Ukraine and Russia traded drone strikes in Ukraine’s eastern Kupyan region, Ukraine: a warning on the vulnerability of Kiev and Kiev’s economy
Serhiy Tyurin, deputy head of Ukraine’s Khmelnytsky region military administration, said Sunday that Russian missiles had damaged several buildings in the area, injuring one and sparking a fire in a warehouse. IN Ukraine’s eastern Kupyan region, a 55-year-old man was hospitalized after missiles struck local houses and farm buildings. The forest fire was caused by the attack, according to social media.
Ukraine and Russia traded drone strikes. Russia struck a key Ukrainian port on Wednesday. Kyiv’s military administration said that air defense forces destroyed almost a dozen Russian drones on the approach to the Ukrainian capital. The Moscow airport temporarily suspended flights after a third drone was destroyed, according to Russia’s Defense Ministry and regional authorities. A Russian tanker was damaged by sea drones in an attack on a Black Sea naval base.
One strike on the Russian capital in a month spotlighted the vulnerability of the city as Russia’s war in Ukraine drags into its second year.
A woman in her eighties was also killed by Ukrainian shelling in Russian-held Donetsk, the city’s Moscow-appointed mayor Alexei Kulemzin said Sunday. The flights at Moscow’s Vnukovo airport, which is southwest of the city, were temporarily suspended Sunday morning after a drone was shot down over the city.
“This war crime alone says everything about Russian aggression,” Zelenskyy wrote on social media. Everyone who values life should honorDefeating terrorists is a matter of honor.
KYIV, Ukraine — Three people have died during a night of air strikes and intense shelling across Ukraine, officials said Sunday, while Moscow’s second-largest airport briefly suspended flights following a foiled drone attack near the Russian capital.
The Azov Regime of Crime: Russia and Ukraine Trade Drone Strikes; Kyiv removes Soviet symbol; Saudi Arabia hosts a peace summit in Jeddah
The trial of 22 members of the Azov Battalion — Ukrainian POWs captured following Russia’s weeks-long siege of a steelworks plant in Mariupol in May 2022 — on terrorism charges continues Wednesday at a military court in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don. Rights groups have denounced the proceedings as a violation of the Geneva Conventions.
In the month of June, Saudi Arabia hosted a peace summit in Jeddah attended by national security advisers and representatives from 40 countries including the US, Turkey, India, and Brazil. Governments that have taken a neutral stance on the war in Ukraine are represented at the meeting. Russia wasn’t invited. The third time around, the parties agreed to meet again, though a date wasn’t set.
Ukrainian authorities removed the Soviet hammer and sickle from Kyiv’s Motherland Monument, the country’s tallest statue, and began replacing it with Ukraine’s coat of arms featuring a trident, Ukraine’s national symbol. Since the start of the war, Ukrainian authorities have ordered the removal of statues depicting Russian and Soviet writers and leaders, and de-Russified street names.
Ukrainian pilots will begin training in August to fly F-16 fighter jets. “The delivery and combat use of F-16s by our pilots should take place as soon as possible,” he said.
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Navalny’s case for the Ukraine crisis: a new high-strength sentence for extremism in the U.S.
A Russian court sentenced jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny to an additional 19 years in prison on extremism-related charges. The ruling comes amid a wider crackdown against domestic critics of the war in Ukraine.
The law that Putin signed raised the military enlistment age cap from 27 to 30 years old. The move is part of a wider Kremlin effort to expand the pool of Russian recruits for the war in Ukraine.
The U.S. assumed the presidency of the United Nations Security Council for the month of August, with the Ukraine war and its impact on the world food supply leading the agenda.
Yale’s Conflict Observatory reported that Russian authorities are forcing Ukrainians living in Russian-occupied land to take Russian citizenship or be deported or detained. Russia claims that it’s given citizenship to some 3 million Ukrainians since 2014, when Russian proxies took over parts of eastern Ukraine as well as Crimea in the south.
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