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Russia blasts Ukraine with more aerial attacks as part of an intensified campaign

Nov. 08, 2024 06:09 AM EST

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian missiles, bombs and drones battered three regions of Ukraine in targeted nighttime attacks, officials said Friday, as Russia mounts an intensified aerial campaign that Ukrainian officials say they need more Western help to counter — even as doubts deepen over what...

Russian bomb hits building in Ukraine's 2nd largest city, killing 3, including 2 teens

Oct. 31, 2024 09:11 AM EDT

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces struck a residential building in Ukraine's second-largest city of Kharkiv on Thursday, killing three, including two teenage boys, and injuring scores of others, and launched scores of other attacks as they continued their grinding onslaught in the country's...

New NATO chief Mark Rutte visits Ukraine in his first trip since taking office

Oct. 03, 2024 08:23 AM EDT

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — New NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte visited Ukraine on Thursday in his first official trip since taking office and pledging the alliance's continued support for Kyiv in its war with Russia. Rutte met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv as air...

Russian strikes on a medical center kill 9 people in the Ukrainian city of Sumy

Sep. 28, 2024 15:38 PM EDT

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Two consecutive Russian attacks on a medical center in the northeastern Ukrainian city of Sumy on Saturday killed at least nine people, officials said. The first strike killed one person. Russia attacked again while patients and staff were evacuating, said...

Ukraine says its soldiers recaptured a Russian stronghold after hand-to-hand fighting

Sep. 24, 2024 11:08 AM EDT

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian troops engaged in hand-to-hand combat as they drove Russian forces out of a huge processing plant in the town of Vovchansk in Ukraine’s northeast that had been occupied for four months, officials said Tuesday. The plant, a partly steel structure...

21 wounded in Russian strikes that hit apartment buildings in Ukrainian city of Kharkiv

Sep. 22, 2024 21:03 PM EDT

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia launched new strikes in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv that hit high-rise apartment buildings, leaving at least 21 wounded in a second consecutive nighttime attack, authorities said. The bombs fell Saturday night on the district of Shevchenkivsky, north...

Russian missiles blast Ukrainian military academy and hospital, killing more than 50, officials say

Sep. 03, 2024 16:03 PM EDT

POLTAVA, Ukraine (AP) — Two ballistic missiles blasted a military academy and nearby hospital Tuesday in Ukraine, killing more than 50 people and wounding more than 200 others, Ukrainian officials said, in one of the deadliest Russian strikes since the war began. The missiles tore...

Three Ukrainian teens begin their final year of high school holding onto hopes for the future

Sep. 02, 2024 22:39 PM EDT

UZHHOROD, Ukraine (AP) — This week marks the start of the school year in Ukraine, a pivotal time for any student, especially for teenagers in their final year of high school. Ukrainian teens have more than just grades and university choices on their minds — they are grappling with the realities...

Russia launches a barrage of drones, cruise and ballistic missiles at Kyiv, Ukraine's military says

Sep. 01, 2024 23:55 PM EDT

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia launched a barrage of drones, cruise and ballistic missiles at Kyiv and possibly other cities, Ukraine’s air force said early Monday. Several series of explosions rocked the Ukrainian capital in the early hours of Monday, sending residents into bomb...