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57 people were injured and 10 are in critical condition. Authorities say eight residential properties were destroyed in the blasts and another 11 suffered damages. Romanian authorities announced that two explosions at a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) station 30 kilometres from Bucharest, Romania, Saturday night killed at least two people and injured dozens more. Thirty-nine […]

Russia downed a barrage of 42 Ukrainian drones near Crimea, the Russian Defense Ministry said Friday, in the largest recent air attack on the peninsula and a day after Kyiv claimed its special forces carried out a raid on the annexed territory. Ukrainian soldiers with a drone.U.S. Army National Guard Nine drones were “destroyed… over […]

A Kremlin spokesperson said the situation must be approached with “facts”. Moscow has hit back against claims it ordered the assassination of Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin, who is believed to have died in a plane crash on Wednesday.   “It’s an absolute lie,” said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Friday, denying allegations from Western officials that […]

Ukrainian special operators riding in small boats probably knocked out two Russian air force early warning radars in Crimea. It wasn’t a one-off attack, more strikes are coming, experts say. In a daring dawn raid with small boats, Ukrainian commandos damaged a critical Russian air force radar base operating on the Crimea coast, as Kyiv widened a campaign of […]

Officials say the charred bodies were found in the Dadia forest in Evros, north-eastern Greece. A hospital in the port of Alexandroupolis was also evacuated on Monday night while firefighters continued to battle the flames on the island of Evia The remains of eighteen people believed to be migrants, were found in a forested area […]

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday arrived in South Africa, where he will head Russia’s delegation at the annual BRICS summit this week. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (С).Jacoline Schoonees / DIRCO / 15th BRICS Summit / flickr Lavrov was greeted by a group of dancers and musicians upon disembarking his plane in Johannesburg on […]

“We hoped our defenders would come and rescue us, but we waited for so long that today happened almost out of the blue, very unexpectedly. At first, we couldn’t even believe that our guys came. Ukrainian troops have entered the Robotyne in the western Zaporizhzhia region, rescuing ecstatic villagers who have described their “unexpected” joy […]

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky announced a visit to Sweden on Saturday, saying he had arrived in the country for talks with the government, political parties and the Swedish royal family. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (right) and Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson (left) during a joint press conference in February 2023. Photo by Sergei SUPINSKY / […]

The number of wounded in the Russian missile attack on Chernihiv rose to 110 people as of 3:25 p.m., according to Oleksandr Lomako, the city’s acting mayor. An injured man walks off the site of a missile strike, near the Taras Shevchenko Chernihiv Regional Academic Music and Drama Theater, in Chernihiv, on Aug. 19, 2023. A Russian […]

Russian strike kills at least 5 people A Russian bombardment has left “several people dead” and “several injured” in the city centre of Chernihiv in northern Ukraine, with a university and a theatre both hit, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced on Telegram on Saturday “A Russian missile hit right in the centre of town, in our […]