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Russia launches 71 UAVs, 12 hit targets across Ukraine

The Russian forces attacked Ukraine with 71 Shahed strike UAVs and various decoy drones overnight, 59 targets were neutralized, the Air Force reported on Aug. 11.

11 August 2025, 09:44 AM

Kyiv rescuers save dog, cats, parrot and rabbit from building destroyed by Russian missile strike

Rescuers in Kyiv saved cats, parrots, a rabbit, and a dog from a building destroyed by a Russian missile strike on July 31.

1 August 2025, 10:48 PM

Russian strike destroys Kyiv Medical College windows, collapses ceiling

Russia launched a large-scale combined missile and drone attack on Ukraine, targeting Kyiv, severely damaging the Kyiv Medical College in the Solomianskyi district on July 31.

1 August 2025, 09:39 PM

HUR fighter single-handedly repels Russian assault near Kupyansk — video

A soldier from the Brotherhood special unit of Ukraine’s HUR military intelligence service single-handedly repelled an assault by five Russian troops near the Kupyansk axis, despite being outnumbered, HUR reported on Telegram.

17 July 2025, 11:20 AM

Russia strikes industrial zone in Sloviansk with drones, sets fires and damages buildings

Russian forces attacked the industrial zone of Sloviansk in Donetsk Oblast with six drones on June 30, sparking fires and damaging multiple structures, Ukraine’s State Emergency Service (SES) reported.

30 June 2025, 02:48 PM

Russia launches record drone barrage on Ukraine, air defense downs 288 of 355, all 9 missiles intercepted

Russian forces launched a massive overnight assault on Ukraine early on May 26, using a record number of aerial attack drones and cruise missiles in what Ukraine’s Air Force described as a “combined strike.”

26 May 2025, 11:32 AM

Russian drones strike Odesa suburbs, two civilians injured

Explosions were heard in Odesa as Russian forces launched a Shahed drone attack on the city, leaving two people injured, local governor Oleh Kiper reported on May 23.

23 May 2025, 12:36 PM

Russia launches drone attacks on Western Ukraine: buildings and vehicles damaged

The Russian forces launched Shahed drone attack against Ivano-Frankivsk and Chernivtsi oblasts overnight, the local governors Svitlana Onyshchuk and Ruslan Zaparanyuk reported on May 23.

23 May 2025, 09:58 AM

Ukraine: Putin’s ‘ceasefire’ kills, bombs still falling

Russian forces continued to bomb and shell Ukrainian settlements in the frontline Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, and Kherson oblasts on May 8 during the so-called “three-day ceasefire” unilaterally declared by Kremlin dictator Vladimir Putin, according to local authorities and the Ukrainian military.

9 May 2025, 11:54 AM

Moscow air travel collapse: Drones disrupt airports, strand thousands

Airlines in Russia are facing massive flight cancellations, rerouting, and merging amid drone attacks, causing disruptions and chaos at Moscow airports, the ASTRA Telegram channel reported on May 7, sharing numerous complaints from thousands of stranded passengers.

7 May 2025, 11:55 AM

Russia strikes Kramatorsk with seven morning attacks, killing one and wounding two

Russian forces launched seven strikes on the city of Kramatorsk in Donetsk Oblast early on May 6, killing one person and injuring two others, Oleksandr Honcharenko, head of the Kramatorsk city military administration, said on Facebook the same day.

6 May 2025, 02:20 PM

Russia pounds Ukraine's Chernihiv Oblast with rockets and drones

Russian forces continue to pummel Ukraine’s northern Chernihiv Oblast, striking 26 settlements over the past week with rockets, drones, and artillery, local governor Vyacheslav Chaus reported on April 21.

21 April 2025, 01:50 PM

Russian drone and missile barrage wakes Ukrainian cities at dawn

Russian forces carried out a series of drone and missile attacks on Ukrainian cities amid President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s proposal to halt long-range strikes on civilian infrastructure for at least 30 days after the so-called “Easter ceasefire,” regional authorities across the country reported early on April 21.

21 April 2025, 08:12 AM

Russian drones hit Odesa, residential building on fire

Russian drone attack targeted Odesa overnight, damaging civilian infrastructure, a residential house caught fire, local governor Oleh Kiper wrote on April 16.

16 April 2025, 07:58 AM

Russia shifts drone attack tactics on Ukrainian cities

Russian forces have recently changed their drone attack tactics and are now using a group of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to carry out concentrated strikes, Dmytro Chubenko, a spokesperson for the Kharkiv Oblast Prosecutor's Office, said on national television on April 3.

3 April 2025, 01:38 PM

Drones over bullets: Russia rewires its border war with Ukraine

Russian forces are now primarily targeting Ukraine’s border regions using various types of drones, according to Andrii Demchenko, spokesperson for Ukraine’s State Border Guard Service.

31 March 2025, 11:07 AM

Russia hits multiple Ukrainian oblasts; injuries reported in Kherson, Zaporizhzhya, Poltava

Russia launched another wave of drone attacks across Ukraine, prompting air raid alerts in Kyiv and several other oblasts, local authorities wrote on March 25.

25 March 2025, 08:16 AM

Ukrainian Air Force takes down key Russian command center near frontlines

Ukraine’s Air Force struck a residential building near the village of Kopani in Zaporizhzhya Oblast on Feb. 25, which Russian forces had been using as a command and observation post and a launch site for drones, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported on Feb. 27.

27 February 2025, 06:45 PM

Drone barrage hits 17 Russian oil facilities in 2025, disrupting key infrastructure – Russian media

Drones attacked at least 17 oil facilities in the aggressor state Russia during the first two months of 2025, Russian Telegram channel ASTRA reported.

18 February 2025, 10:30 AM

Drone terror in Kherson to persist until front line shifts – governor

Russian drone attacks will continue until the front line moves at least 20 km from Kherson, Kherson regional governor Oleksandr Prokudin told Radio Liberty on Feb. 11.

11 February 2025, 12:53 PM

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