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The Guardian
27-02-2025
- Politics
- The Guardian
Ukraine war briefing: Kyiv's troops regain village near Pokrovsk as ISW says Russians falter
Ukrainian troops on Wednesday announced a successful counterattack to retake the settlement of Kotlyne near the key city of Pokrovsk, which many Russian forces have died trying to take over the past year. The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) said: 'The year-long Russian effort to seize Pokrovsk has so far failed, and Russian forces appear to have abandoned the effort to take the city directly, preferring instead to conduct a wide envelopment. The Kremlin may have abandoned even that effort for now, however, in the fact of increasing Ukrainian resistance in the area and extremely high Russian losses.' The Russian defence ministry said its forces had recaptured the settlements of Pogrebki and Orlovka, north of the town of Sudzha, in Kursk oblast where Ukraine has held territory inside Russia since August 2024. The ministry added that Russian forces had struck Ukrainian units and positions near more than a dozen settlements, including several around Sudzha. Zelenskyy, in his nightly video address, noted it was nearly seven months that Ukrainian forces 'have been holding the buffer zone on the aggressor's territory in Russia. They have almost become used to it.' The Ukrainian military said it had attacked Russia's Tuapse oil refinery on the Black Sea coast and that at least 40 explosions had been recorded at the site. Tuapse is home to one of Russia's biggest oil refineries and has been targeted by Ukrainian drones several times before. The Ukrainian military also said it had attacked two military airfields in Russia-controlled Crimea but gave no further details. Russia confirmed drones attacked its southern Krasnodar region, including the port of Tuapse, on Wednesday. Drones also attacked the Russian regions of Bryansk and Kursk, which border Ukraine, according to Russia's defence ministry. Ukraine said Russian strikes on Kostyantynivka city in the east killed at least five people and wounded eight more. Russian drones also killed two people near Kyiv, including the Ukrainian journalist Tetiana Kulyk who worked for the Ukrinform news agency. Ukraine's interior ministry said separately that two people were wounded in Kharkiv city during a drone attack. Ukraine's largest private energy company, DTEK, said one of its facilities had been damaged in the Dnipropetrovsk region. Any peace deal for Ukraine must include 'security guarantees' involving the 'Atlantic alliance', according to Giorgia Meloni, who was referencing Nato. The Italian prime minister spoke as it emerged a draft deal between the US and Ukraine does not include security guarantees, but only references Ukraine somehow obtaining them. Peace in Ukraine 'can only be achieved if Kyiv is given adequate security guarantees to make sure that what we have seen over the past three years does not happen again', Meloni said on Tuesday. While Donald Trump said Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, would sign their 'very big agreement' in Washington on Friday, Zelenskyy insisted that 'guarantees of peace and security' remained vital as he prepared for 'talks' with Trump. 'For me and for all of us in the world, it's important that US support is not stopped. Strength is needed on the path to peace,' Zelenskyy said during his evening address to Ukrainians on Wednesday. Zelenskyy elsewhere suggested the deal provides a 'framework' under which security guarantees would be agreed jointly with the US and Europe. On security guarantees, Trump said 'we're going to have Europe do that' and Ukraine should forget about joining Nato. Zelenskyy is expected to visit Britain this weekend for talks with its prime minister, Keir Starmer, and other European leaders. Zelenskyy said on Wednesday that after his proposed trip to Washington on Friday, 'I plan to go to London: and immediately after this I and the Europeans will meet there with Keir Starmer'. Keir Starmer will convene the meeting after he returns from also meeting with Trump in Washington. The Romanian parliament has authorised its army and allies to shoot down drones illegally breaching Romanian airspace. The EU and Nato member has had Russian drone fragments repeatedly fall on to its territory as Moscow has attacked Kyiv's ports.
Yahoo
26-02-2025
- Yahoo
Russian Shahed drone attack kill surgeon and Ukrinform journalist in Kyiv Oblast
A Russian drone hit the house of surgeon Pavlo Ivanchov and journalist Tetiana Kulyk in Kriukivshchyna, Kyiv Oblast, on the night of 25-26 February. Source: Ukrinform; Ukrainska Details: Pavlo Ivanchov, 52, was the head of the Department of Surgery No. 3 at the Bohomolets National Medical University, and Tetiana Kulyk worked as a journalist for Ukrinform and led the Nation of the Invincibles project. Ukrinform reported on Tetiana's death, and the Bohomolets National Medical University is awaiting official confirmation of Pavlo's death from the police. Neighbours said Pavlo and Tetiana were at home at the time of the attack, as stated on the university's website. On the morning of 26 February, firefighters contained the fire and found two bodies. His friend and colleague Andrii Khokhlov also announced the death of Pavlo Ivanchov. Quote from Andrii Khokhlov: "Last night, as a result of Russian aggression, my friend, companion, mentor, head of the Department of Surgery, Pavlo Ivanchov, tragically died. Rest in peace, my friend, I am sorry, you will be missed." Details: However, in a comment to Ukrainska the press service of the Bohomolets National Medical University, explained that it had not yet received official confirmation of Pavlo Ivanchov's death from the police. Investigative actions are currently underway at the scene of the tragedy. The bodies of the victims were sent for forensic examination. Surgeon Pavlo Ivanchov For reference: Pavlo Ivanchov is a Ukrainian scientist in tumour surgery, Doctor of Medicine, Doctor of Economics, and Professor. He has performed more than 15,000 operations. Tetiana Kulyk is a journalist at Ukrinform who also headed the Main Multimedia Editorial Office and was a member of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine. Institute of Mass Information reported that Tetiana Kulyk became the 98th on the list of media workers killed by Russia since the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Background: Russia attacked Kyiv Oblast with Shahed drones on the night of 25-26 February. As a result of this attack, two people were injured in the Bucha district, including a 19-year-old girl; a residential house caught fire. In the morning, the State Emergency Service reported that the bodies of two people had been recovered from the rubble of the house. Support Ukrainska Pravda on Patreon!
Yahoo
26-02-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Russian strikes kill 5 in east Ukraine, journalist killed near Kyiv
Ukraine said Wednesday that Russian strikes on a front-line town in the east of the country killed at least five people and wounded eight more just hours after a fatal drone attack near Kyiv. The large-scale Russian drone barrage overnight killed two people near Kyiv, including a Ukrainian journalist, her news agency said. AFP journalists in Kyiv heard explosions ringing out after the Ukrainian air force said Russia fired a barrage of 177 drones of various types at targets across the country. Russian forces have been clawing their way towards the town of Kostyantynivka and intensively bombarding the civilian hub in the eastern Donetsk region, which the Kremlin claims is part of Russia. "At least five people were killed and eight were wounded in the strikes on Kostyantynivka," the governor of the Donetsk region Vadim Filashkin wrote on social media. The strikes attest to the increasingly difficult fighting for Ukrainian forces that are facing down a better-resourced and large Russian army across the sprawling front line. The attack on Kostyantynivka, which had an estimated pre-war population of around 67,000 people, came after Russia launched dozens of drones overnight in an aerial assault that damaged Ukrainian energy facilities and killed two people near the Ukrainian capital. The Ukrinform news agency announced Wednesday afternoon that its journalist Tetiana Kulyk was among those killed in the attack. "Her untimely death has shocked her colleagues and is a huge loss for the agency," the agency said in a statement. - Energy facilities damaged - The university where Kulyk's husband worked said it was likely that he was at home with her at the time of the strike, and authorities said they had found a second body. The interior ministry said separately that two people were wounded in the second-largest Ukrainian city of Kharkiv and that one drone hit a nine-storey residential building. And Ukraine's largest private energy company, DTEK, said one of its facilities had been damaged in the Dnipropetrovsk region, without elaborating. The drone attacks by both sides have become a deadly, daily reality of a war now into its fourth year, as the United States pushes Ukraine and Russia towards a halt to fighting. Russia's defence ministry said it had shot down 128 Ukrainian drones overnight over Russian regions and annexed Crimea, in one of the largest Ukrainian attacks since the start of the war in February 2022. Kyiv has stepped up air strikes against energy and military facilities on Russian territory in recent months, in response to Moscow's bombardment of its cities and energy infrastructure. Air defence forces "intercepted and destroyed 128 Ukrainian aerial drones" including 30 over the Crimean peninsula annexed in 2014, the Russian defence ministry said. In addition to the Krasnodar region, known for its Black Sea resorts, drone attacks also targeted the Russian regions of Bryansk and Kursk, which border Ukraine, according to the ministry. No major damage was immediately reported by Russian media or authorities. But Andriy Kovalenko, an official responsible for countering disinformation on the Ukrainian security council, said there was an attack on the Russian port of Tuapse. Kovalenko said the town was a key Russian cargo port that has one of the country's largest oil terminals. burs-jbr/am/js
