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Three killed, 49 wounded in intense Russian air attacks on Ukraine
Russia launched an intense missile and drone barrage at the Ukrainian capital Kyiv in the early hours of Friday and three people were killed, Ukrainian officials said, as powerful explosions reverberated across the country. The attacks followed a warning from Russian President Vladimir Putin, conv
Three killed, 49 wounded in intense Russian air attacks on Ukraine
REUTERS
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Jun 06, 2025 18:29
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Jun 06, 2025 18:29
Fire and smoke rise in the aftermath of a Russian drone strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine June 6, 2025. Photo : REUTERS/Gleb Garanich
Russia launched an intense missile and drone barrage at the Ukrainian capital Kyiv in the early hours of Friday and three people were killed, Ukrainian officials said, as powerful explosions reverberated across the country.
The attacks followed a warning from Russian President Vladimir Putin, conveyed via US President Donald Trump, that the Kremlin would hit back after Ukrainian drones destroyed several strategic bomber aircraft in attacks deep inside Russia.
Kyiv's military administration said three people were killed in the missile and drone salvo againstthe capital. They were first responders who had rushed to the scene of one of the strikes, Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said.
"Overnight, Russia 'responded' to its destroyed aircraft... by attacking civilians in Ukraine.... Multi-storey buildings hit. Energy infrastructure damaged," Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha wrote on X.
Russia's Defence Ministry said its forces had carried out the strike on military and military-related targets in response to what it called Ukrainian "terrorist acts" against Russia.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said 49 people nationwide had been injured in the attacks, which also struck several other towns and cities as well as Kyiv, as he called on Ukraine's Western allies to ramp up pressure on Russia.
The air force said Russia had used 407 drones, one of the largest numbers recorded in a single attack. Forty-five cruise and ballistic missiles were also fired, it said.
Kyiv's metro transport system was disrupted by a Russian strike that hit and damaged tracks between stations, the military administration said. The state rail company said it was also diverting some trains due to rail damage outside the city.
BOOMING EXPLOSIONS
Reuters witnesses reported a series of booming explosions powerful enough to rattle windows far from the impact sites.
Some Kyiv residents sought shelter in metro stations, or in underground car parks.
In the capital's Solomianskyi district, a Russian drone slammed into the side of an apartment building, leaving a gaping hole and burn marks, a Reuters photographer at the scene said.
Falling concrete blocks from the building crushed cars parked below. Two police investigators were examining what appeared to be the drone's engine.
Earlier in the night, Reuters reporters heard the sound of Russian kamikaze drones buzzing in the sky, accompanied by the sounds of outgoing fire from Ukrainian anti-aircraft batteries.
Zelensky called for concerted pressure on Russia.
"If someone is not applying pressure and is giving the war more time to take lives – that is complicity and accountability. We must act decisively," he wrote on X.
As well as Kyiv, Russian forces also struck industrial facilities and infrastructure in the western city of Ternopil, leaving parts of it without power, Mayor Serhii Nadal said.
The regional administration said the attack had injured 10 people and recommended that residents temporarily stay inside due to a high concentration of toxic substances in the air after a fire.
Fifteen people were injured in the northwestern city of Lutsk where an attack damaged private homes, educational institutions and a government building, prosecutors said.
The Ukrainian military said it had launched a pre-emptive strike overnight on the Engels and Dyagilevo airfields in the Russian regions of Saratov and Ryazan, in addition to striking at least three fuel reservoirs.
In one of the most audacious attacks of the three-year-old war between Ukraine and Russia, Ukrainian spies last weekend destroyed some of Russia's strategic bomber aircraft on the ground using quadrocopter drones hidden in wooden sheds.
After a phone conversation with Putin on Wednesday, Trump said the Kremlin was planning an unspecified response to the Ukrainian attack on the Russian air bases.
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Jun 06, 2025 18:29
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Jun 06, 2025 18:29
Fire and smoke rise in the aftermath of a Russian drone strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine June 6, 2025. Photo : REUTERS/Gleb Garanich
Russia launched an intense missile and drone barrage at the Ukrainian capital Kyiv in the early hours of Friday and three people were killed, Ukrainian officials said, as powerful explosions reverberated across the country.
The attacks followed a warning from Russian President Vladimir Putin, conveyed via US President Donald Trump, that the Kremlin would hit back after Ukrainian drones destroyed several strategic bomber aircraft in attacks deep inside Russia.
Kyiv's military administration said three people were killed in the missile and drone salvo againstthe capital. They were first responders who had rushed to the scene of one of the strikes, Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said.
"Overnight, Russia 'responded' to its destroyed aircraft... by attacking civilians in Ukraine.... Multi-storey buildings hit. Energy infrastructure damaged," Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha wrote on X.
Russia's Defence Ministry said its forces had carried out the strike on military and military-related targets in response to what it called Ukrainian "terrorist acts" against Russia.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said 49 people nationwide had been injured in the attacks, which also struck several other towns and cities as well as Kyiv, as he called on Ukraine's Western allies to ramp up pressure on Russia.
The air force said Russia had used 407 drones, one of the largest numbers recorded in a single attack. Forty-five cruise and ballistic missiles were also fired, it said.
Kyiv's metro transport system was disrupted by a Russian strike that hit and damaged tracks between stations, the military administration said. The state rail company said it was also diverting some trains due to rail damage outside the city.
BOOMING EXPLOSIONS
Reuters witnesses reported a series of booming explosions powerful enough to rattle windows far from the impact sites.
Some Kyiv residents sought shelter in metro stations, or in underground car parks.
In the capital's Solomianskyi district, a Russian drone slammed into the side of an apartment building, leaving a gaping hole and burn marks, a Reuters photographer at the scene said.
Falling concrete blocks from the building crushed cars parked below. Two police investigators were examining what appeared to be the drone's engine.
Earlier in the night, Reuters reporters heard the sound of Russian kamikaze drones buzzing in the sky, accompanied by the sounds of outgoing fire from Ukrainian anti-aircraft batteries.
Zelensky called for concerted pressure on Russia.
"If someone is not applying pressure and is giving the war more time to take lives – that is complicity and accountability. We must act decisively," he wrote on X.
As well as Kyiv, Russian forces also struck industrial facilities and infrastructure in the western city of Ternopil, leaving parts of it without power, Mayor Serhii Nadal said.
The regional administration said the attack had injured 10 people and recommended that residents temporarily stay inside due to a high concentration of toxic substances in the air after a fire.
Fifteen people were injured in the northwestern city of Lutsk where an attack damaged private homes, educational institutions and a government building, prosecutors said.
The Ukrainian military said it had launched a pre-emptive strike overnight on the Engels and Dyagilevo airfields in the Russian regions of Saratov and Ryazan, in addition to striking at least three fuel reservoirs.
In one of the most audacious attacks of the three-year-old war between Ukraine and Russia, Ukrainian spies last weekend destroyed some of Russia's strategic bomber aircraft on the ground using quadrocopter drones hidden in wooden sheds.
After a phone conversation with Putin on Wednesday, Trump said the Kremlin was planning an unspecified response to the Ukrainian attack on the Russian air bases.
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Three killed in Russian attack on Ukraine’s Kharkiv
Overnight missile and bomb strikes by Russia on the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv left three people dead and 22 hurt, while a Ukrainian drone attack in the Moscow region wounded two people, officials from both countries said separately on Saturday. Russian forces used high-precision long-range weapons
Three killed in Russian attack on Ukraine’s Kharkiv
Ukrainian drones injure two near Moscow
REUTERS
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Jun 07, 2025 19:47
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Jun 07, 2025 19:47
Firefighters work inside an apartment building hit by a Russian drone strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kharkiv, Ukraine June 7, 2025. Photo : REUTERS/Vitalii Hnidyi
Overnight missile and bomb strikes by Russia on the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv left three people dead and 22 hurt, while a Ukrainian drone attack in the Moscow region wounded two people, officials from both countries said separately on Saturday.
Russian forces used high-precision long-range weapons and drones to hit designated military targets in Ukraine overnight, hitting all of them, according to Russia’s Defence Ministry.
Separately, Ukraine denied an accusation made by Kremlin aide Vladimir Medinsky that it had indefinitely postponed accepting the bodies of its killed soldiers and the exchange of prisoners of war.
“Today’s statements by the Russian side do not correspond to reality or to previous agreements on either the exchange of prisoners or the repatriation of bodies,” Andriy Kovalenko, an official with the National Security and Defence Council said on the Telegram app.
In an agreement at a second round of peace talks in Istanbul on Monday, the two sides said they would swap more prisoners and return the bodies of 12,000 dead soldiers.
The northeastern city of Kharkiv, one of Ukraine’s largest, is just a few dozen kilometres (miles) from the Russian border and has been under frequent Russian shelling during more than three years of war triggered by Russia’s full-scale invasion.
“Kharkiv is currently experiencing the most powerful attack since the start of the full-scale war,” Mayor Ihor Terekhov said in a post on Telegram earlier on Saturday.
Residential buildings, educational and infrastructure facilities were attacked, he said, and photos showed buildings burnt and reduced partially to rubble, as rescuers carried the wounded away for treatment.
Kharkiv regional Governor Oleh Syniehubov said there could still be people buried under the rubble after one civilian industrial facility was hit by 40 drones and several bombs.
In the Moscow region, two people were injured after a drone attack by Ukraine overnight and on Friday, Governor Andrei Vorobyov said on Telegram, with nine drones shot down.
Russia’s aviation watchdog said operations had resumed at the Domodedovo, Sheremetyevo and Zhukovsky airports in the Moscow region after being suspended temporarily for flight safety reasons.
The Defence Ministry said that since midnight, air defence units had intercepted and destroyed 36 Ukrainian drones over Russian territory, including the Moscow region.
Ukraine’s air forces also shot down a Russian Su-35 fighter jet on Saturday morning, its military said without providing further details. Russian forces have not yet commented on the matter while Reuters could not independently verify the report.
A Ukrainian drone attack deep inside Russian territory last weekend likely damaged around 10% of Russia’s strategic bomber fleet and hit some of the aircraft as they were being prepared for strikes on Ukraine, a senior German military official said in a YouTube podcast set for broadcast later on Saturday.
Ukrainian drones injure two near Moscow
REUTERS
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Jun 07, 2025 19:47
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Jun 07, 2025 19:47
Firefighters work inside an apartment building hit by a Russian drone strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kharkiv, Ukraine June 7, 2025. Photo : REUTERS/Vitalii Hnidyi
Overnight missile and bomb strikes by Russia on the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv left three people dead and 22 hurt, while a Ukrainian drone attack in the Moscow region wounded two people, officials from both countries said separately on Saturday.
Russian forces used high-precision long-range weapons and drones to hit designated military targets in Ukraine overnight, hitting all of them, according to Russia’s Defence Ministry.
Separately, Ukraine denied an accusation made by Kremlin aide Vladimir Medinsky that it had indefinitely postponed accepting the bodies of its killed soldiers and the exchange of prisoners of war.
“Today’s statements by the Russian side do not correspond to reality or to previous agreements on either the exchange of prisoners or the repatriation of bodies,” Andriy Kovalenko, an official with the National Security and Defence Council said on the Telegram app.
In an agreement at a second round of peace talks in Istanbul on Monday, the two sides said they would swap more prisoners and return the bodies of 12,000 dead soldiers.
The northeastern city of Kharkiv, one of Ukraine’s largest, is just a few dozen kilometres (miles) from the Russian border and has been under frequent Russian shelling during more than three years of war triggered by Russia’s full-scale invasion.
“Kharkiv is currently experiencing the most powerful attack since the start of the full-scale war,” Mayor Ihor Terekhov said in a post on Telegram earlier on Saturday.
Residential buildings, educational and infrastructure facilities were attacked, he said, and photos showed buildings burnt and reduced partially to rubble, as rescuers carried the wounded away for treatment.
Kharkiv regional Governor Oleh Syniehubov said there could still be people buried under the rubble after one civilian industrial facility was hit by 40 drones and several bombs.
In the Moscow region, two people were injured after a drone attack by Ukraine overnight and on Friday, Governor Andrei Vorobyov said on Telegram, with nine drones shot down.
Russia’s aviation watchdog said operations had resumed at the Domodedovo, Sheremetyevo and Zhukovsky airports in the Moscow region after being suspended temporarily for flight safety reasons.
The Defence Ministry said that since midnight, air defence units had intercepted and destroyed 36 Ukrainian drones over Russian territory, including the Moscow region.
Ukraine’s air forces also shot down a Russian Su-35 fighter jet on Saturday morning, its military said without providing further details. Russian forces have not yet commented on the matter while Reuters could not independently verify the report.
A Ukrainian drone attack deep inside Russian territory last weekend likely damaged around 10% of Russia’s strategic bomber fleet and hit some of the aircraft as they were being prepared for strikes on Ukraine, a senior German military official said in a YouTube podcast set for broadcast later on Saturday.
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Russia accuses Ukraine of ‘postponing’ POW swap
Russia on Saturday accused Ukraine of postponing a large-scale prisoner swap and the repatriation of the bodies of dead soldiers they had agreed on during peace talks in Istanbul...
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Russia accuses Ukraine of ‘postponing’ POW swap
Agence France-Presse . Moscow, Russia 07 June, 2025, 19:15
A firefighter extinguishes a fire at a civilian plant following Russian powerful attacks on the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv early on June 7, 2025, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. | AFP photo
Russia on Saturday accused Ukraine of postponing a large-scale prisoner swap and the repatriation of the bodies of dead soldiers they had agreed on during peace talks in Istanbul.
‘The Ukrainian side has unexpectedly postponed for an indefinite period, both the acceptance of the bodies and the exchange of prisoners of war,’ Russia’s top negotiator Vladimir Medinsky said on social media.
Delegations from Moscow and Kyiv agreed on Monday to swap all wounded soldiers and those under the age of 25 who were still held as POWs.
It was the only concrete outcome from the talks, at which Russia has repeatedly rejected Ukrainian calls for an immediate ceasefire.
Medinsky said Russia had brought the bodies of 1,212 killed Ukrainian soldiers to the ‘exchange area’ -- the first of 6,000 to be handed over.
Moscow had also handed over a list to Kyiv with the names of 640 POWs to be swapped in the first stage.
More than 1,000 prisoners from each side are set to be released in the largest exchange of the three-year conflict.
‘We urge Kyiv to strictly adhere to the timetable and all agreements reached, and begin the exchange immediately,’ Medinsky said.
Kyiv did not immediately respond to the accusation.
After the Istanbul talks, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the exchange would take place this weekend, while Russia said it was ready for Saturday, Sunday or Monday.
Agence France-Presse . Moscow, Russia 07 June, 2025, 19:15
A firefighter extinguishes a fire at a civilian plant following Russian powerful attacks on the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv early on June 7, 2025, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. | AFP photo
Russia on Saturday accused Ukraine of postponing a large-scale prisoner swap and the repatriation of the bodies of dead soldiers they had agreed on during peace talks in Istanbul.
‘The Ukrainian side has unexpectedly postponed for an indefinite period, both the acceptance of the bodies and the exchange of prisoners of war,’ Russia’s top negotiator Vladimir Medinsky said on social media.
Delegations from Moscow and Kyiv agreed on Monday to swap all wounded soldiers and those under the age of 25 who were still held as POWs.
It was the only concrete outcome from the talks, at which Russia has repeatedly rejected Ukrainian calls for an immediate ceasefire.
Medinsky said Russia had brought the bodies of 1,212 killed Ukrainian soldiers to the ‘exchange area’ -- the first of 6,000 to be handed over.
Moscow had also handed over a list to Kyiv with the names of 640 POWs to be swapped in the first stage.
More than 1,000 prisoners from each side are set to be released in the largest exchange of the three-year conflict.
‘We urge Kyiv to strictly adhere to the timetable and all agreements reached, and begin the exchange immediately,’ Medinsky said.
Kyiv did not immediately respond to the accusation.
After the Istanbul talks, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the exchange would take place this weekend, while Russia said it was ready for Saturday, Sunday or Monday.
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Russia shoots down 131 Ukrainian drones in 24 hours
Russian air defenses shot down 131 Ukrainian drones in the last 24 hours, including 73 devices outside the air defense zone, the Defense Ministry said on Sunday. The ministry further said that the drones were destroyed over the Tula, Bryansk, Kaluga, Oryol, Belgorod, Kursk, and Moscow regions as w
Russia shoots down 131 Ukrainian drones in 24 hours
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Jun 08, 2025 19:19
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Jun 08, 2025 19:19
Russian air defenses shot down 131 Ukrainian drones in the last 24 hours, including 73 devices outside the air defense zone, the Defense Ministry said on Sunday.
The ministry further said that the drones were destroyed over the Tula, Bryansk, Kaluga, Oryol, Belgorod, Kursk, and Moscow regions as well as Crimea.
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Russian air defenses shot down 131 Ukrainian drones in the last 24 hours, including 73 devices outside the air defense zone, the Defense Ministry said on Sunday.
The ministry further said that the drones were destroyed over the Tula, Bryansk, Kaluga, Oryol, Belgorod, Kursk, and Moscow regions as well as Crimea.
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Russia fired record 479 drones at Ukraine overnight
Moscow fired a record 479 drones at Ukraine, including on the western region of Rivne that has been largely spared from attacks, Kyiv said on Monday, also claiming an attack on a Russian factory hundreds of miles east of Moscow...
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Russia fired record 479 drones at Ukraine overnight
Agence France-Presse . Kyiv, Ukraine 09 June, 2025, 18:33
Police experts work on a crater at a children’s railway near the central park of Kharkiv following an aerial attack, in Kharkiv on June 7, 2025, amid the Russian invasion in Ukraine. | AFP photo.
Moscow fired a record 479 drones at Ukraine, including on the western region of Rivne that has been largely spared from attacks, Kyiv said on Monday, also claiming an attack on a Russian factory hundreds of miles east of Moscow.
Russia has escalated its attacks across Ukraine in recent weeks, which Kyiv says demonstrate that the Kremlin has no intention of stopping its more than three-year invasion and is not serious about peace talks.
Moscow said Monday its strikes are continued retaliation for a bold Ukrainian attack on its bomber planes parked deep inside Russia, including in Siberia, that infuriated the Kremlin.
The overnight Russian attacks caused damage in several Ukrainian regions. There were no reports of people killed or mass casualties.
‘Enemy air strikes were recorded in 10 spots,’ the Ukrainian air force said.
The mayor of the western city of Rivne, Oleksandr Tretyak, called it ‘the largest attack’ on the region since the start of the war.
Regional governor Oleksandr Koval said 70 buildings -- including private houses and a nursery -- were damaged in the attack.
Russia said it had targeted an airfield near the village of Dubno in the Rivne region.
‘This is one of the retaliatory strikes against terrorist attacks by the Kyiv regime on Russian military airfields,’ its defence ministry said.
Russia had vowed revenge last week and had already called strikes on Kyiv retaliation to the brazen Ukrainian operation.
Ukraine also said it had launched its own overnight strike on an electronics factory that makes part for Russian drones, in the city of Cheboskary in Chuvashia -- some 600 kilometres (372 miles) east of Moscow.
Russian officials said the facility had to temporarily suspend production after the attack.
‘This morning, Ukrainian attempts to use drones in Chuvashia were detected,’ Chuvashia Governor Oleg Nikolayev said on Telegram, adding: ’Two drones fell on the territory of the VNIIR factory.’
Ukraine’s army said the factory manufactured ‘antennas for Shahed’ (drones). Russia fires dozens of Iranian-designed Shahed attack drones at Ukrainian cities on a daily basis.
Russia said a Ukrainian strike killed one person in its border Kursk region Monday.
The acting governor of the region, Alexander Khinstein, said the strike hit a ‘cultural-service centre’ in the Rylsky district, killing a 64-year-old man.
Agence France-Presse . Kyiv, Ukraine 09 June, 2025, 18:33
Police experts work on a crater at a children’s railway near the central park of Kharkiv following an aerial attack, in Kharkiv on June 7, 2025, amid the Russian invasion in Ukraine. | AFP photo.
Moscow fired a record 479 drones at Ukraine, including on the western region of Rivne that has been largely spared from attacks, Kyiv said on Monday, also claiming an attack on a Russian factory hundreds of miles east of Moscow.
Russia has escalated its attacks across Ukraine in recent weeks, which Kyiv says demonstrate that the Kremlin has no intention of stopping its more than three-year invasion and is not serious about peace talks.
Moscow said Monday its strikes are continued retaliation for a bold Ukrainian attack on its bomber planes parked deep inside Russia, including in Siberia, that infuriated the Kremlin.
The overnight Russian attacks caused damage in several Ukrainian regions. There were no reports of people killed or mass casualties.
‘Enemy air strikes were recorded in 10 spots,’ the Ukrainian air force said.
The mayor of the western city of Rivne, Oleksandr Tretyak, called it ‘the largest attack’ on the region since the start of the war.
Regional governor Oleksandr Koval said 70 buildings -- including private houses and a nursery -- were damaged in the attack.
Russia said it had targeted an airfield near the village of Dubno in the Rivne region.
‘This is one of the retaliatory strikes against terrorist attacks by the Kyiv regime on Russian military airfields,’ its defence ministry said.
Russia had vowed revenge last week and had already called strikes on Kyiv retaliation to the brazen Ukrainian operation.
Ukraine also said it had launched its own overnight strike on an electronics factory that makes part for Russian drones, in the city of Cheboskary in Chuvashia -- some 600 kilometres (372 miles) east of Moscow.
Russian officials said the facility had to temporarily suspend production after the attack.
‘This morning, Ukrainian attempts to use drones in Chuvashia were detected,’ Chuvashia Governor Oleg Nikolayev said on Telegram, adding: ’Two drones fell on the territory of the VNIIR factory.’
Ukraine’s army said the factory manufactured ‘antennas for Shahed’ (drones). Russia fires dozens of Iranian-designed Shahed attack drones at Ukrainian cities on a daily basis.
Russia said a Ukrainian strike killed one person in its border Kursk region Monday.
The acting governor of the region, Alexander Khinstein, said the strike hit a ‘cultural-service centre’ in the Rylsky district, killing a 64-year-old man.
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Russian strikes in Kyiv, Odesa kill three
Russia launched fresh drone and missile attacks on the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, and port city of Odesa early on Tuesday, killing three people and hitting a maternity hospital, Ukrainian officials said...
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Russian strikes in Kyiv, Odesa kill three
Agence France-Presse . Kyiv 10 June, 2025, 23:53
Russia launched fresh drone and missile attacks on the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, and port city of Odesa early on Tuesday, killing three people and hitting a maternity hospital, Ukrainian officials said.
Moscow has escalated its bombardments of Ukraine and Kyiv has retaliated with strikes deep inside Russian territory.
Talks in Turkey last week failed to yield a breakthrough towards ending the three-year war.
Aside from an agreement to exchange prisoners, progress has stalled and Russia has repeatedly rejected calls for an unconditional ceasefire.
After the overnight barrage of more than 300 drones and seven missiles, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky urged Kyiv’s Western allies to respond with ‘concrete action’.
‘Action from America, which has the power to force Russia into peace. Action from Europe, which has no alternative but to be strong,’ Zelensky wrote in a post on social media.
He added that two of the missiles fired in the latest wave attacks were made in North Korea.
Russia’s defence ministry said it had targeted ‘Ukrainian aviation, missile, armoured vehicle and ship-building facilities in Kyiv’ with a ‘group strike’.
‘The goal of the strikes was achieved. All designated objects were hit,’ the ministry said.
But residential and hospital buildings were struck in Odesa, where two people were killed and at least nine others were wounded, Governor Oleg Kiper said.
‘The enemy massively attacked Odesa with strike drones,’ Kiper wrote on Telegram.
‘The Russians hit a maternity hospital, an emergency medical ward and residential buildings,’ he said, adding that the maternity hospital had been evacuated in time.
In central Kyiv, an AFP journalist heard at least a dozen explosions, anti-aircraft fire and the buzzing of drones.
City officials said one woman was killed and four people were wounded.
The mayor said strikes hit at least seven districts, setting buildings and cars on fire.
Russia’s 2022 invasion of its neighbour triggered the biggest European conflict since World War II, forcing millions to flee their homes and decimating much of eastern and southern Ukraine.
Ukrainian cities are targeted by Russian air strikes almost daily.
Russia launched a record 479 explosive drones at Ukraine overnight into Monday morning, the Ukrainian Air Force said.
Kyiv has responded with attacks on Russian territory, targeting transport and weapons production infrastructure.
Russia’s transport agency Rosaviatsia said on Tuesday that flight operations had been temporarily restricted at more than a dozen Russian airports—standard procedure during Ukrainian drone attacks.
In the city of Belgorod near the border with Ukraine, Russian emergency services said one person was killed in a Ukrainian drone attack on a petrol station.
Russia’s defence ministry said it had intercepted 102 Ukrainian drones overnight.
Despite pressure from US president Donald Trump to reach a ceasefire agreement, peace talks are at a standstill.
The only concrete agreement reached at talks in Istanbul last week was a large-scale prisoner exchange and the repatriation of dead soldiers’ bodies.
Russia and Ukraine swapped a first group of captured soldiers on Monday and Zelensky announced the exchange would ‘continue in several stages over the coming days’.
The deal should see the freeing of all captured soldiers under the age of 25, as well as those who are sick or severely wounded.
But Zelensky said last week it was ‘pointless’ to hold further talks with the current Russian delegation—who he previously dismissed as ‘empty heads’—since they could not agree to a ceasefire.
Russian forces meanwhile are making steady advances across the front line.
Over the weekend Moscow said it had pushed its offensive into the Dnipropetrovsk region for the first time, marking a significant territorial escalation.
‘Time for everyone to finally accept the fact that Russia understands only strikes, not rational words,’ Zelensky’s top aide, Andriy Yermak, said on Tuesday, in a thinly veiled criticism of the Trump administration.
As a condition for halting its invasion, Russia has demanded that Ukraine cede the territories Moscow says it has annexed and forswear joining NATO.
It has also rejected a proposed 30-day unconditional ceasefire sought by Kyiv and the European Union, arguing that this would allow Ukrainian forces to rearm with Western deliveries.
Ukraine is demanding a complete Russian withdrawal of from its territory and security guarantees from the West.
Agence France-Presse . Kyiv 10 June, 2025, 23:53
Russia launched fresh drone and missile attacks on the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, and port city of Odesa early on Tuesday, killing three people and hitting a maternity hospital, Ukrainian officials said.
Moscow has escalated its bombardments of Ukraine and Kyiv has retaliated with strikes deep inside Russian territory.
Talks in Turkey last week failed to yield a breakthrough towards ending the three-year war.
Aside from an agreement to exchange prisoners, progress has stalled and Russia has repeatedly rejected calls for an unconditional ceasefire.
After the overnight barrage of more than 300 drones and seven missiles, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky urged Kyiv’s Western allies to respond with ‘concrete action’.
‘Action from America, which has the power to force Russia into peace. Action from Europe, which has no alternative but to be strong,’ Zelensky wrote in a post on social media.
He added that two of the missiles fired in the latest wave attacks were made in North Korea.
Russia’s defence ministry said it had targeted ‘Ukrainian aviation, missile, armoured vehicle and ship-building facilities in Kyiv’ with a ‘group strike’.
‘The goal of the strikes was achieved. All designated objects were hit,’ the ministry said.
But residential and hospital buildings were struck in Odesa, where two people were killed and at least nine others were wounded, Governor Oleg Kiper said.
‘The enemy massively attacked Odesa with strike drones,’ Kiper wrote on Telegram.
‘The Russians hit a maternity hospital, an emergency medical ward and residential buildings,’ he said, adding that the maternity hospital had been evacuated in time.
In central Kyiv, an AFP journalist heard at least a dozen explosions, anti-aircraft fire and the buzzing of drones.
City officials said one woman was killed and four people were wounded.
The mayor said strikes hit at least seven districts, setting buildings and cars on fire.
Russia’s 2022 invasion of its neighbour triggered the biggest European conflict since World War II, forcing millions to flee their homes and decimating much of eastern and southern Ukraine.
Ukrainian cities are targeted by Russian air strikes almost daily.
Russia launched a record 479 explosive drones at Ukraine overnight into Monday morning, the Ukrainian Air Force said.
Kyiv has responded with attacks on Russian territory, targeting transport and weapons production infrastructure.
Russia’s transport agency Rosaviatsia said on Tuesday that flight operations had been temporarily restricted at more than a dozen Russian airports—standard procedure during Ukrainian drone attacks.
In the city of Belgorod near the border with Ukraine, Russian emergency services said one person was killed in a Ukrainian drone attack on a petrol station.
Russia’s defence ministry said it had intercepted 102 Ukrainian drones overnight.
Despite pressure from US president Donald Trump to reach a ceasefire agreement, peace talks are at a standstill.
The only concrete agreement reached at talks in Istanbul last week was a large-scale prisoner exchange and the repatriation of dead soldiers’ bodies.
Russia and Ukraine swapped a first group of captured soldiers on Monday and Zelensky announced the exchange would ‘continue in several stages over the coming days’.
The deal should see the freeing of all captured soldiers under the age of 25, as well as those who are sick or severely wounded.
But Zelensky said last week it was ‘pointless’ to hold further talks with the current Russian delegation—who he previously dismissed as ‘empty heads’—since they could not agree to a ceasefire.
Russian forces meanwhile are making steady advances across the front line.
Over the weekend Moscow said it had pushed its offensive into the Dnipropetrovsk region for the first time, marking a significant territorial escalation.
‘Time for everyone to finally accept the fact that Russia understands only strikes, not rational words,’ Zelensky’s top aide, Andriy Yermak, said on Tuesday, in a thinly veiled criticism of the Trump administration.
As a condition for halting its invasion, Russia has demanded that Ukraine cede the territories Moscow says it has annexed and forswear joining NATO.
It has also rejected a proposed 30-day unconditional ceasefire sought by Kyiv and the European Union, arguing that this would allow Ukrainian forces to rearm with Western deliveries.
Ukraine is demanding a complete Russian withdrawal of from its territory and security guarantees from the West.
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Russia launches deadly strike in east Ukraine
Fresh Russian strikes on Ukraine’s northeastern city of Kharkiv killed three people and wounded 60 others, including children, on Wednesday, authorities said, as Moscow pushed ahead with attacks after rejecting an unconditional ceasefire...
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Russia launches deadly strike in east Ukraine
Agence France-Presse . Kharkiv, Ukraine 12 June, 2025, 01:06
Fresh Russian strikes on Ukraine’s northeastern city of Kharkiv killed three people and wounded 60 others, including children, on Wednesday, authorities said, as Moscow pushed ahead with attacks after rejecting an unconditional ceasefire.
Ukraine said it had received the bodies of more than 1,200 soldiers, handed over by Moscow, part of a repatriation deal the two sides agreed at talks last week.
Russia has fired record numbers of drones and missiles at Ukraine over recent weeks, escalating three years of daily bombardments as it outlines hardline demands — rejected by Kyiv as ‘ultimatums’ — to halt its three-year invasion.
The northeastern city of Kharkiv, just 30 kilometres from the Russian border, again bore the brunt of the attack.
‘Seventeen strikes by enemy UAVs (drones) were carried out in two districts of the city tonight,’ Kharkiv mayor Igor Terekhov said on Telegram.
Kharkiv regional governor Oleg Synegubov said three people had been killed.
‘Every new day now brings new cowardly strikes from Russia, and almost every strike is demonstrative. Russia deserves increased pressure,’ Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky said on social media after the shelling of Kharkiv.
AFP journalists in the city saw damaged apartment blocks, burnt out cars and streets strewn with debris after the attacks.
Olena Khoruzheva had run into a hallway — away from the windows — with her two children when she heard the incoming drones.
‘The younger one lay on the floor, hands on his head. I was on top of him,’ the 41-year-old pharmacist said.
‘We heard it approaching, silence, and then we were thrown against the wall there were more explosions, then we heard people shouting ‘Help! Help!’
Her 65-year-old neighbour was one of those killed in the attack.
Early on Wednesday morning, an AFP reporter saw first responders removing the body of one killed resident from a block of apartments in a black body bag.
Ukraine’s air force said that Russia had fired 85 drones overnight — fewer than in recent days.
On the front line, Moscow’s troops have been advancing steadily.
The Russian defence ministry said on Wednesday that more units had crossed into the Dnipropetrovsk region, where it is mounting an offensive for the first time in its 40-month-long invasion.
US president Donald Trump has been urging the two sides to strike a peace deal, but has seen little progress.
Zelensky has in turn called on the West to increase the pressure on Russia with hard-hitting economic sanctions that he says would limit its capacity to wage war.
He is expected to press that message with Trump and European leaders at a G7 summit in Canada, which kicks off on Sunday.
Leaders from several countries across southeastern Europe were expected in the Ukrainian port city of Odesa on Wednesday, hours after it was targeted by Russian strikes.
Two rounds of peace talks between Russia and Ukraine have failed to yield a breakthrough in ending the war.
Russia has rejected calls for an unconditional ceasefire and demanded that Ukraine give up large swathes of territory and its bid to join NATO.
But the two sides agreed to swap more than 1,000 prisoners of war and hand over the bodies of dead soldiers.
Ukraine said on Wednesday that Russia had handed over the corpses of 1,212 killed soldiers and was working to identify them.
Russia’s top negotiator, Vladimir Medinsky, confirmed the handover and said Russia had received ‘the remains of 27 Russian soldiers.’
Ukraine did not say how many bodies it returned to Russia, which says Western estimates of the number of its deaths are untrue.
Moscow spent days accusing Kyiv of not wanting to collect the bodies, after it said that they had been delivered to the border in refrigerated trucks on Saturday.
The two countries swapped groups of captured soldiers on Monday and Tuesday, though neither said how many were freed.
Fresh exchange of ‘severely wounded’ was set for Thursday, Medinsky has said.
After Russia’s attacks, Kyiv has hit back with retaliatory drone strikes.
Moscow’s defence ministry said that 32 Ukrainian drones were intercepted overnight.
Both sides have downplayed any chance of progress at talks in Istanbul.
While not rejecting diplomacy, Zelensky called it ‘pointless’ to hold further talks with the current Russian delegation — whom he previously dismissed as ‘empty heads’ — since they could not agree to a ceasefire.
Russian president Vladimir Putin last week called Kyiv a ‘terrorist’ regime and questioned why he should negotiate with them.
Agence France-Presse . Kharkiv, Ukraine 12 June, 2025, 01:06
Fresh Russian strikes on Ukraine’s northeastern city of Kharkiv killed three people and wounded 60 others, including children, on Wednesday, authorities said, as Moscow pushed ahead with attacks after rejecting an unconditional ceasefire.
Ukraine said it had received the bodies of more than 1,200 soldiers, handed over by Moscow, part of a repatriation deal the two sides agreed at talks last week.
Russia has fired record numbers of drones and missiles at Ukraine over recent weeks, escalating three years of daily bombardments as it outlines hardline demands — rejected by Kyiv as ‘ultimatums’ — to halt its three-year invasion.
The northeastern city of Kharkiv, just 30 kilometres from the Russian border, again bore the brunt of the attack.
‘Seventeen strikes by enemy UAVs (drones) were carried out in two districts of the city tonight,’ Kharkiv mayor Igor Terekhov said on Telegram.
Kharkiv regional governor Oleg Synegubov said three people had been killed.
‘Every new day now brings new cowardly strikes from Russia, and almost every strike is demonstrative. Russia deserves increased pressure,’ Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky said on social media after the shelling of Kharkiv.
AFP journalists in the city saw damaged apartment blocks, burnt out cars and streets strewn with debris after the attacks.
Olena Khoruzheva had run into a hallway — away from the windows — with her two children when she heard the incoming drones.
‘The younger one lay on the floor, hands on his head. I was on top of him,’ the 41-year-old pharmacist said.
‘We heard it approaching, silence, and then we were thrown against the wall there were more explosions, then we heard people shouting ‘Help! Help!’
Her 65-year-old neighbour was one of those killed in the attack.
Early on Wednesday morning, an AFP reporter saw first responders removing the body of one killed resident from a block of apartments in a black body bag.
Ukraine’s air force said that Russia had fired 85 drones overnight — fewer than in recent days.
On the front line, Moscow’s troops have been advancing steadily.
The Russian defence ministry said on Wednesday that more units had crossed into the Dnipropetrovsk region, where it is mounting an offensive for the first time in its 40-month-long invasion.
US president Donald Trump has been urging the two sides to strike a peace deal, but has seen little progress.
Zelensky has in turn called on the West to increase the pressure on Russia with hard-hitting economic sanctions that he says would limit its capacity to wage war.
He is expected to press that message with Trump and European leaders at a G7 summit in Canada, which kicks off on Sunday.
Leaders from several countries across southeastern Europe were expected in the Ukrainian port city of Odesa on Wednesday, hours after it was targeted by Russian strikes.
Two rounds of peace talks between Russia and Ukraine have failed to yield a breakthrough in ending the war.
Russia has rejected calls for an unconditional ceasefire and demanded that Ukraine give up large swathes of territory and its bid to join NATO.
But the two sides agreed to swap more than 1,000 prisoners of war and hand over the bodies of dead soldiers.
Ukraine said on Wednesday that Russia had handed over the corpses of 1,212 killed soldiers and was working to identify them.
Russia’s top negotiator, Vladimir Medinsky, confirmed the handover and said Russia had received ‘the remains of 27 Russian soldiers.’
Ukraine did not say how many bodies it returned to Russia, which says Western estimates of the number of its deaths are untrue.
Moscow spent days accusing Kyiv of not wanting to collect the bodies, after it said that they had been delivered to the border in refrigerated trucks on Saturday.
The two countries swapped groups of captured soldiers on Monday and Tuesday, though neither said how many were freed.
Fresh exchange of ‘severely wounded’ was set for Thursday, Medinsky has said.
After Russia’s attacks, Kyiv has hit back with retaliatory drone strikes.
Moscow’s defence ministry said that 32 Ukrainian drones were intercepted overnight.
Both sides have downplayed any chance of progress at talks in Istanbul.
While not rejecting diplomacy, Zelensky called it ‘pointless’ to hold further talks with the current Russian delegation — whom he previously dismissed as ‘empty heads’ — since they could not agree to a ceasefire.
Russian president Vladimir Putin last week called Kyiv a ‘terrorist’ regime and questioned why he should negotiate with them.
