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News24
07-07-2025
- Politics
- News24
Russia attacks on Kharkiv hurts 27 as Ukraine withdraws from landmine treaty
Three children were hurt in Russia strikes on Kharkiv, Ukraine. An attack on Sumy killed two. Ukraine withdrew from the Ottawa Convention which bans the use of anti-personnel mines. At least three children were among 27 people wounded as a result of a Russian drone attack on Ukraine's second-largest city of Kharkiv overnight that damaged apartments and a kindergarten, Ukrainian authorities said on Monday. Kharkiv, which lies in northeastern Ukraine near the border with Russia, has been the target of regular Russian drone and missile attacks since the start of the war that Moscow launched with a full-scale invasion more than three years ago. A fire broke out in a multi-storey residential building in Kharkiv as a result of the attack, Mayor Ihor Terekhov said. Oleh Sinehubov, governor of the broader Kharkiv region of which the city of Kharkiv is the administrative centre, said that most of the injuries occurred in the city's Shevchenkivskyi district. Emergency services were working at the site, Sinehubov said on the Telegram messaging app. The full scale of the attack was not immediately clear. There was no comment on the attacks from Moscow. Both sides deny targeting civilians in the war, but thousands of civilians have died in the conflict, the vast majority of them Ukrainian. A Russian attack on the region of Sumy, also in Ukraine's northeast, on Sunday afternoon killed two people and injured another two, while damaging about 20 buildings, State Emergency Service of Ukraine said on Telegram. An overnight attack damaged several buildings and cars in three of the 10 districts of the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on Telegram. There were no reports of injuries, he added. Facing challenges in securing new US supplies of artillery and munitions, or to recruit enough new soldiers to hold frontline positions, Kyiv announced its withdrawal from the Ottawa Convention on 29 June. The convention, signed in 1997, bans the use of anti-personnel mines. Military analysts and a Ukrainian unit commander said that doing so could help slow the Russian advances Kyiv is struggling to contain over three years after Moscow's full-scale invasion. 'Russia does not adhere to any conventions - so why should we?' Oleksiy, who gave only his first name in line with Ukrainian military requirements, said at a rehabilitation centre for wounded service personnel in Kyiv. We need to do this, because if we mine (our land) then there is then a chance that we won't give it up. Oleksiy Oleksiy, a 26-year-old Ukrainian soldier, is six months into a difficult recovery after losing most of his left leg to an anti-personnel mine. Despite his injuries, he says Ukraine is right to withdraw from a treaty banning such weapons. Russia is not a party to the treaty, and military analysts, rights groups and Ukrainian soldiers say it has been using anti-personnel mines widely. Russia's Defence Ministry did not respond to a request for comment. Moscow has not confirmed it uses anti-personnel mines in Ukraine. Russian officials say Ukraine has already used such devices in the war. The US approved the provision of anti-personnel mines to Ukraine in November, Reuters has previously reported. Oleksandr Gusev/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images At the time, US officials said Ukraine was expected to use the US mines on its own territory although it committed to not using them in areas populated with civilians. Russia holds about a fifth of Ukraine including Crimea, which it seized in 2014. Ukraine's defence ministry did not respond to a request for comment on whether it already deploys such munitions, their battlefield usefulness and criticism of the move. Ukraine widely uses anti-vehicle mines not covered by the treaty. About a quarter of Ukraine is contaminated by mines or unexploded ordnance, the Defence Ministry's demining unit says.
Reuters
24-06-2025
- Politics
- Reuters
Ukraine says Russian drone attack kills boy, two adults in Sumy
June 24 (Reuters) - A Russian drone attack on a village in the Sumy area overnight killed an 8-year-old boy and two adults and injured another three people, the military administration of the region in northeast Ukraine said early on Tuesday. "The strike took the lives of people from different families," the administration said on the Telegram messaging app. "They all lived on the same street. They went to sleep in their homes. But Russian drones interrupted their sleep - forever." The full scale of the overnight attack on the region was not immediately clear. Reuters could not independently verify the report. There was no immediate comment from Russia. Both sides deny targeting civilians in their attacks, but thousands of civilians have died in the war that Russia started with the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
Arab News
15-06-2025
- Politics
- Arab News
Ukraine's Sumy region on edge as Russian advance closes in
STETS'KIVKA: Despite the driving rain, a few elderly residents wander into the streets of Stetskivka in northeast Ukraine to catch a yellow bus to go shopping in nearby Sumy, the regional capital. They are worried about the Russian drones that have been striking the area with increasing regularity, more than three years into Moscow's invasion. 'I'm afraid. Nobody knows what could happen to the bus we take,' Galyna Golovko, 69, told AFP at the small shop she runs near the bus stop. Golovko said she never goes out in the morning or evening when Russian drones criss-cross the sky. 'It's scary how many drones fly in the morning.... In the morning and in the evening it's just hell,' she said. The border with the neighboring Russian region of Kursk is just 17 kilometers (11 miles) away. The Sumy region was the starting point for a Ukrainian incursion into Kursk last year. Ukraine held swathes of the territory for eight months, until a spring offensive by Russian forces supported by North Korean troops pushed them back. Moscow has since advanced toward the city of Sumy, taking several villages along the way and forcing mandatory evacuations of civilian residents. At the Stetskivka bus stop, an elderly woman said she had packed up in case Russian troops arrive in town, where Ukrainian soldiers have replaced a pre-war population of 5,500 people. The town is just 10 kilometers from the front line, and residents said there is heavy fighting nearby. Beyond Stetskivka, 'everything has been destroyed, there is not a single village,' Golovko said. On her shop counter, there was a plastic box with a few banknotes — donations for a local family that lost its home, destroyed by a Russian glide bomb. Ten kilometers to the south lies Sumy, a city that had 255,000 inhabitants before the war. So far, restaurants are crowded and there seems little concern about the Russian advance. But buildings in the city bear the scars of Russian bombardments. And, when the sounds of car horns go down in the evenings, explosions can be heard in the distance. The streets are lined with concrete bunkers against the increasingly frequent strikes from Russia, which has said it wants to set up a 'buffer zone' to prevent future Ukrainian incursions. 'The enemy is trying to advance,' said Anvar, commander of the drone battalion of the 225th regiment, which is leading the defense of the region. 'We are pushing them back. Sometimes we advance, sometimes they do,' he told AFP in an apartment that serves as a base for his unit. 'We still have troops in the Kursk region. Nobody has tried to drive them out,' he said, calling the conflict in the region a 'war of positions.' Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday said the Russian offensive in Sumy had been stopped, just a day after Russian forces said they had captured another village in the region. Sitting next to Anvar, one of his men soldered microprocessors in silence, except for electronic clicking that made the room feel like a laboratory. Surrounded by 3D printers and piles of batteries, the members of the brigade are busy transforming Chinese drones into flying weapons. 'It is now a drone war,' the commander said. Anvar said that Russia was continually sending 'cannon fodder' along this part of the front to try and overwhelm Ukrainian troops. 'I know people who have gone mad because of the number of people they manage to kill in a day.' Russian soldiers 'continue marching calmly' amid the bodies of their fallen comrades, he said. In Stetskivka, Golovko voiced confidence that Ukrainian soldiers would hold the line and said she was 'not going anywhere.' 'I will stay at home,' she said tearfully, beating the counter with her fist. 'I have traveled to Russia. We have friends there, and relatives. Everything was fine before. 'One day, this madness will end. The madness that Putin unleashed will end,' she said in a shaky voice. fv/dt/jhb
Al Arabiya
12-06-2025
- Politics
- Al Arabiya
Russian drones wound 14 in Kharkiv
Russian night-time strikes on Kharkiv wounded 14 people, including four children, Ukraine said Thursday, in the latest heavy bombardment of the northeastern city. The strikes came a day after Russian attacks killed three people and wounded some 60 others in the city, some 30 kilometers (18 miles) from the Russian border. Kharkiv has been heavily hit by Russian forces throughout their more than three-year invasion. 'At night, the enemy attacked Kharkiv,' Ukraine's state emergency service said. 'Fourteen people, including four children, were wounded,' it added. The governor of the Kharkiv region, Oleg Synegubov, said the wounded children were a two-year-old boy and girls aged 12, 16 and 17. The mayor of the city, Igor Terekhov, said Russian drones attacked the city 'between 1:37 am. and 3:08 am' sparking fires 'in residential buildings and education institutions.' He said debris had fallen 'right next to playgrounds.' Russia has intensified strikes on Ukraine in recent days, with peace efforts being pushed by the United States having failed to lead to a breakthrough.
CNA
11-06-2025
- Politics
- CNA
Russia hits Ukraine's Kharkiv with deadly night-time drone barrage
KHARKIV, Ukraine: A concentrated, nine-minute Russian drone attack on Ukraine's second-largest city of Kharkiv killed six people and injured 64 others, including nine children, Ukrainian officials said on Wednesday (Jun 11). The overnight assault follows Russia's two biggest airstrikes of the war this week and forms part of intensified bombardments that Moscow claims are in retaliation for recent Ukrainian strikes inside Russia. FIRES AND DESTRUCTION ACROSS KHARKIV Kharkiv, located in Ukraine's northeast and close to the Russian border, has remained a frequent target of missile and drone attacks despite resisting Russia's full-scale advance in the early days of the war. Prosecutors in the Kharkiv region said on Telegram that the death toll had risen to six as emergency teams retrieved more bodies from the rubble. At least three individuals are still believed to be trapped. The 17-drone barrage sparked fires in 15 apartments within a five-storey building and caused widespread destruction to homes and infrastructure across the city, Kharkiv mayor Ihor Terekhov said. 'There are direct hits on multi-storey buildings, private homes, playgrounds, enterprises and public transport,' he said. A Reuters witness observed emergency crews rescuing people from damaged buildings while firefighters battled blazes during the night. ZELENSKIY: PRESSURE ON RUSSIA MUST INCREASE President Volodymyr Zelenskiy condemned the latest strikes and renewed calls for international action. 'Every new day now brings new despicable blows from Russia,' he said. 'Russia deserves increased pressure; with literally every blow it strikes against ordinary life, it proves that the pressure is not enough.' Among the injured were a 2-year-old girl and a 15-year-old boy, according to Oleh Sinehubov, governor of the Kharkiv region. Nine of those wounded have been hospitalised. The Ukrainian military reported that Russia launched 85 drones overnight across the country, with 40 of them shot down. ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE TARGETED IN THE SOUTH Elsewhere, Russian attacks knocked out electricity in the southern regions of Mykolaiv and Kherson. In Kherson, governor Oleksandr Prokudin said an 'important energy facility' had been hit. 'It is currently impossible to predict the duration of the work. Residents of the region, I ask you to show understanding and prepare for a prolonged power outage,' he said. Vitaliy Kim, governor of neighbouring Mykolaiv, said emergency shutdowns were in effect but restoration work was underway. Both Kherson and Mykolaiv face daily attacks, with Kherson enduring artillery and drone bombardments while Mykolaiv sees frequent missile and drone strikes. There was no immediate comment from Russia regarding the latest overnight assault. Russia and Ukraine both deny intentionally targeting civilians. However, thousands of non-combatants have been killed since Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the vast majority of them Ukrainian.
