Tue, 21-Oct-2025

Three killed in shelling in Kharkiv

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Officials say three people were killed by Russian shelling in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city, on Monday. Prosecutors said one shell fell on a children’s playground and killed a man and a woman. The head of a medical emergency centre, Viktor Zabashta told Interfax-Ukraine news agency that another strike on a humanitarian aid distribution point … Read more

7 killed in Lviv as Russia increase attacks before Donbas push

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Russian forces have executed missile attacks in elements of southern and western Ukraine, together with in the metropolis of Lviv where authorities reported at least seven causalities. The bombardment on Monday came as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned that Russia turned into getting ready to “end off” the complete location of Donbas after failing to … Read more

Shock on the streets as Kharkiv wracked by fresh blasts

Kharkiv

Svitlana Pelelygina stands astonished in the street, surveying the wreckage of her apartment building, which is still smoldering from the latest salvo of explosives to hit Ukraine’s second city, Kharkiv. “The whole home rumbled and trembled,” the 71-year-old told AFP on Sunday. “Everything here began to burn.” “I called the firefighters. They said, ‘We are … Read more

Kharkiv: Celebrity chef’s kitchen has been blown-up

Russia has bombarded cities around Ukraine. It includes an explosion of a celebrity chef’s kitchen on Saturday. Kharkiv Mayor, Ihor Terekhov said that three people were killed and 34 were wounded by missile strikes in a single day. The city alone encountered the catastrophe. The kitchen is run by celebrity chef José Andrés. He has … Read more

Puppets and poetry go underground in besieged city of Kharkiv

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Two flamboyant puppeteers perform a tabletop fairytale for a gaggle of spellbound children in a subterranean metro station serving as a bomb shelter in eastern Ukraine. Oleksandra Shlykova and Anton Andriushchenko enthrall children and their parents with a cast of caricature dolls, including a mustachioed monarch and a herd of pigs, as they recount the … Read more

War in Ukraine: Latest developments

Latest developments

  Russia says  in excess of thousand Ukrainian fighters have given up in the assaulted southeastern city of Mariupol following a fierce six-week fight for the essential port. “In the city of Mariupol… 1,026 Ukrainian servicemen of the 36th Marine Brigade willfully set out their arms and gave up,” the Russian guard service says. Ukraine … Read more

Russian town buries soldier born under Putin, killed in Ukraine

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A baby-faced 20-year-old, Nikita Avrov allegedly killed in Ukraine while serving as a gunner on a Russian tank. At his funeral on Tuesday, those giving eulogies leave no room for doubt: the private died for a good cause, for his Russian fatherland. In front of his family’s house in the small town of Luga, 150 … Read more

Ukraine airstrike on a Russian fuel station

According to the local governor, Ukrainian helicopters attacked a petroleum storage facility in Russia’s western town of Belgorod on Friday. Russia has accused Ukraine of assaulting a Russian oil plant, amid speculation that the Kremlin is planning a ‘false flag’ strike to justify escalation of the conflict. Two Ukrainian military helicopters attacked a petroleum storage … Read more

IAEA reports second Ukraine nuclear facility damaged

IAEA

VIENNA – The International Atomic Energy Agency said Monday it has received reports of artillery shells damaging a nuclear research facility in Ukraine’s besieged second city Kharkiv, but there was no “radiological consequence”. The Vienna-based UN body said Ukrainian authorities reported an attack took place on Sunday, adding that no increase in radiation levels had … Read more

Putin orders nuclear alert

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KYIV – Russian President Vladimir Putin’s announcement that his nuclear forces were on alert sparked outcry in the West as the invading troops faced stiff resistance on Monday. The UN General Assembly will hold a rare emergency session Monday to discuss the conflict, which has claimed dozens of lives and raised fears that it will … Read more

Russia, Ukraine agreed to hold talks as fighting rages

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KYIV – Russia and Ukraine were preparing Monday for their first talks since Moscow’s invasion, as fighting raged and Western-led sanctions started to bite with the ruble collapsing. Ukraine said Sunday it had agreed to send a delegation to meet Russian representatives on the border with Belarus, which would be the foes’ first public contact since war … Read more