MOSCOW: A Russian war correspondent working for the state RIA Novosti news agency, Rostislav Zhuravlev, was killed in a Ukrainian strike in the southern Zaporizhzhia region on Saturday, the military announced. The agency also reported his death, saying he was killed near the frontline village of Pytikhatki. “As a resultContinue Reading

NIKOPOL: On the 500th day since Russia’s invasion and as the war grinds on, Ukrainian forces are advancing slowly without enough arms and ammunition and with its main cities under constant threat.Since the beginning of June, Ukraine’s army has been on the offensive to reconquer territory captured by Russian forcesContinue Reading

KYIV: At least three people were killed in Russian attacks in southern Ukraine on Tuesday, including two who died after a trolleybus company came under fire in the city of Kherson, regional officials said.Oleksandr Prokudin, the governor of the Kherson region, said two men aged 55 and 43 were killedContinue Reading

KYIV: Kyiv urged Ukrainians not to panic or stockpile iodine tablets after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy alleged that Russia had prepared a radiation leak at an occupied nuclear plant.Zelenskyy said this week that Russian forces controlling Zaporizhzhia — Europe’s biggest nuclear plant — were planning a “terror attack” by orchestrating aContinue Reading