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Al Arabiya
13 hours ago
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- Al Arabiya
Ukrainian drones damage hospital, homes in Russia's Kursk, official says
Ukrainian drones launched a night-time attack on Russia's western Kursk region, damaging a hospital and apartment buildings and injuring at least one person, the regional governor said early on Friday. Across the border in Ukraine's Sumy region, the regional governor reported fresh fighting in villages near the border toward which Russia has been seizing territory. He said various areas in his region were constantly changing hands. Russian President Vladimir Putin has said he wants to create a buffer zone in Sumy, which was used to help launch Ukraine's incursion into Kursk last year. In the Kursk region, where Russia's military says Ukrainian forces who staged the incursion last August have been ejected, Governor Alexander Khinshtein said Ukrainian drones swarmed the main town, also called Kursk. 'Drone fragments damaged the No. 1 city hospital in Kursk. Windows were smashed. Fortunately, no patients were injured,' Khinshtein wrote on the Telegram messaging app. 'Falling drone fragments have also damaged high-rise apartment buildings.' Ukraine's military says its forces remain active in small areas of Kursk region. Authorities in Sumy region, under constant Russian attack for months, acknowledged this week that Russian forces were in control of at least four villages near the border. 'Active battles continue in certain border areas, notably around the settlements of Khotyn and Yunakivka,' Governor Oleh Hryhorov wrote on Facebook. 'The situation on the line of contact is constantly changing. In some places, we hold the initiative; in others the enemy is proving to be active.' Russia's Defence Ministry on Thursday said its forces had captured three more villages as it slowly advances through parts of eastern Ukraine. These were Stroivka in northeastern Kharkiv region, where Moscow has long been applying pressure, and Shevchenko Pershe and Hnativka near the town of Pokrovsk, the focal point of Russia's westward drive for months. Ukrainian military reports have made no acknowledgement of any of the three villages coming under Russian control. A statement on Thursday evening said Russian forces had launched 53 attacks over 24 hours near Pokrovsk.
Reuters
18 hours ago
- General
- Reuters
Ukrainian drones damage hospital, homes in Russia's Kursk, official says
May 30 (Reuters) - Ukrainian drones launched a night-time attack on Russia's western Kursk region, damaging a hospital and apartment buildings and injuring at least one person, the regional governor said early on Friday. Across the border in Ukraine's Sumy region, the regional governor reported fresh fighting in villages near the border where Russia has been seizing territory. He said various areas in his region were constantly changing hands. Russian President Vladimir Putin has said he wants to create a buffer zone in Sumy, which was used to help launch Ukraine's incursion into Kursk last year. In the Kursk region, where Russia's military says Ukrainian forces who staged the incursion last August have been ejected, Governor Alexander Khinshtein said Ukrainian drones swarmed the main town, also called Kursk. "Drone fragments damaged the No. 1 city hospital in Kursk. Windows were smashed. Fortunately, no patients were injured," Khinshtein wrote on the Telegram messaging app. "Falling drone fragments have also damaged high-rise apartment buildings." Ukraine's military says its forces remain active in small areas of Kursk region. Authorities in Sumy region, under constant Russian attack for months, acknowledged this week that Russian forces were in control of at least four villages near the border. "Active battles continue in certain border areas, notably around the settlements of Khotyn and Yunakivka," Governor Oleh Hryhorov wrote on Facebook. "The situation on the line of contact is constantly changing. In some places, we hold the initiative, in others the enemy is proving to be active." Russia's Defence Ministry on Thursday said its forces had captured three more villages as it slowly advances through parts of eastern Ukraine. These were Stroivka in northeastern Kharkiv region, where Moscow has long been applying pressure, and Shevchenko Pershe and Hnativka near the town of Pokrovsk, the focal point of Russia's westward drive for months. Ukrainian military reports have made no acknowledgement of any of the three villages coming under Russian control. A statement on Thursday evening said Russian forces had launched 53 attacks over 24 hours near Pokrovsk.
Fox News
a day ago
- Business
- Fox News
Putin masses 50,000 troops on Ukraine's north front as Trump again agrees to meet Russian, Ukrainian leaders
Russian President Vladimir Putin has amassed some 50,000 troops on Ukraine's northern border despite a united push by the U.S. and Ukraine to get Moscow to enter into "meaningful" ceasefire negotiations. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday warned that Putin is preparing a massive summer offensive in a move to push Ukraine's troops out of Russia's Kursk region, and to launch a new invasion into Ukraine's Sumy region – a mere 200 miles from the capital city of Kyiv. Zelenskyy reiterated this week that he is ready to hold direct negotiations with Putin and suggested that if the Kremlin chief is uncomfortable with a bilateral meeting, a trilateral meeting could be held with President Donald Trump. Trump on Wednesday said he would meet with both world leaders "if necessary" but the Kremlin again rejected the suggestion. The U.S. president said he was "very disappointed" at Russia's continued bombardment of Ukraine during negotiation attempts, but he has refused to hit Putin with more sanctions, telling reporters "I think I'm close to getting a deal, I don't want to screw it up by doing that." Heorhii Tykhyi, spokesman for Ukraine's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said during a live chat on X, Thursday, that since the May 16 meeting in Turkey, Russia had launched 120 missiles, more than 1,500 Shahed drones and more than 2,500 guided bombs on Ukrainian cities. The Sumy regional governor confirmed on Monday that Russian forces had officially taken over four Ukrainian villages near the Ukraine-Russia border which were previously evacuated, and which sat in a "gray zone" that has long been militarily contested following Russia's Feb. 2022 invasion. The movement of Russian troops comes as Putin looks to create a roughly 6-mile wide "buffer zone," which Moscow reportedly has been attempting to carry out since 2024, but which was thwarted by Ukraine's Kursk invasion. Implementing a buffer zone on Ukraine's northern territory will likely be used as a bargaining chip if Moscow engages in ceasefire negotiations, which Kyiv has said Russia has failed to do in good faith after delegations from both sides met in Istanbul earlier this month, but failed to advance peace talks. Russia late on Wednesday suggested a second Istanbul meeting where it said it would present its "memorandum" of ceasefire terms. Ukraine has thus far not accepted another meeting with Russia and on Thursday said Moscow "promised" to supply its memorandum ahead of any future talks. "They are scared to share it because they filled the document with ultimatums and demands," Tykhyi said Thursday. "They understand this document is needed not to advance the peace process but to stall." Tykhyi argued that "If they have nothing to hide, if this document is workable" then there "should be no problem in sharing the document," which he said is needed to ensure the negotiating parties can achieve a "meaningful result." Ukraine has already submitted their ceasefire terms.
Russia Today
a day ago
- General
- Russia Today
Ukraine needed Western help to target Putin's helicopter
Ukraine must have relied on assistance from the West if it did in fact target a helicopter carrying Russian President Vladimir Putin last week, former US Marine Corps intelligence officer and UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter has told RT. Russian air defense division commander Yury Dashkin told the Russia 1 channel last week that Putin's helicopter had been caught in the 'epicenter' of a massive Ukrainian drone attack during a visit to Kursk Region on May 20. The intensity of aerial incursions 'increased significantly' when the president was in the air, with 46 incoming fixed-wing UAVs being shot down in the area, he said. In an interview with RT on Wednesday, Ritter stressed that 'if the Ukrainians drones actually targeted the Russian president, they did not do so in a vacuum... there would have been assistance provided by the West, which means that the West is targeting the Russian president.' 'If you read the Russian nuclear doctrine, this is a trigger for Russian nuclear retaliation or preemptive strikes. So, who is playing with fire here? It is not Vladimir Putin who is playing with fire. It is Ukraine and the West that are playing with fire,' he added. The former US Marine Corps major was referring to a comment by US President Donald Trump, who claimed earlier this week that Putin was 'playing with fire.' The statement by Trump followed large-scale Russian strikes against Ukrainian military infrastructure, which Moscow said were retaliation for the intensification of drone attacks by Kiev on civilian targets inside Russia. According to the Defense Ministry in Moscow, more than 2,300 Ukrainian UAVs have been intercepted over the past week above Russian territory, mostly away from the front line. Ritter expressed concern that there is a split in the US administration between opponents of Russia and those who are in favor of improving ties with Moscow. But at the same time, representatives of both camps and Trump himself are no experts on Russia, he added. The US president 'is a victim of basically the last words whispered into his ear before he goes to bed at night or the first words whispered into his ear when he wakes up in the morning… Trump is not well briefed [on Russia]. Look, this is a very dangerous situation,' Ritter warned.
NHK
2 days ago
- General
- NHK
Senior Russian official meets with North Korean secret police chief
A senior Russian official has thanked North Korea for its dispatch of troops to Russia in a meeting with the chief of the North's secret police. Russia's Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu met with North Korea's state security minister Ri Chang Dae in Moscow on Wednesday. Shoigu said he expresses his gratitude to North Korean soldiers who, shoulder to shoulder with Russian fighters, defended the Kursk region as their own homeland. North Korean soldiers took part in Russian operations to regain areas in the region where the Ukrainian military had taken control. Shoigu said State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin will visit North Korea in August in connection with the country's anniversary of liberation from Japanese colonial rule. Shoigu also said Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council, will travel to the North in October, coinciding with the 80th anniversary of the foundation of the Korean Workers' Party. Shoigu noted that this year will see many large-scale events and contacts between the two countries.
