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Russian forces carried out overnight drone attacks on Kyiv, officials said Thursday, continuing a month-long campaign of air strikes against the Ukrainian capital. Military chiefs said Kyiv’s air defences destroyed all of the drones during…
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Almost 80 percent of Kyiv residents on Monday faced power outages and water cuts as Russian missiles struck key infrastructure facilities in the northeastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv and the central region of Cherkasy, Ukrainian officials…
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The central Shevchenkivskyi district of Ukraine’s capital was rocked by blasts early on Monday for the second time in a week, with Mayor Vitalii Klitshchko saying several residential buildings were damaged. “Rescuers are on the site,”…
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Several explosions hit the centre of Kyiv- Ukraine’s capital- on Monday morning, its mayor said. Clouds of black smoke could be seen rising from buildings in videos widely shared on social media. “Several explosions in the Shevchenskivskyi…
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Russia’s offensive in eastern Ukraine is intensifying with the war having entered the ninth week and a ceasefire far from sight. The war-hit nation’s capital city of Kyiv witnessed missile strikes, Ukraine said, at a time when UN chief…
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The bodies of 1,150 civilians have been recovered in Ukraine’s Kyiv region since Russia’s invasion and 50-70% of them have bullet wounds from small arms, Kyiv police said on Thursday. Kyiv regional police chief Andriy Nebytov said in a…
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The UK embassy in Kyiv, shut earlier this year due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, will reopen next week, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Friday. “We will very shortly, next week, reopen our embassy in Ukraine’s capital…
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Russia said its troops had cleared the urban area of Mariupol and only a small contingent of Ukrainian fighters remained inside a steelworks in the besieged southern port on Saturday, as missile strikes hit Ukraine’s capital Kyiv and other…
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Russia has decided to drastically cut its military activity around Kyiv and Chernihiv in Ukraine, one of its deputy defence ministers said on Tuesday, after talks between Russian and Ukrainian negotiating teams in Istanbul. “In order to…
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Ukrainian forces on Monday recaptured the town of Irpin on the outskirts of Kyiv from invading Russian troops.“We have good news today — Irpin has been liberated,” said the town’s mayor, Oleksandr Markushyn.  A senior US defense official…
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