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Al Jazeera
24-05-2025
- Politics
- Al Jazeera
Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,185
Here is where things stand on Saturday, May 24: Russia has accused Ukraine of launching a massive wave of drone attacks, numbering up to 800, against non-military targets in Moscow and other regions in the last three days and said it would respond, but said it was still committed to holding peace talks with Kyiv. A Russian military helicopter has crashed near the village of Naryshkino in Russia's Oryol region, killing the crew, the state news agency TASS reported, citing the Moscow military district headquarters. The preliminary cause of the crash was a technical malfunction. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has announced that Moscow will be ready to hand Ukraine a draft document outlining conditions for a long-term peace accord once a prisoner exchange, now under way, is completed. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha told reporters that Kyiv was waiting for Russia's proposals on the form of talks, a ceasefire and a meeting between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Russian leader Vladimir Putin. Sybiha, quoted by Ukrainian media, said Kyiv would be in favour of expanding such a meeting to include United States President Donald Trump. US credit rating agency Fitch has affirmed Ukraine's long-term foreign currency sovereign credit rating at 'Restricted Default', as the war-torn nation continues to navigate diplomatic tensions and a significant erosion of its finances amid its grinding war with Russia. The International Monetary Fund has started a new review of its $15.5bn programme to Ukraine this week, even as the country failed to reach a deal with GDP-linked debt holders last month.
The Guardian
22-05-2025
- Politics
- The Guardian
Ukraine war briefing: Drones blast Russian plant for missile and fighter jet chips
Ukraine's military said 10 of its drones hit the Bolkhovsky semiconductor plant, a supplier in the Oryol region to Russian fighter jet and missile makers. Videos online and Nasa satellite fire monitoring supported the claim. 'This is one of the leading enterprises in the Russian Federation in the field of development and production of semiconductor devices and components,' said the Ukrainian military, adding that parts from the plant went into Iskander and Kinzhal missiles. A Russian strike on a military training site in north-eastern Ukraine killed six soldiers and wounded at least 10 others, the Ukrainian national guard said on Wednesday. Russia's defence ministry confirmed a ballistic missile attack on the 'training camp' for Ukrainian special forces. Ukraine's national guard said: 'An internal investigation into the incident is under way. The commander of the military unit has been suspended, and the necessary information has been passed on to law enforcement agencies.' Commanders on both sides have been censured during the war after presiding over military assemblies for training, parades and presentations that have come under enemy attack, resulting in casualties. Russia said more than 370 Ukrainian drones attacked across the border on Wednesday, including 27 aimed at Moscow, the capital, where airports had to be temporarily shut down. The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said in his nightly video address that the heaviest frontline battles were around Pokrovsk, while Ukrainian forces remained active in two Russian regions along the border: Kursk and Belgorod. Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, visited the Kursk region on Tuesday. Russia's defence ministry said its forces were advancing at key points along the front, and pro-Russian war bloggers said Russia had penetrated Ukrainian lines between Pokrovsk and Kostiantynivka in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine. The battlefield accounts could not be independently verified. Zelenskyy spoke on Wednesday with the Nato secretary general, Mark Rutte, about the need to put pressure on Russia: 'It is important that all decisions are coordinated. Then the sanctions will work. Without pressure on Moscow, a just peace cannot be achieved. Everyone understands this.' Russian military intelligence (the GRU) is targeting organisations delivering assistance to Ukraine by hacking into cameras at crossings and railway stations and near military installations, as well as such tactics as phishing emails and stealing passwords, according to the UK's intelligence services and those of allies. Daniel Boffey writes that the unit involved – GRU Unit 26165, also known as APT 28 or Fancy Bear – has conducted the malicious cyber-campaign against public and private organisations in Nato states since 2022. In an advisory note, the UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) – part of GCHQ – called on private companies involved in the delivery of aid to 'take immediate action to protect themselves'. The Polish navy has chased a 'shadow fleet' oil tanker away from an undersea power cable connecting Poland to Sweden. Donald Tusk, the Polish prime minister, said on Wednesday that the ship was undertaking 'suspicious' activity and 'following a successful intervention by our military, the vessel left for one of the Russian ports'. The Polish defence minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz said an emergency meeting of Poland's Maritime Operations Command would be held on Thursday. Finland has said it expects Russia to further build up troops along their shared border when the war in Ukraine ends, writes Miranda Bryant, after reports that Moscow had strengthened its military bases near the Nato frontier. Maj Gen Sami Nurmi of the Finnish defence forces said the military was following Moscow's manoeuvring 'very closely' in order to 'prepare for the worst'. The Finnish border guard announced on Wednesday it had completed the first 35km of a planned 200km fence on its eastern border with Russia, which has been closed for more than a year after Helsinki accused Moscow of directing asylum seekers to Finland in a 'hybrid operation'. The fence also uses cameras and sensors to distinguish between people and animals crossing.
Arab News
21-05-2025
- Politics
- Arab News
Russia says it downed hundreds of Ukrainian drones, briefly halts Moscow airports
MOSCOW: Russia said on Wednesday that its air defenses shot down more than 260 Ukrainian drones including some approaching Moscow, and the capital's airports were briefly shut down to ensure the safety of flights. There were no reports of casualties. As Russia, Ukraine, the United States and European powers discuss ways to end the more than three-year-old conflict in Ukraine, fighting has intensified on some parts of the front and drone warfare has continued. In a series of announcements, Russia's Defense Ministry said on Telegram that at least 262 Ukrainian drones were intercepted or destroyed on Wednesday. Most were over Russia's western regions bordering Ukraine and central Russia. But some approached the Moscow region where 21 million people live. The three major airports in the region halted flights briefly then resumed operations. Ukraine's military said its drones hit the Bolkhovsky Semiconductor Devices Plant, a supplier in the Oryol region to Russian fighter jet and missile makers. The war in Ukraine, which has killed hundreds of thousands of people, has become a crucible of drone innovation as both sides send the unmanned vehicles far behind the front lines. Moscow and Kyiv have sought to buy and develop new drones, deploy them innovatively and devise new methods to disable and destroy them, from farmers' shotguns to electronic jamming. Russia's Defense Ministry said its forces were advancing at key points along the front, and pro-Russian war bloggers said Russia had pierced the Ukrainian lines between Pokrovsk and Kostiantynivka in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his nightly video address the heaviest frontline battles were around Pokrovsk and made no reference to any Russian advances. Zelensky said Ukrainian forces remained active in two Russian regions along the border — Kursk and Belgorod. Reuters could not independently verify battlefield accounts from either side.
Telegraph
21-05-2025
- Politics
- Telegraph
Putin boasts of massive attack on Ukrainian troops
Vladimir Putin has boasted of a massive attack on a Ukrainian training base that the Kremlin claimed killed 70 of Kyiv's soldiers. Ukraine confirmed that Russia on Tuesday struck the camp near Shostka in Sumy with an Iskander ballistic missile, but said six soldiers were killed and 10 injured. Putin described the attack as 'good news' while visiting the Kursk region for the first time since it was retaken by his troops last month. Ukraine said an investigation had been launched and that the commander of the unit targeted in the strike had been suspended. Footage taken from a Russian drone before the attack shows dozens of Ukrainian troops – which Russian media identified as the 1st Special Forces Brigade – training on the tarmac, before appearing to run for cover. The video then shows a huge fireball explosion close to where the soldiers had been spotted. Overnight, Ukraine struck a major electronics factory inside Russia's Oryol region. Footage shows a long-range drone targeted the site, sparking a huge blaze. Russia, meanwhile, said it shot down a large-scale Ukrainian aerial onslaught across Russia overnight, destroying 159 drones, including 53 over the Oryol region and three over Moscow, sparking two city airports to temporarily suspend flights.
Reuters
21-05-2025
- Politics
- Reuters
Russia says it downed over 232 Ukrainian drones, forcing Moscow airports to halt some flights
MOSCOW, May 21 (Reuters) - Russia said on Wednesday that its air defences had shot down at least 232 Ukrainian drones over various Russian regions, including some approaching Moscow where the capital's airports were briefly shut down to ensure the safety of flights. While Russia, Ukraine, the United States and European powers consider the sequencing of a possible end to the more than three-year conflict in Ukraine, the drone war continues and fighting is intensifying in some areas of the front. Russia's Defence Ministry said it had destroyed at least 232 Ukrainian drones, mostly over Russia's western regions bordering Ukraine, but also some approaching Moscow, a city which along with the surrounding area has a population of 21 million people. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said three drones had been downed en route to the capital where three major airports briefly stopped flights before resuming operations. There were no reports of casualties, but Ukraine's military said that its drones had hit the Bolkhovsky Semiconductor Devices Plant, a semiconductor devices plant in the Oryol region that it said supplied Russian fighter jet and missile producers. The war in Ukraine, which has left hundreds of thousands of people dead, has become a crucible of drone innovation with both sides fielding swarms of drones far behind the front lines in an attempt to disrupt production facilities. Moscow and Kyiv have both sought to buy and develop new drones, deploy them in innovative ways, and seek new ways to destroy them - from farmers' shotguns to electronic jamming. Soldiers have reported a visceral fear of drones and both sides have used macabre footage of fatal strikes in their propaganda, with soldiers shown being blown apart in toilets or running from burning vehicles. Russia's Defence Ministry said its forces were advancing at key points along the front and pro-Russian war bloggers said Russia had pierced the Ukrainian lines between Pokrovsk and Kostiantynivka in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine. Reuters could not verify that assertion. President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday visited the western Kursk region for the first time since Russian forces ejected Ukrainian troops from the area last month. Putin sent tens of thousands of soldiers into Ukraine in February 2022 and Russia now controls just under one fifth of the country.
