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Arab News
6 days ago
- General
- Arab News
Israel says intercepts missile from Yemen after air raid warning
JERUSALEM: The Israeli army said it had intercepted a missile launched from Yemen on Thursday after air raid sirens sounded in the center of the country, with explosions heard over Jerusalem. 'Following the sirens that sounded a short while ago in several areas in Israel, a missile launched from Yemen was intercepted,' the army said in a statement.
The Sun
28-05-2025
- Politics
- The Sun
I went on holiday to UKRAINE – I fled £7-a-night hostel during air raid siren on first night…but it didn't spoil my trip
A BRAVE Brit holidaymaker had an 'incredible' holiday in war-torn Ukraine - despite harrowing air raid sirens forcing him to take shelter in the subway. Daring tourist Adam Smith stayed at a £7-a-night hostel for five days in the capital Kyiv - and now says he "can't wait to go back" there. 9 9 He embarked on the trip while Vladimir Putin 's Russia continued to pummel Ukrainian cities with devastating drone blitzes and air strikes as part of his bloody invasion. 32-year-old Adam first had to fly to Krakow, Poland, before taking a gruelling 10-hour train to arrive at his budget hostel in the city centre. But moments after getting some shut eye, Adam was suddenly woken by a chilling air raid siren. He had to rush to the nearest subway to escape Putin's brutal strikes. The Northampton man told Luxury Travel Daily: 'The air raid siren went off when I was just drifting off. 'I knew I'd hear it at some point because it's pretty much every night. He continued: 'It was about 11pm and I could hear it in the distance. 'I didn't know what to do but I went to the shelter." The intrepid tourist detailed that his experience felt "very real" - and explained that he felt more excited than scared. He described the shelter that him and hundreds of other locals had to take refuge in during the overnight air attack. Adam said: 'We were all the way at the bottom of the subway. There were around 500 people. 'The atmosphere is really hard to describe. 'It felt like when you do a minute's silence, there was just quiet anticipation waiting for the all clear or get bombed." He also told of the worrying fact that 'a lot of people don't bother going to the shelter because they're really bored of it". Adam even described his fatigue of bloodthirsty Putin's constant attacks. 'By the end of the trip, I couldn't be bothered,' he said. The bold holidaymaker said the sirens blared three times a night during his trip. Adam's family begged him not to go on the trip but his friends weren't surprised. 9 9 He said: 'I've always wanted to go, even before the war, but the war has gone on for so long. 'Some people say there's no war and other people say Ukraine is destroyed. There's definitely a war." The whole trip set Adam back £250 - with a return flight from London Luton Airport to Poland costing just £40. From there, the return train from Krakow to Kyiv was £80. Adam took about £100 to spend, and said that the most expensive activity was a war-themed tour which cost £200. He also described Ukraine: "It was quite grey, I'm not sure if that was the war or the winter. 'There weren't many tourists.' But the keen traveller is already making plans to go back to Kyiv in summer, and said that he "loved" the city. 'The people were helpful and the food was good," he said. 'I went on a tour of occupied cities that Russia had been pushed out of and that was interesting,' Adam added. It comes after mad Putin launched Russia's biggest air assault on Ukraine yet which killed three siblings as well as 10 others during a gargantuan blitz over the weekend. The three tragic children were siblings from the same Martyniuk family and named as Roman, 17, Tamara, 12 and Stanislav, aged eight. Nato scrambled fighter jets after Russian forces launched 367 missiles and drones in the largest single attack since the start of the war in 2022. Yuriy Ihnat, a spokesperson for Ukraine's Air Force, said Moscow used a mix of 69 ballistic and cruise missiles and 298 drones, including Iranian-designed Shahed drones. It was the most massive strike in terms of the number of air attack weapons on the territory of Ukraine since the beginning of the full-scale invasion in 2022, Ihnat said. The Foreign Office advises against all travel to parts of Ukraine. 9 9 9
Yahoo
25-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Twelve people killed after Russia's biggest air raid of war against Ukraine
Russia has launched the largest air raid in three years of the war against Ukraine in a second straight night of massive drone and ballistic missile strikes in which the capital city, Kyiv, was once again the focus of heavy attack. Across the country at least 12 people were killed, according to officials, including three children in the Kyiv region, and dozens more injured, as officials released the first assessment of casualties and damage on Sunday morning. Ukrainian officials later confirmed that Russia had launched 298 drones and 69 missiles in multiple waves. Russia's defence ministry said its air defences had shot down 110 Ukrainian drones overnight. Volodymyr Zelenskyy called on the US to speak out against the Russian attacks. 'The silence of America, the silence of others in the world only encourages Putin,' Ukraine's president wrote on Telegram. 'Every such terrorist Russian strike is reason enough for new sanctions against Russia.' Related: Trump refuses to accept that for Netanyahu and Putin forever war is the only option | Simon Tisdall But he also said he expected officials to press on with a major prisoner swap agreed during talks last week in Istanbul. The swap, in which Russia and Ukraine exchanged hundreds more prisoners on Saturday, amounts to a rare moment of cooperation amid otherwise failed efforts to reach a ceasefire. Russian strikes hit locations across Ukraine on Saturday night into Sunday, from the southern coast and east to the west. Four people were reported dead in the western Khmelnytskyi region, four in the Kyiv region, and one in Mykolaiv in the south. Serhiy Tyurin, the deputy head of the Khmelnytskyi military administration, said in a Telegram post: 'Last night, the Khmelnytskyi region came under hostile Russian fire, which resulted in the destruction of civilian infrastructure … Unfortunately, four people were killed.' Emergency services said four people had been killed and 16 injured in the Kyiv region, including three children in the 'massive night attack'. Kyiv's mayor, Vitali Klitschko, said that by 3am on Sunday there were 'already 10 injured' in the capital, adding that a student dormitory in Holosiivskyi district had been hit by a drone and one of its outside walls was on fire. The intensity and frequency of this weekend's strikes contrasted sharply with Trump's claim that Vladimir Putin was interested in peace. The US president, who has been talking up his peace efforts, has not yet commented on the weekend's heavy strikes. Related: In Ukraine, I saw Trump's 'peace deal' wouldn't just trade away land – but lives, memories and homes | Timothy Garton Ash The attacks meant Kyiv Day – celebrated on the last Sunday in May – began with exhausted people sheltered in bunkers, metro stations and basements. Odesa, Dnipro, Mykolaiv, Sumy, Konotop, Chernihiv, Ternopil and Kharkiv were also hit, according to local media reports. With waves of drones beginning at about midnight on Saturday, accompanied by warnings of ballistic missile launches as the night wore on, a Guardian reporter in Kyiv heard three drones reach the centre of the city, despite action by air defences, and the sound of loud detonations. Russian authorities reported that a dozen drones flying towards Moscow had been shot down. The attack on Kyiv began with Tymur Tkachenko, the head of the city's military administration, warning 'the night will not be easy' as residents tracked waves of launches on air raid warning apps. At one point Tkachenko reported more than a dozen Russian drones were flying around the capital. 'Some of the drones over Kyiv and the surrounding area have already been dealt with. But the new ones are still entering the capital,' he posted. Ukraine and its European allies have sought to push Moscow into signing a 30-day ceasefire as a first step to negotiating an end to the war. In a blow to their efforts, Trump this week declined to place further sanctions on Moscow for not agreeing to an immediate pause in fighting, as Kyiv had wanted. Zelenskyy's chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, wrote on Telegram: 'Without pressure, nothing will change and Russia and its allies will only build up forces for such murders in Western countries. 'Moscow will fight as long as it has the ability to produce weapons.'
Yahoo
24-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Russian UAVs and ballistics attack Kyiv and Kyiv Oblast: civilians injured
An air-raid warning was issued in Kyiv on the evening of 23 May due to the threat of Russian attack UAVs and later also ballistic missiles. Civilians have been injured in both Kyiv Oblast and the capital. Source: Kyiv City Military Administration; Mayor of Kyiv Vitali Klitschko; Air Force of the Ukrainian Armed Forces; Kyiv Oblast Military Administration; Tymur Tkachenko, Head of Kyiv City Military Administration Details: An air-raid warning was issued in the capital at around 22:00. The Air Force reported that attack UAVs had been recorded in the south of the city. Klitschko wrote that the air defence forces had been responding in the city. Kyiv City Military Administration reported that four cars and the windows of a building had been damaged by fallen debris in the Holosiivskyi district. There were no casualties. Update: Later, Kyiv Oblast Military Administration reported that a 54-year-old man and a 50-year-old woman had been injured in a Russian UAV strike on the Brovary district. Both of them have suffered shrapnel wounds to the thigh. A house and a car were also damaged. After midnight on 23 May, Klitschko reported that 20 Russian UAVs were moving towards Kyiv. Quote from Klitschko: "Over 20 enemy UAVs are flying towards Kyiv from three different directions. The Brovary, Vyshhorod and Boryspil districts." Details: At 00:41, Klitschko reported that air defence forces had been responding in Kyiv. At 01:02, air defence forces were reported to be responding in Kyiv Oblast. Klitschko also reported that the Russians had launched a combined attack on Kyiv and its oblast. The Air Force wrote about ballistic missiles moving towards Kyiv. Quote from Klitschko: "Explosions in the city. The air defence forces are responding. The city and oblast are under a combined enemy attack!" Details: Tkachenko reported that drone debris had fallen in the Shevchenkivskyi and Svyatoshynskyi districts. Klitschko added that medics were called to the Svyatoshynskyi district. Later, Tkachenko wrote that missile debris had fallen in the Obolonskyi district. Fires broke out in two buildings in the Sviatoshynskyi district and debris fell at another address. Tkachenko also stated that fallen drone debris in the Solomianskyi district had hit a residential building. Klitschko reported that two people had suffered injuries in the Dniprovskyi district of the capital. Both of them received medical treatment. Quote from Klitschko: "Early reports indicate that drone debris fell on the top floor of a residential building in the capital's Solomianskyi district. Emergency services are on their way to the scene." Quote from Tkachenko: "Fires have been reported on the ground and top floors of a residential building in the Dniprovskyi district." Details: Later, Klitschko reported that an apartment in a residential building had been on fire in the Solomianskyi district and so was a non-residential building in the Sviatoshynskyi district. Tkachenko wrote that two people had been injured in the Dniprovskyi district. After 02:00 explosions rocked Kyiv once again and Klitschko reported that air defence forces were responding in the Obolonskyi district. Tkachenko reported that four civilians had suffered injuries and an acute stress reaction in the Solomianskyi district. Quote from Klitschko: "As of now, six people have been injured in the capital. Two were hospitalised in the Dniprovskyi district. Four more received medical treatment in the Sviatoshynskyi district." "Debris fell in the Obolonskyi district. The number of those injured in the enemy attack has grown to eight people. Two were hospitalised. The others received medical treatment at the scenes." "Debris also fell in the Shevchenkivskyi district of the capital." "Debris fell on a shopping centre in the Obolonskyi district and on a residential building." Updated: The all-clear was given in Kyiv and KyivOblast after 05:00 on 25 May. Support Ukrainska Pravda on Patreon!
Yahoo
18-05-2025
- Yahoo
Air-raid warning in effect for 9 hours as Russian attack damages two districts in Kyiv
An air-raid warning was in effect for 8 hours and 54 minutes in Kyiv as a result of a Russian attack on the night of 17-18 May. Source: Kyiv City Military Administration on Telegram Details: The attack caused damage to windows in an apartment within a residential building in the Solomianskyi district. The roof of a non-residential building was also damaged in the Holosiivskyi district. No casualties were reported in the capital. Background: Russian forces attacked the Obukhiv district of Kyiv Oblast on the night of 17-18 May, killing a woman and injuring three people, including a child. Residential buildings were damaged. Support Ukrainska Pravda on Patreon!
