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Russian strikes kill three in Ukraine

Russian strikes on Ukraine overnight killed at least three people, including a pregnant woman, Kyiv said Tuesday, hours after president Volodymyr Zelensky held talks with allies in London...

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Russian strikes kill three in Ukraine
Agence France-Presse . Kyiv, Ukraine 10 June, 2026, 01:05

Russian strikes on Ukraine overnight killed at least three people, including a pregnant woman, Kyiv said Tuesday, hours after president Volodymyr Zelensky held talks with allies in London.

Ukraine said Russia was increasing its attacks on civilians as it was ‘unable’ to achieve Kremlin-set aims in a fifth year of Moscow’s invasion.

‘At least three people were killed, including a pregnant 22-year-old woman, in Chuguiv,’ foreign minister Andriy Sybiga said, referring to a city in the northeastern Kharkiv region.

Emergency services published images of a blaze engulfing residential buildings and parked cars.

Chuguiv mayor Galyna Minaeiva said the city — southwest of the regional capital Kharkiv — was hit by missiles and Iranian-made Shahed drones.

Russian progress on the sprawling front line has halted this year — despite Moscow recruiting up to 30,000 new fighters every month.

Both sides have escalated long-range drone strikes.

‘Being unable to achieve its goals on the battlefield, Russia increases terror against civilians,’ Sybiga said.

‘We urge the world to ramp up pressure on the Russian regime and further increase the cost of this terror for the aggressor.’

Russian president Vladimir Putin last week rejected Zelensky’s proposal for face-to-face talks to end the war.

Meeting in London over the weekend, Britain’s Keir Starmer, France’s Emmanuel Macron and Germany’s Friedrich Merz said they supported Kyiv’s proposal for ‘direct dialogue’.

Zelensky told British media he had met with Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich in Kyiv, passing on a message to Putin that ‘we will not give you our territory’.

The Russian leader has insisted Moscow intends to capture the whole of eastern Ukraine by force, however long it takes.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has turned into Europe’s worst conflict since World War II, with thousands of civilians and hundreds of thousands of troops killed.​

 

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Ukrainian strike kills one in southern Russia

A Ukrainian drone attack killed one person and wounded at least three others in southern Russia, a regional official said Saturday, with nearly 100 people fighting to extinguish a fire caused by the strike.

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Ukrainian strike kills one in southern Russia
Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant reconnected to grid

Agence France-Presse . Moscow, Russia 14 June, 2026, 00:40

Mourners lay flowers at the grave of Colombian fighter Jhan Sebastian Restrepo Mazo following a funeral ceremony at the Lychakiv Military Cemetery in Lviv on Friday. | AFP photo

A Ukrainian drone attack killed one person and wounded at least three others in southern Russia, a regional official said Saturday, with nearly 100 people fighting to extinguish a fire caused by the strike.

The attack damaged port installations in the Temryuk district on the Sea of Azov, near the Kerch Strait separating mainland Russia from the Crimean peninsula, which has been occupied by Moscow since 2014.

‘As a result of falling drone debris, a fire broke out at a maritime terminal... one person was killed,’ Krasnodar Krai governor Veniamin Kondratyev posted on Telegram.

He added that at least three people were wounded, according to first reports, and that 96 people had been drafted to fight the blaze.

The Russian army said it had shot down a total of 177 Ukrainian drones overnight.

Ukraine has stepped up its campaign of attacks within Russia in recent months, claiming fair retaliation for Moscow’s own massive bombardments across the more than four-year-long conflict.

Kyiv insists that the Ukrainian army first and foremost targets military installations and energy infrastructure, in a bid to deprive the Kremlin’s war chest of vital fossil fuel revenues.

The Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine was reconnected to the grid Saturday, nearly three days after a strike cut off its external electricity supply, the UN nuclear watchdog said.

Power was restored after repairs to a back-up line, carried out while a local ceasefire was in place, the International Atomic Energy Agency said in a post on X.

During the loss of external power, Europe’s largest atomic power plant had to rely on emergency diesel generators to maintain cooling for its reactors, the agency added.

The plant’s 19th loss of off-site power during the war between Russia and Ukraine, which began in February 2022, was caused by a strike late Wednesday on a substation.

‘Lasting almost three days, it was one of the site’s longest such loss of power events, underlining the extreme fragility of the electrical grid,’ the IAEA said.

The agency previously said no release of radioactivity had been detected and radiation levels remained normal.

The plant is now preparing to repair its main power line, which has been offline since March 24.

Zaporizhzhia lies close to the front line in southern Ukraine, and was captured by Russian troops in the early days of their invasion.

Moscow and Kyiv have repeatedly accused each other of risking a nuclear catastrophe with attacks near the plant.​

 

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Russian strikes kill eight in Ukraine: officials say

Russian strikes on Ukraine killed at least eight people on Tuesday, officials said, just as G7 leaders agreed to intensify pressure on Moscow over its four-year-long offensive...

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Russian strikes kill eight in Ukraine: officials say
Agence France-Presse . Kyiv, Ukraine 17 June, 2026, 09:53

Representational image. | BSS photo

Russian strikes on Ukraine killed at least eight people on Tuesday, officials said, just as G7 leaders agreed to intensify pressure on Moscow over its four-year-long offensive.

Since invading Ukraine in 2022, hundreds of thousands of civilians and soldiers have been killed, while swathes of the country have been ravaged by fighting.

G7 leaders as well as Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky met in the French resort of Evian on Tuesday, where they agreed to increase sanctions on Moscow.

A Russian drone strike on a car in the central Dnipropetrovsk region killed three people on Tuesday, regional governor Oleksandr Ganzha said.

‘It took the lives of a mother and son — a woman of 87 and a 51-year-old man. Law enforcement is currently working to identify the third killed,’ he said.

Russian shelling of the Donetsk region city of Sloviansk killed three others, while drone strikes on the southern Kherson region killed two people and wounded 16, according to officials.

Trump met Zelensky on Tuesday, saying afterwards that Russia ‘should make a deal’ to end the fighting.

Zelensky offered on Monday to meet with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in the United States for peace talks, but the Kremlin said Tuesday it had not yet received such a proposal.

Putin said earlier this month that he saw ‘no point’ in meeting Zelensky until a peace deal was ready.​

 

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Russian strikes on Ukraine kill three

Russia renewed its strikes on Ukraine Friday, killing three people including an eight-year-old girl, Ukrainian officials said.

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Russian strikes on Ukraine kill three
Agence France-Presse . Kyiv, Ukraine 20 June, 2026, 04:14

Russia renewed its strikes on Ukraine Friday, killing three people including an eight-year-old girl, Ukrainian officials said.

The strikes come a day after Ukraine launched its biggest-ever drone attack on Moscow, killing a different eight-year-old girl and sparking an inferno at a major oil refinery, according to Russian officials.

The Kremlin said Friday it would ‘continue’ striking Ukraine following that attack.

Both sides have escalated attacks on each other in recent weeks, as US-led talks on ending the more than four-year conflict remain effectively frozen.

Russian president Vladimir Putin has repeatedly rejected an offer from Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky for direct talks, vowing instead to achieve Russia’s war aims on the battlefield.

Between late Thursday and early Friday, Russia launched 90 drones at Ukraine, according to the Ukrainian air force.

‘An eight-year-old girl was killed. Another person was wounded. These are the consequences of this morning’s enemy attack on Pavlograd,’ Oleksandr Ganzha, the governor of Ukraine’s central Dnipropetrovsk region said.

Separate Russian attacks on Ukraine’s southern Odesa region killed one person, while strikes on the eastern city of Kramatorsk killed one other, according to authorities.

Russian drone attacks late Thursday killed one person and wounded five others on civilian ships in the Black Sea, Ukraine said.

The strikes come as Moscow deals with the aftermath of Thursday’s Ukrainian drone barrage, the largest on the capital since Russia invaded in 2022.

Those strikes set an oil refinery, an apartment building and a shopping centre ablaze.

Andrei Vorobyov, Governor of the Moscow Region, revealed Friday that an eight-year-old girl died during the attack.

‘At the time of the incident, she was at home with her grandmother, who was unharmed,’ he said.

The Kremlin acknowledged the Ukrainian strikes in a briefing with journalists on Friday, but said Moscow’s air defences ‘were performing well’ and that Moscow’s own strikes on Ukraine were ‘impressive’.

‘These strikes (on Ukraine) will continue,’ spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, according to Russian news agencies.

Ukraine insists its strikes targeting Russia are fair retaliation for attacks on its own civilians.​