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American Military News
19-07-2025
- Politics
- American Military News
Dobropillya Under Increasing Threat Of Air Strikes As Shopping Center Hit
This article was originally published by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and is reprinted with permission. Ukrainian population centers in the areas around Pokrovsk are feeling increasingly threatened as Russian forces appear to be moving beyond the Donetsk region frontline city. In Dobropillya, 30 kilometers to the north of Pokrovsk, locals report a spike in overnight drone attacks, and a Russian bomb struck a shopping center on July 16, killing at least three. Ukrainian leaders said a KAB-250 aerial bomb hit the retail complex while it was crowded with shoppers. Vadym Filashkin, head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration, confirmed the deaths while saying that rescue efforts were ongoing to determine if survivors could be located under rubble. Authorities also said they are still assessing the extent of casualties. 'Now our rescuers are extinguishing the fire,' Filashkin told RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service. 'After that, we'll search the rubble and then we will have a clearer understanding of the casualties. All the wounded are receiving medical care.' All available resources were being deployed to respond to the attack, he said. 'Authorities, the police, the State Emergency Service — everyone is working on the spot to help the wounded and those people whose homes have been damaged as a result of the attack.' Attacks on Pokrovsk have been intensifying after months of Russian efforts to seize control of the city, a key logistics hub for the region. Dobropillya has, until recently, been spared from the same levels of bombardment and artillery shelling but is now seeing more and more air strikes, according to the Ukrainian military. A Ukrainian drone unit in the area recently told RFE/RL correspondent Borys Sachalko that he believes the Russians could be making efforts to bypass Pokrovsk to avoid costly urban fighting amid the ruins of the city as they continue to press forward from the east.
News18
17-07-2025
- Politics
- News18
Zelensky Slams "Stupid Russian Attack", Seeks "Strong Weapons, Putin Only Understands Force"
Ukraine has accused Russian forces of dropping a 500-kilogram aerial bomb on the city of Dobropillia in Donetsk Oblast. The attack killed at least two people and injured 28 others, regional officials in Ukrainian Oblast reported July Filashkin, head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration, said the strike targeted a shopping center in the heart of the city. Ukrainian president slammed the attack, calling it "horrendous, stupid Russian terror" lacking any "military logic.'Meanwhile, Ukrainian president has said that American weapons are the key to forcing Putin to the negotiating table even if those weapons are never used. Zelensky praised US President Donald Trump's decision to rearm Ukraine and said Moscow only responds to strength. n18oc_world n18oc_crux0:00 INTRODUCTION3:13 'PUTIN IS AFRAID OF AMERICA'5:10 KYIV READY FOR TALKS WITH MOSCOW 'IN ANY FORMAT'7:20 NEO-NAZI GROUP 'CLEANING UKRAINE FROM THE DIRTY-BLOODED HORDE!'
Perth Now
16-07-2025
- Politics
- Perth Now
Ukraine ready for talks with Russia: foreign minister
Ukraine is ready for more peace talks with Russia, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha says but gave no specific date. Sybiha reiterated Ukraine's call for a meeting between Russian and Ukrainian leaders, saying it would be the most effective step to help agree a ceasefire. "We are ready for such negotiations in any format, in any geography," he said during a visit to Lublin, in Poland. A strike by Russian forces on Wednesday on a shopping centre and market in Dobropillia, a town near the front line of the 40-month-old war, killed two people, injured up to 27 and caused widespread damage, local officials said. Vadym Filashkin, governor of eastern Donetsk region, said a 500kg bomb was deployed at 5.20pm, when shoppers were out. He said there were two dead and 22 people injured, with eight nearby apartment blocks and eight cars destroyed. Video posted online showed areas around the shopping centre on fire with smoke billowing skywards. "Firefighters are extinguishing the blaze as there is a possibility that people are still inside the shopping centre," Filashkin told Ukrainian television. "The occupier dropped the bomb at a time when Dobropillia was crowded with people. Many were out shopping. The occupier specifically targeted the shopping centre. All nearby shopping centres have been either destroyed or damaged." Ukraine's emergency services put the number of injured at 27. Filashkin had earlier said that 30 trading stalls had been damaged. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, speaking in his nightly video address, described the attack as "simply horrific, stupid Russian terror. There is no military logic to their strikes, only an effort to take as many lives as possible". Dobropillia lies northwest of Pokrovsk, a focal point for months of Russian forces' slow advance westward through Donetsk region. An attack on Dobropillia with missiles, rockets and drones in March killed 11 people, including five children.
West Australian
16-07-2025
- Politics
- West Australian
Ukraine ready for talks with Russia: foreign minister
Ukraine is ready for more peace talks with Russia, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha says but gave no specific date. Sybiha reiterated Ukraine's call for a meeting between Russian and Ukrainian leaders, saying it would be the most effective step to help agree a ceasefire. "We are ready for such negotiations in any format, in any geography," he said during a visit to Lublin, in Poland. A strike by Russian forces on Wednesday on a shopping centre and market in Dobropillia, a town near the front line of the 40-month-old war, killed two people, injured up to 27 and caused widespread damage, local officials said. Vadym Filashkin, governor of eastern Donetsk region, said a 500kg bomb was deployed at 5.20pm, when shoppers were out. He said there were two dead and 22 people injured, with eight nearby apartment blocks and eight cars destroyed. Video posted online showed areas around the shopping centre on fire with smoke billowing skywards. "Firefighters are extinguishing the blaze as there is a possibility that people are still inside the shopping centre," Filashkin told Ukrainian television. "The occupier dropped the bomb at a time when Dobropillia was crowded with people. Many were out shopping. The occupier specifically targeted the shopping centre. All nearby shopping centres have been either destroyed or damaged." Ukraine's emergency services put the number of injured at 27. Filashkin had earlier said that 30 trading stalls had been damaged. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, speaking in his nightly video address, described the attack as "simply horrific, stupid Russian terror. There is no military logic to their strikes, only an effort to take as many lives as possible". Dobropillia lies northwest of Pokrovsk, a focal point for months of Russian forces' slow advance westward through Donetsk region. An attack on Dobropillia with missiles, rockets and drones in March killed 11 people, including five children.
India Today
02-06-2025
- Politics
- India Today
Russian shelling kills 5 in Ukraine as attacks intensify in Donetsk, Kharkiv
Russian shelling killed at least five people on Monday in different frontline areas of eastern Ukraine, officials Filashkin, governor of Donetsk region, the focal point of the Russian military's slow westward advance, said one person was killed and two injured in the city of city would be a key Russian target if its forces make further progress through Donetsk Filashkin said two more people were killed and three injured further south in the town of Kharkiv region, farther to the north, prosecutors said two women were killed in a village south of Kupiansk, which has come under heavy Russian attack for months. The mayor of Kupiansk last month said his city was 90% Watch
