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Al Jazeera
17 hours ago
- Politics
- Al Jazeera
Video shows multiple blasts across Kyiv during deadly Russian attack
Video shows multiple blasts across Kyiv during deadly Russian attack NewsFeed Russian drone strikes on Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, on Wednesday night killed several people, including a six-year-old boy, as multiple locations across the city were hit including a hospital and a residential building. Video Duration 01 minutes 31 seconds 01:31 Video Duration 01 minutes 26 seconds 01:26 Video Duration 00 minutes 54 seconds 00:54 Video Duration 00 minutes 39 seconds 00:39 Video Duration 01 minutes 11 seconds 01:11 Video Duration 02 minutes 57 seconds 02:57 Video Duration 01 minutes 35 seconds 01:35
Times
4 days ago
- Politics
- Times
Putin cancels Russian naval parade for ‘security reasons'
Russia cancelled its main Navy Day parade in St Petersburg on Sunday, citing security fears as Ukrainian drone strikes continued to target strategic sites across the country. The cancellation — the first since the celebration was introduced in 2017 — was announced by local authorities last week before quietly disappearing from official websites. But Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin spokesman, confirmed the decision on Sunday, saying it was linked to 'the overall situation, security reasons, which are above all else'. His confirmation came hours after Russian air defences reported intercepting 99 drones overnight across the regions of St Petersburg, Leningrad, Volgograd, Kursk, Voronezh and Belgorod. Among the targets were two Signal electronic warfare plants in Stavropol that supply Russia's military communications systems. • Putin launches spy app to keep Russians in 'digital gulag' In Volgograd, falling debris disrupted the railway power supply, delaying trains. Flights at St Petersburg's Pulkovo airport were suspended and a woman in the Leningrad region was injured. Two civilians were reportedly killed when a drone struck their car in Rostov. Despite the cancellation, President Putin travelled to St Petersburg and boarded the frigate Admiral Grigorovich, which the Kremlin claimed helped repel a previous drone attack near Sevastopol. He also visited the Naval Cathedral in Kronstadt. In a video address to members of the navy, Putin praised their role in the war and vowed to expand Russia's naval power. He said the ongoing July Storm drills, involving 150 warships and 15,000 personnel across four seas, showed Russia's reach. The Russian leader made no mention of the setbacks faced by Russia's Black Sea fleet, which has been forced to withdraw from several key Crimean ports under sustained Ukrainian attack. Smaller Navy Day ceremonies went ahead in cities including Kaliningrad and Vladivostok. • Putin-linked conductor's western comeback cancelled after protests The annual holiday, first introduced in the Soviet era, was revived by Putin as part of efforts to glorify the military and stir patriotism. Last year's parade was scaled back because of security fears but went ahead. Russian forces struck targets across Ukraine overnight. Explosions were reported in the Kharkiv, Dnipro and Donetsk regions, drones and missiles hitting infrastructure and residential areas. On Sunday, President Zelensky announced new sanctions targeting almost 100 individuals and companies involved in supporting Russia's war effort, incorporating the latest European Union sanctions packages into Ukrainian law. They include 45 Russian nationals and 50 firms connected to the military-industrial complex, such as those producing drones and missiles. The EU's 18th package, adopted earlier this month, targets key sectors including energy, banking and the military industries, adding stricter controls on Russian oil exports and sanction evasion tactics.
ABC News
24-07-2025
- Politics
- ABC News
Ukraine and Russia exchange drone strikes hours after failed ceasefire talks
A displaced Ukrainian family-of-three has died and two Russian women have been killed as Moscow and Kyiv exchanged drone strikes just hours after ceasefire talks concluded in Istanbul. Ukraine's regional officials announced on Thursday that the bodies of a woman, her husband and their adult son had been discovered under the rubble of a house in the border region of Kharkiv. They said the family killed in the village of Pidlyman had fled the settlement of Boguslavka which was captured by Russian forces when they invaded in early 2022, but was later retaken by Ukrainian forces. A later drone barrage on Kharkiv city wounded 33 people, including a 10-year-old girl and a month-old infant, the governor said. Meanwhile in Russia, a Ukrainian drone strike left two women dead and several others wounded in Sochi in Russia's south, regional authorities said. The Russian defence ministry said its air defence systems had downed 39 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles mainly over southern regions of the country. This latest exchange followed a brief third round of peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine in Istanbul, which failed to reach a ceasefire. A separate Russian drone and missile barrage wounded seven people including a child in the central Ukrainian region of Cherkasy, emergency services said. In the southern port city of Odesa, a Russian drone attack wounded four people and badly damaged the Pryvoz market. Ukraine's prime minister said some of the buildings targeted, including the famous market, were UNESCO protected. "Russia continues its terror and obstructs diplomacy," President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a social media post. "[This] is why it deserves full-scale sanctions responses, as well as our strikes on their logistics, their military bases, and their military production facilities." He said Russia had launched 103 drones — mainly the Iranian-designed Shahed type of unmanned aerial vehicle — and four missiles. In a separate development in Ukraine's domestic politics, Mr Zelenskyy announced on Thursday he had approved a draft bill strengthening Ukraine's law enforcement system and the independence of its anti-corruption agencies. It comes after new laws to limit the independence of two key anti-corruption bodies passed this week in Ukraine, sparking large street protests and attracting rare rebukes from European allies. On Thursday, Mr Zelenskyy bowed to the mounting pressure. He said on X that the draft bill, which would be submitted to parliament later in the day, was well-balanced and "upholds the independence of anti-corruption agencies". The European Union earlier said a commitment to fight corruption is an important precondition both for EU financial aid as well as for potential EU membership. "We welcome the fact that the Ukrainian government is taking action," an EU spokesperson said. "We work with them to make sure that our concerns ... are indeed taken into account." ABC/AFP/Reuters
The Standard
11-07-2025
- The Standard
Trump says US to supply weapons to Ukraine via NATO
Firefighters work at a site of an apartment building, damaged during Russian drone and missile strikes, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine July 10, 2025. (REUTERS/Alina Smutko)
Forbes
08-07-2025
- Politics
- Forbes
Tuesday, July 8. Russia's War On Ukraine: News And Information From Ukraine
Black smoke rises over the area where a Russian attack drone lands near the Zaporizhzhia Regional ... More Territorial Recruitment Centre in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, on July 7, 2025. Photo by Ukrinform/NurPhoto via Getty Images Dispatches from Ukraine. Day 1,230. Russian Attacks on Ukraine and War Developments Late on July 3 and into the early hours of July 4, Russia battered Ukraine with more than 500 drones and missiles in the most intense aerial attack of the war, surpassing the previous record set just days earlier on June 29. Russian forces deployed 539 drones and decoys, the highest number simultaneously dispatched to date, along with 11 missiles directed at Ukraine's capital, Kyiv. Ukraine's Air Force intercepted 268 drones and two cruise missiles, as well as electronically jamming an additional 208 drones; however, none of the nine ballistic missiles were downed. Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported two people killed and at least 24 injured. In addition to massive overnight barrages, Russian daytime attacks killed at least 20 civilians across Ukraine on July 5-7. The embattled eastern Donetsk region suffered the heaviest losses, where systematic Russian shelling killed 12 residents and wounded 26 others. In northeastern Kharkiv oblast, or province, Russian strikes killed four people and injured 96 others; meanwhile, the governor of the southern province of Kherson reported four residents killed and 22 others injured. The situation in the city of Kherson, is further exacerbated by daily Russian drone strikes that seem to deliberately target civilians. International advocacy group Human Rights Watch, released a detailed report documenting at least 45 drone attacks aimed at civilian targets in Kherson, which lies on the western bank of the Dnipro River, within close range of occupying Russian forces that control the eastern bank. The organization found evidence that Russian military operators using First Person View (FPV) drones could discern that they were targeting civilians, which would make the attacks deliberate and constitute crimes against humanity. In total, Russia has rained more than 22,500 drones and decoys and 753 missiles down on Ukrainian cities since the beginning of 2025. Compared to the second half of 2024, Russian drone deployment has tripled, while missile launches declined by a quarter. Relative to 2023, Russia's drone production has surged more than twentyfold; missile output, by contrast, has remained largely stagnant. Russia is using its escalating drone attacks to try and degrade Ukraine's mobilization efforts, Ukraine's Ground Forces have said following recent Russian strikes on military recruitment centers. Most recently, Russian drones hit recruitment centers in the major cities of Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhia, wounding 14 military personnel. This follows a series of similar strikes across the country, including a July 3 drone hit on recruitment offices in the central Poltava region, which killed two people and injured 47 other victims. Ukrainian officials report that Russia's campaign began earlier this year, initially involving sabotage attempts and bomb threats against enlistment centers. Even as Russia unleashed its biggest attack on Ukraine to date on July 4, Ukraine in turn used drones to strike an airfield and other targets inside Russia. In an effort to limit Russia's ability to carry out attacks, Ukraine attacked Borisoglebsk military airfield, in Russia's Voronezh region on Ukraine's eastern flank, striking a warehouse containing glide bombs,. Much further afield, in the city of Cheboksary, more than 700 miles east of Moscow, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said it successfully attacked a factory that manufactures critical components for guided weapons. Ukrainian Government Reshuffle Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy discussed replacing Kyiv's ambassador to Washington with U.S. President Donald Trump during a July 4 phone call. Among those reportedly under consideration to replace Oksana Markarova, who has been in her post since November 2020, are Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal, Deputy Prime Minister Olha Stefanishyna, Defense Minister Rustem Umerov, and Energy Minister German Galushchenko. However, earlier reporting by Forbes Ukraine yielded a slightly different list of three primary candidates: Culture Minister Mykola Tochytskyi, Deputy Chief of Staff Ihor Zhovkva, and Defense Minister Umerov. Sources cited Tochytskyi as the front-runner due to his close ties to Zelenskyy's aide Andriy Yermak and his long diplomatic resume, which includes experience working in the U.S. Appointing a new ambassador, however, might weaken Ukraine's diplomatic efforts in Washington amid strained relations with the Trump administration, which abruptly halted arms shipments to Kyiv, including badly needed Patriot missiles, which are in chronic shortage. The new envoy will likely need to spend considerable time building connections with officials in the current administration at a critical moment for the country. Even bigger changes to the Ukrainian government might be coming. According to Britain's weekly The Economist, a major government reshuffle in Ukraine appears imminent. Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal will likely be replaced by Deputy Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko, another politician viewed as close to Andriy Yermak. Svyrydenko had been among candidates being considered for the prime minister position last year, but the move was postponed. Now President Zelenskyy is reportedly preparing to consider her appointment again. Culture Front 2000 Meters to Andriivka, a documentary by Oscar- and Pulitzer-winning journalist Mstyslav Chernov, opens in U.S. theaters later this month. The international trailer was released on July 7 and the film is premiering on July 25 in New York. It opens a week later in Los Angeles, before a national box office rollout; it is slated to air on PBS's Frontline later this year. The documentary captures Ukrainian soldiers and their deadly fight to retake occupied Andriivka, a village in eastern Ukraine, during a failed 2023 counteroffensive. Blending frontline footage, bodycam video, and personal stories, the documentary provides a gut-wrenching glimpse into the brutal, raw reality of warfare. Chernov, who directed 20 Days in Mariupol, a documentary about Russia's siege of Mariupol and the first Ukrainian film to win an Oscar, said of the evolving nature of the conflict in Hollywood news site Deadline: 'It's much more roboticized, it's much more inhuman, and the weapons even more precise. And it's all about drones now.' Even after gaining international recognition, Chernov continues to document the war. Together with co-producer and cinematographer Alex Babenko, he is already working on his next film, which will capture the next phase of the war, shaped by drones and increasingly automated weapons. By Danylo Nosov, Karina L. Tahiliani
