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Russia rains drones on Ukraine, killing eight, hitting UNESCO site
AFP, Published on 25/03/2026
» LVIV (UKRAINE) - Russia fired almost 1,000 drones at Ukraine over the last 24-hours, unleashing one of its largest-ever daytime attacks, killing at least eight people and hitting the UNESCO-protected city centre of Lviv, officials said Tuesday.
Russia strikes Ukraine after Kyiv offers fresh talks
AFP, Published on 21/07/2025
» KYIV (UKRAINE) - Russia fired a volley of drones and missiles at Ukraine early on Monday, hitting apartment blocks and a nursery in Kyiv, days after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky proposed holding a fresh round of peace talks.
Russia strikes Ukraine energy sites in 'massive' barrage
AFP, Published on 16/01/2025
» SKNYLIV (UKRAINE) - Russia launched a wave of missiles and drones at Ukrainian energy facilities on Wednesday, intensifying a months-long bombing campaign at a precarious moment of the war for Ukraine.
Zelensky decries ‘inhumane’ Christmas attack by Russia
AFP, Published on 25/12/2024
» KYIV - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday denounced an “inhumane” attack from Russia, which launched dozens of missiles and drones on his war-torn country’s energy grid on Christmas Day.
Freezing Ukraine faces new missile barrage
Published on 13/01/2024
» KYIV - Ukraine suffered its third large-scale aerial barrage of the new year, with the escalation of attacks from Russia coming as harsh weather leaves millions vulnerable to power outages.
Three killed in strikes on western Ukraine
AFP, Published on 15/08/2023
» LVIV, Ukraine: Russian missiles killed three people in the Ukrainian city of Lutsk early Tuesday, the latest deadly strike on the west of the country suffering an uptick in aerial attacks.
'Nowhere is safe': west Ukraine town mourns boy killed in Russian strike
AFP, Published on 15/08/2023
» KOLOMYIA (UKRAINE) - Dinosaur-shaped balloons floated over the coffin of an eight-year-old boy in a western Ukrainian village on Monday, as mourners gathered for a final farewell after he was killed in a Russian strike involving hypersonic missiles.
Russia ups pressure on northeast Ukraine
AFP, Published on 11/08/2023
» KYIV: Russia on Friday claimed to have improved its fighting positions around the northeast Ukraine town of Kupiansk, as Kyiv's troops struggle ahead with their counteroffensive in other areas.
Ukraine puts Dnipro toll at 21 after wave of Russian strikes
AFP, Published on 15/01/2023
» KYIV, Ukraine: Ukraine said Sunday that the death toll had risen to 21 after a Russian missile slammed into a tower block in the city of Dnipro during a massive wave of strikes causing power outages and blackouts across the war-torn country.
Little let-up in Ukraine fighting on Orthodox Christmas
AFP, Published on 07/01/2023
» KYIV: Ukrainians and Russians on Saturday marked Orthodox Christmas under the shadow of war, as fighting persisted despite Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin unilaterally ordering his forces to pause attacks.