The alerts are also disrupting the start of the new academic year and forcing school children to leave their classrooms throughout the day. When another air raid began, some students at the Drahomanov Ukrainian State University in central Kyiv headed underground; others stayed chatting on the street, such is the normality of these alerts. Diana,
Nearly 400 people have been evacuated after a Russian strike on a warehouse near Kyiv killed at least 37 people, Ukrainian authorities have said. Videos showing the moment of a huge explosion and the plumes of smoke that followed have been shared online. The strike hit a depot storing weapons for Ukraine’s military near a
Twenty-seven people have been killed in an overnight drone strike on the Kyiv region, its governor has confirmed. Tymur Tkachenko said a further 42 people, including four children, were injured in the Russian attack on the Bucha district. A further 381 people have been evacuated. Search and rescue operations were ongoing early on Saturday as
Andy Burnham will mark his first foreign visit as prime minister with a trip to Kyiv on Monday to reiterate the UK’s support for Ukraine and honour the country’s independence day. The prime minister will chair his first meeting of the “coalition of the willing”, set up by the UK and France under his predecessor,
A wave of overnight Russian missile strikes has killed at least eight people in the capital Kyiv and the surrounding region, Ukrainian authorities say. Apartment blocks, warehouses, a children’s hospital and a school were hit in the “massive attack” on Thursday, according to the State Emergency Service of Ukraine (DSNS). At least least 33 people
At least three people, including a child, have been killed in overnight Russian attacks near the Ukrainian capital Kyiv. In the early hours of Saturday missiles hit east of the capital and witnesses reported hearing powerful explosions just days after strikes across Ukraine killed 21 people. Falling debris damaged apartment buildings and cars, while a
