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The Star
5 days ago
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Ukraine says it hits four warplanes in Russia's Volgograd region
(Reuters) -Ukraine's military said on Friday it had struck four warplanes at an airbase in central Russia's Volgograd Region as part of a drive to hit Russian war assets. In a post on the Telegram messaging app, the military said it had hit four Su-34 aircraft at the Marinovka base outside the city of Volgograd, some 900 km (550 miles) from the Ukrainian border. The post said the operation was conducted by the military's special operations branch, together with the SBU security service and other services of the military. "According to preliminary information, four aircraft were hit, specifically SU-34 planes, as well as technical-operational facilities where different warplanes are serviced and repaired," the statement said. There was no immediate comment from the Russian military. Ukraine has engaged in a number of long-range operations against military targets in recent months -- industrial, energy and other sites. Earlier this month, the Ukrainian military carried out a major strike, dubbed "Operation Spider's Web," in which large numbers of long-range Russian bombers were hit at several Russian airbases far from Ukrainian territory. The latest statement said the damage caused by the strike on Marinovka was being assessed. It described the Su-34 as Russia's main aircraft used in bombing raids on Ukrainian territory, deployed in particular for launching guided bombs, used increasingly in attacks on Ukrainian cities. (Reporting by Ron Popeski; editing by Diane Craft)
The Star
23-06-2025
- Politics
- The Star
Ukrainian forces attack oil depot in Russia's Rostov region
(Reuters) -Ukrainian forces on Monday attacked and set ablaze an oil depot in Russia's southern Rostov region used to supply Russian forces in occupied parts of Ukraine, the Ukrainian military said. The General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces said the military's special operations units, in conjunction with rocket forces and artillery, had hit the Atlas plant in the Rostov region, not far from Ukraine's eastern border. "A strike by our forces in the area of the target has been confirmed," the General Staff said in a statement on Telegram. "A fire has been observed. The results of the strike are being clarified." The statement said the facility was used to provide fuel and lubricants to Russian units operating in Russian-occupied parts of the Luhansk and Donetsk regions on the war's eastern front. Ukrainian forces have been engaged in cross-border attacks, including energy industry targets, which the General Staff said was aimed at curbing Russia's economic potential to proceed with the more than three-year-old war in Ukraine. Ukrainian military bloggers had earlier reported on the raid on the oil depot, saying fuel tanks had been engulfed in a blaze in the incident. (Reporting by Ron Popeski, Editing by Rosalba O'Brien)
The Star
12-06-2025
- The Star
Vandals daub swastikas on Jewish gravestones in Moldova
CHISINAU (Reuters) -Vandals daubed swastikas and other Nazi symbols and damaged more than 50 gravestones in the Jewish cemetery in Moldova's capital, officials said on Thursday. Forensic experts and prosecutors on Thursday sealed off the cemetery in Chisinau, once a thriving centre of Jewish culture in the Russian empire. A criminal case was opened on grounds of desecration and inciting racial hatred but no further details were provided on the incident. The cemetery was also vandalised in 2020, when 42 headstones were damaged and 30 daubed with paint. Home to 200,000 Jews a century ago, Moldova now has about 5,000. A notorious anti-Jewish pogrom in Chisinau in 1903 killed 49 people, injured 600 and destroyed hundreds of Jewish homes and shops in the city. (Reporting by Alexander Tanas, Writing by Ron Popeski; Editing by Cynthia Osterman)
The Star
02-06-2025
- Politics
- The Star
Russian attacks kill five in Zaporizhzhia, injure several in Kharkiv, regional officials say
Local resident Lyudmila Tsinkush leaves her house that was damaged in a Russian drones strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, June 1, 2025. REUTERS/Thomas Peter (Reuters) -Russian shelling and air attacks killed five people outside the southeastern Ukraine city of Zaporizhzhia, while a drone attack on the northeast region of Sumy injured at least six early on Monday, including two children, regional officials said. Ivan Fedorov, writing on the Telegram messaging app, said three women died in a series of Russian shelling incidents targeting the village of Ternuvate, east of Zaporizhzhia late on Sunday. A shop and several homes were badly damaged. A man died in a nearby district in a Russian strike by a guided aerial bomb, Fedorov said. A total of nine people were injured in the Russian attacks and a private home was destroyed. Two children were among those injured in a Russian drone attack on the Sumy region, Oleh Sinehubov, the governor of the region, said on Monday on Telegram. "A 7-year-old boy is among the victims," Sinehubov said. He added that several buildings throughout the regions were damaged. The attacks come as both Russia and Ukraine are about to meet for a round of peace talks, trying to find a way to end the war that Russia launched with a full-scale invasion on its smaller neighbour more than three years ago. (Reporting by Ron Popeski, Bogdan Kochubey and Lidia Kelly; Editing by Lincoln by Ron Popeski and Lidia Kelly;Editing by Rod Nickel)
The Star
30-04-2025
- Politics
- The Star
Russian drones attack Ukraine's Kharkiv and Dnipro, one dead, 46 injured
Firefighters work at the site of a Russian drone strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kharkiv, Ukraine April 29, 2025. REUTERS/Sofiia Gatilova (Reuters) -Swarms of Russian drones attacked the Ukrainian cities of Kharkiv and Dnipro late on Tuesday, killing at least one person and injuring at least 46, officials said. Kharkiv, which lies in the northeast near the Russian border and is Ukraine's second-largest city, has been the target of regular Russian drone and missile attacks since Moscow began its full-scale invasion more than three years ago. The attack on the city late on Tuesday injured at least 45 people, including two children and a pregnant woman, regional governor Oleh Syniehubov said. The attacks came as the United States, which had tried to broker a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine, said that it would step back as a mediator unless Moscow and Kyiv put forward concrete proposals. Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday declared a three-day ceasefire from May 8-10 to mark the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Soviet Union and its allies in World War Two, while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called for an immediate ceasefire lasting at least 30 days. Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov said several areas of the city, which has been devastated by successive attacks, had been targeted on Tuesday. About 1.2 million people live in Kharkiv, compared to nearly 2 million before Moscow's February 2022 invasion. "There have been 16 strikes on Kharkiv," Terekhov wrote on the Telegram messaging app, adding that high-rise apartment blocks, private homes, a medical facility and civilian infrastructure were hit. "I was at home when the strike happened. My child slept in the corridor, I just sat there but couldn't hear the noise the drones usually make (...) I was about to check my phone, and then the explosion... glass shards hit me in the back," Darya, a local resident told Reuters. "All our windows are blown out, and our balcony is destroyed," she said. Public broadcaster Suspilne posted photos of firefighters tackling flames. In Dnipro, in Ukraine's southeast, drones triggered fires and killed a 53-year-old man and injured another person, Serhiy Lysak, governor of Dnipropetrovsk region, said on Telegram. "A difficult night for Dnipro," Lysak wrote. "Private homes have been damaged." He said that nine Russian drones were destroyed over the region overnight. The full scale of the overnight attack on Ukraine was not clear. Both sides deny targeting civilians. Separately, governor Ivan Fedorov said that a 45-year-old man was hurt in a Russian attack in a village in the Zaporizhzhia region, which is partially occupied by Russia. Two people were also hurt in Russian shelling of the southern city of Kherson, the city's military administration said. (Reporting by Ron Popeski, Oleksandr Kozhukhar and Lidia Kelly, additional reporting by Anna Pruchnicka; Writing by Ron Popeski and Lidia Kelly; Editing by Sandra Maler, Nia Williams and Kate Mayberry)
