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 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?
Two people have been killed by Ukrainian strikes on the Russian-held parts of Ukraine's Kherson region, Russian-installed regional head Vladimir Saldo said on Sunday.
A Russia-installed official in Ukraine's southern Zaporizhzhia region said on Sunday that the death toll from shelling by Ukraine's military on the town of Tokmak had risen to 16 people.
Russian forces continue to pummel eastern Ukraine in a bid to advance farther into the Donetsk region while Ukraine continues to suffer materiel shortages.
Chernihiv, Sumy, Mykolaiv, Luhansk, Odesa, Khmelnytskyi, Cherkasy, Kirovohrad, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipropetrovsk, Kherson, Kharkiv, and Donetsk. Casualties were reported in the latter three regions.
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.
"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.
The war continues—until one side, more likely the Ukrainians, or both are exhausted or conclude that it cannot make further gains through military action.
The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine is "dangerously close" to suffering an accident because of recent attacks on it, the head of the UN nuclear watchdog agency warned Monday.
Ukraine has been at war with Russia for more than two years, and there are signs that this year could be pivotal. Ukrainian officials say they need more munitions and support as Russia appears to be gaining ground.
Ukraine's military chief on Saturday warned that the battlefield situation in the industrial east has "significantly worsened in recent days," as warming weather allowed Russian forces to launch a fresh push along several stretches of the more than 620-mile-long front line.
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.
For the past two winters, Ukraine has withstood a barrage of Russian airstrikes seeking to disable its energy infrastructure, plunge its citizens into darkness and use the freezing temperatures as a weapon of war.
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,
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 Umierov on Facebook on April 14,
The Russian goal of seizing Chasiv Yar in just three and a half weeks is the focus of an April 14 analysis by the Institute for the Study of War (ISW).
Over the past 24 hours, the Russians launched a total of eight missile strikes and 85 airstrikes and deployed multiple-launch rocket systems (MLRS) 98 times to attack the positions of Ukrainian troops and populated areas.
Governor: Russian aerial bomb attack kills 1, wounds 2 in Donetsk Oblast. The Russian military leadership set a goal to capture the town of Chasiv Yar, just west of the Russian-occupied Bakhmut, by May 9,
Ukrainian and Russian forces clashed 42 times on Sunday, 14 April, with Russian forces undertaking 11 assaults on the Novopavlivka front, and Ukrainian defence forces repelling 6 assaults on each Bakhmut and Avdiivka fronts.
Ukrainian troops defending the frontline town of Chasiv Yar under relentless Russian attack have received additional drones and weaponry, the commander-in-chief of Kyiv's armed forces, Oleksandr Syrsky,
Krasnodar Krai is located next to occupied Crimea. Ukraine has reportedly launched waves of drones in recent months, targeting oil refineries and industrial facilities in Russia, often in regions close to the Ukrainian border.
The Ukrainian Air Force Commander Mykola Oleshchuk confirmed the successful strike on the control center of the Russian military grouping "Center" in temporarily occupied Luhansk in his April 14 Telegram post.
All ten enemy Shahed-131/136 one-way attack drones launched from Russia’s Kursk Oblast were shot down overnight by air defense units and mobile fire groups over Ukraine’s eastern Kharkiv Oblast, the country’s Air Force reported on Telegram on April 14.