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Firefighters work at a site of a Russian drone strike, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine on August 29, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters At least 27 people were killed after a Russian drone strike on a Kyiv-area warehouse sparked a detonation, officials said on Saturday (August 27, 2026), prompting calls by President…
Russian forces on Friday (August 28, 2026) resumed their drone barrage of Ukraine’s Kyiv region, hitting more than a dozen apartment buildings and storage depots in a second straight day of aerial attacks, officials said. Prolonged air raids in Kyiv on Thursday (August 27) essentially locked down the Ukrainian capital for 15 hours, the Foreign…
Russia bombarded cities across Ukraine with missiles and drones in an overnight onslaught that ran into the daylight hours of Thursday (August 27, 2026), when explosions echoed around Kyiv through the morning. Ukraine is desperately short of U.S.-made Patriot air defense missiles that can counter Russia’s ballistic missiles, and Moscow’s fast-flying jet-powered drones have brought…
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Debris from an Ukrainian drone attack fell onto a childcare facility in southern Russia, killing two youngsters and wounding nine others, Russian regional authorities said early Monday (August 24, 2026). The latest attacks came as Ukraine prepared to mark the 35th anniversary of its independence and to host a meeting of the Coalition of the…
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Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy held a briefing with a group of journalists on August 22, 2026, the first in months amid several political crises. File | Photo Credit: AP President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in remarks made public on Sunday (August 23, 2026), said that it would be too dangerous for Ukraine to hold an election while…
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Russia pounded the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and the surrounding region with scores of missiles and drones in a nighttime aerial attack that lasted for hours and killed at least 16 people, officials said on Thursday (August 20, 2026). Moscow’s forces have in recent months intensified their ballistic missile attacks on Kyiv, exploiting Ukraine’s chronic shortage…
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Russia denies targeting civilians in the war triggered by its invasion of its smaller neighbour in February 2022. File | Photo Credit: Reuters A Russian drone strike on a minibus in Ukraine’s southern city of Kherson killed four people on Wednesday (August 18, 2026), Ukrainian authorities said, in what President Volodymyr Zelenskyy described as a…
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Ukrainian forces staged one of their biggest drone attacks on Russia since Moscow’s invasion more than four years ago, firing almost 800 drones just two days after launching a similar salvo, officials said Tuesday (August 18, 2026). Meanwhile, a Russian missile strike on a village in Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region killed at least 10 people…
Ukrainian rescuers work at the site of a Russian strike. | Photo Credit: AFP A Russian attack targeted port infrastructure in Ukraine’s Izmail district in the southern region of Odesa overnight, Ukrainian authorities said on Monday. Fires caused by the attack have been extinguished, the authorities added on the Telegram messaging app. Russia’s Defence Ministry…
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Image used for representational purposes. File | Photo Credit: Reuters India’s soyoil imports are set to hit a record high in August as competitive prices prompt refiners to boost purchases for festive demand, while disruptions to sunflower oil shipments due to the Russia-Ukraine war push buyers to switch oils, dealers said. Soyoil imports in August…
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