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Kyiv hit by deadly Russian missile and drone attack - mayor

12 hours ago | bbc.com | Jaroslav Lukiv

Kyiv hit by deadly Russian missile and drone attack - mayorJaroslav LukivReutersRescuers in Kyiv have been combing through the wreckage of a residential building destroyed in an overnight Russian attackAt least two people have been killed and 54 injured, including children, in an overnight Russian missile and drone attack on Ukraine's capital Kyiv, the mayor says.
Ukraine reports many Russian drone attacks after truce ends

3 days ago | yahoo.com | Jaroslav Lukiv

Ukraine's military has reported Russian drone attacks on several regions overnight, just hours after the end of a 30-hour "Easter truce" declared by Moscow. Ukraine's air force issued raid alerts for the Kyiv region, as well as Kherson, Dnipropetrovsk, Cherkasy, Mykolaiv and Zaporizhzhia. In the southern city of Mykolaiv, Mayor Oleksandr Senkevych said "explosions were heard". It was not immediately clear whether there were any casualties.
Post Details - Kritik News

3 days ago | kritik.com.my | Lucy Clarke-Billings |Jaroslav Lukiv

By Lucy Clarke-Billings & Jaroslav LukivUkraine and Russia have accused each other of breaching a 30-hour "Easter truce" announced by Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday, which has now expired. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russian troops had violated the ceasefire nearly 3,000 times since the start of Sunday. Russia's defence ministry said it had "repelled" assaults by Ukraine and accused Kyiv of launching hundreds of drones and shells.
Ukraine reports many Russian drone attacks after truce ends

3 days ago | bbc.com | Jaroslav Lukiv

Ukraine reports many Russian drone attacks after truce endsReutersUkraine's military has reported Russian drone attacks on several regions overnight, just hours after the end of a 30-hour "Easter truce" declared by Moscow. Ukraine's air force issued raid alerts for the Kyiv region, as well as Kherson, Dnipropetrovsk, Cherkasy, Mykolaiv and Zaporizhzhia. In the southern city of Mykolaiv, Mayor Oleksandr Senkevych said "explosions were heard".
El Salvador offers Venezuela prisoner swap involving US deportees

3 days ago | yahoo.com | Jaroslav Lukiv

El Salvador's president has offered to repatriate 252 Venezuelans deported by the US and imprisoned in his country - if Venezuela releases the same number of political prisoners. Nayib Bukele appealed directly to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in a post on social media. He said many of the Venezuelan deportees had committed "rape and murder", while Venezuelan political prisoners were jailed only because they opposed Maduro, whose re-election last year is widely disputed.
Oldest serving US astronaut returns to Earth on 70th birthday

4 days ago | bbc.com | Jaroslav Lukiv

Oldest serving US astronaut returns to Earth on 70th birthdayNasa via Getty ImagesDon Pettit has now spent a total of 590 days in space during his four missionsAmerica's oldest serving astronaut Dan Pettit has returned to Earth on his 70th birthday. The Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft carrying Pettit and his Russian crewmates Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner made a parachute-assisted landing in Kazakhstan's steppe at 06:20 local time (01:20 GMT) on Sunday.
Arrests after 12 shot dead at Ecuador cockfight

4 days ago | bbc.com | Jaroslav Lukiv

Arrests after 12 shot dead at Ecuador cockfightAFP via Getty ImagesA cockfight in Ecuador. File photoPolice in Ecuador say they have arrested four people in connection with an attack by gunmen at a cockfighting ring in which 12 people died. Weapons and replica police and army uniforms were seized during police raids in the north-western Manabí province on Friday - a day after the attack in the rural community of La Valencia.
Zelensky confirms Ukraine troops active in Russia's Belgorod region

2 weeks ago | bbc.com | Jaroslav Lukiv

Zelensky confirms Ukraine troops active in Russia's Belgorod regionJaroslav LukivEPAA Ukrainian soldier operating a howitzer on the frontline Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has publicly acknowledged for the first time that his troops are active in Russia's Belgorod region. "We continue to carry out active operations in the border areas on enemy territory, and that is absolutely just - war must return to where it came from," he said on Monday.
Zelensky confirms Ukraine troops in Russia's Belgorod region

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Jaroslav Lukiv

As Denmark tears down homes in ‘non-Western’ areas to force assimilation, residents fight back in court - The World from PRXDenmark is taking a wrecking ball to people’s homes in neighborhoods where the government feels residents don’t share “Danish values.” A 2018 law allows the demolition of homes in communities designated as “parallel societies.” The underlying idea is “integration through dispersion” but this …
Red Cross outraged over killing of medics by Israeli forces

3 weeks ago | bbc.com | Jaroslav Lukiv |David Gritten

Jaroslav Lukiv & David GrittenBBC NewsThe Red Cross movement has expressed outrage that eight Palestinian medics were killed along with six Civil Defence first responders and a UN staff member by Israeli forces in southern Gaza. Five ambulances, a fire truck and a UN vehicle were struck "one by one" in the al-Hashashin area on 23 March, according to a UN official. The 15 bodies were recovered from a "mass grave" on Sunday, he said.