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Novaya Gazeta Europe
3 days ago
- Politics
- Novaya Gazeta Europe
At least 4 killed as Russia launches fresh overnight airstrikes on Ukraine — Novaya Gazeta Europe
At least four people were killed as Russia launched fresh aerial attacks on Ukraine between Thursday night and Friday morning, regional officials have said. In the central Dnipropetrovsk region, Governor Serhiy Lysak said that a 52-year-old man was killed and two more people were injured as Russian drones struck the city of Pavlohrad and surrounding villages overnight. Ukrainian Railways confirmed that the victim was a train driver who was killed when Russia struck an electric locomotive. A separate Russian strike on Friday morning then targeted the city of Kamianske, also in the Dnipropetrovsk region, killing a man and a woman, Lysak added. The strikes are the second deadly attack on the Dnipropetrovsk region over the past day, with a drone attack in the early hours of Thursday killing one person in the regional capital Dnipro and injuring 10 more across the region. In the neighbouring Zaporizhzhia region, Russia attacked the village of Stepnohirsk with guided bombs, sparking fires in several apartment blocks and killing a 64-year-old man, Zaporizhzhia Governor Ivan Fedorov said. A further four people were also injured in an overnight strike on the city of Chuhuiv in the northeastern Kharkiv region, Mayor Halyna Minayeva said. Ukraine's Air Force said Russia had launched 35 drones at the country overnight, primarily at 'frontline areas in the east', with air defences intercepting 11 of the drones over northern and eastern Ukraine and six more failing to reach their targets. Strikes were recorded by 18 drones at five locations, it added. Russia's Defence Ministry said it had downed 67 Ukrainian drones over eight regions of the country overnight, as well as 18 over annexed Crimea, the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea. In the wake of the overnight attacks, Russian-installed authorities in Crimea announced a peninsula-wide ban on sharing footage of the aftermath of drone strikes online, citing the need 'to ensure public safety in the republic and protect military and other critical facilities'.
Qatar Tribune
4 days ago
- Politics
- Qatar Tribune
Russia, Ukraine each report one dead in strikes
DPA Moscow/Kiev At least one person was killed and five others were injured in a Russian drone attack on the Ukrainian city of Dnipro, authorities reported on Thursday. It comes as Russia's TASS news agency reported the death of a woman and three injured in overnight drone attacks in Russia. Several fires broke out following the Russian attack on Dnipro, according to Serhiy Lysak, the military governor of the south-eastern Ukrainian region. He also reported five people injured in the city of Nikopol during a drone attack. Of the total 10 injured in the region, eight are being treated in hospital and two as outpatients, Lysak posted on Telegram. The Ukrainian Air Force said a total of 64 Russian drone attacks had occurred overnight, significantly fewer than in recent days. It added that 36 of these drones had been destroyed. There were 23 impacts at five different locations, the air force wrote, without giving details. It said five of the drones were decoys without explosives. The Ministry of Defence in Moscow reported that 122 drones had been intercepted overnight, including in the Moscow region, and in the Bryansk region bordering Ukraine especially. In the western city of Voronezh, three minors were injured when debris from downed drones struck a residential building, TASS cited Governor Aleksandr Gusev as saying. Authorities in the Kaluga and Smolensk regions also reported damage, with a total of two people injured. In Moscow, Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said three drones heading toward the capital were intercepted during the night, TASS reported, citing his Telegram channel. 'Air-defence forces detected and destroyed at least five unmanned aerial vehicles over Voronezh and its neighbourhoods,' Gusev said on Telegram, adding that at least four apartments were damaged. TASS also reported that a woman had died after a Ukrainian drone dropped an explosive device on a single-family house in the Russian border region of Belgorod, citing Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov.
Novaya Gazeta Europe
4 days ago
- Politics
- Novaya Gazeta Europe
Deadly strikes on Dnipro and Belgorod as Russia and Ukraine exchange overnight drone attacks — Novaya Gazeta Europe
The aftermath of the attack on Dobropillya on 17 July 2025. Photo: State Emergency Service of Ukraine At least six people were killed and dozens more injured as Russia and Ukraine exchanged overnight drone strikes on Thursday, regional officials in both countries have said. In the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro, an overnight Russian drone attack caused a number of fires to break out, killing one person and injuring five more, Dnipropetrovsk Governor Serhiy Lysak said on Thursday morning. A further five people were injured in separate strikes on the nearby cities of Nikopol and Marhanets, Lysak added. The attacks came just hours after a Russian drone strike on a shopping centre and market in the frontline city of Dobropillya in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region which killed three people and injured at least 27 more in what Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called an example of 'horrendous, dumb Russian terror'. 'There is no military logic behind their strikes, simply an attempt to kill as many as possible' Zelensky said in his nightly address to Ukrainians on Wednesday. 'Russia is all about vile strikes like this'. According to Ukraine's Air Force, Russia launched 64 drones at the country overnight, with the central Dnipropetrovsk region the main target. Air defences shot down 36 of the drones while a further five failed to reach their targets, the Air Force said, with a total of 23 strikes recorded at five locations. Russia's Defence Ministry, meanwhile, said it had intercepted 126 drones launched by Ukraine overnight over 11 regions of the country, as well as annexed Crimea. One man was killed and six more people were injured in a Ukrainian drone strike on the western city of Belgorod near the border between the two countries, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said, with one woman killed in a later strike on the border village of Smorodino. Alexander Gusev, governor of the western Voronezh region, said that air defences had destroyed at least five drones launched by Ukraine overnight, with four people, including three children, injured when debris fell on an apartment block in the regional capital Voronezh. Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said that air defences downed three drones approaching the capital overnight, with no casualties, while flights were temporarily halted at St. Petersburg's Pulkovo Airport and at Grabtsevo Airport in the city of Kaluga, southwest of Moscow.
Miami Herald
25-06-2025
- Politics
- Miami Herald
At least 20 killed, 300 hurt after Russia bombards Ukrainian heartland
June 25 (UPI) -- At least 20 people were killed and up to 300 injured in a massive Russian airborne assault on the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro in the country's industrial heartland, authorities said Wednesday. Dnipropetrovsk Gov. Serhii Lysak said in a social media update that the strikes during the daytime on Tuesday killed 18 people in Dnipro and two in a separate attack on Samar, 10 miles away to the northeast, with nearly 300 people injured across the province. 'The entire Dnipropetrovsk region is in mourning. This is a pain that resonates in every heart. That never goes away,' Lysak wrote. President Volodymyr Zelensky, who was in The Hague meeting with European heads of government at an annual gathering of NATO, said many of the injured were passengers on a train. 'This strike hit numerous civilian infrastructure: homes, schools, and even a regular passenger train. There were more than 500 passengers on board. Five train cars were destroyed. There were no fatalities. All the injured have received medical assistance. It was another Russian strike on life,' he said in a post on X. State-run Ukrainian Railways confirmed a missile struck near one of its trains en route from Odessa to Zaporizhzhia as it was passing through Dnipro and that dozens of passengers had been injured by flying glass. The company said emergency workers moved passengers who were unhurt to the nearest subway station, from where they were able to make their way into Dnipro to catch a replacement train service to continue their journey to Zaporizhzhia, if they so wished. Dnipropetrovsk is Zelensky's home province. The attacks mirrored a deadly wave of airstrikes on Kyiv last week that coincided with a meeting of the G7 group of countries in Canada. The group was formally the G8 -- until Russia was ejected in 2014 over its invasion and annexation of Crimea. Elsewhere, one person was killed and 10 injured in Kharkiv city and Kupiansk and surrounding areas after residences and other civilian infrastructure were targeted by Russian attack drones and warplanes launching air-to-surface rockets and glide bombs. In the neighboring part-Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia province, which lies to the south of Dnipro, five people were injured after Russian forces carried out missile, drone and airstrikes on more than a dozen towns and opened fire with artillery. Three people were killed near the frontline in Donetsk, according to Gov. Vadym Filashkin, less than 100 miles east of Dnipro, where Ukrainian forces are battling to hold off a Russian advance poised to break through to the west into Ukraine's industrial heartland. Earlier this month, the Russian Defense Ministry claimed that Russian troops and units of its 90th Guards Tank Division had penetrated into Dnipropetrovsk without resistance and were pushing forward. Ukraine rejected the claim outright as fake news, but Emil Kastehelmi, an analyst at the Finland-based Black Bird Group, told the Kyiv Independent that geolocation data indicated an incursion by Russian troops had occurred. Kastehelmi said that while he thought Russian forces would push on 'at least somewhat' further west over the summer, he didn't expect it to have much impact on the net state of play across the frontline. Other military experts agreed. They said the southeastern region of Ukraine would ultimately be penetrated by Russian forces, but only to a degree, as Moscow's overarching goal was to capture the remaining areas of Donetsk it does not already control, and therefore neither side was likely to divert significant forces to the theater. Copyright 2025 UPI News Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
UPI
25-06-2025
- Politics
- UPI
At least 20 killed, 300 hurt after Russia bombards Ukrainian heartland
A Ukrainian firefighter works at the scene of a missile strike in the central city of Dnipro on Tuesday. Photo courtesy State Emergency Service/EPA June 25 (UPI) -- At least 20 people were killed and up to 300 injured in a massive Russian airborne assault on the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro in the country's industrial heartland, authorities said Wednesday. Dnipropetrovsk Gov. Serhii Lysak said in a social media update that the strikes during the daytime on Tuesday killed 18 people in Dnipro and two in a separate attack on Samar, 10 miles away to the northeast, with nearly 300 people injured across the province. "The entire Dnipropetrovsk region is in mourning. This is a pain that resonates in every heart. That never goes away," Lysak wrote. President Volodymyr Zelensky, who was in The Hague meeting with European heads of government at an annual gathering of NATO, said many of the injured were passengers on a train. "This strike hit numerous civilian infrastructure: homes, schools, and even a regular passenger train. There were more than 500 passengers on board. Five train cars were destroyed. There were no fatalities. All the injured have received medical assistance. It was another Russian strike on life," he said in a post on X. State-run Ukrainian Railways confirmed a missile struck near one of its trains en route from Odessa to Zaporizhzhia as it was passing through Dnipro and that dozens of passengers had been injured by flying glass. The company said emergency workers moved passengers who were unhurt to the nearest subway station, from where they were able to make their way into Dnipro to catch a replacement train service to continue their journey to Zaporizhzhia, if they so wished. Dnipropetrovsk is Zelensky's home province. The attacks mirrored a deadly wave of airstrikes on Kyiv last week that coincided with a meeting of the G7 group of countries in Canada. The group was formally the G8 -- until Russia was ejected in 2014 over its invasion and annexation of Crimea. Elsewhere, one person was killed and 10 injured in Kharkiv city and Kupiansk and surrounding areas after residences and other civilian infrastructure were targeted by Russian attack drones and warplanes launching air-to-surface rockets and glide bombs. In the neighboring part-Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia province, which lies to the south of Dnipro, five people were injured after Russian forces carried out missile, drone and airstrikes on more than a dozen towns and opened fire with artillery. Three people were killed near the frontline in Donetsk, according to Gov. Vadym Filashkin, less than 100 miles east of Dnipro, where Ukrainian forces are battling to hold off a Russian advance poised to break through to the west into Ukraine's industrial heartland. Earlier this month, the Russian Defense Ministry claimed that Russian troops and units of its 90th Guards Tank Division had penetrated into Dnipropetrovsk without resistance and were pushing forward. Ukraine rejected the claim outright as fake news, but Emil Kastehelmi, an analyst at the Finland-based Black Bird Group, told the Kyiv Independent that geolocation data indicated an incursion by Russian troops had occurred. Kastehelmi said that while he thought Russian forces would push on "at least somewhat" further west over the summer, he didn't expect it to have much impact on the net state of play across the frontline. Other military experts agreed. They said the southeastern region of Ukraine would ultimately be penetrated by Russian forces, but only to a degree, as Moscow's overarching goal was to capture the remaining areas of Donetsk it does not already control, and therefore neither side was likely to divert significant forces to the theater.
