Ukraine troops are also contending with renewed assaults around Kharkiv in the northeast. (File) Kyiv: Kyiv estimates that Russia has deployed more than 400,000 soldiers in areas it controls in the east and south of Ukraine, Deputy Intelligence Chief Vadym Skibitsky said Saturday. “The Russian Federation has concentrated more than 420,000 servicemen in our territories […]
US keeps tight restrictions on resale or transfer of US-made military equipment by allies. Washington: Washington has told Denmark and the Netherlands that they will be permitted to hand over their F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine when the country’s pilots are trained to operate them, the US State Department said Friday. Both Denmark and the […]
A “guided air bomb” hit the centre in Kupiansk, said Zelensky. (File) Kyiv, Ukraine: Moscow escalated its attacks in Ukraine on Saturday, with President Volodymyr Zelensky denouncing a deadly strike on a blood transfusion centre as a “war crime”. A separate strike struck a key factory, both attacks coming just hours after Kyiv hit a […]
The ministry said the first S-200 missile was aimed at “residential infrastructure” of Taganrog Moscow: Russia said Friday it intercepted two Ukrainian missiles over its southern Rostov region bordering Ukraine, with at least a dozen people wounded by debris falling on the city of Taganrog. Regions bordering Ukraine have seen regular drone strikes and shelling […]
Ukraine has hit a border village, claims Russia. (Representational) Moscow: Ukraine has hit the Russian border village of Zhuravlevka in the western Belgorod region with cluster munitions on Friday, the Belgorod governor said Saturday. “In the Belgorod region, 21 artillery shells and three cluster munitions from a multiple rocket launcher were fired (by the Ukrainian […]
He added that the Russian army was taking measures to protect its troops from such weapons. Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Tuesday that Moscow would be forced to use “similar” weapons if the United States supplied cluster bombs to Ukraine, Russian news agencies reported. The US announced last week it would supply Ukraine […]
Emergency services said at least 36 others had been hurt. Lviv, Ukraine: A Russian missile slammed into a residential building in Lviv in western Ukraine on Thursday, killing five people in a city that is far from frontlines and home to thousands displaced by war. The roof and top floor of the building were destroyed […]
Last week, a drone hit a residential building in Russia’s southern city of Voronezh. (Representational) Moscow: Russia on Saturday said it had destroyed three drones targeting an oil refinery in the southern border region of Bryansk, as Ukraine pursues its counteroffensive against Russian forces. “Russian air defence systems repelled an overnight attack by the Ukrainian […]
S Jaishankar said, “It’s not a zero-sum game between us.” (FILE) Mysuru (Karnataka): External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Sunday said that India has tried to help out in the Russia-Ukraine conflict not because China did something but because the situation in Ukraine deserved that. While speaking at an interactive session on the Foreign Policy […]
