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Al Arabiya
3 days ago
- Politics
- Al Arabiya
Zelenskyy slams Russia after three generations killed in drone strike
A Russian drone slammed into a residential house in central Ukraine overnight Thursday, killing three members of one family, including a one-year-old baby, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. He accused Moscow of trying to 'buy time for itself to continue killing' and called for the West to put 'maximum sanctions' and 'pressure" on Moscow, after Russia has repeatedly rejected calls for a full and unconditional ceasefire. A total of five people were killed in Pryluky, a city in central Ukraine, including victims from three generations of the same family. A local firefighting chief was responding to an earlier attack when his own house was hit by a Russian drone, officials said. 'His wife, daughter and one-year-old grandson were killed,' Zelenskyy said. Photos showed houses on fire, billowing grey smoke into the pitch black sky as rescuers battled the blaze. A picture at dawn, published by the emergency services, showed a firefighter standing in the burned-out carcass of a residential home, the roof gone, surrounded by charred ashes and debris. 'Russia is constantly trying to buy time for itself to continue killing. When it does not feel strong enough condemnation and pressure from the world, it kills again,' Zelenskyy said. 'This is yet another reason to impose maximum sanctions and put pressure together. We expect action from the United States, Europe, and everyone in the world who can really help change these terrible circumstances,' he added. Fighting and aerial attacks have escalated in recent weeks, even as the sides have held two rounds of talks in Istanbul that they say are aimed at finding an end to the three-year war. But Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday told US President Donald Trump that Moscow would respond to an audacious Ukrainian drone attack that destroyed several Russian nuclear-capable military jets over the weekend, Trump said after a call between the pair. Another attack on the northeastern city of Kharkiv wounded 18 people, including four children, Interior Minister Igor Klymenko said in a post on social media. Tens of thousands of people have been killed, swaths of eastern and southern Ukraine destroyed, and millions forced to flee their homes since Russia invaded in February 2022.
National Post
5 days ago
- General
- National Post
Putin strikes Ukraine after Trump call, killing 1-year-old and four others
At least five people, including a 1-year-old child, his mother and grandmother, were killed Thursday in a nighttime Russian drone strike that hit the northern Ukrainian city of Pryluky, officials said. Article content Six drones hit a residential area in the city shortly before dawn, according to authorities. The child killed was the grandson of an emergency responder, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. Article content Article content Article content 'One of the rescuers arrived to respond to the aftermath right at his own home,' Zelenskyy said in a post on Telegram. 'It turned out that a Shahed drone hit his house.' Article content Article content The attack came just hours after U.S. President Donald Trump spoke by phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin. According to Trump, Putin said 'very strongly' that Russia will retaliate for Ukraine's weekend stunning drone attacks on Russian military airfields. Article content The mother of the 1-year-old killed in Pryluky was a police officer called Daryna Shyhyda, Ukraine's National Police said. Article content Article content Article content Article content Six people were wounded in the Pryluky attack and are in hospital, officials said. Article content Pryluky, which had a prewar population of around 50,000 people, lies about 100 kilometers (60 miles) east of Kyiv, the capital. The city is far from the front line and does not contain any known military assets. Article content The last time Pryluky was struck was in November last year, when a Russian missile hit an administrative building and injured one person. Article content Zelenskyy said a total of 103 drones and one ballistic missile targeted multiple Ukrainian regions overnight, including Donetsk, Kharkiv, Odesa, Sumy, Chernihiv, Dnipro and Kherson. Article content 'This is another massive strike,' Zelenskyy said. 'It is yet another reason to impose the strongest possible sanctions and apply pressure collectively.' Article content Article content Zelenskyy, who has accepted a U.S. ceasefire proposal and offered to meet with Putin in an attempt to break the stalemate in negotiations, wants more international sanctions on Russia to force it to accept a settlement. Putin has shown no willingness to meet with Zelenskyy, however, and has indicated no readiness to compromise.
The Independent
5 days ago
- Politics
- The Independent
Ukraine-Russia war latest: Kherson hit by glide bombs twice in same day as Putin ramps up attacks
Russia fired multiple rounds of glide bombs at the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson on Thursday, local authorities have said, as Vladimir Putin ramped up attacks across the country. Oleksandr Prokudin, governor of the Kherson region, reposted footage of the aftermath of the attacks, which destroyed a government building and injured two people. Several high-rise buildings were damaged, while a huge chunk of the top of the administrative building is seen missing in the video. 'Four KABs flew through this place,' Mr Prokudin wrote, using the Ukrainian phrase for glide bombs, which are modified, Soviet-era munitions carrying up to 1,500kg of explosives. Additional footage posted by Mr Prokudin at around 2pm GMT appeared to show the building having sustained further damage after reports of a second round of glide bomb attacks. Separately, a Russian drone strike on the northern Ukrainian city of Pryluky on Thursday killed at least five civilians, including a one-year-old child. It comes as US president Donald Trump has warned that his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin will respond to Ukraine 's Operation Spiderweb, after the two leaders spoke on a phone call for around one hour and 15 minutes on Wednesday. New German leader plans to discuss Ukraine and trade with Trump in Oval Office visit Germany's new leader is meeting President Donald Trump in Washington on Thursday as he works to keep the U.S. on board with Western support for Ukraine, help defuse trade tensions that pose a risk to Europe's biggest economy and further bolster his country's long-criticized military spending. You can read the full story below. New German leader plans to discuss Ukraine and trade with Trump in Oval Office visit Germany's new leader is meeting President Donald Trump in Washington as he works to keep the U.S. on board with Western support for Ukraine, help defuse trade tensions that pose a risk to Europe's biggest economy and further bolster his country's long-criticized military spending Tom Watling5 June 2025 15:00 Russia drone attack hits northeast city of Kupyansk Ukraine's state emergency services have posted photos showing the aftermath of a Russian drone attack on the city of Kupyansk. Russian forces are within five miles of the city's outskirts. 'As a result of discharges from Russian First-Person-View drones in the city of Kupyansk, fires broke out in the private sector, a 74-year-old woman was injured,' the emergency services wrote. 'A house, a car and outbuildings were on fire. 13 rescuers from the State Emergency Service fought the fire, risking their lives due to the threat of repeated shelling.' Tom Watling5 June 2025 14:30 Brazil, India, China should put pressure on Russia to end war in Ukraine, Macron says Brazil, India and China should put pressure on Russia to end the war in Ukraine, French president Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday during a joint press conference with Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who is on a state visit in France. Tom Watling5 June 2025 14:14 Russia planning to make 2 million FPV drones in 2025, says Kyiv Russia plans to produce two million first-person-view drones in 2025, Ukraine's foreign intelligence service has claimed. Intelligence official Oleh Aleksandrov told Politico that Moscow has rapidly upped its production of the lethal but cheap drones, which have become one of the most common weapons on the frontlines in Ukraine. 'They aim to produce about 30,000 long-range drones of those types plus 30,000 false target drones they use to exhaust Ukrainian air defenses in 2025,' Aleksandrov said. 'As for the FPV drones, Russians are aiming to produce a whopping 2 million of them in 2025.' Ukrainian forces working on tight budgets pioneered FPV drones, which are essentially affordable quadcopters retrofitted with small-munitions and cameras connected to a headset, allowing the drone pilot to steer it using a live, first-person-view feed. They are short-range weapons operating on a timer. Ukraine upscaled FPV production in 2024, creating around a million sets. They are aiming to produce 2.5 million this year. Tom Watling5 June 2025 14:05 In pictures: Civilians clean up aftermath of deadly Russian strike Below you can see pictures from the site of a Russian drone strike in the central city of Pryluky . At least five people were killed in the strikes, including a one-year-old boy. The baby's mother and grandmother, who was the wife of the local fire chief, were also killed when a Russian drone hit their house. Tom Watling5 June 2025 13:41 Zelensky launched a string of daring raids against Russia. He's proving to Trump that Ukraine has the cards after all First came dozens of armed drones launched from trucks traveling deep inside Russia, swarming over military airfields across the country and raining down nuclear-capable long-range bombers. Then, two days later, a massive underwater bomb targeted a key bridge linking occupied Crimea to the Russian mainland. The two daring raids by Ukrainian special forces have stunned the Kremlin, bolstered Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, and sent shockwaves through defence departments around the world. But there has been an uncharacteristic silence from the White House, and its usually verbose inhabitants. Zelensky's daring raids on Russia proves to Trump that Ukraine has the cards Zelensky's dramatic military strike deep inside Russia may have changed Trump's perception of Putin as a 'winner' — with the U.S. president uncharacteristically quiet, write Richard Hall and Andrew Feinberg. Tom Watling5 June 2025 13:18 The Dutch queen unveils a bell made from Russian weapons to show solidarity with Ukraine Queen Maxima of the Netherlands handed over a bell made partly from Russian weapons to a church in the Czech Republic on Thursday in a sign of solidarity with Ukraine. Known as the Bell of Freedom, it was manufactured by the Dutch Royal Eijsbouts bell foundry that used fragments of artillery shells and other weapons fired by Russia against Ukraine. 'This bell has a lot of symbolism in it and it's a very special project for us,' the owner of the bell foundry, Joost Eijsbouts, told the Czech public radio. 'To use material designed for violence and turn it into something peaceful is a good idea.' Read the full story below. The Dutch queen unveils a bell made from Russian weapons to show solidarity with Ukraine Queen Maxima of the Netherlands has handed over a bell made partly from Russian weapons to a church in the Czech Republic in a sign of solidarity with Ukraine Tom Watling5 June 2025 12:48 Footage shows Russian attack on Kharkiv Footage published by officials from the northeast Ukrainian city of Kharkiv show the moment a Russian drone smashed into a high-rise building last night. The video, shared by Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky's chief advisor, Andriy Yermak, is doing the rounds on Ukrainian social media. Igor Terekhov, the mayor of Kharkiv, Ukraine's second most-populated city, home to some 1.3 million people, posted the footage this morning. No one was killed in the attack shown below; Mr Terekhov said the couple at home at the moment of the strike 'only escaped because they were sleeping in another room'. 'It's a miracle that everyone is alive,' he added. He said 13 people were injured in total overnight after multiple Russian strikes on Kharkiv. Mr Yermak wrote in a post on X alongside the video that it showed Vladimir Putin was only posing as a peacemaker by talking about negotiating an end to the conflict. 'Putin is a terrorist who tries to pose as a 'peacemaker' and makes hoax calls,' the official wrote. 'What about the ceasefire?' Tom Watling5 June 2025 12:29 Nato near consensus on 5% defence spending commitment, claims US Here we have some footage from today's meeting of Nato defence ministers in Brussels. US secretary of defence Pete Hegseth says the alliance is 'nearing consensus' on Nato members hitting a pledge to spend five per cent of GDP on defence. It will be a massive jump for most of the 32 Nato members to hit this increase; many have only just reached the two per cent threshold demanded of them a decade ago. Tom Watling5 June 2025 12:24 Railway track damaged after blast in Russia's Voronezh region, state TV reports A railway track in Russia's Voronezh region was damaged after an blast, state television Vesti Voronezh reported, citing an unidentified source. There were no casualties as a result of the explosion, state TV reported. Regional governor Alexander Gusev said via his channel in Telegram that several trains were stopped as a result of the damage to the railway. Gusev did not mention any blasts. Russia's FSB security service also said that a railway track in the Voronezh region was damaged by the detonation of an explosive device, Interfax news agency reported. The issue of opening a criminal case on terrorism is currently under consideration, the FSB said. Tom Watling
Arab News
5 days ago
- Health
- Arab News
Russian strike kills 5 in Ukraine, including a 1-year-old, hours after Trump-Putin call
PRYLUKY, Ukraine: At least five people, including a 1-year-old child, his mother and grandmother, were killed Thursday in a nighttime Russian drone attack on the northern Ukrainian city of Pryluky, officials said. Six drones hit a residential area in the city shortly before dawn, injuring nine others, according to authorities. The child killed was the grandson of the local fire chief, Ukraine's Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said. The fire chief, identified by local officials as 50-year-old Oleksandr Lebid, 'arrived to respond to the aftermath right at his own home,' Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a post on Telegram. 'It turned out that a Shahed drone hit his house.' The attack came just hours after US President Donald Trump spoke by phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin. According to Trump, Putin said 'very strongly' that Russia will retaliate for Ukraine's stunning drone attacks on Russian military airfields on Sunday. US-led diplomatic efforts to stop the more than 3-year-long war have delivered no significant progress, and the grinding war of attrition has continued unabated. Child's mother feared drone attacks The mother of the 1-year-old killed in Pryluky was a police officer called Daryna Shyhyda, Ukraine's National Police said. 'Today our hearts are scorched by pain,' the police force wrote on Telegram. 'This is not just a loss — it is three generations of life uprooted.' Liudmyla Horbunova, 55, who lives across the street from where the Shahed drone hit, said Shyhyda had moved with her son last weekend to her parents' house from her home in Kyiv because she was scared of potential Russian attacks on the capital. 'She ran away from Shaheds in Kyiv, but they found her here, in Pryluky,' Horbunova told The Associated Press. Firefighters worked through charred debris and extinguished the remains of a fire that engulfed the home of Shyhyda's parents, leaving only a brick carcass and scattered toys, clothes and a family photo book. Horrific footage from Ukraine's city of Kharkiv last night, as Russians indiscriminately target densely populated high-rise buildings. — Kyiv Insider (@KyivInsider) June 5, 2025 Drones struck across regions Pryluky, which had a prewar population of around 50,000 people, lies about 100 kilometers (60 miles) east of Kyiv, the capital. The city is far from the front line and does not contain any known military assets. The last time Pryluky was struck was in November last year, when a Russian missile hit an administrative building and injured one person. Zelensky said a total of 103 drones and one ballistic missile targeted multiple Ukrainian regions overnight, including Donetsk, Kharkiv, Odesa, Sumy, Chernihiv, Dnipro and Kherson. 'This is another massive strike,' Zelensky said. 'It is yet another reason to impose the strongest possible sanctions and apply pressure collectively.' US peace effort remains stalled Zelensky, who has accepted a US ceasefire proposal and offered to meet with Putin in an attempt to break the stalemate in negotiations, wants more international sanctions on Russia to force it to accept a settlement. Putin has shown no willingness to meet with Zelensky, however, and has indicated no readiness to compromise. Germany's new leader Friedrich Merz was due to meet with President Donald Trump in Washington on Thursday as he works to keep the US on board with Western diplomatic and military support for Ukraine. Ukraine's top presidential aide, Andriy Yermak, met with senior American officials in Washington on Wednesday and called for greater US pressure on Russia, accusing the Kremlin of deliberately stalling ceasefire talks and blocking progress toward peace, according to a statement on the presidential website. Yermak, who traveled to the US as part of a Ukrainian delegation, met with senior American officials to bolster support for Ukraine's defense and humanitarian priorities. He said Ukraine urgently needs stronger air defense capabilities. More people wounded in Kharkiv Hours later, 19 people were injured in a Russian drone strike on the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. Those hurt included children, a pregnant woman, and a 93-year-old woman, regional Gov. Oleh Syniehubov wrote on Telegram. At around 1:05 a.m., Shahed-type drones struck two apartment buildings in the city's Slobidskyi district, causing fires and destroying several private vehicles. 'By launching attacks while people sleep in their homes, the enemy once again confirms its tactic of insidious terror,' Syniehubov wrote on Telegram. Russian aircraft also dropped four powerful glide bombs on the southern city of Kherson, injuring at least three people, regional authorities said.
The Guardian
5 days ago
- Politics
- The Guardian
Russia warns it will respond to Ukraine drone attacks ‘how and when' it sees fit
Russia will respond to Ukraine's daring drone operation 'how and when' it sees fit, the Kremlin has warned, seeming to confirm reports Vladimir Putin had told Donald Trump that Moscow was obliged to retaliate. Ukraine has been bracing for retaliation after its SBU security service carried out a surprise drone strike over the weekend, targeting four airbases and damaging up to 20 Russian warplanes deep inside the country, according to US officials. The Kremlin spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, asked on Thursday what Moscow's response would be, said: 'How and when our military deems it appropriate.' Trump said Putin had 'strongly' told him that Russia would respond to the recent attacks on its airfields, during an unannounced phone call on Wednesday. The US embassy in Ukraine warned of a continuing risk of 'significant airstrikes' and advised its citizens to exercise caution. Hours after Trump and Putin spoke, Russia launched a series of overnight missiles and drones across Ukraine. At least five people, including a one-year-old boy, his mother and grandmother, were killed when a drone struck a residential building in the northern Ukrainian city of Pryluky. The child was the grandson of an emergency responder, the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said. 'One of the rescuers arrived to respond to the aftermath right at his own home,' Zelenskyy said in a post on Telegram. 'It turned out that a Shahed drone hit his house.' In the southern city of Kherson, a large hole was seen in an administration building after missile attacks by the Russian army. But Russian officials have suggested that Moscow has yet to respond to Ukraine's weekend drone attack, which came a day before two bridges collapsed, killing seven people – attacks Moscow blamed on Ukrainian sabotage. After Ukraine carried out its unorthodox operation using drones smuggled into Russia on trucks, pro-Kremlin war bloggers and prominent commentators posted on Russian media to demand retribution, with some calling for nuclear retaliation. While Russian officials have previously indicated their willingness to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine, analysts consider the deployment of such weapons on the battlefield highly unlikely at this stage of the war. Russia's nuclear doctrine permits the use of nuclear weapons in response to attacks that pose a 'critical threat' to the country's sovereignty. In a podcast for the independent outlet Meduza, Pavel Podvig, a Geneva-based expert on Russian nuclear forces, rejected suggestions that Ukraine's recent drone strikes could justify such a response. He argued the operation did not threaten Russia's sovereignty or territorial integrity, nor did it undermine the retaliatory capacity of its strategic nuclear arsenal. A nuclear strike would also be strongly condemned by China, Russia's most influential ally, with Xi Jinping previously warning Putin against the use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine. Instead, as in past responses to Ukrainian military successes, Moscow may launch a wave of deadly ballistic missile strikes – or deploy its experimental Oreshnik missile, which was used at least once last year. Ukraine has intensified its sabotage operations over the past week, including detonating underwater explosives beneath a key bridge linking Russia to the Crimean peninsula, which Moscow annexed in 2014. On Wednesday, a visibly angry Putin for the first time reacted to the Ukrainian attacks, accusing Kyiv of 'organising terrorist attacks'. 'How can we have meetings like this under these conditions? What is there to talk about? Who has negotiations with … terrorists?' he said. Trump has not publicly commented on the Ukrainian drone operation, but sources who reportedly discussed it with him told Axios he described the attack as 'strong' and 'badass' and saw it as a setback to his diplomatic initiative to end the war. While the drone strikes dealt a tangible blow to Russia's military capacity and offered a morale boost for Kyiv, the broader picture remains less rosy for Ukraine. More than three years after launching its invasion, Russia is largely on the offensive, making steady battlefield gains in eastern Ukraine and continuing to pound Ukrainian cities and civilians with drones and missiles. Putin's forces have been advancing further into Ukraine's northern region of Sumy, threatening the regional capital after taking more than 150 square km of the area in less than two weeks. With Putin showing no willingness to agree to a lasting ceasefire, Ukrainian officials and the military are preparing for a Russian summer offensive, with Moscow intent on advancing into Ukraine's Sumy and Kharkiv regions.
