Putin has attacked Kyiv for the first time in weeks, launching fourteen missiles at the city and surrounding region and striking at least two residential buildings with ‘a lot of injuries’, according to Ukrainian sources.
Kyiv had enjoyed three weeks of relative peace and quiet during the war until the early Sunday morning strikes, the first attacks since June 5.
Several large bangs shook the city around 6.30am and rescue services were seen battling flames and rescuing civilians from the
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Das ukrainische Militär beendete offiziell die Spekulationen über den „Geist von Kiew“ und gab zu, dass der legendäre Pilot eigentlich ein Mythos ist.
“Ghost of Kiev ist eine Superhelden-Legende, deren Charakter von Ukrainern geschaffen wurde!” Das teilte die ukrainische Luftwaffe am Samstag in einem Facebook-Beitrag mit.
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Trümmer und Trümmer außerhalb eines durch russische Luftangriffe beschädigten Einkaufszentrums im Stadtteil Podilskyi in Kiew.
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Für Eleanora Tymoshenko, eine Musiklehrerin aus Balakliia in der Nähe von Charkiw in der Ostukraine und jetzt Flüchtling in Warschau, ist eine Nacht mit ukrainischer Musik Nahrung für ihre Seele, wenn sie über den Konflikt nachdenkt, der ihr Zuhause verwüstet.
„Musik unterstützt eine Person moralisch, unterstützt ihren Geist, den ukrainischen Geist, und gibt das Recht zu leben und gibt das Recht, … den Krieg zu gewinnen …, den Feind zu besiegen“, sagte Timoschenko, 50, als sie den Konzertsaal der Warschauer
Incredible video footage has emerged showing the moment a lone Ukrainian tank single-handedly destroyed several Russian armoured vehicles less than 50 miles from Kyiv.
The footage, collected by a drone and published by a Ukrainian volunteer unit on Telegram, shows what appears to be a single well-positioned Ukrainian T-64 tank ambushing a convoy of Russian BTR-82A armoured vehicles on a road in Nova Basan, west of the capital.
Thanks to brilliant positioning, the lion-hearted tank operator was able to fire
A former NATO official has said she is ‘sceptical’ that Russian forces will ‘gain much success’ from an expected brutal onslaught of Kyiv, as Ukrainians warned Putin to prepare for his own Stalingrad in the capital.
Russian armoured vehicles are still slowly advancing on the city’s northeast after being stalled for days, and a military airfield south of the city in Vasylkiv has been hit by missiles, destroying the runway, a fuel depot and an ammunition store.
The bulk of
Vladimir Putin has today branded Ukrainians ‘extreme gangsters’, claimed their army is using civilians as ‘human shields’, hailed his soldiers as heroes who are fighting to save innocent lives and said his invasion is going exactly to plan and schedule in a stunning act of hypocrisy and outright denial.
The Russian leader, who eight days ago declared all-out war against Ukraine in a bid to topple its elected government and reunify it with Russia by force, denied that his troops
Volodymyr Zelensky has today made an emotional appeal for Ukraine to be admitted to the EU as his people were killed in an increasingly bloody onslaught by Russia, raising a one-fisted salute and declaring ‘glory to Ukraine’ as the European parliament gave him a long round of applause.
The Ukrainian president – who has become a symbol of courage, composure and defiance in recent days – addressed parliamentarians in Brussels via video-link from Kyiv, which is currently facing down a
Kyiv has survived another night under Russian attack with Putin’s ‘demoralised and exhausted’ troops suffering ‘heavy losses’ trying and failing to break through defences in the city’s outskirts, Ukraine’s commander has said.
Colonel General Alexander Syrsky, who is in charge of defending the city, said on Monday morning that ‘all attempts’ to breach the city failed and that the situation is currently ‘under control’. ‘We showed that we can protect our home from uninvited guests,’ he added.
