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CTV News
02-08-2025
- Politics
- CTV News
3 people die in overnight Ukrainian drone strikes on Russia
Rescuers lay toys and flowers on the site of Russia's Thursday night missile strike that hit a multistory residential house killing 31 civilians including five children in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, Aug. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky) Ukrainian drone attacks overnight into Saturday killed three people, Russian officials said Saturday. Russia's Defense Ministry said air defenses intercepted or destroyed 112 drones across eight Russian regions and the Russian-occupied Crimean Peninsula. A drone attack on the Rostov region, on the border with Ukraine, killed one person, acting governor Yuri Slyusar said. Further from the front line, a woman was killed and two other people wounded in a drone strike on business premises in the Penza region, according to regional governor Oleg Melnichenko. In the Samara region, falling drone debris sparked a fire that killed an elderly resident, regional Gov. Vyacheslav Fedorishchev said. According to the Ukrainian air force, Russia launched 53 drones and decoys at Ukraine overnight into Saturday. It said that air defenses shot down or jammed 45 drones. Eleven people were wounded in an overnight drone strike on the Kharkiv region, Gov. Oleh Syniehubov said Saturday. The reciprocal drone strikes followed a day of mourning in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on Friday, after a Russian drone and missile attack killed 31 people, including five children, and wounded over 150. The continued attacks come after U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday gave Russian President Vladimir Putin a shorter deadline — Aug. 8 — for peace efforts to make progress. Trump said Thursday that special envoy Steve Witkoff is heading to Russia to push Moscow to agree to a ceasefire in its war with Ukraine and has threatened new economic sanctions if progress is not made. The Associated Press
Al Arabiya
01-08-2025
- Politics
- Al Arabiya
Death toll from Thursday's Russian attack on Kyiv rises to 26: Ukraine
The death toll from Thursday's Russian missile and drone strikes on Kyiv has risen to 26, including three children, Ukraine's interior ministry said. The toll previously stood at 16, including two children, but was revised Friday after 'rescuers retrieved 10 bodies from the rubble of the residential building in Sviatoshynsky district, including the body of a 2-year-old child', the ministry posted on Telegram. It also said 159 people were wounded in Thursday's strikes, including 16 children. One person was also killed in a Russian attack early Friday on Zaporizhzhia, in southeast Ukraine, the region's military administration said on Telegram. Kyiv was observing a day of mourning after Thursday's bombardment, among the deadliest the capital has seen since Russia launched its large-scale offensive in February 2022. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged his allies on Thursday to bring about 'regime change' in Russia, hours after the attack. US President Donald Trump on Thursday blasted Russia's actions in Ukraine, suggesting that new sanctions against Moscow were coming. 'Russia -- I think it's disgusting what they're doing. I think it's disgusting,' Trump told journalists. On Monday, the US leader issued a '10 or 12' day ultimatum for Moscow to halt its invasion, now in its fourth year, or face sanctions.
Al Arabiya
17-07-2025
- Politics
- Al Arabiya
Kremlin says mobile internet switch offs across Russia are needed to protect from Ukraine
The Kremlin said on Thursday that the decision to sometimes switch off the mobile internet across Russia was justified in order to protect people from threats posed by Ukraine. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was responding to a question about internet outages after the internet outage tracking service reported unstable internet in dozens of Russian regions this week. Authorities are known to turn off mobile internet when necessary to try to disrupt Ukrainian drone attacks. The Kremlin on Thursday, asked to comment on statements by US President Donald Trump regarding possible secondary tariffs against buyers of Russian exports, said Russia was continuing to analyze the US leader's remarks. The Kremlin has so far reacted icily to Trump's warnings to President Vladimir Putin over Ukraine, saying that decisions taken by the US president and the NATO military alliance would be interpreted by Kyiv as a signal to continue the war. Trump announced new weapons for Ukraine on Monday and threatened 'biting' secondary tariffs of 100 percent on the buyers of Russian exports unless there is a peace deal in 50 days. Putin has not yet commented publicly on Trump's threats. On Thursday, his spokesman Dmitry Peskov reiterated that the Kremlin chief would comment if he judges it fit to do so.
