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Russian air attack kills four in Ukraine, Kyiv says

Russia launched a barrage of drones and missiles on Ukraine on Saturday, killing at least four civilians and damaging residential buildings and infrastructure across the country, Ukrainian officials said. The Interior Ministry said that a Russian missile slammed into a residential building in the

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Russian air attack kills four in Ukraine, Kyiv says
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Published :
Feb 01, 2025 16:40
Updated :
Feb 01, 2025 16:40

Rescuers work at the site of an apartment building hit by a Russian missile strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Poltava, Ukraine February 1, 2025. Photo : Press service of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine in Poltava region/Handout via REUTERS

Russia launched a barrage of drones and missiles on Ukraine on Saturday, killing at least four civilians and damaging residential buildings and infrastructure across the country, Ukrainian officials said.

The Interior Ministry said that a Russian missile slammed into a residential building in the central city of Poltava, killing three people and injuring 10, including a child.

The ministry posted pictures on the Telegram messaging app showing the residential building with several top floors smashed and thick columns of smoke rising into the sky. Fire brigades and dozens of rescuers were going through the rubble.

One person was killed and four were wounded in the city of Kharkiv in the northeast as the result of a drone attack, the Kharkiv mayor said.

Officials said that the Russian forces also damaged buildings in the city of Zaporizhzhia in southeastern Ukraine.

Ukrainian air defence was also repelling the attacks in Kyiv, but there were no immediate reports of major damage or casualties in the capital, they said.

"Russia's daily attacks on Ukraine are a signal that the aggressor will not stop committing its crimes," Ukrainian Ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets said on Telegram.

"Last night and in the morning, Russia shelled Ukraine again: Odesa, Poltava, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia... The terrorist targets civilian infrastructure: residential buildings, educational institutions, cars."

As the war against Russia approaches its three-year mark this month, Moscow has stepped up its air attacks on Ukraine, sending dozens of drones in almost daily attacks.

The strikes in the morning hours on Saturday followed a Russian missile attack on the southern Black Sea port of Odesa the previous evening which damaged the city's historic centre.​

 

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Russia, Ukraine trade blame for missile strike

Ukraine and Russia traded blame for a deadly missile strike on Saturday that killed at least four people in the dormitory of a boarding school situated in a part of Russia’s Kursk region held by Kyiv forces.

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Russia, Ukraine trade blame for missile strike
Four killed; 84 people receive medical assistance

Ukraine and Russia traded blame for a deadly missile strike on Saturday that killed at least four people in the dormitory of a boarding school situated in a part of Russia's Kursk region held by Kyiv forces.

Some of the war's fiercest battles in recent months have been taking place in the Kursk region that borders Ukraine, where Kyiv forces have held swathes of the land since staging a major cross-border incursion last August.

Ukraine's Armed Forces said on the Telegram messaging app that Russia had launched an aerial bomb from Russian territory that struck a boarding school in Sudzha, killing at least four. The boarding school housed people preparing for evacuation.

As of 10:00 pm (2000 GMT) on Saturday, 84 people had been rescued or received medical assistance, the statement said. Four of the injured were in a serious condition. Rescue efforts to clear rubble were proceeding.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the attack on Sudzha, some 12 km (7.5 miles) from the border with Ukraine, showed how Russia fights the war.

"They destroyed the building even though dozens of civilians were there," Zelensky wrote on the X social media platform.

"This is how Russia waged war against Chechnya decades ago. They killed Syrians the same way. Russian bombs destroy Ukrainian homes the same way."

Russia's Defence Ministry said early yesterday on Telegram that Ukrainian forces had launched "a targeted missile strike on a boarding school in the city of Sudzha" from Ukrainian territory.

In a statement, Russian foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova called the strike a "terrorist attack" and vowed to bring Kyiv to justice.​

 

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Ukraine strikes major oil, gas facilitites in Russia

Ukraine struck energy facilities in southern Russia with dozens of drones launched yesterday, triggering fires at a major oil refinery and gas processing plant and disrupting flights from the Volga to the Caucasus Mountains, Russian and Ukrainian officials said.

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Ukraine strikes major oil, gas facilitites in Russia

UN warns Russian forces killing more captured Ukrainian troops in recent months

Ukraine struck energy facilities in southern Russia with dozens of drones launched yesterday, triggering fires at a major oil refinery and gas processing plant and disrupting flights from the Volga to the Caucasus Mountains, Russian and Ukrainian officials said.

Russia's defence ministry said that its air defence units intercepted and destroyed 70 Ukrainian drones over Russian territory overnight, including 25 over the Volgograd region, 27 over the Rostov region and seven over the Astrakhan region, reports Reuters.

"The air defence forces of the defence ministry repelled a massive attack by aircraft-type drones on the territory of the Volgograd region," Volgograd Governor Andrei Bocharov said.

A pro-Russian paramilitary leader from eastern Ukraine was killed in a Moscow bomb blast.

Falling drone debris sparked several fires at an oil refinery, he said, though he did not say which refinery was on fire.

Since Russia sent thousands of troops into Ukraine in 2022, Kyiv has tried to fight back against its much bigger neighbour by striking deep into Russia with drones and missiles, and even killing a senior military commander in Moscow.

In Moscow, a pro-Russian paramilitary leader from eastern Ukraine, Armen Sarkisyan, was killed yesterday when a bomb tore through parts of a luxury apartment block, state news agency TASS and other Russian media reported.

Meanwhile, the United Nations yesterday warned that Russian forces have been killing more captured Ukrainian soldiers over recent months, echoing growing allegations from officials in Kyiv, reports AFP.

Both Moscow and Kyiv have accused the other of committing war crimes, including killing prisoners of war, since Russia invaded Ukraine nearly three years ago.

The United Nations monitoring mission in Ukraine said that since the end of August last year it had "recorded 79 such executions in 24 separate incidents" by Russian forces.

"These incidents did not occur in a vacuum. Public figures in the Russian Federation have explicitly called for inhumane treatment, and even execution, of captured Ukrainian military personnel," said Danielle Bell, head of the mission.

Russian forces advanced 430 square kilometres into Ukrainian territory in January and are headed towards the logistics hub of Pokrovsk, according to an AFP analysis of data from the US-based Institute for the Study of War (ISW).

This marks a slight slowdown compared to previous months, after a record advance of 725 square kilometres in November and 476 square kilometres in December.​

 

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IAEA chief warns of nuke risk from attacks

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Rafael Grossi arrived in Kyiv yesterday and inspected an electricity distribution substation, warning that attacks on Ukraine’s power grid could pose a risk of nuclear accident by disrupting supply.

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RUSSIAN DRONE STRIKES ON UKRAINE GRID
IAEA chief warns of nuke risk from attacks
Russian missile kills five in the Ukrainian town of Izium

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Rafael Grossi arrived in Kyiv yesterday and inspected an electricity distribution substation, warning that attacks on Ukraine's power grid could pose a risk of nuclear accident by disrupting supply.

"I'm at Kyivska electrical substation — an important part of Ukraine's power grid essential for nuclear safety," Grossi wrote on X. "A nuclear accident can result from a direct attack on a plant, but also from power supply disruption."

Grossi posted pictures of him visiting the substation alongside Energy Minister German Galushchenko, and being showed what appeared to be defences against Russian strikes.

Moscow has regularly bombarded Ukraine's energy infrastructure throughout its three-year invasion.

Moscow has regularly bombarded Ukraine's energy infrastructure, including substations, throughout its three-year invasion, although it has avoided direct strikes on Ukraine's nuclear plants.

Meanwhile, a Russian missile fired yesterday on the eastern Ukrainian city of Izyum killed four people and wounded 20, the governor of the broader Kharkiv region said on social media.

Izyum, which had a population of around 45,000 people before the Russian invasion launched in February 2022, was occupied for several months at the beginning of the war before being retaken by Ukraine.

But Russian forces are making gains in the region and undoing the advances Kyiv's army made in their 2022 counteroffensive, while stepping up bombardments here.

"According to initial reports, the occupiers used a ballistic missile. Four people were killed," Oleg Synegubov wrote on Telegram, adding that five people had been hospitalised.

Meanwhile, Ukraine received a surge in queries last month from Russian families seeking information on missing relatives serving in Moscow's army, Kyiv said yesterday.

Ukraine last year established a hotline for Russians to learn details of missing relatives and friends as part of efforts to streamline prison exchanges.

The hotline called "I want to find" is run by the Coordination Centre for the Treatment of Prisoners of War, which said it had received 8,548 requests last month.​

 

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Russian missile kills five in east Ukraine

A Russian missile attack Tuesday on the Ukrainian city of Izyum, briefly occupied by Russia in 2022, killed five people and wounded more than four dozen others, officials said...

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Russian missile kills five in east Ukraine
Agence France-Presse . Kyiv, Ukraine 05 February, 2025, 00:04

Ukrainian communal workers and volunteers clean debris around a heavily damaged building near the site of a missile attack in Izyum, Kharkiv region, on Tuesday, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. | AFP photo

A Russian missile attack Tuesday on the Ukrainian city of Izyum, briefly occupied by Russia in 2022, killed five people and wounded more than four dozen others, officials said.

President Volodymyr Zelensky said after the attack that it was ‘impossible to reconcile with this cruelty’ and urged allies to pile pressure on Moscow to end its invasion.

Oleg Synegubov, governor of the wider Kharkiv region bordering Russia, said 50 people had been wounded in the Russian strike, including a 15-year-old girl.

Images distributed by rescue workers showed a woman crying over body bags lined up in a row, a gaping hole in a damaged building and blood stains on debris.

Zelensky said the city council building had been damaged in the attack while Synegubov earlier said a five-storey residential building was hit.

‘We need to put pressure on Russia, use as much force as possible — the force of arms, the force of sanctions, the force of diplomacy — to stop the terror and protect lives,’ Zelensky wrote on social media.

Izyum, which had a population of around 45,000 people before the Russian invasion launched in February 2022, was occupied for several months at the beginning of the war before being retaken by Ukrainian forces later that year.

Russian forces are making gains in the region and undoing the advances Kyiv’s army made in their 2022 counteroffensive, while stepping up bombardments.

The town lies some 40 kilometres from the front line.​

 

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909 Russian troops captured in 6 months

Ukraine said yesterday it had captured more than 900 Russian troops over six months of fighting in the western Russian Kursk region.

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909 Russian troops captured in 6 months
Says Kyiv; Ukrainian drone strike kills three in Russia’s Belgorod region

Ukraine said yesterday it had captured more than 900 Russian troops over six months of fighting in the western Russian Kursk region.

Kyiv says a key goal of its struggling operation launched in August just over its border with Russia was to build up reserves of Russian soldiers to exchange for Ukrainian prisoners of war.

"During the operation, Ukrainian forces captured 909 Russian servicemen, significantly replenishing the exchange fund," the Ukrainian military said in a statement.

"This made it possible to bring home hundreds of Ukrainian defenders who had been held in Russian prisons," it added. Kyiv and Moscow still cooperate on prisoner exchanges despite being at war for nearly three years, and Ukraine has made returning its captured troops a priority.

Last year, the Ukrainian military said its forces had captured more than 700 Russian troops during operations in the Kursk region.

Meanwhile, a Ukrainian drone hit a Russian border village yesterday, killing two teenaged girls and a man, the governor of Russia's Belgorod region said.

The strike targeted the village of Logachevka in the Belgorod region, which has a border crossing with Ukraine's Kharkiv region. The crossing has been closed since Moscow launched its 2022 offensive on Ukraine.

Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said the drone hit a car near the village, adding: "a man and two girls aged 18 and 14 are believed to have been in the car... They died at the scene."

After launched its shock offensive -- the largest by a foreign army in Russia since World War II -- Ukrainian forces have been losing the swathes of Russian territory they initially captured.

Kyiv says the ground it holds in Kursk will be an important bargaining chip in any future peace negotiations with Russia, whose forces have been making steady gains across the front line.​

 

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Russian strikes kill three in Ukraine

Russian strikes on the Ukrainian border region of Sumy overnight killed three people who were pulled from the rubble of a two-story residential building, prosecutors said on Friday.

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Russian strikes kill three in Ukraine
Agence France-Presse . Kyiv, Ukraine 08 February, 2025, 01:53

Russian strikes on the Ukrainian border region of Sumy overnight killed three people who were pulled from the rubble of a two-story residential building, prosecutors said on Friday.

They said Moscow’s forces had struck the village of Miropillia shortly before midnight in Sumy, which lies just across the border from Russia and has been coming under increasing fatal bombardments.

‘As a result of the enemy attack, three people were killed — their bodies were recovered from the rubble,’ the office of the prosecutor general wrote on social media.

The attack ripped a hole dividing two sections of a Soviet-era building, official images showed.

Prosecutors said they had opened a war crimes investigation into the strike they said comprised of three guided bombs.

Sumy borders the Russian region of Kursk where Ukrainian forces launched a shock offensive six months ago but Moscow in turn has stepped up its bombardments on the industrial and farming region.

A Russian drone attack on Sumy city late last month killed at least nine people in a residential building at night.​

 

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Russia claims east Ukraine village near strategic town

Russia said on Sunday that its forces had captured the eastern Ukrainian village of Orikhovo-Vasylivka, near the strategic military hub of Chasiv Yar that Moscow is attempting to seize...

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Russia claims east Ukraine village near strategic town
Agence France-Presse . Moscow 10 February, 2025, 00:44

Russia said on Sunday that its forces had captured the eastern Ukrainian village of Orikhovo-Vasylivka, near the strategic military hub of Chasiv Yar that Moscow is attempting to seize.

There is intensive fighting in the frontline town of Chasiv Yar, one of the last remaining urban areas blocking Russia from advancing further into the region, according to Russian military bloggers.

The Russian defence ministry said in a daily briefing that ‘as a result of decisive attack actions, the South group of troops liberated the settlement of Orekhovo-Vasilevka in the Donetsk region,’ using the Russian name for the village.

Orikhovo-Vasylivka is located around 10 kilometres north of Chasiv Yar and near the road to the Ukraine-held city of Sloviansk.

The latest advance comes as Russian troops are pushing further into the Donetsk region. They claimed the key mining town of Toretsk on Friday, while Ukraine denies Moscow troops are in full control there.

Ukraine’s Khortytsia army unit, which is fighting in the area, said Sunday that it had repelled attacks in the areas of Chasiv Yar and Toretsk and shot down a Russian military jet near Toretsk.

Ukraine’s air force said that overnight Russia had attacked six regions with 151 drones, of which it shot down 70 while a further 74 were lost ‘without negative consequences’.

Russia’s defence ministry said it had destroyed 35 Ukrainian drones overnight and one in the northwestern Leningrad region on Sunday morning.

Meanwhile, the Kremlin on Sunday declined to confirm or deny a US report of a phone call between US president Donald Trump and Russian president Vladimir Putin.

Washington and Moscow have not officially confirmed any communication between the leaders since Trump took office on a pledge to swiftly end the Ukraine fighting.

The New York Post late Saturday reported that Trump told the publication he had spoken on the phone to Putin to discuss bringing an end to the conflict in Ukraine and the Russian told him he ‘wants to see people stop dying’.

The newspaper quoted Trump as saying he had ‘better not say’ how often the leaders have spoken.​