A lack of air defense missiles prevented Ukraine from thwarting a Russian missile attack last week that destroyed the biggest power plant in the region around the capital Kyiv, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said.
Kyiv brings in higher payments for volunteers and new punishments for draft dodgers. Ukraine said it had identified almost 37,000 people, including military personnel, who are unaccounted for since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022.
Ukraine has delivered three times more drones to its armed forces so far this year than in the whole of 2023, a top commander said, as Ukrainian forces accelerate the use of unmanned craft in the war against Russia.
A lack of air defenses meant Ukraine was powerless to prevent a Russia missile strike last week that destroyed the biggest power plant in Kyiv region, President Volodomyr Zelensky said.
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Tuesday signed into law a billto overhaul Ukraine's army mobilisation rules as Kyiv tries to generate fresh manpower to rotate its exhausted troops fighting Russian invaders.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz told Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Tuesday that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine threatens global security, in an apparent call for China to apply greater pressure on its neighbor and close strategic partner to resolve the conflict.
The Kremlin reacted coolly on Tuesday to French President Emmanuel Macron's call for a truce in international conflicts during the Paris Olympics, saying Ukraine might use it as an opportunity to regroup and rearm.
Drone and missile attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure are now frequent and massive, overwhelming its current air defences. They often include the same Iranian-made Shahed drones just launched by Tehran at Israel.
Ukraine's top commander said on Sunday Russian forces aimed to capture the town of Chasiv Yar by May 9, setting the stage for an important battle for control of high ground in the east where Russia is focusing its assaults.
Volodymyr Zelenskiy says Ukraine was able to shoot down weapons early in attack on Trypilska plant but it was eventually destroyed as ‘there were zero missiles’ left
The shortages add up to a dire situation for Ukraine in the third year of the war, presenting commanders with near impossible choices on how to deploy limited resources.
Russian paratroopers have reached the eastern edge of the Ukrainian town of Chasiv Yar, which Kyiv's top commander says Moscow wants taken by May 9, the date when Russia marks the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany.
Ukraine’s recent spate of drone attacks on oil refineries in Russia have led to a question among analysts and traders: will it result in Moscow diverting large amounts of crude — that the plants are unable to process — into the global market place?
Russia has been able to swiftly repair some of key oil refineries hit by Ukrainian drones, reducing capacity idled by the attacks to about 10% from almost 14% at the end of March, Reuters calculations showed.
As Russian forces have ramped up attacks on Ukrainian energy and civilian infrastructure in recent weeks, calls for defense systems have grown increasingly desperate, leading Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba to tell Western leaders,
Roman Pohorilyi, co-founder and analyst of the DeepState military open-source intelligence (OSINT) monitoring project, talked to NV Radio on April 15, giving an overview of the current situation on the battlefield in Ukraine.
Russian forces continue to pummel eastern Ukraine in a bid to advance farther into the Donetsk region while Ukraine continues to suffer materiel shortages.
Hitting a building, waiting for first responders and the media to arrive, and hitting the same place again to target those who came to put out the fire, help the victims, or document a potential war crime is a well-honed tool of Russia in its wars.
But now, with Russians slowly advancing again, “the frontline is getting closer”, he said. Myrnohrad is under near-constant assault, with dozens of buildings and businesses badly damaged by air strikes that have killed residents and torn the community apart.
And he has a warning for those Western politicians ( Donald Trump being the most notorious example) thinking about pushing a premature peace deal on Ukraine which would require it to give up territory.
Russia destroyed key power plant near Kyiv since Ukraine 'ran out of missiles' for its defense Source: Ukraine strikes Russian modernized long-range radar system in Bryansk Oblast Bloomberg: Russia does not have capability to launch offensive on Kharkiv Zelensky signs mobilization bill Scholz says he asked Xi to 'put pressure on Russia' to end invasion Russian forces destroyed the Trypillia Thermal Power Plant (TPP) in Kyiv Oblast because Ukraine had run out of missiles to defend it during an attack,
President Volodymyr Zelensky has said more than once that Ukraine is expecting a major Russian offensive that could start in May or June. Ukrainian experts and military officials now say it might begin even sooner.
Drone combat in Russia’s war against Ukraine is changing warfare. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are being used at an unprecedented scale for which neither the Ukrainian nor the Russian armies were quite prepared.
Russian forces destroyed the Trypillia Thermal Power Plant (TPP) in Kyiv Oblast because Ukraine had run out of missiles to defend it during an attack, President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview with PBS NewsHour published on April 16.
Ruslan Stefanchuk, Head of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (Ukraine's Parliament), has signed a bill that introduces changes to mobilisation, military registration, and military service in Ukraine. Source: Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Details: The information about the bill on the website of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine indicates that Stefanchuk has signed the law,
Chernihiv, Sumy, Mykolaiv, Luhansk, Odesa, Khmelnytskyi, Cherkasy, Kirovohrad, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipropetrovsk, Kherson, Kharkiv, and Donetsk. Casualties were reported in the latter three regions.
"We're getting dangerously close to a nuclear accident," IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said following multiple attacks against the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine.
Russian troops have attempted to advance on six fronts, most actively on the Bakhmut and Novopavlivka fronts, with a total of 104 combat clashes taking place on the frontline over the past 24 hours. Source: General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Facebook,
All nine Shahed attack drones that the Russians used to bombard Ukraine on the night of 15-16 April were downed by mobile fire groups of Ukraine's Air Force and Defence Forces. Source: Ukraine's Air Force on Telegram Details: The Russians launched nine Shahed attack UAVs on the night of 15-16 April from Cape Chauda in temporarily occupied Crimea.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was presented with a new unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) model from the defense industry that can strike targets over 100 kilometers away and carry a 3-kilogram warhead,
Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide has said that the F-16 aircraft that his nation would provide to Ukraine will assist Ukraine's Armed Forces in landing strikes deeper into Russian territory.
Ukrainian Armed Forces (AFU) effectively thwart Russian attempts to breach Ukraine's defenses and advance further west of Bahmut in Donetsk Oblast, said Ukraine's Defense Minister Rustem Umerov on Facebook on April 14,