Even in a city where people have adapted the routines of ordinary life to wartime, the spectacle unfolding overhead in Kyiv was a reminder that while the fighting has been concentrated hundreds of miles east, the Ukrainian capital still has a Russian bull’s-eye on it. Ballistic missiles began roaring in shortly after 11 a.m. Monday […]
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Russian Missile Strike Hits Ukrainian Hospital
KYIV, Ukraine — Explosions far behind the front lines shook Ukraine on Friday, as a Russian missile demolished part of a hospital complex and apparent Ukrainian strikes hit Russian-occupied cities, in their escalating, long-range aerial war. The attack on a medical center in the central city of Dnipro killed at least two people, left three […]
Deadly Missile Strike Hits Medical Clinic in Ukraine: Live Updates
A flooded house in Kryvyi Rih last September after Russian forces fired missiles at a dam near the city blowing up one of two floodgates.Credit…Jim Huylebroek for The New York Times POKROVSK, Ukraine — Russian forces have blown up the dam on a river in eastern Ukraine, sending water levels rising in what Ukraine’s military […]
Ukraine Thwarts Russian Missile Attack on Kyiv: Live Updates
German and Danish military personnel trained Ukrainians crews on how to operate and maintain Leopard tanks, in Kleitz, Germany, this month.Credit…Sean Gallup/Getty Images The new long-range missiles, attack drones and tanks and other armored vehicles that President Volodymyr Zelensky has secured from allies in recent days will fulfill many, but not all, of the demands […]
Ukraine Claims It Shot Down Russia’s Most Sophisticated Missile for First Time
An American-made Patriot air-defense missile successfully intercepted one of the most sophisticated conventional weapons in Russia’s arsenal for the first time over Kyiv on Thursday night, the Ukrainian air force claimed on Saturday. The downing of a Russian hypersonic Kinzhal missile by a Patriot missile, confirmed by three senior U.S. officials, appeared to offer the […]
Russian Missile Strikes on Ukraine Kill at Least 22: Live Updates
UMAN, Ukraine — Inna stood staring at what was left of her home on Friday, the building’s facade blown nearly completely off. Maybe her children, 17-year-old Kyrylo and 11-year-old Sophia, had been carried away by the blast, she kept repeating into the wind. Maybe they would be found alive. Her husband, Dmytro, had raced to […]
Russian Missile and Drone Attacks on Ukraine Kill at Least 9: Live Updates
March 8, 2023, 3:54 p.m. ET March 8, 2023, 3:54 p.m. ET Leaders of American intelligence agencies quoted from the annual threat assessment at a Senate committee hearing in Washington on Wednesday.Credit…Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times American intelligence officials warned senators on Wednesday about the dangers posed to U.S. security by strengthening ties between China […]
Russia Hits Ukraine With New Missile Barrage
KYIV, Ukraine — Moscow unleashed a new missile bombardment on cities across Ukraine before dawn on Thursday, killing a 79-year-old woman and once again targeting critical infrastructure. Russian forces, firing from land, sea and air, launched what the Ukrainian air force put at almost three dozen cruise missiles, as well as repurposed missiles designed to […]
Why Iran’s Missile Program Alarms its Regional Rivals
A drone attack on an Iranian military facility over the weekend brought renewed attention to Iran’s development of sophisticated missiles, a program that deeply worries its regional rivals. The strike on Saturday, which set off a large explosion in the city of Isfahan, was the work of the Mossad, Israel’s premier intelligence agency, according to […]
Rescuers rush to save people buried in rubble of a building destroyed by a Russian missile.
A Russian strike tore into a nine-story apartment building in the city of Dnipro in central Ukraine, local officials said, killing at least 14 people, including a 15-year-old girl. Scores were injured. A massive fire burning in the aftermath of the strike, which left a gaping hole in the residential building. Much of the apartment […]