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CBC
5 days ago
- Politics
- CBC
Russian strikes in Kyiv kill at least 14 people
Russia launched hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles at Ukraine on Tuesday, hitting dozens of civilian targets in Kyiv, including a large apartment block, killing at least 15 people and wounding scores, Ukrainian officials said. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the Russian forces sent more than 440 drones and 32 missiles at Ukraine. He described the destruction in Kyiv as among the "most horrific" of the war in the capital. About 27 locations in Kyiv were hit during several waves of attacks throughout the night, and residential buildings, educational institutions and critical infrastructure facilities were damaged, officials said. A ballistic missile struck a nine-storey residential building in Kyiv's Solomianskyi district, wiping out a whole section of it, which was flattened into a pile of debris. Emergency workers were combing through the rubble and dousing the flames with hoses. They used a crane to lower a wounded elderly woman in a stretcher out of the window of a flat in an adjacent section of the building. "I have never seen anything like this before. It is simply horrific. When they started pulling people out, and everyone was cut up, elderly people and children … I do not know how long they can continue to torment us, ordinary people," said Viktoriia Vovchenko, 57, who lives nearby. Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said 14 people were killed in Kyiv and one more in Odesa, in southern Ukraine. Nearly 100 were injured between Kyiv, Odesa and Chernihiv, in the north, officials said. Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said one of the deceased was a 62-year-old U.S. citizen, who died from shrapnel wounds. Ukraine on agenda at G7, minus Trump Zelenskyy is in Canada on Tuesday for the G7 summit, hoping to gather more support for tighter sanctions against Russia and continued military aid for Ukraine. Trump has reoriented U.S. policy away from supporting Kyiv and has so far resisted calls from European allies to impose tighter sanctions on Moscow for rejecting calls for a ceasefire. At the G7 summit, taking place in Kananaskis, Alta., Trump called for the group to readmit Russia, which was expelled in 2014 after the annexation of Crimea. Ukraine has also launched drones deep into Russia, although its attacks have not caused similar damage to civilian targets. Russia's Defence Ministry said it had intercepted and destroyed 147 Ukrainian drones over Russian territory, including the Moscow region, overnight. Russia's full-scale invasion is now in its fourth year, and the hostilities have heated up in recent weeks as Kyiv and Moscow failed to reach any agreement during two rounds of peace talks in Istanbul. Russian troops are pressing on with a grinding advance in eastern Ukraine and have opened a new front in the Sumy region in the northeast, despite calls for a ceasefire from Trump, who promised to end the war quickly. WATCH l Trump meets with frustration in mediating Russia-Ukraine war: Will Trump turn his back on the Russia-Ukraine war? | About That 21 days ago Duration 11:49 U.S. President Donald Trump's stance on the Russia-Ukraine war has changed drastically over time — particularly in terms of how he frames Russian President Vladimir Putin. Andrew Chang breaks down Trump's criticism of Putin following Russia's latest attack by explaining what it may signal about how the U.S. proceeds. Images provided by Getty Images, The Canadian Press and Reuters.
Yahoo
13-06-2025
- Yahoo
Man killed in Russian drone attack on Chernihiv Oblast
Russian forces attacked a border village in the Novhorod-Siverskyi district of Chernihiv Oblast on the evening of 12 June. A 46-year-old local resident was killed in the FPV drone strike. Source: Viacheslav Chaus, Head of Chernihiv Oblast Military Administration Details: Chaus reported that the Russians struck the border village with an FPV drone. A 46-year-old civilian man, a resident of this village, was killed in the attack. Chaus expressed his condolences to the family of the deceased. Background: On 12 June, two 12-year-old teenagers climbed onto the roof of a freight wagon and were electrocuted in Chernihiv Oblast. Support Ukrainska Pravda on Patreon!
Arab News
10-06-2025
- Politics
- Arab News
Ukrainian woman searches for husband lost in action two years ago
CHERNIHIV: When gaunt Ukrainian soldiers dismount from buses as part of prisoner swaps with Russia, Mariia Pylnyk tries to find out anything she can about her missing husband from the freed men, and hopes, just maybe, that he will be among up a photograph of Dmytro Pylnyk, lost in action in early 2023, she has many questions. What happened to his unit when it was ambushed by Russian forces? Was he captured by Russia? Could he eventually be released?The mass prisoner swap last month was an opportunity for people like her to ask troops just out of Russian captivity about missing loved ones who they believe, or simply hope, are prisoners of war. The alternative is unthinkable.'I hold out great hope that someone has heard something, seen something,' Pylnyk, 29, told Reuters at a recent exchange in May, flanked by other relatives of those missing in action.'My son and I are waiting for (his) dad to come home. Hope dies last. God willing, it'll all be okay and dad will come back.'Precize numbers for soldiers missing in action are not made Ukrainians, and for Russians on the other side of the conflict, it can be hard to find out even basic information. Pylnyk says she has written to government agencies and Russian authorities and learned almost officials say more than 70,000 Ukrainians have been registered missing since 2022, when Russia launched its full-scale invasion. The majority are from the military but the figure also includes 12,000 have been removed from the list after being identified among the dead or returned in Yatsenko, a spokesman for the Coordination Council that arranges prisoner swaps from the Ukrainian side, said Russia had never notified Kyiv which soldiers it is holding prisoner. Ukraine collects that data by other means as best it can, he and others like her share information in online chat groups and use it to try to piece together what happened.'Misfortune brought us together,' she said. 'After two years of this, we're like a family.'LAST PHONE CALLDmytro Pylnyk, an electrician by trade, was drafted into the army in late 2022. He phoned home often so that his wife did not worry but last called on their son Artem's third birthday on Feb. 27, was deployed from Kharkiv region toward Bakhmut, a small city that later fell to Russian forces after fierce unit's convoy was caught in a Russian ambush, Mariia Pylnyk said she had learned.'The guys ran any which way,' she said, citing conversations with commanders who told her 41 soldiers were missing in were captured and have since been released. One, who was freed in an exchange at Easter and had lost both his arms, was unable to share any valuable information, she second refused to pace of prisoner swaps has increased in the last and Russia each released 1,000 prisoners in a three-day exchange last month, the only tangible outcome of direct talks in Istanbul.A prisoner swap of under-25s on Monday was the first in a series of exchanges also expected to include each side repatriating the remains of Pylnyk has given her son's DNA to the authorities so that if Dmytro is confirmed killed in action they will be notified.'We all understand that this is war and anything is possible. But to this day, I don't believe it and I don't feel that he is dead. I feel like he's alive and God willing he'll return,' she SIGNAL TO CALLShe lives with Artem, now five, in Pakul, a village in the northern Chernihiv region that was briefly occupied by Russians. She has not told Artem his father is missing in action.'He knows that dad is a soldier, dad is a good man, dad is at work and just doesn't have any signal to call,' she takes comfort from seeing families reunited and never allows herself to cry in front of her used to work in a shop, but Artem has often been ill. The angst of the last two years have taken their toll on her health too. She receives state has vowed to find her husband but has often not had time to attend prisoner swaps while looking after their son.'Only a weakling can give up, you know, throw up their hands and say that's it, he's not there,' she said, adding that she was very emotional when she attended last month's big exchange.'When I was there, the fighting spirit awoke in me that I needed. I have to do this. Who else will do it but me?'
Reuters
10-06-2025
- Politics
- Reuters
Ukrainian woman searches for husband lost in action two years ago
CHERNIHIV, Ukraine, June 10 (Reuters) - When gaunt Ukrainian soldiers dismount from buses as part of prisoner swaps with Russia, Mariia Pylnyk tries to find out anything she can about her missing husband from the freed men, and hopes, just maybe, that he will be among them. Holding up a photograph of Dmytro Pylnyk, lost in action in early 2023, she has many questions. What happened to his unit when it was ambushed by Russian forces? Was he captured by Russia? Could he eventually be released? The mass prisoner swap last month was an opportunity for people like her to ask troops just out of Russian captivity about missing loved ones who they believe, or simply hope, are prisoners of war. The alternative is unthinkable. "I hold out great hope that someone has heard something, seen something," Pylnyk, 29, told Reuters at a recent exchange in May, flanked by other relatives of those missing in action. "My son and I are waiting for (his) dad to come home. Hope dies last. God willing, it'll all be okay and dad will come back." Precise numbers for soldiers missing in action are not made public. For Ukrainians, and for Russians on the other side of the conflict, it can be hard to find out even basic information. Pylnyk says she has written to government agencies and Russian authorities and learned almost nothing. Ukrainian officials say more than 70,000 Ukrainians have been registered missing since 2022, when Russia launched its full-scale invasion. The majority are from the military but the figure also includes civilians. Another 12,000 have been removed from the list after being identified among the dead or returned in exchanges. Petro Yatsenko, a spokesman for the Coordination Council that arranges prisoner swaps from the Ukrainian side, said Russia had never notified Kyiv which soldiers it is holding prisoner. Ukraine collects that data by other means as best it can, he said. Pylnyk and others like her share information in online chat groups and use it to try to piece together what happened. "Misfortune brought us together," she said. "After two years of this, we're like a family." Dmytro Pylnyk, an electrician by trade, was drafted into the army in late 2022. He phoned home often so that his wife did not worry but last called on their son Artem's third birthday on Feb. 27, 2023. He was deployed from Kharkiv region towards Bakhmut, a small city that later fell to Russian forces after fierce fighting. His unit's convoy was caught in a Russian ambush, Mariia Pylnyk said she had learned. "The guys ran any which way," she said, citing conversations with commanders who told her 41 soldiers were missing in action. Two were captured and have since been released. One, who was freed in an exchange at Easter and had lost both his arms, was unable to share any valuable information, she said. The second refused to talk. The pace of prisoner swaps has increased in the last month. Ukraine and Russia each released 1,000 prisoners in a three-day exchange last month, the only tangible outcome of direct talks in Istanbul. A prisoner swap of under-25s on Monday was the first in a series of exchanges also expected to include each side repatriating the remains of thousands. Mariia Pylnyk has given her son's DNA to the authorities so that if Dmytro is confirmed killed in action they will be notified. "We all understand that this is war and anything is possible. But to this day, I don't believe it and I don't feel that he is dead. I feel like he's alive and God willing he'll return," she said. She lives with Artem, now five, in Pakul, a village in the northern Chernihiv region that was briefly occupied by Russians. She has not told Artem his father is missing in action. "He knows that dad is a soldier, dad is a good man, dad is at work and just doesn't have any signal to call," she said. She takes comfort from seeing families reunited and never allows herself to cry in front of her son. She used to work in a shop, but Artem has often been ill. The angst of the last two years have taken their toll on her health too. She receives state support. Pylnyk has vowed to find her husband but has often not had time to attend prisoner swaps while looking after their son. "Only a weakling can give up, you know, throw up their hands and say that's it, he's not there," she said, adding that she was very emotional when she attended last month's big exchange. "When I was there, the fighting spirit awoke in me that I needed. I have to do this. Who else will do it but me?"
BBC News
09-06-2025
- Politics
- BBC News
Prisoner swap between Russia and Ukraine under way
A prisoner exchange is under way between Russia and Ukraine, governments in Moscow and Kyiv have President Volodymyr Zelensky said the exchange would unfold "in several stages" over the coming days, adding that the wounded, seriously wounded and soldiers under 25 were being on Telegram, Zelensky said: "The process is quite complicated, there are many sensitive details, negotiations continue virtually every day."Russia said a "similar number" of prisoners of war had been returned to Ukraine, though neither side provided an exact figure for how many people had been exchanged. Russia's defence ministry said "the first group of Russian servicemen under the age of 25 were returned from the territory controlled by the Kyiv regime" following an agreement reached between the warring countries last week during talks in with past exchanges, Moscow said the exchanged Russian soldiers were receiving psychological and medical assistance in Belarus. On the Ukrainian side, relatives of prisoners of war and the missing gathered in the Chernihiv region, close to the border with Belarus, to greet the released prisoners and, in many cases, seek news of others still in week, Moscow and Kyiv accused each other of disrupting the planned repatriation of the bodies of dead soldiers. In late May, Russia and Ukraine each handed over 390 soldiers and civilians in the biggest prisoner exchange since Russia launched the full-scale invasion in 2022. Meanwhile, war continued overnight, with Moscow launching a record 479 drones at Ukraine, including on the western region of Rivne that had been largely spared from defence ministry said it had targeted Rivne's Dubno base and described this as "one of the retaliatory strikes" in response to Ukraine's audacious drone attacks on Russian airfields on 1 overnight Russian launches caused damage in several Ukrainian regions but there were no reports of has recently escalated its attacks on Ukraine, with each week bringing a new record of drones fired at the country. For its part, Kyiv said it attacked another Russian airbase in the Nizhny Novgorod region, which lies 400 miles from the Ukrainian said the base houses planes that launch hypersonic missiles and that it had damaged "two units of enemy aircraft".It also targeted an electronics factory that Kyiv says manufactures equipment to guide drones and aerial bombs. Video shows one of the explosions caused by an attack drone, and a large fire at the plant. Production there has been suspended.
