed yet." Russia and Ukraine each brought home 303 prisoners on Sunday, following an exchange of 307 on Saturday and 390 on Friday — concluding this round of swaps with each side having brought home 1000 soldiers and civilians. The swap amounted to the largest exchange of prisoners in more than three years of war. Despite its successful execution, the POW exchange did not herald a halt in fighting on the ground, either. Battles have continued along the roughly 1,000-kilometre front line, where tens of thousands of soldiers have been killed, and neither country has relented in its artillery strikes on enemy positions. Russia's defence ministry also reported on Sunday that its troops had taken control of the village of Romanivka, in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk region, although wires agencies could not independently confirm the report. AP/Reuters
Wall Street Journal
25-05-2025
- Politics
- Wall Street Journal
Russia Launches Massive Aerial Assaults on Ukraine, Defying Trump's Peace Calls
Russia stepped up missile-and-drone assaults on the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv and other regions, killing at least 12 people overnight into Sunday after President Trump last week declined to impose further sanctions on Moscow over its refusal to halt its invasion. Russia attacked with a total of 367 drones and missiles—one of the largest single-night raids of the war, according to the Ukrainian Air Force—in a second consecutive day of pounding strikes that sent civilians running for shelters in the middle of the night. Officials said that children were among those killed by the strikes and that a further 60 were injured and more than 80 residential buildings damaged across the country, even as more than 300 of the missiles and drones were shot down.
The Independent
25-05-2025
- Politics
- The Independent
Kyiv hit by deadly missile and drone attacks for second night
This is the moment Russian forces attacked Kyiv early on Sunday (25 May), killing at least 13 people. Footage shows the city's skyline lit up as drones fly overhead, followed by multiple explosions. It was the second consecutive night of large-scale strikes, after Russia launched dozens of drones and ballistic missiles on Friday evening, in one of the war 's biggest combined aerial assaults. The attack came just hours after Russia and Ukraine exchanged 307 prisoners of war each, part of an ongoing deal expected to see 1,000 citizens from both sides returned to their respective countries.
