Russia has launched the largest attack on Ukraine since the beginning of the full-scale invasion in 2022, Ukraine’s Air Force reported on Aug. 26.
Seven people were killed and 47 were injured, according to the State Emergency Service.
Monday, 26 August, 2024
Ukraine: Russia has launched largest attack on Ukraine since start of full-scale invasion, Air Force reports
Friday, 23 August, 2024
Russia: Russian military redeploys troops to Kursk in response to Ukrainian incursion
Russia is more focused on pushing towards Porkrovsk in the east, as Ukrainian forces withdrew from some positions in the area.
The Russian military has recently moved units from at least one airborne (VDV) regiment from the western Zaporizhzhia region to the Kursk region in response to Ukraine’s recent incursion. This move, which also includes redeployments from the northern Kharkiv region, is seen as an effort to stabilise the front lines and improve command and control over Russian conscripts.
Tuesday, 13 August, 2024
Ukraine: Ukraine claims to control 1,000 sq km of Russian territory
Ukraine’s top commander has said Kyiv’s forces control 1,000 sq km of Russian territory as they press their biggest cross-border incursion in two-and-a-half years of full-scale war.
Commander Oleksandr Syrskyi said Ukraine continued to “conduct an offensive operation in the Kursk region” seven days after it began.
Wednesday, 10 July, 2024
Ukraine: Ukraine says at least 31 people killed, children’s hospital hit in major Russian missile attack
Russia launched dozens of missiles at cities across Ukraine on Monday in an attack that killed at least 31 people and smashed into a children’s hospital in Kyiv, officials said. The rare day-time Russian barrage came as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was due in Warsaw, the Polish government said, before he flies to a NATO summit in Washington.
Explosions rang out and black smoke could be seen rising from the centre of Kyiv, AFP journalists reported.
Tuesday, 11 June, 2024
Russia: Russian forces capture Staromaiorskoye village southwest of Donetsk in Ukraine
Russia announced on Monday the capture of a village in the southern part of the eastern Donetsk region. The Defense Ministry reported that its forces “continued to advance into the depths of the enemy’s defense and liberated the settlement of Staromaiorskoye” (known as Staromaiorske in Ukrainian), situated southwest of the Russian-controlled city of Donetsk.
Ukrainian forces took over the village near the southern Zaporizhzhia region in July of the previous year during their summer counteroffensive.