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Express Tribune
3 days ago
- Sport
- Express Tribune
Diplomats take part in Marka-e-Haq shooting competition
mid echoes of discipline and focus, marksmen take aim during a shooting competition held at the Special Security Unit (SSU) Headquarters. The contest showcased exceptional skill and control, drawing top shooters from around the world. PHOTO: NNI In connection with Marka-e-Haq, and to commemorate the 78th Independence Day of Pakistan, the Special Security Unit (SSU) organised a shooting competition among members of the diplomatic corps. The event brought together corps from various countries, including the United States of America (USA), Russia, Türkiye, France, Thailand, Malaysia, Germany, Iran, China, South Korea, Indonesia, Italy, Ethiopia, and Oman. In the team category, the US Consulate secured first position, followed by the Russian Consulate in second place, and the Türkiye Consulate in third place. In the individual male category, Ramzan Duzenci from the Türkiye consulate clinched first position, Tucker Hoefakker from the USA consulate came second, and Vladimir Lenkov from the Russian consulate stood third. Meanwhile, in the individual female category, Elena Popova from the Russian consulate took first place, followed by Marina Kosareva from the Russian consulate in second place, and Sriprapai Boontinand from the Thailand consulate in third. DIG Security and Emergency Services congratulated the participants for their performances and presented trophies and medals to the winners and runners-up.
Euronews
02-08-2025
- Politics
- Euronews
Ukraine claims attacks on Russian drone storage airbase and plant
Ukraine's Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) on Saturday reported that its drones hit the Shahed storage airbase in Primorsko-Akhtarsk and the Elektropribor military plant in Penza in Russia just as three people were killed by Russian strikes on Kherson. Ukraine's drone attack on Russia reportedly hit the Elektropribor plant in Penza, which Kyiv claims works for the Russian defence industry. According to Ukrainian special services, equipment for digital networks in military command systems, devices for aviation, armoured vehicles, ships, and spacecraft are produced there. Ukraine claimed their first drone attack at the Primorsko-Akhtarsk military airbase in Krasnodar Krai caused a fire to break out. The storage and launch sites of the Shahed attack drones were also targeted, according to the SSU. Videos of a massive fire that was purportedly on the premises of the Novokuibyshevsk oil plant in Samara Oblast were shared on social media. The footage on Telegram, widely used to disseminate information about Russia's war in Ukraine, captured drone-like activity and the reaction of air defence systems. The governor of the region, Vyacheslav Fedorishchev, confirmed the drone strike on Novokuibyshevsk. "Enemy UAVs attacked one of the industrial facilities in Novokuibyshevsk this morning. Emergency services are working at the scene," he wrote on Telegram. Internet service was subsequently restricted across the oblast, and operations at the Samara airport were suspended, Fedorishchev said. Russian attack kills two people in Kherson Meanwhile, two people were killed in Kherson by Russian shelling, according to the Kherson Oblast Military Administration. The deaths in Kherson were the latest in a barrage of Russian drone and missile attacks on Ukraine's capital, including that of Kyiv early Friday that killed 31 people, including five children. Around 150 people were injured. Two people were killed on Saturday morning in Kherson by a Russian attack, according to the Kherson Oblast Military Administration. A Russian airstrike on Kherson's Korabelnyi area left a 68-year-old lady dead and two others injured: a 79-year-old man who received blast trauma and a 41-year-old man who suffered various injuries to his limbs and torso, according to local media. One person was reportedly killed in the area on Friday and nine people injured. The body of a man was found beneath the debris of a residential structure in the Dniprovskyi area shelled by Russia, local officials said. Ukraine says they are holding off Russia, but Moscow's summer offensive is proving to be the deadliest yet for Kyiv. Moscow's summer offensive deadliest for Ukraine On Saturday, the Ukrainian Air Force reported it had foiled or suppressed 45 out of 53 Russian drones against Ukraine overnight. The Ukrainian Air Force reported that As part of its defence, Ukraine sank several Russian warships in the Black Sea, crippling Moscow's naval capability and forcing it to redeploy its fleet from Russian-occupied Crimea to Novorossiysk in a series of strikes earlier in the war, now in its fourth year. Ukraine employed drones to strike multiple Russian air sites that house long-range bombers throughout Russia, from the Arctic Kola Peninsula to Siberia, in an audacious 1 June offensive code-named "Spiderweb." The drones were launched from trucks covertly placed near the bases, taking the Russian military by surprise in a humiliating blow to the Kremlin. The raid destroyed or damaged many of the bombers that had been used by Moscow to launch aerial attacks on Ukraine, providing a major morale boost for Kyiv at a time when Kyiv's undermanned and under-gunned forces are facing Russian attacks along the 1,000-kilometre front line.
Sky News AU
11-07-2025
- Politics
- Sky News AU
Chilling video captures moment high-ranking Ukrainian spy was ruthlessly assassinated in daylight Kyiv ambush
Chilling video captured the moment a high-ranking Ukrainian spy was ruthlessly gunned down in a brazen, broad daylight ambush on the streets of Kyiv and left for dead. Col. Ivan Voronych, a senior security officer in Ukraine's Security Service, was crossing the street in the Holosiivskyi district Thursday when an armed attacker ran up and blasted him with bullets at close range before fleeing, according to disturbing surveillance footage obtained by Ukrainian media and reports. The assailant, who reportedly used a silenced pistol, was seen sprinting across a parking lot outside Voronych's apartment building moments before unleashing five fatal rounds. 'With five shots at close range while leaving the apartment today at 8 a.m., the enemy killer did his dirty work,' Roman Chervinsky, a former Ukrainian intelligence officer, told The Telegraph. He emphasized that Voronych had been 'fighting the enemy since 2014.' Voronych, who led high-level special operations, counter-terrorism and security missions, was found with multiple gunshot wounds and pronounced dead at the scene – with a fellow officer accusing Russia of plotting the vicious assassination, the outlet reported. 'A criminal investigation has been opened into the murder of an SSU employee in Kyiv's Holosivskyi district,' a spokesperson for the security service told Ukrainska Pravada. 'The Security Service and the National Police are taking comprehensive measures to establish all the circumstances of the crime and bring those responsible to justice.' The attack comes nearly three months after senior Russian military general Yaroslav Maskalik was killed in a fiery car explosion in Moscow – one day after the Kremlin launched a deadly strike on Ukraine. A bomb planted in a parked car was remotely detonated in April as Maskalik, deputy head of the Russian Armed Forces' main operations directorate, walked by the car located near his home, law enforcement sources said at the time. Both Russia and Ukraine have conducted targeted killings since the war began in February 2022. Originally published as Chilling video captures moment high-ranking Ukrainian spy was ruthlessly assassinated in daylight Kyiv ambush
Fox News
10-07-2025
- Politics
- Fox News
Top Ukrainian spy gunned down in Kyiv ambush attack: report
A top Ukrainian spy was gunned down in Kyiv in broad daylight Thursday in an attack being blamed on Russia, reports said. Sources told Ukrainska Pravda that an unknown individual approached Col. Ivan Voronych of the Security Service of Ukraine around 9 a.m. local time and shot at him five times with a pistol before fleeing the scene. A video purportedly showing the ambush depicted a man being attacked while walking to a vehicle outside an apartment building. "A criminal investigation has been opened into the murder of an SSU employee in Kyiv's Holosiivskyi district," a spokesperson for the Ukrainian agency told the outlet. "The Security Service and the National Police are taking comprehensive measures to establish all the circumstances of the crime and bring those responsible to justice." Voronych suffered multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene, according to Ukrainska Pravda. The colonel led a division within Ukraine's security service that focused on high-level special operations and counter-terrorism, The Telegraph reported. "With five shots at close range while leaving the apartment today... the enemy killer did his dirty work," former Ukrainian intelligence officer Roman Chervinsky told The Telegraph. Ihar Mosiychuk, a former Ukrainian parliament member, blamed Russian special services for orchestrating the hit, The Telegraph also reported. "Police officers are establishing the circumstances of the shooting in the Holosiivskyi district of Kyiv," the Kyiv Police wrote on Telegram. "Arriving on a call, law enforcement officers discovered the body of a man with a gunshot wound." "The person involved in the crime is being identified, and measures are being taken to detain him," police added.
Hans India
07-07-2025
- Politics
- Hans India
Russia says it downed 402 Ukrainian drones
Russian air defence downed 402 Ukrainian drones and seven guided aerial bombs over the past day, the Russian Defence Ministry said on Monday. The ministry said that 91 drones were destroyed overnight, with most of them in the border regions of Belgorod and Kursk and eight over the Moscow region. Russia and Ukraine have intensified drone attacks recently. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday that Russia launched 101 drones overnight, adding that about 1,270 drones and 39 missiles were registered over the past week, Xinhua news agency reported. Earlier on July 6, Russian air defence forces shot down six Ukrainian drones attempting to attack Moscow, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin had said. Specialists from emergency services are working at the crash sites of the debris, Sobyanin wrote in his Telegram channel. According to the Mayor, thousands of drones had been launched at Moscow over the past months. He further added that in the end, only a handful managed to reach and fall in Moscow. Drone offensives had been widely used by Russia and Ukraine to attack each other. On July 4, Russia had carried out a major aerial assault, launching a combined 550 drones and missiles across Ukraine, with Kyiv sustaining the heaviest damage, according to the Ukrainian Air Force. Ukrainian air defences had intercepted 478 aerial targets, including two Iskander-K cruise missiles. However, 63 drones and nine missiles struck targets in eight locations, while debris from downed projectiles landed in 33 sites. Educational, healthcare and transport infrastructure in Kyiv was damaged, local media quoted Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko as saying. A day earlier, Ukrainian drones had successfully hit ammunition depots in the Russia-controlled area of the eastern Donetsk region, the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) had said. The attack occurred near the town of Khartsyzk, igniting fire and causing the stored ammunition to detonate, the SSU said in a statement. Russia recently has intensified its aerial strikes on civilian areas after more than three years of war. Over the past week, Russia launched some 1,270 drones, 39 missiles and almost 1,000 powerful glide bombs at Ukraine, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on July 7.
