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ABC News
3 days ago
- ABC News
Emotional Billy Slater responds to Aaron Woods' comments
Photo shows Ukraine Drone Strike: Screengrab shows a small drone hovering above a truck's trailer with a plume of smoke in the background. Has Video Duration: 1 minute 41 seconds . 1 m 41 s
Russia Today
3 days ago
- Politics
- Russia Today
Fatalities reported after Ukrainian attack on Russian city
Russian civilians have reportedly been killed and at least ten injured by a Ukrainian strike on a residential district in the city of Donetsk, the city's mayor, Alexey Kulemzin, said on Tuesday. 'Three or four hits' on peaceful areas, damaging a residential building as well as two public utilities, had taken place, he said, adding that the 'damage is quite significant.' Ambulances had evacuated ten people who were injured in the shelling, Kulemzin stated, noting 'preliminary information about fatalities.' Kulemzin had previously warned residents about loud blasts in the city, urging caution. The TASS news agency later reported at least ten powerful explosions in the capital of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR). TASS reported that a multi-story residential building has been destroyed and several dozen vehicles damaged in the strike. The outlet's correspondent has also claimed that at least one person was killed in the attack and three were badly forces have regularly targeted residential neighborhoods in Donetsk throughout the ongoing conflict. Just days earlier, a unmanned aerial vehicles injured six teenagers and two adults, according to the DPR's war crimes documentation department. The incident occurred during a series of drone attacks that also damaged homes and vehicles in the area. City officials report dozens of civilian injuries in Donetsk each month as a result of shelling attributed to Ukrainian forces.
Russia Today
4 days ago
- Politics
- Russia Today
10 injured in Ukrainian attack on Russian city
Russian civilians have reportedly been killed and at least ten injured by a Ukrainian strike on a residential district in the city of Donetsk, the city's mayor, Alexey Kulemzin, said on Tuesday. 'Three or four hits' on peaceful areas, damaging a residential building as well as two public utilities, had taken place, he said, adding that the 'damage is quite significant.' Ambulances had evacuated ten people who were injured in the shelling, Kulemzin stated, noting 'preliminary information about fatalities.' Kulemzin had previously warned residents about loud blasts in the city, urging caution. The TASS news agency later reported at least ten powerful explosions in the capital of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR). TASS reported that a multi-story residential building has been destroyed and several dozen vehicles damaged in the strike. The outlet's correspondent has also claimed that at least one person was killed in the attack and three were badly forces have regularly targeted residential neighborhoods in Donetsk throughout the ongoing conflict. Just days earlier, a unmanned aerial vehicles injured six teenagers and two adults, according to the DPR's war crimes documentation department. The incident occurred during a series of drone attacks that also damaged homes and vehicles in the area. City officials report dozens of civilian injuries in Donetsk each month as a result of shelling attributed to Ukrainian forces.
The Independent
5 days ago
- Politics
- The Independent
North Korea suffered more than 6,000 casualties in Ukraine, UK intelligence says
More than 6,000 North Korean soldiers have been killed or injured while fighting alongside Russia 's forces in Kursk where Ukraine has presence due to its incursion, the British ministry of defence has assessed. 'Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) forces have highly likely sustained more than 6,000 casualties in offensive combat operations against Ukrainian forces in the Russian oblast of Kursk,' the UK ministry of defence said in its latest assessment on Sunday, using North Korea 's official name. 'The total casualties amount to more than half of the approximately 11,000 DPRK troops initially deployed to the Kursk region,' the defence ministry said. North Korea has been a staunch ally of Russia's military invasion in Ukraine and also helped the Russian troops fight back audacious Ukrainian attack in Kursk oblast where Kyiv's forces entered in August last year. While neither Russia nor Ukraine provides official figures for the number of combat casualties, North Korea made a rare admission in April this year that it sent troops for deployment inside Kursk to support Russia. The ministry added that North Korea's significant casualty rates 'have almost certainly been sustained primarily through large, highly attritional dismounted assaults'. The ministry said North Korea has deployed only a limited number of additional troops in Kursk, citing the open-source reports, showing that the hermit kingdom has suffered severe losses on the battlefield. The MoD also pointed to the latest high-level visit by Russia's former defence minister and security council secretary Sergei Shoigu, earlier this month. 'Shoigu has highly likely been a key interlocutor with DPRK regarding DPRK's support to Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine,' it said, adding that Mr Shoigu met with the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for the second time in less than three months. In the meeting, Mr Kim affirmed that North Korea will ' unconditionally support the stand of Russia and its foreign policies in all the crucial international political issues including the Ukrainian issue', the official Korean Central News Agency said. According to the US, South Korean and Ukraine intelligence officials, North Korea dispatched 10,000-12,000 troops to Russia last fall in its first participation in a major armed conflict since the 1950-53 Korean War. 'DPRK operations have thus far been confined to the Kursk region. Any decision to deploy into internationally recognised sovereign Ukrainian territory in support of Russian forces, would almost certainly require sign-off from both Russia's president Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un,' the UK ministry of defence said. South Korean authorities recently said North Korea sent around 3,000 additional troops to Russia earlier this year. North Korea has also been supplying a vast amount of conventional weapons to Russia as well. South Korean, US and their partners believe Russia has provided economic and military assistance to North Korea in return. The western intelligence and South Korea have warned that Russia might also transfer sophisticated technologies to help North Korea enhance its nuclear weapons programme targeting its rivals.
Yahoo
5 days ago
- Politics
- Yahoo
Russia says it struck oil refinery that supplies Ukrainian army with fuel
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian forces carried out an overnight strike on the Kremenchuk oil refinery that supplies fuel to Ukrainian forces in the Donbas region, Russia's defence ministry said on Sunday. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy denounced the attack on the central Poltava region as a vile strike against Ukrainian energy infrastructure. "Unfortunately, there was damage to the energy infrastructure," Zelenskiy said in his evening address to the nation. "This is Russia's (effort to) spit on everything that the international community is trying to do to stop this war." He said it occurred "after the Americans asked us not to strike at Russian energy facilities." The Russian defence ministry's statement said that missiles had been fired at the refinery in Ukraine's Poltava region from both sea and air and that strike drones were also used in what it said had been a successful attack. Russia has claimed Ukraine's eastern Donbas region as its own and controls most of its two regions, Donetsk and Luhansk. Ukraine is fighting to stop Russia from taking control of the rest of Donbas and has said it plans to retake territory it has lost, through a combination of force and diplomacy. The Russian Defence Ministry said separately that its forces had taken control of the village of Malynivka in the Donetsk region, known in Russia as Ulyanovka. It also said its forces had advanced deep into enemy defences in Ukraine's Sumy region and inflicted heavy losses on Ukrainian units there. Sumy is not one of the regions Russia has formally claimed as its own, but it has spoken of creating a buffer zone there. Zelenskiy said on Saturday that Ukrainian forces had recaptured Andriivka village in northeastern Sumy as part of a drive to expel Russian forces from the area. He said Russia has amassed 53,000 troops in the vicinity.
