Tag: Ukraine

Missile Strike Hits Cherkasy, Ukraine

The State Emergency Service of Ukraine released footage of rescue operations following the attack and said that people may still be under the rubble of a building.

How the Khakova Dam Disaster Continues to Devastate Ukraine

Sunset along the Kakhovka Reservoir in central Ukraine, especially in summer, used to be gorgeous: kids played in the shallow water near the shore, men fished and young couples walked under the pine trees as the last traces of sunlight reflected off the water. But after the destruction of a major dam just downriver, that

Zelensky Pushes Sweden to Give Ukraine Fighter Jets

The Netherlands and Denmark said Sunday that they would donate F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine — the first countries to do so — in what President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said was a breakthrough in his nation’s quest to acquire the aircraft considered imperative in the war against Russia. The acquisition of American-made F-16’s to

As Dolphins Die in Black Sea, Ukraine Builds Case for Ecocide Against Russia

The victim was found along a stretch of beach near the port city of Odesa in southern Ukraine early this summer, cause of death unknown. As a light rain fell in the open field where the necropsy would take place, law enforcement officials, a representative of the local prosecutors’ office and civilian witnesses gathered to

Ukraine Says Russian Missiles Struck Town of Pokrovsk, Killing 5

Russian forces shelled a small city in eastern Ukraine twice in quick succession on Monday evening, killing at least five people, including an emergency worker who was responding to the first attack, Ukrainian officials said. At least 31 others, including a child and more than a dozen police officers, were injured in the attacks on

Russia Strikes Danube Port, Escalating Attacks on Ukraine Grain Routes

Russia for the first time on Monday attacked a port on the Danube River in Ukraine, close to the Romanian border, Ukrainian and Romanian officials said, destroying a grain hangar in an escalation of its efforts to cripple Kyiv’s agriculture and risking a more direct confrontation with the United States and its European allies. The

Russia Stops Ukraine Grain Deal, Shaking World Food Markets

Russia said on Monday it was withdrawing from a wartime agreement to allow grain exports from Ukraine through the Black Sea until its demands to loosen sanctions on its own agricultural exports were met, upending a deal that has helped stabilize global food prices and alleviate shortages in parts of Africa and the Middle East.

Russia Seeds New Surveillance Tech to Squash Ukraine War Dissent

As the war in Ukraine unfolded last year, Russia’s best digital spies turned to new tools to fight an enemy on another front: those inside its own borders who opposed the war. To aid an internal crackdown, Russian authorities had amassed an arsenal of technologies to track the online lives of citizens. After it invaded

UN Nuclear Watchdog to Assess Dam Disaster Aftermath in Ukraine

The director general of the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog said on Monday he was on his way to Ukraine to assess the situation at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant after a dam breach depleted water levels in the reservoir it uses to cool reactors and spent nuclear fuel. The director, Rafael Mariano Grossi, said he

Ukraine Dam Collapse Brings Floodwater to Kherson

KHERSON, Ukraine — Oleksiy Kolesnik waded ashore and stood, trembling, on dry land for the first time in hours, rescued after spending the predawn sitting on top of a cabinet in his flooded living room. “The water came really quickly,” said Mr. Kolesnik, who was so weak he had to be helped out of a