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Russia Today
13-07-2025
- Politics
- Russia Today
Civilians trapped after Ukrainian airstrike hits apartment block
A Ukrainian airstrike has destroyed a five-story residential building in the Russian town of Aleshki in Kherson Region, trapping an unknown number of civilians under the rubble, according to local authorities. The strike occurred on Friday, around seven kilometers from the Dnieper River, which divides Russia and Ukraine. Kherson Region Governor Vladimir Saldo said the building collapsed after being hit by two bombs. 'The enemy has hit a residential building in Aleshki in an airstrike,' Saldo told Russian news agencies. 'The building has collapsed. Civilians are trapped underneath.' Saldo alleged that Ukrainian forces were using drones to hinder rescue efforts, targeting emergency crews attempting to reach the site. 'Dozens of people are trapped under the rubble,' he wrote in a statement on Telegram. Ukrainian forces have regularly carried out cross-border strikes into Russian territory and Russian in recent months, often using drones and Western-supplied weapons. On July 8, a Ukrainian drone strike killed four civilians, including a five-year-old boy, at a public beach in the city of Kursk during celebrations for the Day of Family, Love, and Fidelity. Last week, four people were killed and several others injured when Ukrainian forces launched a HIMARS rocket attack on Donetsk, according to local officials. The Russian Foreign Ministry has accused Kiev of pursuing a 'deliberate policy' of striking civilian areas. 'It is a deliberate policy that has already been elevated to the level of state doctrine,' Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a statement last month, citing alleged atrocities in Donbass, including drone attacks on homes and the mass killing of elderly people. Authorities in Kherson say rescue operations in Aleshki will continue despite the threat of further drone attacks. The number of casualties has yet to be confirmed.
Russia Today
11-07-2025
- Politics
- Russia Today
Apartment bloc destroyed by Ukrainian air strike
A five-story residential building collapsed after being hit in a Ukrainian air strike, the governor of Russia's Kherson Region, Vladimir Saldo, said. Ukraine's forces are attacking the area with drones to prevent rescue teams from helping people trapped under the rubble, he added. The building was located in the town of Aleshki, about seven kilometers from the Dnieper River, which separates Russian and the Ukrainian forces in the area. DETAILS TO FOLLOW
Russia Today
05-06-2025
- Politics
- Russia Today
Russian press crew hit by Ukrainian drones
A Russian press crew from Zvezda TV came under attack by Ukrainian drones while working near the front line in Kherson Region, the outlet reported on Thursday. One person – a military escort traveling with the team – was wounded. According to Zvezda, the crew's vehicle was hit twice by drones after evading strikes earlier in the day. The car caught fire, forcing the crew to evacuate with the assistance of Russian troops. The network did not specify the size of the crew but said the military correspondent and cameraman were unharmed. The attack took place near the settlement of Aleshki along a route leading to Kherson which remains under Ukrainian control. Aleshki, around 5km from Kherson on the Russian side of the Dnieper River, has faced repeated Ukrainian drone attacks. According to Zvezda, Ukrainian troops use the ruins of the Antonovsky Bridge to launch drone strikes on civilian infrastructure, hospitals, and roads, making the area one of the most dangerous in the region. While Zvezda did not show footage of their destroyed vehicle, it aired images of other damaged civilian infrastructure in Aleshki, including buildings and a nearly destroyed ambulance. Kherson Region Governor Vladimir Saldo previously said Ukrainian troops 'systematically' hit ambulances, complicating efforts to evacuate the wounded. Kiev regularly targets Russian journalists covering the conflict. In March, a vehicle marked as press in the Lugansk People's Republic was hit in a precision artillery strike, killing Izvestia reporter Aleksandr Fedorchak, Zvezda cameraman Andrey Panov, and their driver, Aleksandr Sirkeli. Another Zvezda reporter, Nikita Goldin, was seriously injured and later died. Recently, a Vesti Donetsk film crew was struck by a Ukrainian drone in Gorlovka, leaving the driver and cameraman with concussions after the UAV exploded near their car. Russian officials have condemned attacks against journalists, accusing Kiev of deliberately targeting media crews to disrupt frontline reporting. Moscow has called on international organizations, including UNESCO, the OSCE, and UN, to denounce the attacks. Last year, it accused UNESCO of failing to include deadly Ukrainian attacks on Russian journalists in its latest biannual report covering the global state of journalist safety for 2022-23. The Russian Foreign Ministry has called Ukrainian attacks against journalists terrorism.
India Today
03-06-2025
- General
- India Today
Power restored to 700,000 residents in Russian-held Ukraine after Ukrainian strikes
MOSCOW, June 3 (Reuters) - Emergency crews restored power on Tuesday to at least 700,000 residents across a swathe of southern Ukraine controlled by Russian forces, officials said, a day after Ukrainian shelling and drone attacks knocked out electricity was no immediate comment from Ukraine, but the attacks, which targeted the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions, appeared to be the largest of their kind on Russian-held territory since the war began in February to the coordinated work of power engineers, the power supply to all customers has now been fully restored," Russia's Energy Ministry said on the Telegram messaging app. Crews from other regions helped complete lays claim to Zaporizhzhia and Kherson, and already controls most of both regions. It is trying to capture the rest as part of what it casts as its push to ensure its own security and secure the future of ethnic Russians and Russian rejects Russia's portrayal of the conflict, calling it a colonial-style land grab by Moscow and vowing to retake the lost territory through a mixture of force and drone attacks came hours after Russian and Ukrainian delegations met in Turkey for peace talks where Moscow said it would only agree to end the war if Kyiv cedes big new chunks of territory and accepts limits on the size of its officials said the situation at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant - Europe's largest nuclear facility seized by Russia in 2022 - was under control but officials running the plant said radiation levels were normal at the facility, which operates in shutdown mode and produces no power at the OUTAGEYevgeny Balitsky, the Russian-installed governor of Zaporizhzhia, said on Monday that more than 600,000 people in nearly 500 settlements across the region lost electricity after Ukrainian shelling damaged high-voltage the Kherson region further west, Russia-appointed Governor Vladimir Saldo said debris from fallen drones had damaged two electricity substations, knocking out power to more than 100,000 residents of 150 towns and emergency services officials in the northeastern Ukrainian city of Sumy said on Tuesday that a Russian attack had killed three people and injured 28, including three children."The Russians launched a savage strike on Sumy – directly targeting the city and its ordinary streets with rocket artillery," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy wrote on social attack damaged an apartment building, three private residences, a warehouse and a hospital building, according to a statement from the emergency was no immediate comment from Russia on these Ukrainian Russia and Ukraine deny targeting civilians in their attacks. But thousands of civilians have died in the conflict, the vast majority of them many long months during the winter, Ukrainian towns and villages endured repeated electricity cuts as Russian forces focused strikes on generating side has accused the other of launching attacks on the Zaporizhzhia plant and running the risk of a nuclear U.N. nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, said last week in response to a Ukrainian complaint that it saw no sign of Russia preparing to restart the Zaporizhzhia plant and connect it to the Russian Director General Rafael Grossi told Reuters on Tuesday that conditions for restarting the plant were not present due to a lack of water for cooling and the absence of a stable power IAEA has stationed monitors permanently at Zaporizhzhia and Ukraine's other nuclear power stations.
Japan Today
03-06-2025
- General
- Japan Today
Power restored to 700,000 residents in Russian-held Ukraine after Ukrainian strikes
Emergency crews restored power on Tuesday to at least 700,000 residents across a swathe of southern Ukraine controlled by Russian forces, officials said, a day after Ukrainian shelling and drone attacks knocked out electricity substations. There was no immediate comment from Ukraine, but the attacks, which targeted the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions, appeared to be the largest of their kind on Russian-held territory since the war began in February 2022. "Thanks to the coordinated work of power engineers, the power supply to all customers has now been fully restored," Russia's Energy Ministry said on the Telegram messaging app. Crews from other regions helped complete repairs. Russia lays claim to Zaporizhzhia and Kherson, and already controls most of both regions. It is trying to capture the rest as part of what it casts as its push to ensure its own security and secure the future of ethnic Russians and Russian speakers. Ukraine rejects Russia's portrayal of the conflict, calling it a colonial-style land grab by Moscow and vowing to retake the lost territory through a mixture of force and diplomacy. The drone attacks came hours after Russian and Ukrainian delegations met in Turkey for peace talks where Moscow said it would only agree to end the war if Kyiv cedes big new chunks of territory and accepts limits on the size of its army. Russian-backed officials said the situation at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant - Europe's largest nuclear facility seized by Russia in 2022 - was under control but difficult. Russian officials running the plant said radiation levels were normal at the facility, which operates in shutdown mode and produces no power at the moment. WIDESPREAD OUTAGE Yevgeny Balitsky, the Russian-installed governor of Zaporizhzhia, said on Monday that more than 600,000 people in nearly 500 settlements across the region lost electricity after Ukrainian shelling damaged high-voltage infrastructure. In the Kherson region further west, Russia-appointed Governor Vladimir Saldo said debris from fallen drones had damaged two electricity substations, knocking out power to more than 100,000 residents of 150 towns and villages. Separately, emergency services officials in the northeastern Ukrainian city of Sumy said on Tuesday that a Russian attack had killed three people and injured 28, including three children. "The Russians launched a savage strike on Sumy – directly targeting the city and its ordinary streets with rocket artillery," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote on social media. The attack damaged an apartment building, three private residences, a warehouse and a hospital building, according to a statement from the emergency services. There was no immediate comment from Russia on these Ukrainian reports. Both Russia and Ukraine deny targeting civilians in their attacks. But thousands of civilians have died in the conflict, the vast majority of them Ukrainian. For many long months during the winter, Ukrainian towns and villages endured repeated electricity cuts as Russian forces focused strikes on generating capacity. Each side has accused the other of launching attacks on the Zaporizhzhia plant and running the risk of a nuclear accident. The U.N. nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, said last week in response to a Ukrainian complaint that it saw no sign of Russia preparing to restart the Zaporizhzhia plant and connect it to the Russian grid. IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi told Reuters on Tuesday that conditions for restarting the plant were not present due to a lack of water for cooling and the absence of a stable power supply. The IAEA has stationed monitors permanently at Zaporizhzhia and Ukraine's other nuclear power stations. © Thomson Reuters 2025.
