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Washington Post
11-07-2025
- Politics
- Washington Post
Ukraine rejects accusation by Hungarian leader Orbán over the fatal beating of a dual citizen
BUDAPEST, Hungary — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on Friday accused Ukrainian authorities of beating a Hungarian-Ukrainian dual citizen to death during his mobilization in the military, a claim Ukraine has rejected but that has further strained relations between the neighboring countries. Orbán, a vehement critic of Ukraine and its fight to ward off Russia's full-scale invasion, told state radio that a man who reportedly died in a Ukrainian hospital earlier this month had been 'beaten to death' by his recruiters.
Washington Post
09-07-2025
- Politics
- Washington Post
Russia attacks Ukraine's recruitment centers to disrupt mobilization
KYIV — Ukrainian authorities are reporting a dangerous shift in Moscow's attacks to targeting the country's efforts to mobilize enough troops to confront Russia's vastly superior numbers on the battlefield. Ukraine's cities are being hit by record numbers of missiles and drones — more than 5,000 in June alone — and the first few days of July have already seen the recruitment centers come under attack five times, killing three and wounding 88, mostly civilians.
Yahoo
06-07-2025
- Yahoo
Russian strikes kill four people in Ukraine's Donetsk
At least four people have been killed in Russian glide bomb and drone attacks in the eastern Ukrainian Donetsk region, authorities said on Sunday. In the industrial city of Kostiantynivka, two civilians died when a bomb was dropped on a construction site, the Donetsk regional prosecutor's office said. Ten minutes later, a drone hit a car in which a married couple was sitting. The authorities published photos on Telegram showing the 39-year-old woman and her 40-year-old husband who were killed. Some 15 residential buildings and power lines were damaged in the attacks, authorities said. Ukrainian air defences had already recorded more than 160 drone and missile attacks in the country on Sunday morning, with police saying an 8-year-old boy died when a drone hit a car in the north-eastern region of Kharkiv. A 4-year-old boy and a 40-year-old man were also injured in the attack.
The Guardian
30-06-2025
- Business
- The Guardian
Russia has taken first village in Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk, state media claim
Russian forces have captured a village in the Ukrainian region of Dnipropetrovsk for the first time in their three-year offensive, Russian state media and pro-war bloggers claimed on Monday, marking a potential psychological blow to Ukraine. There was no immediate confirmation from Ukrainian officials or from the Russian defence ministry. Russia's state RIA news agency cited an influential pro-Russian official, Vladimir Rogov, as saying that Russian forces had taken control of Dachnoye just inside Dnipropetrovsk. 'Our troops have advanced further in this direction and have already driven the enemy out of the village of Dachnoye. This is the first populated area in the Dnipropetrovsk region from which the enemy has been expelled,' Rogov wrote on Telegram. Three weeks ago, Russian officials similarly claimed their forces had entered Ukraine's eastern Dnipropetrovsk region, but Ukrainian authorities said the assault was repelled. Dnipropetrovsk, which lies to the west of the Donetsk region, is not among the five Ukrainian regions over which Russia has asserted a formal territorial claim. During recent peace talks in Istanbul between Moscow and Kyiv, Russian officials threatened Kyiv with taking more territory unless Ukraine signed a peace deal on Russian terms. Moscow has been pounding Dnipropetrovsk relentlessly, killing at least 17 civilians in a strike last week that damaged schools, hospitals and a passenger train. Russia now occupies roughly a fifth of Ukraine's territory and has been making steady progress in seizing more land, though Kyiv says Moscow's summer offensive is stalling. Over the weekend, Russian troops took over a major lithium deposit in Donetsk, cutting off a valuable resource that Kyiv had hoped to use in deepening its economic partnership with the US. In April, the US and Kyiv signed an agreement to share profits and royalties from the future sale of Ukrainian minerals and rare earths, sealing a deal that Donald Trump has said will provide an economic incentive for the US to continue to invest in Ukraine's defence and its reconstruction after he brokers a peace deal with Russia. But the agreement did not offer Ukraine any security guarantees or protection and Moscow's capture of the mineral deposits could further weaken Kyiv's leverage with Washington. Sign up to Headlines Europe A digest of the morning's main headlines from the Europe edition emailed direct to you every week day after newsletter promotion Areas under Russian control in eastern and south-eastern Ukraine include Crimea, more than 99% of Luhansk region and 70% of the Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions. Russia also controls fragments of the Kharkiv and Sumy regions. Russia has shown no sign of winding down its offensive in Ukraine, even as it continues to claim interest in peace talks. The Kremlin spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, said on Monday that the Kremlin expected the timeline for a third round of talks with Ukraine to become clear soon, adding that the dynamics of the negotiations largely depended on Kyiv's position and the effectiveness of Washington's mediation. Meanwhile, Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, does not appear any closer to persuading the US to introduce sanctions on Russia. On Sunday, the US senator Lindsey Graham – one of Kyiv's staunchest supporters and a close ally of Trump – said the US had backed a bill he introduced targeting Russia's oil trade. Buthe US president has repeatedly suggested he would be reluctant to impose further sanctions on Moscow, arguing they could jeopardise peace negotiations.
CBC
28-06-2025
- Politics
- CBC
2 dead after Russian drone hits residential building, Ukrainian officials say
Russian drones struck the southern Ukrainian port city of Odesa overnight, killing two people and injuring at least 17, Ukrainian authorities said on Saturday. A drone slammed into a residential tower block in the city, causing damage to three floors and trapping residents, emergency services said. The two killed in the attack were a married couple, according to regional Gov. Oleh Kiper, who added that three children were among the injured. There was no immediate comment from Moscow. According to Russia's Defence Ministry, more than 40 Ukrainian drones were shot down overnight and on Saturday morning over western Russia and Russian-occupied Crimea. Long-range drone strikes have been a hallmark of the war, now in its fourth year. The race by both sides to develop increasingly sophisticated and deadlier drones has turned the war into a testing ground for new weaponry. At the start of June, nearly one-third of Moscow's strategic bomber fleet was destroyed or damaged in a covert Ukrainian operation using cheaply made drones sneaked into Russian territory. WATCH | CBC's Briar Stewart breaks down Ukraine's recent surprise drone attack on Russia: Ukraine deploys swarms of drones to target Russian warplanes 26 days ago Duration 1:57 On the eve of a second round of peace talks, Ukraine launched what it calls its longest-range attack against Russia, using drones to target Russian warplanes. Ukrainian authorities said they had been planning this for more than a year and a half. Smaller, short-range drones are used by both sides on the battlefield and in areas close to the roughly 1,000-kilometre frontline. The UB Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine said in a report published Thursday that short-range drone attacks killed at least 395 civilians and injured 2,635 between the start of the war in February 2022 and April 2025. Almost 90 per cent of the attacks were by the Russian armed forces, it reported. More than 13,300 civilians have died and more than 34,700 have been injured in the war, the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights said in a June 11 report.
