Ukraine, Russia and Air Defenses
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Ukraine reportedly destroys a Russian flag moments after a drone delivery as another battlefield video fuels competing territorial claims from both sides
Ukraine and Russia traded fire overnight with 4 people hurt in strikes on refineries in Russia while Russian attacks killed 6 and injured dozens.
In late June, President Volodymyr Zelensky tasked Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) with launching a "40-day influence operation" designed to compel Russia to "end the war." In the weeks following,
Russia has also used this tactic to protect submarines at a key base in the Black Sea from Ukrainian drone strikes.
The regional governor says Russia has repelled 92 drones in Yaroslavl, home to the Slavneft-Yanos refinery, about 150 miles north-east of Moscow.
The strikes have drawn attention not only because of their reach inside Russia, but also because of Wildberries’ economic importance, its ties to the country’s financial sector, and the impact on ordinary Russian consumers.
A Russian governor has proposed turning the belongings of dead Ukrainian soldiers into a war museum floor, allowing visitors to walk over them as a symbol of victory.
When evangelical pastor Ihor Ivashchuk fled his home in occupied Ukraine four years ago, he asked a lifelong friend to live there and look after it until he could safely return. But when his friend called to say a man clad in military fatigues had turned up on the doorstep asking who owned the property and whether he could see ownership documents,
By Dan Peleschuk and Serhiy Chalyi ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine, Aug 6 (Reuters) - When two Russian bombs hit Kateryna Lahuta's seafood business in Ukraine's southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia last month, they shattered the last semblance of security for the 41-year-old entrepreneur.
A projectile struck a crowded Russian Black Sea beach Monday, killing seven people, including four children, and injuring 58. Russia blamed a Ukrainian drone attack as video captured the deadly impact.