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Kyiv Jews return from Carpathian retreat into night of Russian strikes

After spending nine days at a respite camp in the mountains, Jewish families from the Simcha community returned to one of the heaviest drone and missile attacks that Kyiv has seen in recent months.

Jewish families at a JRNU respite camp in the mountains.
Firefighters take a break as they work at a site of a Russian missile and drone strikes, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine, July 2, 2026.

Russia launches massive attack on Kyiv, killing at least 10 in retaliation for Ukrainian strikes

 A geiger counter measures a radiation level at a site of fire burning in the exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, outside the village of Rahivka.

Russian drone strikes nuclear fuel storage facility near Chernobyl, Ukraine says

A worker takes part in repair work on a damaged residential building following Russian strikes in Kyiv on May 25, 2026, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Russia urges foreign diplomats in Kyiv to leave ahead of strikes on 'decision-making centers'


Romania says parts of Russian drone fell on its territory

Iohannis was speaking a day after Kyiv said Russian drones had detonated on Romanian territory, a claim Bucharest denied.

 A woman and a child wait in a bus after fleeing from Russia's invasion of Ukraine, at the border crossing in Siret, Romania, March 1, 2022.

Kremlin, on Blinken's Kyiv visit, says US is ready to fund war to 'the last Ukrainian'

The US government has so far provided more than $43 billion in weaponry and other military aid to Ukraine.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken

One killed in Russia's drone and missile attack on Kyiv and Odesa

Reuters' witnesses heard several blasts which sounded like air defense systems being deployed at around 05:50 a.m.

 Smoke rises in the sky over the city after a Russian drone strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine July 13, 2023.

Russia says it foiled major Ukrainian drone attack

Russian military aircraft were damaged and civilian aviation was disrupted in the drone attacks, said Russian officials.

 A view of an explosion of a drone in the sky over the city during a Russian drone strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine July 13, 2023.

Russia launches overnight air attack on northern, central Ukraine

The Ukrainian military reported shooting down four cruise missiles out of up to eight total airborne targets detected, adding that the rest of the targets were "probably false."

 Ukrainian servicemen of the 47th Magura Separate Mechanised Brigade fire a BM-21 Grad multiple launch rocket system towards Russian troops near a front line, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine June 25, 2023.

Three Ukrainian military fighter pilots die in mid-air collision

The crash occurred on Friday over the Zhytomyr region, which lies west of Ukraine's capital Kyiv.

 An L-39 Albatross jet trainer aircraft prepares before take off at a military air base in Vasylkiv, Ukraine, August 3, 2016

Russia to resume offensive in east Ukraine after regrouping, Kyiv says

Kyiv did not provide details of the Russian regrouping but said the forces continued heavy artillery and mortar shelling and air assaults.

 A Ukrainian serviceman walks near a destroyed Ukrainian tank, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, near the village of Robotyne, Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine August 25, 2023.

Ukraine lines up destroyed Russian tanks in central Kyiv

Residents in central Kyiv said they liked having the wrecked Russian hardware on display and that they hoped it would raise the fighting spirit of Ukrainians.

People attend an exhibition displaying destroyed Russian military vehicles located on the main street Khreshchatyk as part of the upcoming celebration of the Independence Day of Ukraine, amid Russia's invasion, in central Kyiv, Ukraine August 21, 2023.

Russian shelling kills seven, including a baby, in Ukraine's Kherson region

A couple and their 23-day-old baby have been killed in the attack, their son is the lone survivor.

 Rescuers work at a site of a building damaged by a Russian drone strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kharkiv, Ukraine, in this picture obtained from social media, released on August 1, 2023

Germany in talks with MBDA over delivery of cruise missiles to Ukraine

Kyiv has been pushing Berlin to supply it with the Taurus, a missile with a range of more than 500 kilometres that is fired from fighter jets such as the Tornado, the F-15 or the F-18.

 A Taurus KEPD 350 cruise missile.