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Moscow oil refinery damaged in Ukrainian drone attack: Mayor

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Moscow oil refinery damaged in Ukrainian drone attack: Mayor

The Gazpromneft refinery serves the Moscow ⁠region. File | Photo Credit: Reuters “A Ukrainian ​drone attack damaged a facility at ‌the Moscow oil refinery ​owned by Russia’s Gazpromneft,” ⁠Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said on Tuesday (June 16, 2026). “There were no casualties. Emergency ‌services are working at the scene,” Mr. Sobyanin wrote ‌on Telegram. He…

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Russian strikes kill 7 in Ukraine, destroy children’s food plant

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Russian strikes kill 7 in Ukraine, destroy children’s food plant

In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Services on June 4, 2026, a storage depot is seen on fire after a Russian strike on Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukraine. Photo: Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP Russia fired hundreds of drones at Ukraine between late Thursday (June 4, 2026) and early Friday (June 5), killing seven people…

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Five Azerbaijanis killed in Azov Sea drone attack: Baku

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Five Azerbaijanis killed in Azov Sea drone attack: Baku

Five Azerbaijanis were killed and three wounded in a drone attack on two foreign cargo ships in the Sea of Azov, Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry said on Friday (June 5, 2026). Russia said Ukraine carried out the attack. The head of Ukraine’s drone forces said Kyiv had struck vessels transporting illegal cargo in the area, without…

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‘Some kind of apocalypse’: Kyiv resident recalls terror of Russian attack

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‘Some kind of apocalypse’: Kyiv resident recalls terror of Russian attack

Resident Olha Mudra and her daughter Natalia, 6, look at their damaged apartment after a nearby building got struck during overnight Russian missile and drone attacks, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday (June 2, 2026). | Photo Credit: Reuters When ‌a large explosion shook Olha Mudra’s apartment block in Kyiv in ​the…

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NATO vows ‘absolute solidarity’ with Romania over Russian drone

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NATO vows ‘absolute solidarity’ with Romania over Russian drone

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte | Photo Credit: via Reuters The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Chief Mark Rutte pledged the alliance’s “absolute solidarity” in a call with Romania’s president Friday (May 29, 2026), slamming Russia for a drone crash that injured two people in the country bordering Ukraine. “I affirmed that NATO stands ready…

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Pope Leo decries ‘sharp intensification’ of war in Ukraine

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Pope Leo decries ‘sharp intensification’ of war in Ukraine

Pope Leo XIV waves as he leaves after his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square at The Vatican, on May 27, 2026. | Photo Credit: AP Pope ​Leo on Wednesday (May 27, 2026) decried ‌what he called ​a “sharp ⁠intensification” of the war in Ukraine, telling ‌pilgrims at his weekly ‌audience at ‌the ⁠Vatican…

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Ukraine reports Russian attacks and battlefield clashes despite ceasefire

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Ukraine reports Russian attacks and battlefield clashes despite ceasefire

Ukraine’s military and regional officials on Monday (May 11, 2026) reported Russian drone strikes and battlefield clashes over ​the past 24 hours, despite a U.S.-brokered ceasefire. Ukraine and ‌Russia agreed on Friday (May 8) to a ​ceasefire from May 9 to May 11 ⁠as part of a U.S.-led push for peace under President Donald Trump…

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Ukraine says it shot down 33,000 Russian drones in March, monthly record

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Ukraine says it shot down 33,000 Russian drones in March, monthly record

An instructor from the Ukrainian company General Cherry demonstrates the operation of an anti-air interceptor drone designed to destroy Russian attack drones in Kyiv region. File | Photo Credit: AP Ukraine used interceptor systems to shoot down more than 33,000 Russian drones of various types in March, a record monthly figure since Moscow launched its…

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Ukraine has asked Turkiye to host a Zelenskiy-Putin meeting, Foreign Minister says

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Ukraine has asked Turkiye to host a Zelenskiy-Putin meeting, Foreign Minister says

Ukraine’s Foreign Affairs Minister Andrii Sybiha. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Ukraine has asked Turkiye to host a ​meeting between President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and ‌Russian President Vladimir Putin, its top ​diplomat said, as Kyiv ⁠seeks to reinvigorate stalling peace talks. “We asked the Turks about it, we asked some ‌other capitals,” Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said…

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Woman dies, buildings damaged in Ukrainian drone attack on Russia’s Voronezh, governor says

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Woman dies, buildings damaged in Ukrainian drone attack on Russia’s Voronezh, governor says

Representative image. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphotos A woman died ‍and three other people were injured ​in an overnight Ukrainian drone attack on ‌the southern Russian city ​of Voronezh, the region’s Governor Alexander Gusev said on Sunday (January 11, 2026). More than 10 apartment buildings, about 10 private houses, a secondary school and several administrative…

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