Russia targeted the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, yet again in the early morning hours on Thursday, with air raid sirens warning residents to take shelter and loud booms from the air defense systems heard throughout the city. Kyiv’s mayor, Vitali Klitschko, said on the Telegram messaging app that according to preliminary information from emergency medical workers, […]
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Russia Targets Kyiv With Third Wave of Strikes in 24 Hours, Killing One
Russia unleashed another wave of attacks early Tuesday on the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, killing at least one and prompting evacuations, extending a day of terror for the city’s residents that started with midday strikes. Explosions rang out in different parts of Kyiv overnight, according to local and military officials, sparking a fire in a high-rise […]
Israel Strikes Gaza Again, Saying It Is Targeting Islamic Jihad Rockets
The Israeli military carried out airstrikes in the Palestinian coastal enclave of Gaza on Wednesday, saying that it was hitting the rocket-launching infrastructure of the militant group Islamic Jihad. Shortly afterward, militants in Gaza began firing salvos of rockets toward Israel, reaching as far north as the skies above the suburbs of Tel Aviv. 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 […]
Deadly Russian Artillery Strikes Reported in Ukraine’s East and South
Russia pounded the front line in Ukraine’s east and south with artillery strikes, Ukrainian military authorities said on Sunday, as Moscow pushed to break through Kyiv’s last remaining defenses around the city of Bakhmut and bombarded the Kherson region. The strikes came as President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia suggested in an interview broadcast on […]
6.3-Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Southern Turkey
ADANA, Turkey — A powerful new earthquake shook southern Turkey and northwestern Syria on Monday evening, spreading panic among survivors and trapping people under more collapsed buildings only two weeks after a devastating double tremor nearby destroyed more than 100,000 buildings, killed more than 46,000 people and left more than a million homeless. The 6.3-magnitude […]
Russia Strikes Several Ukraine Cities: Live Updates
Residents waited behind a police cordon to return to their homes after a rocket attack in the suburbs of Kyiv, Ukraine, on Friday.Credit…Emilio Morenatti/Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine — Russia targeted Ukraine’s already battered infrastructure with drones, rockets and cruise missiles on Friday, raining fire on cities around the country one day after President Volodymyr Zelensky […]
Russia Strikes Kramatorsk Amid Warnings of New Offensive in Eastern Ukraine: Live Updates
Video Rescue crews helped injured and trapped civilians in the industrial Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk, which has been the site of frequent attacks since Russia’s invasion.CreditCredit…Lynsey Addario for The New York Times KRAMATORSK, Ukraine — Russian missiles slammed into Kramatorsk in eastern Ukraine on Thursday, striking a city that is a key base of Ukrainian […]
Ukraine Claims Heavy Russian Losses in Waves of Missile Strikes
KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine has claimed a string of successful artillery attacks on Russian barracks in the first days of the year, asserting that it hit newly drafted men and other soldiers where they were sleeping or congregating, killing or wounding more than 1,000. The Russian military has confirmed one of the three waves of […]
Ukraine Rocked as Russia Launches New Wave of Strikes: Live Updates
Russian strikes hit several locations in Kyiv and around Ukraine as Russia launched what appeared to be one of its biggest strikes to date.Credit…Laura Boushnak for The New York Times KYIV, Ukraine — Explosions rocked towns and cities around Ukraine on Thursday morning and electricity went out in several regions as Russia launched what appeared […]